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Weekly Roundup – Arsalan Iftikhar, Daisy Hernandez, Derrick Pitts

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Happy Wednesday everyone! Catch up with the latest news from our headlining speakers! Arsalan Iftikhar has a thoughtful piece in this weeks TIME Magazine  about the misunderstandings of what “Sharia Law” really is, and how it contributes to an unnecessary hostility towards Muslim Americans. Congratulations to Daisy Hernandez, who starts her new teaching position at …

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Weekly Round Up: 2013 in Voting Rights, Science Reads, and Wine

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Last blog of 2013!   With a little help from Steven Strogatz at the New York Times, Annalee Newitz at io9 puzzles through the mystery and consistency of Zipf’s law, formulated by a linguist in 1949, which accurately predicts rank and frequency, power and size relations in everything from languages to cities to bodies.  She …

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Weekly Round Up: Kathleen Hanna Leads the Opposite of her 90s Media Blackout

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You might never guess it’s the same public who led a feminist media blackout in the 90s, refusing to speak to news outlets out of a well-earned distrust, because Kathleen Hanna is everywhere!  Despite their having published a condescending piece on her in 1992, Hanna has a friendly interview with USA Today where she talks about the filming of the Punk …

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Weekly Round Up! Texas and a Typhoon

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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

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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! 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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Arsalan Iftikhar – “The Muslim Guy”

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 CNN.com Feature by Arsalan Iftikhar – For Muslims, a reason to rejoice About A.I. Arsalan Iftikhar is an international human rights lawyer, global media commentator and founding managing editor of TheCrescentPost.com. As the founder of TheMuslimGuy.com, Arsalan has been a regular weekly political commentator/legal analyst for the National Public Radio (NPR) show “Tell Me More” …

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