Hubris and Cheney
Opinion When I was a 17-year-old freshman at the Cornell College of Architecture, I was required to take an elective in the College of Liberal Arts every semester. I suppose this policy was intended to make us little brutes “better-rounded,” but it had unintended consequences, at least for me.
We refuse to go back!
Opinion Legislation governing reproduction is dangerous to us all, unless it assures an individual the right to make decisions privately and without interference, and to receive reproductive care in safe, legal circumstances.
Texans on taxes
DALLAS – Halliburton has a big office building in Carrollton, Texas, just outside the Dallas City limits. Forty to 50 protesters gathered there on April 15 to show their outrage with corporate profiteering at the expense of the Iraqi people....
Freedom Ride Summer Project
Activists who want to spend four to six weeks this summer doing voter registration and direct support actions for immigrant rights can apply to the New American Opportunities Campaign, a project of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, at http://www.iwfr.org/voterproject.asp.
Building trades launch Labor with Habitat
WASHINGTON – Habitat for Humanity International will launch Labor with Habitat Week, May 16-22, to recognize its national partnership with the Building and Construction Trades Department-AFL-CIO and its 15 affiliated trade unions representing more than 3 million trades men and women nationwide. The kickoff is May 17 in Cincinnati.
Jean Harnish, equality advocate, dies at 89
BALTIMORE – Jean Harnish, a social worker and an advocate for race and gender equality, died in her sleep at the home of friends March 30, her 89th birthday.
Human rights inspectors needed in U.S.
CHICAGO – In general, academic conferences are not filled with the stuff that makes great news stories.
Briefly noted
Reviews NEW YORK CITY: Play about Haymarket Riot / CHICAGO: Latino Film Fest / LOS ANGELES: Photos by Milton Rogovin, et al.
FDNY Brotherhood
Film review NEW YORK – @radical.media’s feature documentary, “Brotherhood,” directed by Lilibet Foster, a cinema verite-style immersion into the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), will premiere May 3 at the Tribeca Film Festival here.
The universe is elegant
Book review The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality By Brian Greene Alfred A. Knopf, 2004, Hardcover, 592 pp., $28.95
