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BBC NEWS | Bolivia leader quits amid protest…
BBC NEWS | Bolivia leader quits amid protest
His national approval ratings run between 50% and 60%, our correspondent says.
Roh and Toledo barely started thinking about resigning when their approval rates reached 10%. why the rush?
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From Charlene Smith To debate SA discussion…
From: Charlene Smith
To: “debate: SA discussion list”
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:01:17 +0200Progressive attitudes from Nigeria, did not notice any of the same positive attitudes or support from any SA organisations. CS
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Subject: [eforum] Celebrating International Sex Workers DayMarch 3: International Sex Workers Day
Dear All,
On the occasion of International Sex Workers Rights Day, the Nigeria Network of Sex Work projects invites all of you to celebrate this day with us.
The theme for this year is `Rehabilitation is Redundant, Recognise Rights’.
We invite you to light a candle wherever you are to show solidarity to the struggle of sex workers to be human.
In Solidarity,
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Head of Programs
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first I see this article on the pervasive…
first, I see this article on the pervasive effects of Walmart in the city http://www.urbancartography.com/2005/02/die_walmart_die.html and, a commentor had told the writer to not be so blatant about his own “biases”, and mocked at the fact that his google adsense (content-specific text advertising) was showing ADS of Walmart. Indeed, next to the article criticizing Walmart, google picked up the keyword “Walmart”, and you can see a discount ticket offer for Walmart, getting jobs at Walmart, Walmart Store finder, Clearance, and so forth.
then, I use gmail to send an email about our Freedom Movements class, and as I revise the email, this is the gmail ads that shows to the right:
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision for overcoming racism in Americamore sponsored links »
Related Pages
Pastor cites importance of church in lives of blacks
Durham Herald Sun – 7 hours ago
BY PAUL BONNER : The Herald-Sun. DURHAM — Blacks’ quest for freedom …A win for Robinson
Newsday – 5 hours ago
Before the Supreme Court desegregated public schools, before …Identity Politics
History of the political activity and theorizing founded in the …
plato.stanford.eduThe CLR James Institute: William Gorman: WEB Du Bois and His Work
This is a remarkable document by William Gorman, whom C.L.R. James …
www.clrjamesinstitute.organd I’m like, oh shit.
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Outline: AIDS, politics of accusation, and racially bound female bodies in the Korean American public discourse
Medical Anthropology
March 3, 2005
Yongho KimMy paper aims to make the claim that geographically and racially imagined narratives within the Korean American community (in particular New York City) that portray the AIDS/HIV epidemic as originating from outside the ehtno-nationally defined core of the Korean American community have contributed to the ongoing process of binding female bodies racially, both in terms of simple mobility between neighborhoods of color and the formation of interracial couples. Unlike previous papers, I plan to start the research process with a specific agenda/hypothesis in mind.
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[scrapbook] March 31: Selective Service ready to bring back the draft
Date: Monday, February 28, 2005 11:27 PM -0500rr
From: Action Center rr
Subject: March 31: Selective Service ready to bring back the draftrrStop the Draft before it starts:
http://www.NoDraftNoWay.org
On March 31, the Selective Service System will report to President Bush that it is ready to implement a draft within 75 days. We have to organize now to stop the draft before it starts.
Despite what politicians say, there is a high probability that the Bush Administration will attempt to reinstate the draft.
The U.S. military is in a quagmire in Iraq, facing a national popular uprising against the occupation. Soldiers are dying every day. A report issued in January 2004 by Jeffrey Record, a visiting professor at the Air War College, said the Army is “near the breaking point.” The Pentagon has been forced to issue repeated “stop loss” orders and recall soldiers who had retired or otherwise returned to civilian life.
Out of 10 Army Divisions, part or all of 9 of them are either deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Twenty-one out of 33 regular combat brigades are on active duty in Iraq, Afghanistan, South Korea, or the Balkans. That’s 63% of the Army’s combat strength. This means the Army is extremely overextended. The Bush Administration has been trying to fill the gap with Reserve and National Guard troops, but this is a temporary fix at best. The head of the Army Reserves has recently written a memo saying that the readiness of his forces has been drastically reduced through over-deployment and is “degenerating into a broken force.”
Meanwhile, official U.S. foreign policy is now the doctrine of “pre-emptive war” and “regime change” wherever a leader runs afoul of U.S. corporate interests. An invasion of Iran, Syria, Korea, or Cuba — all of whom are on Washington and Wall Street’s list of targets — would require tens or hundreds of thousands of new soldiers.
