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April 27, 2006
04.27.06 History of the Car Bomb; The Pink Pistols; David Foster Wallace
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THiS WEEK: Mike Davis presents a history of the car bomb; the Pink Pistols are queer, proud, and armed; Saul Williams reads from his new book, The Dead Emcee Scrolls; looking at the deep roots of rape and racism in the Ivy League; xenophobia and conservationist environmentalists; immigrant general strike called for May 1; native reclamation of land in Ontario, Canada faced with army invasion; David Foster Wallace talks about honesty, sincerity, and the nearly impossible task of telling the truth;
This Week's Picks:
- The Poor Man's Air Force
A brief history of the car bomb—a must-read.Mike Davis | Anarchist News (via Z Net)
Part One: http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/466
Part Two: http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/472 - Bash Me And You're Dead
Members of the Pink Pistols try to deal with hate crimes by arming themselves. Their pro-gun views haven't made them many friends within the gay community.G.W. Miller III | Philadelphia Weekly
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=11949 - VIDEO | The Dead Emcee Scrolls
Saul Williams reads from his newest work, The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop at California State University San Bernardino. This clip features the epic opening poem of that book, "NGH WHT."http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3044900922755846324&q=saul+williams
- Rape and Racism in the Ivy League
In the wake of the "shocking" Duke rape case—which, some commentators (mostly black, female ones) have pointed out isn't really that unusual of a story at all—it's worth taking a look at how deeply racism is embedded in the ivy league culture these men were embedded in.Kevin Prosen and Dave Zirin | Mostly Water (via Z Net)
http://mostlywater.org/node/4546 - Keeping America Empty
Given that the movement he helped create now finds its base among conservative Republicans, you might expect John Tanton to be an unapologetic reactionary. You'd be wrong. He's a self-described progressive, ex-Sierra Club member, Planned Parenthood supporter and harsh critic of neoclassical economists. How did a whip-smart, mild-mannered farm boy committed to conserving the natural world end up seeding and nurturing a movement that now dispatches gun-toting vigilantes to patrol the border?Christopher Hayes | In These Times
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2608/ - Consider the Lobster
David Foster Wallace insists on a conversation where what can be said must be said honestly (along with a sidebar defining honesty), sincerely (ditto defining sincerity), and with full consideration of how media affect honesty and sincerity (ditto media). Given these requirements, we discuss Wallace's new collection of essays with an eye to how he attempts the nearly impossible task of telling the truth.Bookworm | KCRW
http://kcrw.com/cgi-bin/ram_wrap.cgi?/bw/bw060302David_Foster_Wallace
Quicktime: http://kcrw.com/cgi-bin/QuicktimeWrap.qtl?/bw/bw060302David_Foster_Wallace - VIDEO | The Windmills of Capitalism
The Zapatista Other Campaign joins the people of Oaxaca's Isthmus to fight an energy mega-project.The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign | Salon Chingon / Narco News
MPEG4: http://salonchingon.com/movies/newsreel5_en.mp4
Quicktime: http://salonchingon.com/movies/newsreel5_en.mov - Hispanic Media Split On May 1 Boycott
Spanish-language media in the US has a history of defending its community, beginning with the first Spanish newspaper 151 years ago. But the paradox of Hispanic media today is that despite its activist tradition, very little Hispanic media is now owned by Latinos—and in this corporate-owned media world, executives may choose to side with advertisers over their audience.Elena Shore | New America Media
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=f03df4d86d9469ef5af66d1b7f784010 - ACTION | May 1 Boycott
A general strike has been called by immigrants and supporters in opposition of the proposed legislation to make felons out of immigrants and those who assist them. Check out what's happening in your town. - Six Nations Does Not Stand Alone
In 1995, the people of the "Six Nations" in Ontario, Canada, attempted to reclaim indigenous land taken over by Henco Industries Ltd. by launching a lawsuit. But as Henco Industries and Six Nations now both understand, as settlers and indigenous people the world over understand, the law and the facts on the ground are two different things—and governments on the losing end of legal arguments often get violent.Justin Podur | Z Net
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=30&ItemID=10152
Background information, audio/video, what you can do:
http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/view/2012
http://sisis.nativeweb.org/actionalert/index.html - REVIEW | A Darker Shade of Noir
Like many black artists, author Walter Mosley is of two minds about questions of racial identity. As a committed race man, he's worked with PEN and CUNY to foster black writing and publishing and co-edited the 1999 essay collection Black Genius. But he's all too aware that categorizing (to choose an example he's cited himself) Toni Morrison as a black writer is to suggest that she should therefore be judged by looser standards than Doris Lessing or Saul Bellow.Robert Christgau | The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060508/christgau - AUDIO | The Economics of Immigration
As millions of immigrants protest in the streets, some progressives have voiced concerns that immigrants lower the wages of those who are already the worse off in the United States. But does the left have the full story on the economic impact of immigrants? Economists Nigel Harris and Julio Huato fill in the blanks.C.S. Soong | Against the Grain
http://www.againstthegrain.org/audio4.17.06.mp3
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