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Collectivist Art -- Toronto: Guided by (Many, Many) Voices |
by Alissa Quart
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26 Feb 2006
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To call Broken Social Scene a "band" is to simplify matters drastically. It's more like a network, or, as Emily Haines, a sometime BSS'er and lead singer of the Toronto band Metric, put it, "somewhere between a tribe and a cult." Most of the members of BSS are also members of other bands that are released by Arts & Crafts. The very name connotes what all the artists on the label have in common: they are lo-fi, heartfelt, ironic, makeshift and as tightly interlinked as the kids in a summer-camp lanyard-making session...Musically, you could say that Toronto has become a nicer but less aesthetically coherent version of Seattle in the early days of grunge. Broken Social Scene is Toronto's Nirvana, without — so far — the troubled-rock-star antics or the anomie and with a social agenda that puts collective music making above individual success. The second album, "You Forgot It in People," is dedicated to "friends, families and loves." |
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Infrastructure and Principles for Independent Journalism |
by Danielle Chynoweth
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26 Feb 2006
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This is a presentation I am giving Sunday, February 26th in Lafayette, Indiana for "Exploring Contemporary Media Issues" |
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LOCAL Announcement :: Right Wing |
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Arrogant, Cynical, Heartless: Another "scholar in residence" from the Program for Jewish Culture and Society: Oy Vey! |
by David Green
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26 Feb 2006
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The Program for Jewish Culture and Society at the U of I once again asks the question: Is it possible to be a "moderate" racist? |
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Defending Human Dignity: Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
by Horst Koehler
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26 Feb 2006
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he chapter of German resistance is rather narrow compared with the wide support that Hitler could count on up to the end that enabled him to act mercilessly against all opposition. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Crime & Police : Drugs : Health : Media : Political-Economy |
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Walter Cronkite Urges People to Oppose Failed Drug War; Calls for New Policies Based on Science, Compassion, Health and Human Rights |
by Drug Policy Alliance
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25 Feb 2006
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Cronkite Links the Wars Abroad and the “War at Home” |
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News :: Africa : Elections & Legislation : Environment : Globalization : Health : International Relations |
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White House Funds Moroccan River Project, But Seeks to Slash U.S. Waterway Clean-Up Efforts |
by Steve Peacock
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25 Feb 2006
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The U.S. Trade & Development Agency (TDA) is funding an evaluation of advanced technologies to stem chronic river pollution -- in Morocco, that is. The Moroccan river initiative comes to light just as the Bush Administration has proposed massive cuts to river pollution-prevention initiatives across the United States. |
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For Those Who Haven't Noticed: Watching the Dissolution of Palestine |
by David Green
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24 Feb 2006
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Hamas must recognize Israel and it must renounce violence. In other words, it must recognize a state whose policies and whose leaders have worked tirelessly for decades to deny, undo, renounce, prevent and reject the existence both of Palestinians and of Palestine --not only in the present and future but also through erasing the past. |
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