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Uncle Sam doesn’t want the fat, stupid and criminal? - 295 days ago
I smelled something funky right away in Larry Littlefield’s post that includes the tiresome phrase “Youth of Today” in the title (so we know right away where this is going). He’s gracious enough to qualify his finger pointing by. Topics: BCSSE, drug laws, journalism, larry littlefield, military recruit, millenials, obesity, politics, ptsd, troop surge, walter reed, wii, youth of today
Contrast last post to this reporter’s coverage - 325 days ago
I thought I had it tough squeezing through crowds at Union Square to get a good shot of the spectacle created by protesters supporting the Free Tibet movement. Jon Ray, a reporter for ITN in the UK, had it much worse.Ray and a cameraman were reporting on. Topics: china protest, free tibet, IOC, ITN, journalism, journalist arrest, olympic protest, politics
Rallies for an independent Tibet begin on eve of Olympics - 327 days ago
On August 7, the eve of the beginning of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, hundreds of supporters of the movement to liberate Tibet from China’s authority gathered in Union Square to protest the games. A screen positioned above a group of monks,... Topics: olympics 2008, politics, protest, tibet, tibet and china, tibetan monks, union square protest
Viewing Iraqi Art - 404 days ago
Last week I had the chance to attend an opening at Pomegranate Gallery in SoHo for the new show “Oil on Landscape: Art From Wartime Contemporaries of Baghdad,” curated by a former military officer who served in Iraq until 2007, Christopher J.... Topics: art, art in Baghdad, Baghdad painting, Christopher Brownfield, for class, Iraq, politics, Pomegranate Art Gallery, SoHo art show
Crack-downs on undocumented immigrants =separated families - 417 days ago
Reporting by Craig Thompson and Annie ShrefflerErnesto Rosales freely admits that he and his wife, Maria Reyna, are undocumented immigrants. After living in Queens with their children for eight years, it’s hard for them to believe Maria could ever be... Topics: deportation, downs syndrome, ICE, immigrant, immigration, mexican, Mexico, puebla, queens immigrant, train raid


