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4231 [lbo-talk] freedom of speech in 2010 -- rank: 1000

http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2010/04/14/police-raid-anarchist-media-collective-3-days-before-nyc-film-festival/ Police raid anarchist media collective 3 days before NYC film festival The Fourth Annual Anarchist Film Festival in being held on Friday April 16th, 2010 in New York City. This year?s festival is being held to honor the life and work of Brad Will, a film-maker and movement activist allegedly assassinated by the Mexican government in Oaxaca on October 27th, 2006, as he was fil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 15 08:19:23 PDT 2010

4232 [lbo-talk] memorializing Tweets -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:39 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > Funny. I hypothesized to my wife a few months ago that maybe in two > hundred years people would read and revere Facebook status updates the > way we do Henry James or Faulkner books now. Dunno about that. Maybe more like the way we'd read the marginalia that James or Faulkner wrote in books they read. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 14 20:11:13 PDT 2010

4233 [lbo-talk] memorializing Tweets -- rank: 1000

Library of Congress to acquire all tweets, ever: http://twitter.com/librarycongress/statuses/12169442690

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 14 18:55:59 PDT 2010

4234 [lbo-talk] more evidence on the TPers -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002529-503544.html> Right, white, better off, pissed off. 92% believe BHO is moving us towards socialism. Nativists, climate denialists. "Fifty-two percent believe too much has been made of the problems facing black people. Far fewer Americans overall -- 28 percent -- believe as much."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 14 17:58:02 PDT 2010

4235 [lbo-talk] NPR: New York's Hipsters Too Cool For The Census -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > "Many New York City residents aren't returning their census forms. The > return rate is only around 50 percent, but the lowest rate of return > (around > 30 percent) is the hipster enclave of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These > young, > recent graduates with ironic mustaches and plaid shirts are > apparently too > busy tweeting to fill out a simple census form." > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?sto ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 14 13:29:01 PDT 2010

4236 [lbo-talk] another TP poll: still whiter, righter, more pious, and better-educated -- rank: 1000

["Activists," not passive supporters. These people are the enemy.] <http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/14/tea.party.poll/> Washington (CNN) -- Ten percent of Americans say they have actively supported the Tea Party movement, and those Tea Party activists are older, better educated and more religious than the general public, according to a new national poll. Of the Tea Party activists questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Wednesday morning, seven of 10 ca ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 14 10:10:50 PDT 2010

4237 [lbo-talk] Fighting NCLB, etc. -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > I'm not getting this argument. How is the assessment of student > learning related in any way to the privatization of education? > Assessment doesn't require us to bust unions; in fact, if it is > driven by unionized teachers, then it gives teachers more authority > and oversight of the curriculum. There must be some implicit links > here that I'm not following. Have you followed this NCLB and Race to the Top stuff? The who ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 14 08:45:42 PDT 2010

4238 [lbo-talk] NCLB bites the University? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Really? We can't discern whether one person has learned more than > another about anything? As I noted, I've been evaluating student > learning in my classes for about 20 years. By providing students > meaningful input about what they have learned and what they haven't > learned yet, I have helped students further develop their knowledge > and skills. This is a good thing, yes? Teachers always do that, no? Exams, papers, ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 14 08:39:58 PDT 2010

4239 [lbo-talk] NCLB bites the University? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > I haven't yet listened to Doug's interview with Ravitch, but I seem to > recall that her op-ed a few weeks ago (in the WSJ, I think) noted > that the > strongest factor in student success was not teachers but poverty. Yes, she does say that. She's got a chapter in her book on NYC's District 2, run by Anthony Alvarado back in the 1990s, whose alleged test improvements became a model for the test-obsessed. It was often described a ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 14 08:31:44 PDT 2010

4240 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 opening commentaries at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> -------------------------------------------------- Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: April 8, 2010 Diane Ravitch, former conservative educational reformer turned critic of the privatization agenda and author of The Death and Life of the Great Amer ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 14 07:24:23 PDT 2010

4241 [lbo-talk] NCLB bites the University? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Two things. 1) Measuring learning 2) Measuring the teacher by the > results of national tests Minor point: teachers are measured by state tests, on which states now cheat like crazy. For example, New York's tests have been showing great progress, but the national tests show none. Ravitch is very good on this. > The second is pernicious with no redeeming features, as are most > measuresd instistuted for thecontrol of the labor force ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 14 06:50:56 PDT 2010

4242 [lbo-talk] post-Communism, Hungarian-style -- rank: 1000

<http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,688710,00.html> 04/13/2010 The World From Berlin 'Hungary has Turned into a Grubby Hive of Nationalism' Media commentators in Germany are alarmed at the emergence of the far- right Jobbik party as the third-strongest force in the Hungarian parliament. Europe should pay more attention to the vicious xenophobia and political polarization wracking the country 20 years after it gained its freedom, editorials say. The people of Hungary shift ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 13 13:20:09 PDT 2010

4243 [lbo-talk] Gordon: recession's over, mofos -- rank: 1000

<http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/dissent-on-recessions- end/> Comments about the N.B.E.R. B.C.D.C. statement released 4/12/10 Robert J. Gordon, Northwestern University The N.B.E.R. Web site provides the text of the decision of the N.B.E.R. B.C.D.C. not to declare that the recession is over. I strongly disagree with the committee s decision. ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 13 12:44:25 PDT 2010

4244 [lbo-talk] Andy, bored -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35744.html> People close to Stern say he d also gradually lost interest in the day- to-day contract battles and internal political negotiations that are a union s bread and butter. He has become more and more interested in economic issues and political issues, said Kate Bronfenbrenner, another scholar at Cornell, who said Stern had come to view the intricacies of contracts as not as important as making change on broader political issues.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 13 12:18:47 PDT 2010

4245 [lbo-talk] Politico: SEIU official: Stern to resign -- rank: 1000

On Apr 12, 2010, at 9:58 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > "Service Employees International Union President Andrew Stern, one of > America's most prominent labor leaders, is set to resign, according > to a > member of the union's board." > > http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0410/SEIU_official_Stern_to_resign.html As Ed Hyman might say, "Wow!" > "Hige sceal že heardra, heorte že cenre, mod sceal že mare, že ure > męgen > lytlaš." Could you t ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 12 19:12:29 PDT 2010