Archive for August, 2013

More About Health Healthy Workplace Bill (S3863)

Saturday, August 10th, 2013

Sent [to D:F/M Colleagues]: Thursday, June 13, 2013 9:17 AM

To: New York State Senator Jeffrey D. Klein [jdklein@senate.state.ny.us]
Temporary President and IDC Coalition Leader

I am a tenured assistant journalism professor at Hunter College and I am writing to ask you to put Healthy Workplace Bill (S3863) on the Senate Finance Committee agenda before the legislative session ends.

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THE BUTLER Opens Next Friday, August 16, in New York City: But Will It Cop

Friday, August 9th, 2013
THE BUTLER Screening

THE BUTLER Screening

Will Forest Whitaker cop another Oscar? Will Director Lee Daniels cop his first Oscar? Will the screenwriter cop his first Oscar?

Editor’s Note: The original headline stating that THE BUTLER was opening August 9 was an OBVIOUS error.

The WORD & Twitter

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

Am slowly nurturing twitter for the Big Offensive.
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The Must See Movie of the Year – Opening Friday, August 16

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

THE BUTLER

 

Disclaimer: Attention Black people and White people who use “nigger” in their conversations for solace, confidence or other reasons: Your time is running out … that’s how extraordinary this movie is.

Center for Constitutional Rights: NYPD Stop And Frisk

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

The first time Kasiem Walters was stopped, he was 13 years old.

Fascinated by Machine Guns, Assault Rifles …

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

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… But Not the NRA

[Journal Square, Jersey City, New Jersey] 

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Lest We Forget …

Sunday, August 4th, 2013

Retired Professor Peter Parisi: Self-Anointed Chaperone for the Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism says he believes in news censorship.

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Rebuked!

Friday, August 2nd, 2013
Osama Abdel-Khale, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United Nations

Osama Abdel-Khale, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United Nations

Osama Abdel-Khalek took heavy hits at the Africa Roundtable – EGYPT IN CRISIS at Global Information Network yesterday when he said the Egyptian Military Coup wasn’t a coup. He described “it” as a popular uprising.

Many in the audience and everyone on the panel harshly disagreed.

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