Archive for June, 2002
Suits Say Wal-Mart Forces Workers to Toil Off the Clock
“who worked from 1995 to 2000 at a Wal-Mart in southeast Kansas City. "A company that makes billions of dollars doesn’t have to do that."
But she and 40 other current and former Wal-Mart workers interviewed over the last four months say Wal-Mart has done just that, forcing or pressuring employees to work hours that were [...]
Arrested development by Theodore Dalrymple
A discussion of modern prison life compared with Wilde’s “The Ballad of Reading Gaol.”
“The last time I attended a hanging in the prison it was a murder, not a suicide. I arrived too late to bring the hanged man back to life: for, if there are degrees of deadness, he was by then already very [...]
Hudson River Rocks FREE concert series
After the success of last year’s rockfest featuring
The White Stripes, The Greenhornes, and The Mooney Suzuki, WNYU’s New Afternoon Show is happy to be involved with the Hudson River Rocks FREE concert series again in 2002!
As last year, DJ’s from The New Afternoon Show will be
spinning between sets.
The lowdown:
6:30pm
Doors open
7pm Radio 4
8pm Firewater
9pm Clinic
When: [...]
Karzai Hits Rough Spots In Cabinet
“But today’s threatened defection by Yonus Qanooni, the former interior minister and a senior leader of the Northern Alliance militia, as well as the controversy surrounding Sima Samar, the former women’s affairs minister, made it clear that ethnic and religious politics remain a serious threat to Afghanistan’s political transformation.”
(washingtonpost.com)
Forward and Backward in One Family
We saw this and it was great, as was the last Epic Theatre Production we saw: “Hannah and Martin.”
“Last September was not a great time to introduce a new theater troupe, and no one would have blamed the artists who make up the nonprofit Epic Theater Center if they had just given up. But the [...]
Suborientalism and the Subimperialist Predicament: Aboriginal Discourse and the Poverty of State-Nation Imagery
Positions 8.1 Subimperialism
Fred Yen Liang Chiu
Also:
“Nationalist Social Sciences and the Fabrication of Subimperial Subjects in Taiwan
Monanen Malialiaves, Ah Neng’s Critique
Kang Chao and Marshall Johnson”
8.1 Subimperialism
Savage Construction and Civility Making: Japanese Colonialism and Taiwanese Aboriginal Representation
Positions 8:3 Visual Cultures of Japanese Imperialism
Leo Ching
8:3 Visual Cultures of Japanese Imperialism
Addressing counterterrorism: US literacy in languages and international affairs
Language Problems & Language Planning 26:1 (2002)
Kurt E. M?
Afghanistan’s president names remainder of Cabinet, except one.
“Afghanistan’s newly elected President Hamid Karzai named all but one of his 29 members of Cabinet on Saturday, leaving the women’s affairs ministry vacant, his spokesman Ahmed Yusuf Nuristani said.”
(Afgha.com)
And here is a full list.
U.S. Role in Coca War Draws Fire
“The Expeditionary Task Force, the official name for an armed unit of 1,500 former Bolivian soldiers, is paid, fed, clothed and trained by the U.S. Embassy in La Paz, the Bolivian capital.
…
U.S. and Bolivian military officials say the unit has played a vital role in an aggressive attempt to eradicate coca from the Chapare jungle, [...]
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