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August 26, 2005

08.26.05 Edition | Kanye West on Homophobia & Hip Hop; A Tale of Two Fundamentalisms; The "Grieving Mom" Frame
August 26, 2005 Edition

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THiS WEEK: Kanye West dares to say homophobia in hip hop is wrong; a slightly hopeful global warming warning; why we should be skeptical of environmentalism and science rooted in spirtuality or religion; a tale of two fundamentalisms; and quite a bit more of possible interest...

  1. Kanye West Rewrites Hip-Hop's Gay Record
    Last week Roc-A-Fella recording artist and producer extraordinaire Kanye West did something most would think to be career suicide for a Black hip-hop artist, and just days before dropping his sophomore effort, "Late Registration."

    Kenyon Farrow | Black AIDS Institute
    http://blackaids.org/ShowArticle.aspx?pagename=ShowArticle&articletype=SITEFEATURE&articleid=118&pagenumber=1


  2. McCarthyism Watch
    Santorum's people toss young women out of a Barnes & Noble book signing, using a state trooper to threaten them with prison.

    Matthew Rothschild | The Progressive
    http://progressive.org/?q=mag_mc081905


  3. Global Warming: Will You Listen Now, America?
    Two of the leading contenders to contest the next US presidential election have delivered an urgent warning to the United States on global warming, saying the evidence of climate change has become too stark to ignore and human activity is a major cause.

    Andrew Buncombe | UK Independent
    http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article306881.ece


  4. AUDIO | A Tale of Two Fundamentalisms
    What might the politics of Hindu fundamentalism, or Hindutva, tell us about the nature of the Christian fundamentalist right and the attack on secularism in the United States? Philosopher of science Meera Nanda talks about the dangers of secularism without secularization of the society as a whole -- and why we should be skeptical of environmentalism and "science" that is rooted in spirituality or religion.

    Sasha Lilly (host) | Against the Grain
    http://www.againstthegrain.org/audio8.15.05.mp3


  5. CARTOON | Too Much Coffee Man
    Just who is Saddam Hussein, again?

    Shannon Wheeler
    http://www.tmcm.com/comics/tmcm050627.gif

  6. Animal Comment Triggers Equality Debate in Sweden
    Sweden was recently ranked the most gender-equal country in the world. But feminists there say there's been a backlash. They're forming a new political party to put women's issues high on the agenda.

    Jerome Socolovsky | Women's eNews
    http://www.womensenews.com/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2417



  7. VIDEO | License Illegal
    Yo! Youth Outlook goes to Sacramento, where bus loads of people went to protest the Governator's plan to mark the licenses of illegal immigrants.

    Min Lee | Yo! Youth Outlook
    http://youthoutlook.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=875bd91c202159ccc1c2c37d70321ccd

  8. The 'Grieving Mom' Frame
    In broad terms, the success of the 'grieving mom' phrase indicates that Americans are now thinking about the War in Iraq through the frame of the family, rather than thinking about Iraq through the frame of 'terrorism' or 'ideology.'

    Jeffrey Feldman | Frameshop
    http://www.frameshopisopen.com/


  9. Local Fighters Usually Win
    A truth ''that has been largely forgotten in the post-9/11 frenzy is that terrorism is a technique, not an ideology or a country. It is a technique that any group can pick up and use, without distinction of ideology, creed, or cause, and the people wielding it could as easily be fanatical anti-government Americans, Trotskyists, Germans, (or) Islamist Arabs.''

    Sean Gonsalves | AlterNet
    http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/24166/


  10. Preaching Justice, Slaying Demons
    In anticipation of a battle fit for Christian soldiers, the planners of Justice Sunday II went big, booking a Nashville, Tennessee, megachurch and arranging the broadcast of their event to millions of homes and thousands of churches across the country through SkyAngel and the Trinity Broadcasting Network. When Justice Sunday II arrived, however, its intended galvanizing message seemed to have evaporated in the sweltering Tennessee night.

    Max Blumenthal | The Nation
    http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050829&s=blumenthal2


  11. The Christian Paradox
    America is simultaneously the most professedly Christian of the developed nations and the least Christian in its behavior. That paradox - more important, perhaps, than the much touted ability of French women to stay thin on a diet of chocolate and cheese - illuminates the hollow at the core of our boastful, careening culture.

    Bill McKibben | Harper's
    http://www.harpers.org/ExcerptTheChristianParadox.html


  12. AUDIO | Enduring Choice
    A growing number of women are seeing the link between their reproductive health, their civil liberties, the environment and economics.

    Sarah Olsen (host) | National Radio Project
    http://www.radioproject.org/archive/2005/3305.html


- Media Picks Contributing Editors: Adam Barker and Erica Wetter
- Media Picks compiled and edited by Erin Wiegand, Brian Awehali & Emma Sherwood-Forbes

Posted by erin at August 26, 2005 12:41 AM

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