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IMAGE IS SOMETHING - Victor Vazquez aka KOOL AD

Tue, 29 May 2012 18:07:58 -0400

Good read. Thankful for incisive outspoken artists like Das Racist doing what they...

nehru jackets: IMAGE IS SOMETHING - Victor Vazquez aka KOOL AD

Sun, 27 May 2012 17:49:00 -0400

nehru jackets: IMAGE IS SOMETHING - Victor Vazquez aka KOOL AD: Good read. Thankful for incisive...

Reporting from the NYU Series on Impact Investing

Sat, 12 May 2012 18:52:00 -0400

A piece I wrote for SocialFinance.ca The NYU School of Law organized a Series on Impact...

"The record-high stock market prices, in particular, do nothing for the poor and hungry, except to..."

Sat, 12 May 2012 18:28:25 -0400

“The record-high stock market prices, in particular, do nothing for the poor and hungry,...

via cartoonpolitics: “If you want total security, go to prison....

Sat, 12 May 2012 14:25:01 -0400

via cartoonpolitics:

“If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom.”

— President Dwight D Eisenhower

The Murky Ethics (and Crystal-Clear Economics) of the Unpaid...

Wed, 09 May 2012 16:47:26 -0400

The Murky Ethics (and Crystal-Clear Economics) of the Unpaid Internship

If you’ve ever had an unpaid internship, there is a distinct chance that you participated in unlawful activity.

The Labor Department has strict guidelines for unpaid interns, and every year, thousands of companies dutifully flout them. Technically speaking, internships must resemble an education rather than a job. Interns cannot work in the place of paid employees. Nor can their work be of “immediate benefit” to an employer.

Every unpaid intern I know — and every unpaid internship I’ve had — broke at least one, if not all, of these rules. And repeatedly. We worked nine hours a day or more. We shared work with salaried co-workers. We strove to provide “immediate benefit” to our employers, in the form of fetching drinks, organizing bookshelves, writing briefs, editing documents, fiddling with Excel, and presenting ourselves as free safeties of the office — happy to roam, eager to tackle something new. This is what we knew to do. This is what college students do with their summers. […]

You can blame the interns for settling for zero-pay, or even the colleges for not offering credit for vocational experience. Less than 30% of colleges offer academic credit for internships, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

But I worry the problem is somewhat intractable.

Read more. [Image: Reuters]

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Mike Spry's Reaction To Margaret Wente's Disappointing Rant in the Globe and Mail

Wed, 02 May 2012 18:52:00 -0400

Mike Spry's Reaction To Margaret Wente's Disappointing Rant in the Globe and Mail: Margaret Wente...

In a fantastically ideal world all national military budgets...

Tue, 01 May 2012 15:21:01 -0400

In a fantastically ideal world all national military budgets would be divested and put towards social justice, sustainability, and space exploration. Alas, we live in a damaged and corrupt democracy, and many powerful people are making a mess of society and the planet, so for the time being this suggestion will remain fantastically ideal.

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Tue, 01 May 2012 12:12:51 -0400

"America needs an honest discourse with itself. It’s like the greatest country in the world by..."

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:53:54 -0400

“America needs an honest discourse with itself. It’s like the greatest country in the world by...

Pussy Riot: An Update

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:04:00 -0400

Pussy Riot’s U.S. Tour? By A.M. GITTLITZ (The new inquiry) Russia Today, the politsiya, and...

The cool kid gangs of 60′s San Francisco and the mean streets...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:40:00 -0400

The cool kid gangs of 60′s San Francisco and the mean streets they inhabit. Ask Me, Don’t Tell Me is a documentary made in 1961 about the “Youth For Service” program which asked tough street teens to build community housing projects for the elderly and disabled.

“You know you can ask a person to do something, and you’ll see a difference in the work. Because you know if you ask me to do something, i’ll do a better job. I’ll do anything if you ask me. But if you say ‘do this’, ‘do that’, ‘well if you don’t do it…’, ‘well you better do it’, well i just won’t do it. And I wanna see what somebody’s gonna do if I don’t do it.”

via Teenage (The website for the film: “Based on a groundbreaking book by the punk author Jon Savage, Teenage is an unconventional historical film about the invention of teenagers.”)

"I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The..."

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:43:30 -0400

“I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet....

via solidarity nyc

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:08:21 -0400

via solidarity nyc

Jeff Danziger: Rich and Poor, Too Big to Fail, US...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:46:55 -0400

Jeff Danziger: Rich and Poor, Too Big to Fail, US Banks via azspot

A wonderfully empathetic documentary film about crime and...

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:04:32 -0400

A wonderfully empathetic documentary film about crime and incarceration in the United States.

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Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:56:25 -0400

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Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:26:52 -0400

An important message from Kathleen Hanna in support of...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:57:12 -0400

An important message from Kathleen Hanna in support of Moscow’s Pussy Riot, the anonymous feminist punk collective that the Russian government is actively trying to suppress. Three alleged members are currently under arrest as political prisoners by the Russian authorities and are accused of “hooliganism”, facing up to 7 years in prison. To find out more, please click here.

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David Hammons, In the Hood, 1993

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:14:27 -0400

David Hammons, In the Hood, 1993