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October 12, 2004
10.11.2004 | Getting Beyond Bush; Interviews with Chuck D, Le Tigre, John Waters; The Stupid White Man Quiz
October 11, 2004 Edition
THiS WEEK:
Vijay Prashad, Michael Albert, Naomi Klein and Robin Kelley on getting "beyond Bush;" the renewal of psychedelic drug testing; two stellar pieces on why polls are not to be believed; interviews with Le Tigre's Kathleen Hannah, former Public Enemy front man and activist Chuck D, and filmmaker John Waters; a look at how this past year saw the creation of 51 new billionaires in the US; Vandana Shiva, breaking it all down; the Stupid White Man Quiz; and about 13 more items of merit in this 23-item double-dose of LiP Media Picks.This Week's Picks
- AUDIO | Beyond Bush
Several weeks ago, activists and organizers gathered in New York city for the second Life After Capitalism Conference. Here is the opening plenary, "Beyond Bush," with Vijay Prashad, Michael Albert, Naomi Klein and Robin Kelly.The A-Infos Radio Project | Vancouver Cooperative Radio
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=10090%20 - A Long Trip For Psychedelic Drugs
A group of persistent scientists are struggling to renew testing of psychedelic drugs like ecstasy and psilocybin for use in combating cancer, mental disorders, and chronic headaches.Kristen Philipkoski | Wired News
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,65025,00.html - The Numbers Game
Election 2004: Despite mounting evidence that poll results can't be trusted, pundits and politicians continue to treat them with a reverence ancient Romans reserved for chicken entrails.Arianna Huffington | AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/election04/20105/ - Republican Bias at Gallup?
Connoisseurs of polling have been confused by the presidential preference polls of the last few months. Some are portraying a tight race, and others a Bush runaway. Some of the strangest numbers have been coming out of our most famous pollster, Gallup. Dr. Hunter S. Thompson | Rolling StoneDoug Henwood | Left Business Observer
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Gallup.html - Sex Education, John Waters-style
Movie Mix: "I don't care what people do in bed, or if they don't do anything. I just don't think that everybody else has to feel how you feel about it, whether it's sex, religion or politics," says the director of "A Dirty Shame."Todd R. Ramlow | PopMatters
http://www.alternet.org/movies/20109/ - Global Warming: Epic Droughts Possible, Study Says
Tree ring records suggest that if past is prologue, global warming could trigger much longer dry spells than the one now in West, scientists say.Bettina Boxall | Los Angeles Times
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1008-04.htm - EXCERPT | Don't You Stop: An Interview with Le Tigre's Kathleen Hanna
Things are looking up for Le Tigre. The planet, on the other hand, needs some helpCori Tararoot | Pop Matters
http://www.popmatters.com/music/interviews/le-tigre-041006.shtml - Boom Time for Billionaires
The economy is booming again, if you're a billionaire. The new Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans has 313 billionaires—up 51 billionaires from 262 last year.Holly Sklar | Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1005-34.htm - I Never
From Francisco Pareja’s 1613 Confessionario: A Documentary Source for Timucuan Ethnography. Pareja, a Franciscan missionary, wrote the following questions in a guidebook for converting the Timucuan Indians, who occupied large portions of what is now Georgia and Florida. The Timucua were extinct by the beginning of the nineteenth century, and much of what is known about their culture has been reconstructed using documents such as the Confessionario.Harper's
http://www.harpers.org/INever.html - Chávez's Social Reforms Impress American Liberals
Under the leadership of the left-wing Chávez, Venezuela has become a magnet for North American liberals and anti-globalization activists interested in learning about Latin American social movements. Chávez's reform program promises to use the country's oil revenue to reduce spiraling rates of poverty, making him a hero for anti-globalization activists and prompting a burgeoning interest in Venezuela.Brian Ellsworth | Florida Sun-Sentinel
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1007-09.htm - AUDIO | Real Wealth, Real Poverty: How Economic Globalization is Robbing the Poor of Wealth
