Archive for October, 2004
November 3rd
If things go wrong on November 2nd, the No Stolen Elections website is the place to go:
Our goal is to support existing election protection work with one more stop-gap measure: preparing, community-based rapid mobilizations in the event of broad voting rights violations on election day, and/or disputes over the legitimate winner of the presidential election.
Bourgois
Philippe Bourgois has written a letter to the Anthropology community, asking them to boycott the Hilton Hotel in Atlanta where the AAA has moved its annual meeting:
Dear Anthropologists,
Please do not go to Atlanta for the sake of the workers locked out of the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco and for the sake of hotel service […]
Mosh
Mark Liberman on Marshall Mather:
If Mosh helps energize voting among American youth, it’ll be a triumph. But I’m still a little uneasy about all those black hoodies.
Yeah, me too. I didn’t care much for the song (not much more than a beat), but the video is very slickly produced. Voter turnout is the #1 issue […]
Bollywood Terror
Shashwati has decided to bypass the festival circuit and post some of her short pieces directly over the internet. You can see the first one here:
With the election just round the corner, my anxiety level has gone up a hundred fold. I just had to put up this little video I made for the good […]
10 years
How did my Ph.D. take 10 years? First of all, that is the average for a Ph.D. in Anthropology, so it is no big deal. Secondly, it doesn’t seem that long when you divide it into three stages: taking classes (3 years), applying for grants, language study, and doing field work (4 years), and writing […]
FastTrack
After 10 years in a Ph.D. program, I am working on completing the final draft of my dissertation - due next week, and I get this in my e-mail inbox:
If only it were that easy!
Send a letter on behalf of UNITE!
S.F. HOTELS, STOP LOCKING OUT YOUR EMPLOYEES
A number of international hotel chains, including the Hyatt, Hilton, and Holiday Inn groups, have radically escalated a bargaining impasse in San Francisco by locking out 4,000 unionized hotel workers. Most of the locked out workers are relatively low wage people of color, and the lock out is imposing […]
Download Fahrenheit 9/11
If you haven’t seen it, Download “Fahrenheit 9/11″ here. Give it to your friends to watch before the election!
Cancer
Rehnquist is not the only member of the Court to have been diagnosed with cancer. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 71, had colon cancer, Sandra Day O”Conner, 74, had breast cancer, and John Paul Stevens, 84, had prostate cancer. This latest occurence of cancer once again spotlights the age of the current justices and the fact that […]
UNITE update
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom threatened Monday to join hotel workers on their picket lines today unless hotel owners end a four-week lockout and allow employees to return to their jobs for a 90-day cooling-off period.
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) played an important role in getting the mayor to back the […]
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
