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 lauteuranother archive testa test of author archives Posted at 7:25 PM, Oct 06, 2009 in Books | Permalink | View Comments practiceThe purpose of this entry is to test new authors vs imported onesThis is a test entry to test how a new author’s archive is made. Posted at 7:04 PM, Oct 06, 2009 in War | Permalink | View Comments lauteurFour-Read of the DayMartin Wolf of the Financial Times is on fire over the Geithner/Obama bailout plan. I thought Wolf’s lede was over-the-top when I read it; much less so after I wended my way through his entire piece. Has Barack Obama’s presidency already failed? In normal times, this would be a ludicrous question. But these are not normal times. They are times of great danger. Today, the new US administration can disown responsibility for its inheritance; tomorrow, it will own it. Today, it can offer solutions; tomorrow it will have become the problem. Today, it is in control of events; tomorrow, events will take control of it. Doing too little is now far riskier than doing too much. If he fails to act decisively, the president risks being overwhelmed, like his predecessor. The costs to the US and the world of another failed presidency do not bear contemplating. It’s difficult to find a bone to pick with Wolf’s arguments, and his urgent tone, like Pearlstein’s outrage this morning, is much needed. All along two contrasting views have been held on what ails the financial system. The first is that this is essentially a panic. The second is that this is a problem of insolvency… Nouriel Roubini made this case—that the banks are insolvent and need to be nationalized—yesterday, as well. Here’s Wolf’s capper: But it also seems it has set itself the wrong question. It has not asked what needs to be done to be sure of a solution. It has asked itself, instead, what is the best it can do given three arbitrary, self-imposed constraints: no nationalisation; no losses for bondholders; and no more money from Congress. Yet why does a new administration, confronting a huge crisis, not try to change the terms of debate? This timidity is depressing. Martin Wolf is no paranoid gold bug or Wall Street-hating firebreather. He’s a Davos-going, well-respected economics writer—and a Commander of the British Empire, for crying out loud. I hope Mr. Obama is reading his FT. Posted at 4:11 PM, Oct 06, 2009 in War | Permalink | View Comments grumpyMust-Read of the DayMartin Wolf of the Financial Times is on fire over the Geithner/Obama bailout plan. I thought Wolf’s lede was over-the-top when I read it; much less so after I wended my way through his entire piece. Has Barack Obama’s presidency already failed? In normal times, this would be a ludicrous question. But these are not normal times. They are times of great danger. Today, the new US administration can disown responsibility for its inheritance; tomorrow, it will own it. Today, it can offer solutions; tomorrow it will have become the problem. Today, it is in control of events; tomorrow, events will take control of it. Doing too little is now far riskier than doing too much. If he fails to act decisively, the president risks being overwhelmed, like his predecessor. The costs to the US and the world of another failed presidency do not bear contemplating. It’s difficult to find a bone to pick with Wolf’s arguments, and his urgent tone, like Pearlstein’s outrage this morning, is much needed. All along two contrasting views have been held on what ails the financial system. The first is that this is essentially a panic. The second is that this is a problem of insolvency… Nouriel Roubini made this case—that the banks are insolvent and need to be nationalized—yesterday, as well. Here’s Wolf’s capper: But it also seems it has set itself the wrong question. It has not asked what needs to be done to be sure of a solution. It has asked itself, instead, what is the best it can do given three arbitrary, self-imposed constraints: no nationalisation; no losses for bondholders; and no more money from Congress. Yet why does a new administration, confronting a huge crisis, not try to change the terms of debate? This timidity is depressing. Martin Wolf is no paranoid gold bug or Wall Street-hating firebreather. He’s a Davos-going, well-respected economics writer—and a Commander of the British Empire, for crying out loud. I hope Mr. Obama is reading his FT. Posted at 3:11 PM, Oct 06, 2009 in War | Permalink | View Comments nauteurTwo Read of the DayMartin Wolf of the Financial Times is on fire over the Geithner/Obama bailout plan. I thought Wolf’s lede was over-the-top when I read it; much less so after I wended my way through his entire piece. Has Barack Obama’s presidency already failed? In normal times, this would be a ludicrous question. But these are not normal times. They are times of great danger. Today, the new US administration can disown responsibility for its inheritance; tomorrow, it will own it. Today, it can offer solutions; tomorrow it will have become the problem. Today, it is in control of events; tomorrow, events will take control of it. Doing too little is now far riskier than doing too much. If he fails to act decisively, the president risks being overwhelmed, like his predecessor. The costs to the US and the world of another failed