I don’t think I’ve seen BAE Systems advertise in the Chronicle of Higher Education before, and I may be wrong — and a quick Google search shows places like Monster.com, Job.com, and Intelligencecareers.com, all places I don’t frequent — but lo and behold, it showed up in the Anthropology listings this week (though it...
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this damned war
Kinetic Force.
Stop The Killings Benefit Show.
See you Bay Area folks here: STOP THE KILLINGS Benefit Show Saturday, February 17, 2007 7:30pm @ SOMArts (934 Brannan St., SF, CA 94103) All Ages – $10 (Proceeds go to KARAPATAN) Performances by: Blue Scholars Kiwi (of Native Guns) Rhapsodistas Echo of Bullets Golda Supernova Power Struggle Praxis Rocks The Movement Show Kapatid...
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Perks.
At the John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, I noticed something I hadn’t seen at airports before: a separate security check line for first-class and premium passengers. (Although now that I think about it, there was probably one at SFO as well.) As we stood in the obviously slower and longer line, I turned...
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Forty Years Ago.
For tonight, as so many nights before, young Americans struggle and young Americans die in a distant land. Tonight, as so many nights before, the American Nation is asked to sacrifice the blood of its children and the fruits of its labor for the love of its freedom. How many times-in my lifetime and...
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Petition to End Violence against Filipino People.
From The Critical Filipina and Filipino Studies Collective: If you wish to sign the petition, please RSVP/send your reply on or by November 9, 2005, Wednesday. In the body of your e-mail, please write your name, institution and affiliation. Reply to: pinasatrocities@yahoo.com Your e-mail address will not be printed in the petition and will...
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The Aristocrats.
In case the arrogance of the Bush elite and their cronies isn’t clear — Republicans are actually presenting the fact that Bush’s advisers were attending a wedding in Greece and Condi Rice was watching Spamalot and buying Ferragamo shoes as excuses — here’s the former First Lady of this nation, being interviewed on TV...
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More on Kanye West's Comments.
Just to put some of Kanye West’s comments in context: We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way. From the St. Louis-Dispatch (reprinted in the San Luis Obispo Tribune, via Daily Kos): Currently, members of the Guard and Reserves make up four of...
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My Pet Goat.
In “recent years:” In recent years, Bush repeatedly sought to slice the Army Corps of Engineers’ funding requests to improve the levees holding back Lake Pontchartrain, which Katrina smashed through, flooding New Orleans. In 2005, Bush asked for $3.9 million, a small fraction of the request the corps made in internal administration deliberations. Under...
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Going On With His Life.
From the Waco Tribune: “But whether it be here or in Washington or anywhere else, there’s somebody who has got something to say to the president, that’s part of the job,” Bush said on the ranch. “And I think it’s important for me to be thoughtful and sensitive to those who have got something...
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America-Haters, Etc.
Thought I should make a direct link to the Homeland Security Racism report from the CFFSC here. In addition, there is a working paper by Dylan Rodriguez on the Bagong Diwa Prison Massacre — more information on the Collective website. I was going to write snarky comments like these: I also wanted to draw...
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