September 13th, 2009

Students on third-floor crosswalk connecting Hunter West and Hunter North Buildings peer at Hunter West courtyard, Lexington Avenue and 68th Street.
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PEN American Center joins forces with American Civil Liberties Union October 13 to contront the acts of torture and abuse carried out on by the United States government since 9/11.
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September 13th, 2009

The DVT put the bite on the start of my semester …
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Tags: D:F/M, DNRAD, journalism courses
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September 7th, 2009
Kent is a retired Brooklyn College philosophy professor who writes for a number of yahoo groups (which I believe he started). The following is from his OurStupidEconomy@yahoogroups.com:
I mentioned in a recent blog the contrast between other nations that report the real numbers out of work and our reporting only those who have been searching for jobs recently. This discrepancy completely distorts any comparison in the progress of national economies.
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Tags: economy, Ed Kent, the real unemployment
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September 7th, 2009
Hello, Gregg.
Jonathan Mena [WORD Senior Editor/Producer] has agreed to give a presentation about Film & Media and his Hunter experiences to the Hunter Scholars on Wednesday, 9 September, at 1:15 p.m. in 615 West. Both the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 scholar cohorts will attend.
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Tags: Jonathan Mena, publish or perish, The WORD
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September 6th, 2009
Jones, President Barack Obama’s appointed advisor on “green jobs,” resigned in the wake of incendiary ranting from rabid right-wing news types like Glenn Beck about Jones’ statements regarding Republicans and his signing a 2004 letter suggesting that former President George W. Bush might have knowingly allowed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to occur in order to use them to go to war.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Van Jones
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September 5th, 2009
Some days the mainstream news media hurt for news. No murders/violence of sufficient import to headline; same for traffic accidents, celebrity sitings as well as man-bites-dog, dog-bites-man-who-bites-dog-that-snuffs-kitty and, a rare one, kitty-fights-back-eating-man-and-dog. In desperation they bite the bullet as the New York Daily News did about the hungry man in Florida.
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September 4th, 2009
From Abby Scher, Editorial Director, The Public Eye Magazine, about two upcoming radio shows on National Radio Project and WBAI.
I’ve been tracking anti-union campaigns from the Right and did a short radio documentary for Making Contact being broadcast this week about the Right’s misinformation campaign to stop labor law reform this year. They are going all out. Unions are a potent reality check. People in unions don’t tend to fall for a lot of the free market mythology about how the world works.
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Tags: Public Eye Magazine, right wing attacks, Still Looking for the Union Label, unions, WBAI
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August 28th, 2009
From: Michelle Starr
News Editor | UWIRE
www.uwire.com
I’m really sorry to send so many messages out in the last few days, but it’s the start of the semester and pretty crazy. UWIRE is trying to compile a list of weird classes and we’re hoping all of you can help out. Are there any new, interesting, strange classes this fall…Think “Harry Potter and British Comedy” or something like that. As always we’ll make it available to anyone who pitches in!
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August 24th, 2009
From the New York Daily News: A federal judge’s ruling that two FDNY entrance exams discriminated against minorities hasn’t persuaded the city to settle a controversial lawsuit. City lawyers are balking at a demand by the U.S. Justice Department and the Vulcan Society that black and Hispanic candidates who took the tests in 1999 and 2002 be given retroactive seniority. Read complete NYDN story here.
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Tags: discriminatory hiring practices, federal lawsuit, NYFD
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Ed Kent: The Real Unemployment Rate
September 7th, 2009Kent is a retired Brooklyn College philosophy professor who writes for a number of yahoo groups (which I believe he started). The following is from his OurStupidEconomy@yahoogroups.com:
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