Enlistment rates not even able to maintain current force levels, much less provide troops for new invasions and occupations. All four services missed their enlistment quotas last year, and enlistments in the Reserves, National Guard, and regular military are at a 30-year low. Many current members of the armed forces plan to get out as soon as their current enlistment ends. According to a poll conducted by the military newspaper Stars & Stripes, 49% of soldiers stationed in Iraq do not plan to re-enlist.
The President has given the Selective Service System a set of readiness goals to be implemented by March 31, 2005. As part of these performance goals, the System must be ready to be fully operational within 75 days. This means we can look for the Draft to be in operation as early as June 15, 2005.
March 19 is the second anniversary of the war. On the weekend of March 19-20, activists all over the globe will take to the streets to demand and end to the war and occupation. No Draft No Way will be mobilizing to take part in these demonstrations, which will take place just a few days before the Selective Service System reports to President Bush that it is ready to go. We must be in the streets to let them know that we oppose the draft and will not be used as cannon fodder in Iraq or in any new war.
Let’s Organize NOW to Stop the Draft:
1) Come to NYC for the March 19 Troops Out Now demonstration. Join the No Draft No Way! contingent in the march. http://www.troopsoutnow.org. Or join the march and rally in Fayetteville, NC, outside Fort Bragg–for more information, see http://www.ncpeacejustice.org.
2) Organize an anti-draft meeting at your school, church or mosque, union hall, etc. Contact us at 212-633-6646 for help and speakers.
3) Organize protests outside the selective service office in your area.
4) Donate to help build a network of educators, activists, and resisters to fight the draft–before it returns. http://nodraftnoway.org/donate-new.shtml
5) Sign the No Draft Petition. http://nodraftnoway.org/petition.shtml
http://www.NoDraftNoWay.org
March 19 Troops Out Now! March on Central Park in NYC! Regional Demonstrations Across the U.S. & Worldwide
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notes, progressive mac student-alumn network
sunday feb 27, 10:45am-12:00pm
present: josh jorgensen, david boehnke, michael barnes, molly bowen, trudy rebert, ryan from MAPA (he takes spanish classes at the RCTA?), another guy from AFSCME, daniel schwartzman, elana wolowitz, me, a few others
discussed several ongoing campaigns (need-blind, center for global citizenship, institutioanl responsibility, etc)
okay, someone said “the diversity center”. now it’s called “Department of Multicultural Life”. that term is quite telling in what kind of space in your mental priority racial diversity occupies in the minds of young white liberal organizers.
institutioanl responsibility committee and the issue of proxi purchasing (investments) SRC was not given direct access to college’s investment records but they can request what they want and obtain it indirectly, which slows down the entire process.
in 1998 when SLAC was just getting started, a math professor who ran the investments was not willing to give out info but said that most of the investments go to mutual funds, which cannot be controlled, and only 25% today is through individual stocks (over which you can control social responsibility of the respective company policies), but it’s still not much
michael talked about establishing an archivist, i talked about getting alumns to just come and talk about their perspectives (was this too weak?) like federico helfgott did with his antiwar activism last fall.
told the group about SoC recruiting and how lorne robinson sucked at mulitcultural admissions, and particular local high schools, how they weren’t even getting applications, and how he got smashed during the alumni of color reunion but it was too anedotic, i didn’t work in the front lines in this issue, and my impression is that the people were listening to it just out of respect for the one (out of two) people of color in the room.
also commented a bit on the website and what these guys need is something a lot simpler than what civispace provides. even the facebook might accomplish their level of organizing, the only drawback being that they would need to go all the way back to the alumni office to get their mac alumni email addresses. (they just need to be able to CONTACT other students/alumns, for godssake)
the alternate funding project seems a bit divisive at htis point, several questions arising. what daniel points out is that we won’t ever really reach a level of funding at which the school administration will have to negotiate with us just in order to get the money. no real power. hmm
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K that group shouldn’t have left Y but…
K: that group shouldn’t have left
Y: but if they want to split apart, that should be fine!
K: the two groups didn’t talk to each other, there was no communication!
Y: that’s a problem but still, if they want to split, that should be fine!after the meeting
Y: you know why the dems lost in the 2004 elections? because those stupids thought that by getting everyone together they would get more votes and win! they actually lost people who steered away because there wasn’t anything interesting going on, everyone knew kerry would never say anything that stuck him out too much, and see what happened
K: i don’t think that splitting in many parts is good. see, we learned the other day that the European political system was superior because there were so many [countries? parties?] of them, and China was weak because it was a one party system, but look now where china is economically despite the one-part system..
Y: what! and you even care to refute that!
K: bah, i won’t talk to youafterthought: who the hell says these days that europe was strong because there were many of them? they were all together in the business of colonizing the world! what was the berlin conference about? who the hell needs to refute that kind of crap? wait wait, people teach that at mac? oh my.
