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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July 31st, 2013
Tags: scabs, unions
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July 17th, 2013
From the July 16 Anderson Cooper CNN 360 show: Criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos, who was not part of Zimmerman’s legal team, said “race determines everything in the criminal justice system.” “Nobody thinks of themselves as a racist, and I’m not accusing anybody of being a racist. What I’m saying is race is the prism through which people see things,” Geragos said.
Tags: American Criminal Justice System, American Justice, Attorney Ron McGuire, Bigotry, George Zimmerman, racism, Travyon Martin
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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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