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Weekly Round Up! Bullying, Buzzkills, and Budgetary Priorities.

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  Our hearts are with the survivors and victims of Sunday’s destructive tornadoes that ripped through Illinois, destroying lives, homes, and livelihoods.  Click here to donate to relief efforts on the ground.   Stockton’s youngest City Councilmember Michael Tubbs launches a youtube channel encouraging civic participation to break cycles of poverty and incarceration.  In this video he explains his mission …

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Weekly Round Up! Texas and a Typhoon

"The Muslim Guy", Arsalan Iftikhar, Bruce Campbell, Edith Widder, Enrique Morones, Jessica Valenti, Kathleen Hanna, Kyle Thiermann, Richard Rodriguez, Sandra Steingraber, Surfing For Change, Warren Faidley, Weekly Roundup / By

Our hearts go out to all the victims and survivors of Typhoon Haiyan.  You can support UNICEF’s efforts to deliver supplies to children and their families online or by texting RELIEF to 864233 to donate $10.   Warren Faidley, storm survival expert, talks to Radio Australia about the almost unprecedented strength of Haiyan, which meant that “A lot of the …

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Weekly Round Up! Labeling GMOs and LAX Shooting

"The Muslim Guy", Annie Leonard, Arn Chorn Pond, Arsalan Iftikhar, Gary Hirshberg, Kyle Thiermann, Raffi, Safe Cosmetics, Stacy Malkan, Surfing For Change, The Story of Stuff, Tim DeChristopher, Weekly Roundup / By

Bill Moyers profiles Annie Leonard and her Story of Solutions video.   At GreenBiz, Stacey Malkan records her reflections on her activism after watching Annie Leonard’s Story of Solutions.  Whether she’s fighting against cosmetic toxicity or toward labeling genetically modified ingredients in our nation’s food supply, Malkin found Leonard’s 9 minute video “leaves us with …

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Weekly Round Up! Watergate and the World Series

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Enrique Morones goes to Hollywood!  In Detained in the Desert, Morones portrays Enrique Martinez, a character hybridizing the late human rights activist Roberto Martinez and Morones himself.  “They wanted to make it as realistic as possible and George Clooney wasn’t available,” he cracks.  It premiered at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, and we wish all …

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Weekly Round Up! Opportunity Gaps and Developments in Hollywood

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Rinku Sen on NPR in Connecticut, discussing the implications of Connecticut’s plan to desegregate its public schools, reframes racial “achievement gaps” in education as opportunity gaps: “the achievement gap language puts a lot of the onus on students themselves, whereas the opportunity gap language begins to get us looking at what are the opportunities available …

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Weekly Round Up! Campaign Contributions and the Divine Random Bounce of the Prolate Spheroid.

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National Book Award winning author Charles Johnson, in collaboration with his daughter, has released the first in a series of children’s science books aimed at 3rd-5th graders, which is distinct in featuring African Americans as main characters.  Illustrated by Charles Johnson himself, the Adventures of Emery Jones: Boy Wonder explores what it’s like to be …

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Weekly Round Up! Angular Momentum and Birthdays.

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At Counter Currents, Annie Leonard writes about the message of her latest video, the new internet hit Story of Solutions.  “Changing the goal of the entire economy—from more to better—is a huge task. We can’t do it all at once. But by focusing on game-changing solutions, we can steadily build an economy that values things …

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Weekly Round Up! Solutions, Aberrations, and the Decline of Papal Humor

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  Released only hours ago, Annie Leonard’s new video is here!  Watch the Story of Solutions, and read her interview with Alternet.  “Rather than giving boring lists of solutions, we decided to inspire people to think more deeply about the kinds of solutions we need.”   Stephanie Coontz at TIME drops historically substantiated facts, debunking …

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Weekly Round Up: Sports Camp Redux!

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The Sierra Club confers its highest honor, the John Muir Award, upon the “Father of Environmental Justice,” Dr. Robert Bullard, to whom we offer our enthusiastic congratulations.  Possibly the first African American to receive this award, Bullard notes, “it is highly unlikely that I could have been a member of the Sierra Club in my …

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Weekly Round Up! Chemical Disasters, Moons, and Boots

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In the wake of the announcement that Tokyo, not Istanbul, will host the 2020 Olympics, Arsalan Iftikhar over at Time outlines historically unfair patterns of selection and makes a compelling case for the International Olympic Committee to select a Muslim-majority country to host Olympic games.   We’ve known how to cure it for centuries, so …

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Weekly Round Up: Kathleen Hanna Reigns Supreme!

Ainissa Ramirez, Dan Moldea, Derrick Pitts, Kathleen Hanna, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Tim DeChristopher, Weekly Roundup / By

The entire internet is abuzz covering Kathleen Hanna and her latest release, Run Fast, with her band The Julie Ruin.  New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, NPR, SPIN, Village Voice, AV Club, and so many more. Here’s Entertainment Weekly on the new documentary about her, The Punk Singer.   We extend our warmest congratulations …

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Weekly Round Up! Sports Camp and Racial Justice.

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Happy Tuesday!   It seems there’s always plenty to keep us busy.  Perhaps we should take a tip from Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, spotted last month using his laptop on the subway, a form of transit he describes as “fast, cheap, and easy,” adding that, “when I do, I am always working. … The universe can be …

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Random Thoughts for the Midweek

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We’re relieved to have a break from the heat here in Boston!   Neil deGrasse Tyson’s new series, Cosmos, was a big hit at Comic Con 2014!  We can’t wait to watch this reboot of Carl Sagan’s classic series.      Kyle Thiermann from Surfing for Change shared this video of divers who narrowly escaped …

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Now Trending: Manhattanhenge, Literary Achievements, and Rocking Out!

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Happy Tuesday!   Summer is here and the sun is in perfect alignment for some breath-taking sunsets in Manhattan.  Neil deGrasse Tyson calls this beautiful phenomenon “Manhattanhenge.”   Urvashi Vaid has received wonderful praise from Gay City News on her new book, Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class, and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics.   We …

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