presidency do not bear contemplating. It’s difficult to find a bone to pick with Wolf’s arguments, and his urgent tone, like Pearlstein’s outrage this morning, is much needed. All along two contrasting views have been held on what ails the financial system. The first is that this is essentially a panic. The second is that this is a problem of insolvency… Nouriel Roubini made this case—that the banks are insolvent and need to be nationalized—yesterday, as well. Here’s Wolf’s capper: But it also seems it has set itself the wrong question. It has not asked what needs to be done to be sure of a solution. It has asked itself, instead, what is the best it can do given three arbitrary, self-imposed constraints: no nationalisation; no losses for bondholders; and no more money from Congress. Yet why does a new administration, confronting a huge crisis, not try to change the terms of debate? This timidity is depressing. Martin Wolf is no paranoid gold bug or Wall Street-hating firebreather. He’s a Davos-going, well-respected economics writer—and a Commander of the British Empire, for crying out loud. I hope Mr. Obama is reading his FT. Posted at 3:11 PM, Oct 05, 2009 in Books | Permalink | View Comments jrivasJaneane Garofalo & Kai Wright: Racism as Strong as EverWho knew Janeane Garofalo had such good race politics? Kai Wright, as usual, steals the show though. Posted at 2:03 PM, Sep 18, 2009 in Media Analysis | Permalink | View Comments jrivasCarter’s Comments Right But Distracting
NPR.org has a editorial piece written by ARC’s Research Director Dominique Apollon. “Jimmy Carter’s Wednesday, Sept. 16 comments suggesting that Rep. Joe Wilson’s (R-SC) outburst was racially motivated has reignited the passionate discussion about racism in America. Liberal commentator Dominique Apollon and conservative commentator Armstrong Williams weigh in on Carter’s remarks.” - NPR You can read Dominique Apollon’s “Carter’s Comments: Right, But Distracting” on NPR.org.
Posted at 11:44 AM, Sep 18, 2009 in Permalink | View Comments tnewsRacial Health Disparity Cost Billions, and other newsRacial Health Disparity Cost US Billions CIA Seeks Arab-American Support Documentary on Marine Widow’s Immigration Battle Posted at 11:08 AM, Sep 18, 2009 in News | Permalink | View Comments gcolumnistNew Push to Encourage Parents to Adopt Black Children [VIDEO]by Todd Johnson; originally published at TheGrio.com.
“[Magalie] has pushed to do better in school and impacted my life in a lot of ways,” said Sarazin, who is black. “I was in foster care for so long. I’m glad it was [Magalie] who became my mother.” “It’s really sad, sometimes [foster children] have no family out there,” said Gilles, who was born in Haiti. “It hurts my heart, but that is why I am here to help.” Black children account for more than 30 percent of the roughly 500,000 kids in foster care, according to research. To address these numbers, a new federally funded ad campaign is looking to get more black foster children adopted. Television commercials will feature black parents and children in settings such as parks and schools. Similar ads will appear on radio and in newspaper. The ads were developed by the Advertising Council, which produces public service announcements and AdoptUsKids, a non-profit which helps connect foster children with adoptive families. It marks the first time African-Americans have been targeted, according to project officials. “There are a lot of negative images of African-Americans, especially preadolescent and adolescent black boys,” said Kathy Ledesma, project director of AdoptUsKids. “African-American children are removed from their homes at higher rates than [other racial groups]. The new ads will officially launch November 1st. Gilles is interested in adopting more children in the future. “I feel blessed, I really do,” Gilles said. “I will keep [foster parenting] until—I don’t know—for a very, very long time.” Posted at 10:46 AM, Sep 18, 2009 in Video & Multimedia | Welfare | Youth | Permalink | View Comments lmirandaDC Mayor Takes Child Care Away from Low-Income CommunitiesThe equation seems simple. working parents – child care center = parent can’t work bad economy + parent not working = even worse economy But for DC Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, this doesn’t seem to make sense. Fenty’s 2010 budget eliminated funding for the DC Department of Parks and Recreation’s Early Childhood and Out of School Time programs in Wards 6, 7 and 8, some of the poorest neighborhoods in the city. Instead, he’s pushing for privatization of child care in DC. Since the mayor has been in office, roughly $22 million has been cut from the child care budget and funneled towards more important things like a new dog park. Now, he’s saying there’s absolutely no room in the budget for federally funded child care centers that serve low-income parents. And for these parents, many of whom are just getting off of public assistance and getting back to work, this is what they’d call an E-M-E-R-G-E-N-C-Y. Continue reading "DC Mayor Takes Child Care Away from Low-Income Communities" Posted at 5:30 AM, Sep 18, 2009 in Child Welfare | Education | Women | Permalink | View Comments gcolumnistDobbs’ Brand of Journalism is Dangerous to Latinos in America. BastaDobbs.com Fights Back.From our friends at Presente.org.
