Occupy Wall Street: Rev. Jesse Jackson
On October 18, 2011, the Reverend Jesse Jackson made another appearance at Occupy Wall Street in lower Manhattan. The night before, the New York City Police Department attempted to dismantle the medical tent in Liberty Park (a.k.a. Zuccotti Park) on the premise that tents are not allowed in the park. OWS medical assistants, however, contend the tent is merely used for privacy in treating the ill, and that nobody sleeps in the tent. When police swooped in, Rev. Jackson quickly linked arms with fellow occupiers to prevent the removal of the medical tent.
American Degree Through the Back Door
BEIJING - I recently asked my high school students to write about a day in the United States and gave them forty-five minutes. One student wrote not much more than this: “day first United States….” A second student as part of a longer essay wrote: “If I wake up late I might go to a restaurant that has brunch.” From this very short example it should be clear that these two students should not be in the same English class. One student struggles to write a complete sentence while another student can not only write a sentence but can express her imagination at the same time.
N is for Nigger
The ongoing hubbub in the United States over the expunging of the word nigger from a new edition of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn draws attention yet again to contentious and long-standing debates relating to race and racism, free speech and censorship, and education and enculturation, among others.
Megan Fox x Brian Austin Green's Anti-Budget Cut PSA
That good looking Transformers girl and that dude from 90210 (the 90's version) team up for a comedic PSA against Arnold's budget cuts.
Via Funny or Die
Left Forum 2010: Muhammad Ahmad
Audio interview with Muhammad Ahmad, the former Field Chairman of the Revolutionary Action Movement and founder of African People's Party in the 1970's. Muhammad worked closely with Malcolm X, Amiri Baraka, James and Grace Lee Boggs and Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael). He is the author of We Will Return in the Whirlwind, African Americans Since 1900, and Selected Writings, Volume 1. He is a member of the Philadelphia Community Institute of Africana Studies and of N'COBRA.
