August 14th, 2013

The Sleaze That Greases the Wheel
Tags: Floyd, NYPD, racial profiling, stop and frisk
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August 12th, 2013
This is a modified version of an email I sent to my Colleagues this past semester. Andrew Lund is a Colleague who teaches in the film component of the Department of Film and Media Studies. This blog post addresses what I consider a major act of departmental calumny. Modifications regarding the email had to do with copyediting.
Every Colleague who signed off the November, 10, 2010 minutes, as scripted by Ricardo Miranda, knows the following is a BF Lie.
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Tags: Academic Bullying, bullying at Hunter College, workplace bullying
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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.

Editor
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Tags: Academic Bullying, CUNY, Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, workplace bullying
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August 9th, 2013

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.
Tags: American racism, Black Actresses/Actors, Black Directors, Black Films, Civil Rights Movement, HOLLYWOOD, OSCAR, THE BUTLER
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August 6th, 2013
Am slowly nurturing twitter for the Big Offensive.

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August 6th, 2013

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.
Tags: Must See Movie of the Year
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August 6th, 2013
The first time Kasiem Walters was stopped, he was 13 years old.
Tags: Civil Liberties, Mayor Bloomberg, NYPD, police commissioner ray kelly, stop and frisk
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August 6th, 2013

… But Not the NRA
[Journal Square, Jersey City, New Jersey]

Tags: assault rifles, guns, machine guns, NRA, Police, weapons
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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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Tags: censoring the news, First Amendment, news censorship
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August 2nd, 2013

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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Tags: African News, Egyptian crisis, human rights, Tahrir Square, The Arab Spring
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THE BUTLER Opens Next Friday, August 16, in New York City: But Will It Cop
August 9th, 2013THE 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.
Tags: American racism, Black Actresses/Actors, Black Directors, Black Films, Civil Rights Movement, HOLLYWOOD, OSCAR, THE BUTLER
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