The appearance at FAIR is just the latest example of Dobbs using his status as a CNN anchor to spread fear about Latinos and immigrants. It’s time we said ¡Basta! Enough is enough. Please join us in demanding that CNN drop Dobbs from its network: Dobbs’ network, CNN, calls itself “The Most Trusted Name in News.” But Dobbs has shown that the only thing he can be trusted to do is to spread dangerous, false myths about immigrants, to give airtime to extremists, and to use dehumanizing and disrespectful language towards our community. For example, Dobbs has blamed Latino immigrants for an alleged leprosy epidemic that was widely debunked, and has insinuated high crime rates by Latinos falsely claiming “illegal aliens” make up a third of the prison population. Dobbs also regularly hosts extremist guests like FAIR, the Minutemen, and Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who he called “a model for the whole country.” The Dobbs threat to Latinos is real. Here is how Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center described it to us: How dangerous is Lou Dobbs? The rise in hate crimes against Latinos coincides almost exactly with the time Dobbs has been propagating false conspiracy theories about Latinos on the air. He’s not urging people to go hurt and kill - but that is the effect of what he does. To fight back against Dobbs, Presente.org is launching a new campaign, working with dozens of leading Latino organizations and our allies in cities across the country — from Los Angeles to Phoenix to Orlando. We are joining together to demand that CNN no longer allow Dobbs to spew hate thinly disguised as “news.” Please join us in saying “¡basta!” and ask your friends and family to do the same. It only takes a moment: Thank you and Adelante! For more on Presente.org’s campaign against CNN’s continued support of Lou Dobbs, check out Roberto Lovato’s article at the Huffington Post. Posted at 5:31 PM, Sep 17, 2009 in Featured | Immigration | Permalink | View Comments jrivasWondering Who Attended Last Week’s DC Tea Party? [VIDEO]Earlier this week RaceWire covered the “tea partiers” partying it up at the National Mall in Washington D.C. “protesting everything from taxes and government, to health care reform and anything they could associate with Obama and foreigners—especially immigrants.” If you’ve found yourself asking “who are these people?” Well, watch the video above for some insight. For me, watching these people felt like a sociological experience. Continue reading "Wondering Who Attended Last Week’s DC Tea Party? [VIDEO]" Posted at 4:01 PM, Sep 17, 2009 in Video & Multimedia | Permalink | View Comments ckennedyYes, Actual Video of Obama Calling Kanye a ‘Jackass’ [VIDEO]All right, let’s get this over with. Yes, this is the first Black President of the United States calling a black musician a ‘jackass’ for his stunt at the VMAs. No, this will not ‘alienate Obama’s base,’ and yes, this should screw up your favorite talk radio host’s ‘Black people stick together’ narrative. Yes, there absolutely is a bad track record on addressing mental illness in our Black celebrities, but no, it’s not clear that that’s what’s happening with Kanye. And yes, we at RaceWire are tired of Kanye always interrupting our blog posts while claiming that he’ll let us finish. Posted at 12:30 PM, Sep 17, 2009 in Featured | Music & Film | Obama | Pop Culture | Permalink | View Comments gcolumnistWeekly Immigration Wire: Race to the Bottom
By Nezua, Media Consortium Blogger The immigration debate seems to be rushing forward on its own timetable—and without a structured frame to guide it, the effort is damaged from the start. As Rev. Luis Cortés, Jr., of Esperanza USA said during a call with media members yesterday, Democrats and Republicans are “running toward the harshest positions to show they can be the hardest on those who are the weakest.” Worse yet, silence from the White House has left the stage empty for “Right wing and anti-immigrant groups to shape this conversation,” according to Eric Rodriguez, Vice President of National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Now, “politics are driving policy” conversations, thanks to radical pundits, teabaggers, and Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC). On September 9, Wilson heckled President Obama during a joint session of congress. “It was the shout heard ‘round the world (at least the country),” according to Versha Sharma of Talking Points Memo. What spurred this blatant display of hostility and disrespect? The President’s truthful