Archive for the ‘Blogroll’ Category
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
There are way too many inaccuracies and too much misrepresentation and deceit in this blog-tumblr piece [below] by Hunter alumna Vanessa Casavant for this former mentor-instructor to engage in rebuttals, rejoinders, replies and the lot at this point in time in the early fall semester. For the moment, this writer is collecting her online posts as well as contacting news services who wrote about her quotable and paraphrased whining in their news articles to alert them to the spurious and the specious and that they were snookered.
So, what is this about? Read on.
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Tags: 9/11 frauds, 9/11 jokes, Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, Legislative Gazette, Vanessa Casavant
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
[Soon to be a Major Motion Picture — 
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The following screed was posted on Hunter-L, a Hunter College listserv, in response to a petition posted to support OCCUPY WALL STREET. Hunter-L is used by faculty and students and staff for disseminating information and has a long history of turbulence and relevance . The petition can be found much further down in this blog.
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Tags: BIG CORPORATIONS, DEMOCRACY, OCCUPY, OCCUPY D:F/M, OCCUPY WALL STREET
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
At the J Walter Thompson agency on Lexington Avenue, 46 Street today.
The nervous energy before the start of the press conference announcing the SUS campaign to help U.S. military vets and soldiers could not be denied. And then things got serious.
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Tags: Aftertheparade, homelessness among U.S. military vets, military suicides, post traumatic stress disorder, suicidal military vets and soldiers, veteran suicides
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
Will be attending a press conference today with several students about the SUS program for a campaign to help present and former U.S. military folks dealing with serious issues.
Each day 18 current or former military personnel take their own lives. Over 2,300 active duty members of the U.S. Armed Forces have killed themselves since January, 2001.
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Tags: Veterans
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Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
Awash in all manner of demands demanding his attention, the WORD editor has not been blogging for many weeks. That is about to change.
Promise (for those interested).
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
ALBANY – Gov. Cuomo’s speech on Sunday night to the Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators was interrupted with chants of “Tax the rich!” led by City Councilman Charles Barron. — Glenn Blain, NY Daily News
Barron is a baron. Word! Makes one think of Bill Thompson’s “Term Limits” in the 2009 Mayoral Election. Thompson could have won if voters hadn’t been convinced by the mainstream news media that Bloomberg was strutting on the path to victor. Thompson lost by 4 percent.
Full story here.
Tags: 2009 NYC Mayoral Election, Bill C. Thompson, Charles Barron, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg, Term Limits
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
Blogs were once the outlet of choice for people who wanted to express themselves online. But with the rise of sites like Facebook and Twitter, they are losing their allure for many people – particularly the younger generation. — Verne G. Kopytof, NYT, February 21.
Blogging’s soaring popularity reminded me of the mass appeal of Citizen Band Radio when it was hot. Everyone had a handle. T.B. Knight was my moniker. After a while the sizzle faded. The amateurs had had enough. And the airwave returned to the highway cops and the truckers who were using it before its mass appeal. QMfE, “The same thing’s going to happen to blogging,” I told my students.
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Tags: 2008 Democratic National Convention, blog, facebook, social networking
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Gov. Cuomo speech drowned out with City Councilman Charles Barron-led yells of ‘Tax the rich!’ — NY Daily News
Monday, February 21st, 2011Full story here.
Tags: 2009 NYC Mayoral Election, Bill C. Thompson, Charles Barron, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg, Term Limits
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