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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
N.B.A.
James and Wade have some soul searching to do. The recent Finals is also a reminder that you don't win championships on paper. Will Miami be back next year? Maybe not. There are a number of teams that are going to be better and will be tougher to defeat. Let's begin with Chicago and the New York Knicks.
Out west teams like Oklahoma and Memphis just seem young and exciting. Look for more teams to play zone against the Heat. Keep Wade and James out of the paint. Will the Heat get a new coach? When will those rumors begin? I'm certain the Heat will make some changes to their bench. I look for Bibby and Howard to be gone. A strong bench is key if you want to finish # 1.
James and Wade have some soul searching to do. The recent Finals is also a reminder that you don't win championships on paper. Will Miami be back next year? Maybe not. There are a number of teams that are going to be better and will be tougher to defeat. Let's begin with Chicago and the New York Knicks.
Out west teams like Oklahoma and Memphis just seem young and exciting. Look for more teams to play zone against the Heat. Keep Wade and James out of the paint. Will the Heat get a new coach? When will those rumors begin? I'm certain the Heat will make some changes to their bench. I look for Bibby and Howard to be gone. A strong bench is key if you want to finish # 1.
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Join us for a lecture, screening and discussion with exhibiting artist Carlos Motta.
Thanks to Cabinet for hosting the event!
Image: Carlos Motta, Six Acts: Experiments in Narrative Justice, 2010
Date: Tuesday, June 14th, 2011, 7–9 pm
Location: Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn NY Free, no RSVP
Motta will discuss his recent video and performance projects Six Acts: An Experiment in Narrative Justice (2010) and Resistance and Repression (2010). Motta explores “narrative justice” and the articulation of memory of political conflicts. The lecture reflects on unresolved instances of political violence in Colombia and Honduras. More here.
This event accompanies Provisions' Aesthetic Justice exhibition which has been extended at the Lambent Foundation in New York until 22 June 2011. It can be viewed by appointment, Tuesday to Thursday, 11 am to 4 pm.
Email: exhibitions@lambentfoundation.org to schedule an appointment.
Image: Carlos Motta, Six Acts: Experiments in Narrative Justice, 2010
KNOWLEDGE COMMONS DC
Suppressing the Vote in Wisconsin
Michael Berkowitz, Truthout: "Fred Risser is a veteran Wisconsin state senator. Actually, he is the longest-serving state legislator in American political history. Bald and bearded, quick to laugh, he is the genial grandfather at the family picnic. But Risser was not feeling genial, lately. May 19 he had been recognized to speak and was making a point on the floor of the Wisconsin State Senate. Risser was questioning the constitutionality and ethics of the Republican-sponsored voter suppression bill, AB7. However, State Senate President Mike Ellis, the new majority leader, cut him off - loudly, practically screaming, talking right over him - instead of considering Risser's important legal questions. In over 50 years of serving in the legislature, Risser said that he hadn't seen anything like it."
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Michael Berkowitz, Truthout: "Fred Risser is a veteran Wisconsin state senator. Actually, he is the longest-serving state legislator in American political history. Bald and bearded, quick to laugh, he is the genial grandfather at the family picnic. But Risser was not feeling genial, lately. May 19 he had been recognized to speak and was making a point on the floor of the Wisconsin State Senate. Risser was questioning the constitutionality and ethics of the Republican-sponsored voter suppression bill, AB7. However, State Senate President Mike Ellis, the new majority leader, cut him off - loudly, practically screaming, talking right over him - instead of considering Risser's important legal questions. In over 50 years of serving in the legislature, Risser said that he hadn't seen anything like it."
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GOP-Style Democrats Moving to Sell Out Poor, Liberals: Lessons From the DC Budget Fight
Art Levine, Truthout: "It's been less than two weeks since a guerilla campaign by local activists managed to restore about 20 percent of $131 million in budget cuts targeting Washington, DC's, neediest residents - with little help from the mainstream media, which essentially ignored a looming shutdown of the city's shelter, poor and disabled aid services that could have thrown thousands into the street. The city's reluctant Democratic leadership only bowed at the last minute to under-the-radar pressure to reverse some of the most obvious, draconian cuts with $27 million in restorations, especially services to the homeless. Other sources familiar with the lobbying to restore homeless funding point out that some leaders in the local downtown business community were concerned about the impact on the city's image and tourism."
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Art Levine, Truthout: "It's been less than two weeks since a guerilla campaign by local activists managed to restore about 20 percent of $131 million in budget cuts targeting Washington, DC's, neediest residents - with little help from the mainstream media, which essentially ignored a looming shutdown of the city's shelter, poor and disabled aid services that could have thrown thousands into the street. The city's reluctant Democratic leadership only bowed at the last minute to under-the-radar pressure to reverse some of the most obvious, draconian cuts with $27 million in restorations, especially services to the homeless. Other sources familiar with the lobbying to restore homeless funding point out that some leaders in the local downtown business community were concerned about the impact on the city's image and tourism."
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Monday, June 13, 2011
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Breaking News Alert The New York Times Monday, June 13, 2011 -- 8:23 PM EDT ----- Bachmann Announces Candidacy for President Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota interrupted her answer to a question at a Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire to announce that she had filed papers on Monday to formally declare her candidacy for the Republican nomination for president.
Digital Dalliance: Easy to Do and Easy to Get Caught
By TARA PARKER-POPE
As online flirtation enters the mainstream, therapists are debating whether it facilitates infidelity.
