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“The Harvest/La Cosecha” Reveals Hardships of Child Farmworkers (2)
The Harvest/La Cosecha Director: U. Robert Romano Executive Producer: Eva Longoria 80 minutes $24.95 The conventional wisdom tells us that eating fruits …
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McJournalism: The Unbearable Lightness of Thomas Friedman
One year ago, Foreign Policy magazine placed New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman at number 33 on their list the Top 100 Global Thinkers, noting that he “doesn't just …
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“Vietnam Ambush”: A Cautionary Tale
(Image: PublishAmerica) Vietnam Ambush Daniel Seidenberg Jr. PublishAmerica Baltimore, 2010 In the 1960s, the United States of America conscripted young men …
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Taking Abortion Corporate
A pro-choice rally. (Photo: Jon Chiang) Long before Merle Hoffman found her niche as a provider of reproductive health care, she sought to be extraordinary. The question …
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Bill Clinton Lays Out His Prescription for America’s Future
Bill Clinton’s new book, “Back to Work,” is really several books in one slender volume. It’s a lucid one-man rebuttal of the Tea Party’s anti-government agenda. A series of …
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Review: Patriot Acts
The world started to make sense to Zac Reed when he accepted a new religion into his life. As he describes his story in the new book of oral …
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“The Help” Ignores History of Activism Among Deep South’s Domestic Workers (2)
(Image: © 2011 Dreamworks II Distribution Co, LLC) Film director Tate Taylor scored a late-summer box office smash with his adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's novel, “The Help.” …
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Michael Moore’s “Here Comes Trouble”: Celebrity Politics in an Age of Social Protest
(Image: Grand Central Publishing) Filmmaker Michael Moore is one of those people with a knack for making things happen. As a high school student …
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It’s Time to Compensate the Victims: Looking Back at Vietnam and Agent Orange
A mother and her child who was affected by his parent's exposure to the chemical, Agent Orange. (Photo: Brendan Wilcox) Fifty years ago, while President Kennedy deliberated …
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“Cambodian Grrrl” Brings the Zine to Phnom Penh
(Image: Microcosm Publishing) Decades after the fall of the genocidal Khmer Rouge, Cambodian children still find human bones in their schoolyards. Past the tourist thoroughfares, where street …