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Polio Resurgence, Control in Saudi Arabia and Surrounding Areas.
Medical Anthropology
Short paper on current issues in infectious diseases
February 25, 2005
Yongho KimPoliomyelitis, called “polio” for short, is a viral infectious disease affecting mostly young children between the age of 3 to 5 years. It is caused by the poliovirus, with three recognized strains – non-paralytic, spinal paralytic, and bulbar – and transmitted through mouth contact with fecally infected water or foods. The virus attacks parts of the central nervous system (the spinal column or the brain stem depending on the strain), causing first fever, vomiting, headaches, pains in the neck and extremities, paralysis and/or death. (Wikipedia, 2005) The virus has a long permanence time, up to 35 days, and is usually found when the child presents floppy and lifeless limbs, a condition known as the acute flaccid paralysis (AFP).
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notes, senior seminar. theories and variables
theories in our anthropological paper is a way to explain something. the variable is the thing to be explained.
paper 1
building of dams affects women’s livelihoods in a particular river valley in Senegal. variable is the dam and new irrigation methods, which is to be explained, and the result of the dam being there is the affected livelihood of women as measured by employment, household income, and so forthpaper 2
prostitution is conceptualized as a particular thing in anthropological literature. E will draw upon his particular experience in mongolia where he massaged the feet of an old man and felt like a prostitute because he was providing a sexual service (unpaid, however) using this he will criticize one of his own papers that he wrote in another anthropology class and expand it to anthropology in general. here, the variable is the anthropologist’s conception of prostitution, and the result thereof is the current literature about prostitution.fun term: prostitutive anthropology. how is anthropology perceived in prostitution? how is that anthropologist who hanged out with prostitute informants in DC and ended up singing in the car together while raining? (at C&C)
theories suggested: theories of representation of manhood, WGS stuff, etc
paper 3
nursing women in south africa are immigrating en masse to places like saudi arabia, britain, and so forth. there are pull and push factors: wages, satisfaction at the job, social instablity, (what else was here?) variable is all of the factors togethertheories suggested: mimi sheller’s movement of bodies theory
paper 4
revival of shamanism in mongolian youth and how it relates to the revival of nationalism after the fall of communism in mongolia. weatherford indicates that just the “practice of shamanism among youth” is a invariable phenomenon, and that it doesn’t change – not a variable. i suggest that maybe the study should compare traditional perceptions of youth towards shamanism before the fall of communism to the revival post-fall, and that would give two differing situations where the two variables, revival of shamanism and neonationalism/fall of communism are correlating variables.theories suggested: john fiske’s study of suburban white youth using hip hop from black urban youth as a cultural artifact through which they build up their own sense of belonging/resistance
observation: i think it was not clear throughout the class what we meant by “variable”. because it seemed to be one kind of thign in one paper, and then in the next paper it was on the other end of the equation.
weatherford: make sure you bring in the external theory because it fits well with what you want to talk about, not just because you want to show off how cool Foucault or Derrida are and/or you read them. a lot of the academic garbage produced these days comes from students trying to “identify” with a certain school of thought which they find cool/progressive but they are unable to articulate the theory with their actual research, because it was forced upon to start with. (this rings with Guneratne warning of scholars just dropping names to fit in with the rest of academia)
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Anthropology Senior Seminar Yongho Kim February 24 2005…
Anthropology Senior Seminar
Yongho Kim
February 24, 2005Assignment: One-page summary of the theory of your research paper. Does it belong to a particular type? Is it informed by particular types? If it cuts across theoretical lines, which theories does it cut across?
My research paper argues that social relationships among the GW riders is mediated through material objects. Furthermore, people identify with their motorcycles, their accessories, and accents. And talk to other people as if they themselves were portrayed in those obbjects. Therefore, it will rely on theories of the self, in particular Erving Goffman’s theories of presentation of the self in public spaces and games (chapter 5 of “Behavior in Public Spaces”, “Some Rules about Objects of Involvement”) looks promising. I just started reading them this week, and will take me a few days to go through his ideas.
I have only a basic familiarity with sociology and do not have enough time to delve into the sociological literature that concerns performance theory.
I may introduce theories used to talk about identity politics and racialized representations, but I am not sure how politically sensitive it is to use theories about underrepresented racial minorities on otherwise mainstream, if small, majority white (to my perception) middle class groups. If I did, however, I would use Suzanne Oboler’s Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States, Arlene Dávila’s Latinos, Inc: The Marketting and Making of a People, David Roediger’s The Wages of Whiteness, and Manu DiBango’s “The Shortest Way Through”: Strategic Anti-essentialism in Popular Music