statement that undocumented persons would not be covered as part of health care reform. Wilson has since apologized, albeit insincerely: He continues to appear before cameras to defend his outburst. Not only that, but Wilson has lied about his professional expertise: He was never an immigration lawyer, despite his claims to the contrary. Oddly, the White House didn’t rebuke Wilson—it capitulated. The Washington Monthly reports that “The White House on Friday said it would bar illegal immigrants from purchasing health coverage through a proposed insurance marketplace,” a measure the author, Steve Benen, categorizes as “wildly unnecessary.” Obama won’t please the likes of Wilson even if he outlaws the Spanish language. Creating a roadblock to health care by “preventing people who are already here from buying their own insurance with their own money” will simply shift the debt to the public at large. The truth of the matter is that preventative and regular treatment is much less costly than emergency room visits, where all taxpayers will shoulder the cost. It’s a puzzling move that has already spurred strong reaction from groups like NCLR, America’s Voice and individuals like Cortés, who asserted in yesterday’s call that “Congress has lost its moral barometer.” In a piece for New America Media, Marcelo Ballve calls Wilson’s outburst “quite appropriate,” in the sense that his words, intention and energy are harbingers of the coming debate about immigration reform. No matter the issue, no matter how civilly Democrats approach it, “Republicans, and not a few Democrats, will scapegoat illegal immigrants for many of the nation’s problems.” But is the White House prepared for a debate that is bound to be “even more rancorous than the bile-filled health care fight”? Given how rapidly the White House retreated in the face a red-faced liar, it’s an important question. Continue reading "Weekly Immigration Wire: Race to the Bottom" Posted at 11:36 AM, Sep 17, 2009 in Immigration | Permalink | View Comments ckennedyAstronaut Hernandez Stands Up for Immigrant Rights
From the LA Times: After the shuttle returned Friday, Hernandez told Mexican television that he thought the United States should legalize the millions of undocumented immigrants living there so that they can work openly because they are important to the American economy.Officials at NASA flipped. They hastened to announce that Hernandez was speaking for himself and only for himself. “It all became a big scandal,” Hernandez later told television viewers. “Even the lawyers were speaking to me.” … “I work for the U.S. government, but as an individual I have a right to my personal opinions,” he said in a video hookup from a Mexican restaurant owned by his wife, Adela, near NASA headquarters in Houston. “Having 12 million undocumented people here means there’s something wrong with the system, and the system needs to be fixed.” He added that it seemed impractical to try to deport 12 million people. In the earlier conversation, he spoke of circling the globe in 90 minutes and marveling at a world without borders. Hernandez, whose first language was Spanish, grew up picking cucumbers and tomatoes in the fields of California’s San Joaquin Valley. His parents, Salvador and Julia, had migrated from Mexico to Northern California in the 1950s in search of work. They eventually became U.S. citizens and raised four children, including Jose, the youngest. What do you think? Why don’t we hear more often about members of the Latino community openly advocating for immigration reform? Posted at 9:53 AM, Sep 17, 2009 in Immigration | Permalink | View Comments hleeOn the Road to Refuge
Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer Photos by Pete Muller. In Washington, D.C., Pastor Kendal Brown welcomes everyone to his church, the City of Refuge. Check out the story on this radical church that reaches out to queer Black communities at ColorLines.com. Here’s an excerpt: You, and everything about you, is welcome in this house of God,” Pastor Kendal Brown declares as he removes thick-framed glasses to wipe sweat from his brow. “Welcome home.” Read the rest of the story here. Posted at 1:26 PM, Sep 16, 2009 in ColorLines Features | Permalink | View Comments ckennedyTonight in NYC, Rinku Sen on Barnard’s New Feminist Activism PanelHey, RaceWire readers in NYC! Our Own Rinku Sen is speaking at Barnard College’s New Feminist Activism panel, tonight at 6:30 PM. From Barnard: This panel on New Feminist Activism will explore how young feminist activists are engaging with struggles for justice in areas such as education, the environment, and race and class. By using new forms of media and building alliances, these activists (and many others like them) are creating a strand of feminist activism that is fundamentally concerned with social justice and social change. We’ll see you there! Posted at 12:45 PM, Sep 16, 2009 in At The Scene | Permalink | View Comments ckennedyForget Joe Wilson; I Stand With Serena Williams