This stirring and important lecture by Vandana Shiva was part of the Scripps College Humanities Institute's Fall 2003 program "Poverty."L.A. Sound Posse | Recorded by Cheryll Roberts and Dave Adelson
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=8203 - Kenyan Ecologist Wins Nobel Prize
Environmentalist Wangari Maathai of Kenya becomes the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. In the late 1970s, Maathai, known as "The Tree Woman," led a campaign called the Green Belt Movement to plant tens of millions of trees across Africa to slow deforestation. - Rapping the Vote: an interview with Chuck D
The former Public Enemy front man and long-time activist talks about the political power of hip-hop.Jeff Chang | Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/arts/qa/2004/09/09_100.html - RESOURCE | RaceWire
A new news service geared specifically to the ethnic press and its readership. Features news, features, and op-ed articles that focus on issues of race, politics, and culture in communities of color. - The Stupid White Man Quiz
Elites say the darnedest things...Mickey Z. | ZNet
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=51&ItemID=6290 - Banking on Elections: Finance sector invests heavily in candidates
When former Texas Senator Phil Gramm came out of the Tavern on the Green one recent August morning, his disposition turned edgy. Now a vice chairman of the Swiss financial corporation UBS, he had just left his colleagues at the Financial Services Roundtable breakfast. He wasn't keen on talking to waiting journalists, certainly not to the CorpWatch team...Lucy Komisar | CorpWatch
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11553 - Our Bodies, Ourselves: First-World Women Face Unique Environmental Threats
A typical American woman—let’s call her Sara—wakes up to the sound of her toddler crying from the crib. She decides to make coffee and reaches for a paper filter that could leach dioxin. She’s heard dioxin causes women’s health problems but didn’t have time to buy the unbleached kind.Melissa Knopper | E Magazine
http://www.emagazine.com/view/?2019 - Documents Reveal Gaps in Bush’s Service as President
The most damning documents were generated at roughly one-day intervals during a period beginning in January 2001 and ending this week...House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) is one of many Republicans who demanded an independent investigation into the authenticity of the documents. "We're fairly confident that these so-called 'news stories' will turn out to be partisan smear tactics," DeLay said. "I wouldn't be surprised if all 11 billion of these words turn out to be forgeries." - Remembering Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004)
As a "threshold person," a nepantlera, Anzaldúa moved among worlds in her art, her politics, and her spirituality.Mickey Z. | ZNet
http://www.wellesley.edu/WomensReview/archive/2004/10/highlt.html#keating - Another Lapse of Journalistic Integrity at The New York Times
Here at LiP, we've never held the NYTimes up as some hallowed ground of journalistic integrity. But still...The Times Magazine recently published an article entitled “The Autonomist Manifesto (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Road)." It is arguably the most pro-suburban sprawl article ever published in a major American newspaper. But the quality of its information is abysmal.Joel S. Hirschhorn | Common Dreams
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0928-13.htm - Who are the Progressives In Iraq?
The Left, the Right, and the Islamists...Frank Smyth | Foreign Policy in Focus
http://www.fpif.org/papers/0409progiraq.html - EXCERPT | Taqwacores
From a novel of the same name that depicts day-to-day life in a Muslim punk house in Buffalo, New York. Characters include Rabeya, a burqa-clad riot grrl; Umar, a straightedge Sunni; Muzammil Sadiq, who struggles against orthodox Islamic homophobia; and Jehangir Tabari, a drunken Sufi saint who dreams of putting on a Muslim Punk show in Buffalo.Michael Muhammad Knight | Autonomedia
http://www.muslimwakeup.com/sex/archives/000937.php#more - Can We Live Without Oil?
Some of the most effective ways to cut our dependence on oil are startlingly simple. Here are 10 "cool technologies" that may make it happen.Yes! Magazine
http://www.futurenet.org/article.asp?ID=1012
- Media Picks compiled and edited by Erin Wiegand and Brian Awehali
Posted by brian at October 12, 2004 12:28 PM