weeding @ peace farms by ruben henriquez
9 AugWeeding for Peace (Time-Lapse) from Ruben Henriquez on Vimeo.
Touch of Peace Farm – Vermont
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I WANNA GO!
28 JulHotel Nacional de Cuba – May 8 to 10, 2012
The Union of Cuban Jurists (UNJC) and the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) invite you to participate in the IV International Conference “Woman, Gender and Law” to be held under the slogan Gender discrimination in Law and its expression in legislation and legal practice: measures to oppose it in the world’s current political, economic and social situation.
Tags: conference, cuba, gender studies, international, students
Some Damn Foolishness
28 JulThink Again: ‘Bad Things Happen Someplace, Muslims Involved’
by By Eric Alterman | July 28, 2011
entire article found here
I know there are more important problems in the world than Jennifer Rubin’s blog on The Washington Post like the debt ceiling crisis, the Republican assault on the welfare state—that “if enacted, it could well produce the greatest increase in poverty and hardship produced by any law in modern U.S. history”—the criminality of the Murdoch empire, unchecked global warming, the banking industry’s assault on the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and so on.* But bear with me.
I’ve written about Rubin a few times in this space and elsewhere, but to be perfectly honest, I don’t even read her myself. Her blog, however, shows up on my various radar screens on occasion and almost always instructively. This week, it’s because Rubin, relying on arguments drawn from The Weekly Standard and the American Enterprise Institute, rushed into “print” last Friday afternoon with a column insisting that the horrific massacre in Oslo had “a specific jihadist connection” in the attack and employed this insight to argue for a bigger budget for the Pentagon.
I swear I am not making this up. She wrote: “This is a sobering [sic] reminder for those who think it’s too expensive to wage a war against jihadists.” The column also insisted, no less crazily as it happens, that “Obama would have us believe that al-Qaeda is almost caput and that we can wrap up things in Afghanistan.” She was so proud of her column that she followed it with a tweet that read “Norway bombing and why we shouldn’t slash defense- IT IS A DANGEROUS WORLD.”
Had this brilliant analyst waited for, say, her own newspaper to report on the incident, she would have learned that a “Norwegian man taken into custody, whom Norwegian media identified as Anders Behring Breivik, has admitted to firing the weapons, police chief Sveinung Sponheim told reporters Saturday. Police officials have described the man as a right-wing Christian fundamentalist, a member of a small, largely Internet-based community that has been quiet in recent years.”
The murderer was also, inconveniently for Ms. Rubin, a strong “Israel right-or-wrong” variety of Zionist. He was also a big fan of an anti-Islam documentary featuring neoconservative rabble-rousers like Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson. Mr. Emerson, we cannot help but note, was the guy who, Rubin-like, tried to pin the Oklahoma City bombing on Muslims before anyone knew the truth of that tragedy.
In a follow-up column—and I swear I am not making this up, either—Rubin argued that this just proved her original point. “That the suspect here is a blond Norwegian does not support the proposition that we can rest easy with regard to the panoply of threats we face or that homeland security, intelligence and traditional military can be pruned back. To the contrary, the world remains very dangerous because very bad people will do horrendous things. There are many more jihadists than blond Norwegians out to kill Americans, and we should keep our eye on the systemic and far more potent threats that stem from an ideological war with the West.”
WTF!
27 JulColumbia University Criminals to Serve Time at CUNY, NYU
by Kate Incandeza
here
NEW YORK CITY – Five men at Columbia University were arrested this week as part of “Operation Ivy League,” and charged with drug-related offenses.If convicted, the men facing the most serious charges will be sent to CUNY to earn their bachelor degrees, while lesser offenders will be sent to NYU.
Washington’s Chief of Police felt similarly. “I graduated from Georgetown, and always felt the scummier kids belonged down the street somewhere – like in Foggy Bottom. Don’t worry; the dealers’ parents will still be paying an exorbitant amount for their education.” A professor of law studies at George Washington University said, “[Criminals] should be thankful they aren’t being detained somewhere backward, like a public university.”
Ok so this is a joke….but not far off from reality because it had me going for a minute.
Summary of the CUNY Tuition Increase
27 Juloriginally here
“On Thursday, July 21 the CUNY Board of Trustees approved a resolution calling for an additional $150 per semester tuition hikes for full-time students at senior and community colleges. This latest tuition hike comes after the passage of new state legislation authorizing CUNY to increase tuition by up to $300 per year for the next five years. (The CUNY Trustees recently approved a senior college tuition hike of $230 for 2011-2012. This new hike comes on top of that.)”
Senior College tuition will actually be increased $380 dollars a semester. Junior College tuition will be increased $150 a semester.
Update: July 26 — A state Supreme Court judge signed a temporary restraining order blocking the $300 tuition increase passed by the Executive Committee of the CUNY Board of trustees “unless and until the Board of Trustees as a whole meets and takes action in accordance with the law.”
WHAT IS NEXT!
Information on the next hearing:
Tuesday, August 30 at 11 AM
Room 308 at IAS Part 15 of the State Supreme Court
80 Centre Street in Manhattan
[80 Centre St. btw Worth & Leonard St., just NE of Foley Sq.; TRANSIT: J (not M) train to Chambers St. (north exits to Foley); #4, 5, 6 to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall (north exit to Reade St. or Foley); N, Q to Canal (east exit, nearest Brooklyn, thru J platform to Centre St.; R (not N) to City Hall (Broadway & Warren stairs); A, C to Chambers (at Church); #1 to Franklin St. (at West Broadway); E to WTC (north exit to Barclay & Church); #2, 3 to Chambers (W. Broadway); Broadway bus; 3rd Av./Bowery bus; Trinity Pl/Church St. bus; Chambers St. bus. -t.]