Split This Rock poetry festival- Call for proposals
Poems of Provocation & Witness: March 22-25, 2012
To E. Ethelbert Miller,Split This Rock is currently inviting proposals for panel and round table discussions, workshops, and themed group readings for our third national poetry festival, scheduled for March 22-25, 2012, in Washington, DC. The festival will consider the relationship of poets and poetry to power and to the challenges to power. In addition the festival will celebrate the legacy of the late poet-activist June Jordan, as 2012 marks the tenth anniversary of her death.
With the looming proposal submission deadline on June 30th 2011, we are seeking your help by asking you to post our proposal call on your blog. Our 2012 festival promises to be an excellent event and certainly something worth getting involved in.
For full information on the proposal call please follow the link below;
http://splitthisrock.org/festival2012/callforproposals2012.html
Many thanks,
Louise Helferty
Split This Rock
Milkweed Editions Proudly Announces the 2011 Release of
THE COLORS OF NATURE: CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND THE NATURAL WORLD
The expanded edition of The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World is now available. Its provocative essays exist at the intersection of cultural identity and ecological awareness, featuring the work of more than thirty contributors—including Jamaica Kincaid, Kimiko Hahn, Yusef Komunyakaa, bell hooks, and Francisco X. Alarcón, among others. Booklist has called the book an “unprecedented and invaluable collection of forthright and bracing essays by writers of ‘diverse cultural origins and disciplinary backgrounds.’” It acknowledges and celebrates African-American, Asian-American, Arab-American, Native-American, Latino/a, and hybrid or “multiracial” voices writing on the relationships between culture, place, and identity.
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SPORTS AGAIN:
Is This the Way the World Ends?
Eric Best, Truthout: "The purported end of the world came and went, and, to the surprise of few, the rapture did not come to pass on May 21. The world is not, however, out of the woods if you read Peter Nolan's superb book, 'Crossroads: The End of Wild Capitalism and the Future of Humanity.' Nolan's thesis is that unrestrained capitalism, its extremes and its contradictions, have put China, the United States and the world of Islam on a collision course that gives the world 'the choice of no choice.' Either these three models of culture and capitalism will find constructive engagement, or the world as we know it is in extreme peril."
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Eric Best, Truthout: "The purported end of the world came and went, and, to the surprise of few, the rapture did not come to pass on May 21. The world is not, however, out of the woods if you read Peter Nolan's superb book, 'Crossroads: The End of Wild Capitalism and the Future of Humanity.' Nolan's thesis is that unrestrained capitalism, its extremes and its contradictions, have put China, the United States and the world of Islam on a collision course that gives the world 'the choice of no choice.' Either these three models of culture and capitalism will find constructive engagement, or the world as we know it is in extreme peril."
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TOP NEWS
F.B.I. Agents Get Leeway to Push Privacy Bounds
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
The F.B.I. plans to issue a new edition of its manual giving agents more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize people.
The guy wants the ball more. I still think he needs to play better defense. Wade is a class act and was just trying to do too much. Now look for the owners to bring in the hard cap and force some changes on the Heat team. Oh, and I'm certain somebody is making a new Lebron James commercial. Maybe something about coming so close and not having a Happy Meal. Well- I know one burger that's not ready. Hey - make that three.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
History - African American Literature and Culture Society (AALCS)
Recipients include: Sam Cornish (1995); Ouincy Troupe (1996); E. Ethelbert Miller (1997); Sherley Anne Williams (1998); Clarence Major (2002); Askia Toure´ ...
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Recipients include: Sam Cornish (1995); Ouincy Troupe (1996); E. Ethelbert Miller (1997); Sherley Anne Williams (1998); Clarence Major (2002); Askia Toure´ ...
aalcs.marygrove.edu/history
CHARLES JOHNSON ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL REASONS FOR DOING THE HANKY PANKY
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SPORTS: CRY ME A VICTORY?
The best thing that could happen to Lebron James tonight is for the Heat to lose. Call me Shakespeare.
Everyone loves a tragedy. A loss will make this guy look in the mirror and read his tattoos. Championships are won in the heart. Too many owners and players believe you can simply buy one. So, let's see what happens. A monster game from James? He will have to find two bunnies in the hat. One tonight and another on Tuesday. Do you believe in magic or Miami?
The best thing that could happen to Lebron James tonight is for the Heat to lose. Call me Shakespeare.
Everyone loves a tragedy. A loss will make this guy look in the mirror and read his tattoos. Championships are won in the heart. Too many owners and players believe you can simply buy one. So, let's see what happens. A monster game from James? He will have to find two bunnies in the hat. One tonight and another on Tuesday. Do you believe in magic or Miami?
Saturday, June 11, 2011
REFUGEES, LOVERS AND SURVIVORS
When she undressed the first time
for her lover, the politics from home
failed to escape the darkness.
On arms and legs were scars,
where cigarettes had cooled themselves,
where a bullet wound was the last witness,
to the rape of metal now asleep in bone.
- E. Ethelbert Miller
When she undressed the first time
for her lover, the politics from home
failed to escape the darkness.
On arms and legs were scars,
where cigarettes had cooled themselves,
where a bullet wound was the last witness,
to the rape of metal now asleep in bone.
- E. Ethelbert Miller
The E-Channel presents the words and wisdom of the writer Charles Johnson.
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Ethelbert Miller E. Ethelbert Miller is a literary activist. He was born in 1950 and grew-up in the South Bronx. A graduate of Howard University, ...
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Ethelbert Miller E. Ethelbert Miller is a literary activist. He was born in 1950 and grew-up in the South Bronx. A graduate of Howard University, ...
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Gov. Robert Bentley of Alabama recently signed a tough immigration law. It's now a crime in that state if you knowingly give a ride in a vehicle to an illegal immigrant. The law requires police officers to inquire about the status of anyone they stop if they suspect the person might be an illegal immigrant.
What would Nat Turner do?
What would Nat Turner do?