Serena Williams has been fined for an outburst during a U.S. Open semi-finals match, but the press is still churning about it, or, more specifically, about whether she’s apologized enough. If only she’d yelled at the President, instead of at a line referee — she could have raised $1.5 million and gotten Max Baucus to add unnecessary and dangerous provisions to his healthcare bill! From Kate Harding at Salon: [The L.A. Times’ Bill] Dwyre adds, “It was an embarrassment to a sport that has made good strides recently in expanding its niche. The U.S Tennis Assn. loves to talk about its ‘grass-roots’ programs, geared to getting rackets into young players’ hands. Now those young hands have a role model for racket-smashing and bad language.” Hmm, do you suppose we’d be talking about the potential effect of this on the grass-roots programs — aimed at inner-city children from low-income families — if it had been [opponent Kim] Clijsters, or a white man who went on a brief tirade? From the never-not-required-reading Shark-Fu, at Feministing: Just once…just once, damn it…I’d like to be able to read an article about something a black athlete does without being subjected to a deluge of ig’nant as hell racist comments trying to use an individual’s behavior as proof that ALL black people are inferior beasts who should be kept locked up. Katy Kelleher at Jezebel breaks down the ‘all-American’ appeal of the Williams sisters’ up-and-coming opponents, quoting commenter ‘heykoukla’: What a shame the Williams sisters don’t have a rags-to-riches backstory. You know, like growing up in a poor neighbourhood and being coached by a father who had zero experience of their sport, and fighting their way to success against the odds. Yep, that would have made a great story and endeared them to the public, right? What I really want to know is, who’s going to start the I Stand With Serena Facebook fanpage, to counter all these I Stand With Joe Wilson ads I keep seeing? I’d vote for Williams over Wilson in a heartbeat. At least she doesn’t falsely claim to have been an immigration lawyer during her apologies. Posted at 9:39 AM, Sep 16, 2009 in Featured | Sports | Permalink | View Comments gcolumnistAmor de Lejos: Who’s Telling Immigration’s Human Story?by Andrew Grant-Thomas, Deputy Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Watching it was one of the most moving and provocative experiences I’ve had in some time. Not simply because the performances themselves were so wonderful. Not just because these 14, 15, and 16 year-old students had conceived, researched and written the play themselves. And not even only because the real stories the students told were so compelling. No, the piece made such an impression on me in large part because I realized in watching that I had so rarely seen anything like it in any format — the lives of poor, mostly undocumented, Latino immigrants, rendered holistically and with compassion. What these student-actors brought home that night was that these men -– all the narrators were men — have histories, aspirations, people they’ve left behind, people they long to see again. These would seem to be obvious points, no? But the truth is that our national context for discussions of immigration over the last several years — the national “immigration debate” — typically abstracts away from the textures of the lives and decisions of those at its core. The stories made clear that the day laborers sacrificed a great deal to get to the United States and accepted the terrible risks of doing so with eyes wide open. Surely it’s incumbent on us to better understand why. The popular “bottom line” argument that undocumented immigrants are, by definition, “criminals who must be treated accordingly” must ring at least somewhat hollow when assessed against the deeply humanistic testimony to which these Chicago students gave voice. It is both remarkable and shameful that such testimony plays so small a part in our national dialogue. Posted at 9:01 AM, Sep 16, 2009 in Immigration | Music & Film | Permalink | View Comments |
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