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Articles : Miscellaneous

Detail from Last Riot by AES Group, from The Art of Anti-War exhibition

By mwm

Six-year-old art hooligan, The Art of Anti-war, Two die in GM clash, Prostitute protest, Pot 2.0, Oral Roberts scandal:Devil did it, America's Armageddonites, Bush big spender

Prostitutes in Bolivia threaten nude march over morals campaign
“Hundreds of outraged prostitutes are ready to fight a morality campaign targeting their trade by marching nude in the streets of Bolivia’s capital, a spokeswoman said Thursday. The threat comes after angry mob on Wednesday destroyed bars and brothels in El Alto, a suburb near La Paz. After the violence, authorities decided to close more than a thousand houses of prostitution in El Alto.” Agence France Presse (10/19/07)

Oral Roberts says devil won’t steal ORU Oral Roberts returned to his namesake university Monday and denied the lurid accusations that have threatened to engulf the school, telling students and employees in a chapel service that “the devil is not going to steal ORU. Three former professors sued the university Oct. 2 for wrongful termination, claiming they were dismissed after they turned over to the board of regents a copy of a report documenting moral and ethical lapses on the part of Richard Roberts and his family.” The Associated Press (10/22/07)

America’s Armageddonites “Utopian fantasies have long transfixed the human race. Yet today a much rarer fantasy has become popular in the United States. Millions of Americans, the richest people in history, have a death wish. They are the new Armageddonites, fundamentalist evangelicals who have moved from forecasting Armageddon to actually trying to bring it about.” Foreign Policy in Focus (10/10/07)

New face of vandalism? A 6-year-old Park Slope girl is facing a $300 fine from the city for doing what city kids have been doing for decades: drawing a pretty picture with common sidewalk chalk.” “Since when is a kid’s chalk drawing “graffiti”? Since the City Council passed local law 111 in 2005, which defined “graffiti” as “any letter, word, name, number, symbol, slogan, message, drawing, picture, writing that is drawn, painted, chiseled, scratched, or etched on a commercial building or residential building.” In other words, Natalie Shea is not an artistic little girl, but a graffiti scofflaw?” The Brooklyn Paper (10/13/07)

Pot 2.0: Where Can I Get Some? “Heard the latest from the Feds regarding their multi-billion dollar war on weed? According to warnings posted on the DEA’s new website JustThinkTwice.com, today’s cannabis is nearly twice as strong as the pot available in the 1970s and 80s. Sounds like its time for the Drug Enforcement Administration to don some new duds. How about t-shirts saying: “I’ve arrested millions, and all I got was stronger pot?” AlterNet (10/20/07)

With Facts on Our Side “For years feminists and prochoicers have pointed out that women have abortions whether or not the procedure is legal. Now comes an article in The Lancet that shows in cold hard data how right we’ve been all along. “Induced Abortion: Estimated Rates and Trends Worldwide,” a study conducted by the World Health Organization and the Guttmacher Institute, is the first global analysis of abortion incidence since 1995. It finds that rates of abortion (the number of abortions per 1,000 women) are relatively unaffected by whether it is legal. Thus, in South America, where abortion is largely illegal, the rate is 33; in northern America, where it is legal, the rate is 21. “The legal status of abortion doesn’t predict whether abortions occur,” study co-author Gilda Sedgh told me by phone. “It predicts whether they are safe. South Africa liberalized its abortion laws in l997, and maternal deaths from unsafe abortion have plummeted by 90 percent.” The big takeaway from the Lancet article is this: there is basically only one thing that lowers the rate of abortion for more than the minute and a half it takes women to figure out how to evade a new legal restriction: contraception.” The Nation (11/5/07)

Two killed in shoot-out at Syngenta GM farm “Two men have been killed after guards working for the Swiss biotech company Syngenta clashed with activists invading a genetically modified (GM) seed farm in Brazil. This is the latest in several such protests by the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) in Brazil targeting multinationals in the agribusiness sector and what it sees as the “evil effects of genetically modified products”. Police said a peasant leader and a guard were killed at the Swiss-owned Syngenta research farm at Cascavel in the southern state of Parana after it was occupied by 200 landless activists on Sunday. Six protesters and three security guards were also wounded during the clashes, police said.” Swissinfo (10/23/07)

The Art of Anti-War Yes this is a little dated, but the pictures alone are worth posting it. “This month, at the Istanbul Biennale, the future has arrived in the form of a very different kind of art. The curator of the Istanbul show, Hou Hanru of China, begins his exhibition catalogue with an unadorned statement: We are living at a time of global wars. The rest of the introduction reads like the agenda of the World Social Forum. Most of these wars, conflicts and clashes take place in the developing world, Hou continues. The centre of the Empire has ruthlessly exported violence to other parts of the world. This narrative does not refer to any specific wars such as Iraq or Afghanistan. Nor does it suggest anything that might offend the Turkish hosts of the event, such as Ankara’s preparations for a possible cross-border incursion against separatist Kurds operating in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq. Still, the art at the Biennale does not pull any punches.”Foreign Policy in Focus (9/23/07)

Bush is the biggest spender since LBJ George W. Bush, despite all his recent bravado about being an apostle of small government and budget-slashing, is the biggest spending president since Lyndon B. Johnson. In fact, he’s arguably an even bigger spender than LBJ. He’s a big government guy. Take almost any yardstick and Bush generally exceeds the spending of his predecessors. Bush is getting tough on fiscal policy after running up a record as the most profligate spender in at least 40 years.” McClatchy (10/24/07)

Notes
Thanks Tango for article lead.

This Saturday, October 27th, beginning at 9 AM (central), on WNUR 89.3 FM Evanston/Chicago, There will ba a live, one-hour broadcast of This is Hell.

This week’s guests are:

Greg Palast, investigative journalist, returns to This is Hell. Greg will discuss his most recent writing, and will also talk about the new paperback edition of his book “Armed Madhouse,” which will be available and Greg will sign following his talk. Greg is making two appearances next weekend here in Chicago on October 27 and on Sunday, October 28th
Dahr Jamail, author of “Beyond The Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq,” (Haymarket). Read Dahr’s most recent writing. More information on the book and tour can be found here. Then on Saturday, October 27th, at UIC’s Lecture Center A1, 750 South Halsted, at 7 PM.

Guests on upcoming shows include:

Saturday, November 3rd, This is Hell’s guest will be author Reese Erlich, he will also be making two appearances in Chicago. He will be discussing his book, The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of US Policy and the Middle East Crisis.

For the latest news from the labor labor relations front, read Nathan Coe’s Labor News Roundup, or Sam Urquhart’s Reliable Resistance or Isaac Oommen examination of news from all points east, East is East.

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