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Another Helping of FDR Please | Obama should follow the New Deal president's example and make his Thanksgiving Proclamation a call for economic justice.
John Nichols
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Filibuster Follies | "The filibuster has become a cancer growing inside the world's greatest deliberative body."
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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» The Notion
Bad Black Mothers | For African American women, reproduction has never been an entirely private matter.
Melissa Harris-Lacewell
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Coal Country | Stunning film reveals new dimensions to the cost of America's over-reliance on coal.
Peter Rothberg
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» The Dreyfuss Report
A Kingdom of Bicycles No Longer | China's ambassador for climate change speaks on the eve of the Copenhagen summit meeting.
Robert Dreyfuss
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The annual Neighborhood Dinner, which moves from year to year among the various neighborhoods where the Foundation supports nonprofits, is a celebration of the Foundation’s partnership with local grantee partners and community leaders. This year’s event will focus on Queens, and we are very pleased to honor Ana Maria Archila, executive director of Latin American Integration Center, and Luna Ranjit, executive director of Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice. Purvi Shah, executive director of Sakhi for South Asian Women and NYWF Board Member, will be the keynote speaker. The Dinner will be hosted at Jackson Diner (37-47 74th St.), an Indian restaurant in Jackson Heights, Queens. For more information or to purchase tickets, please contact Brennan Gang.
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Slides, presentation and a film. Introduction by Omar Freila, founder of Green Worker Cooperatives, featured in The 11th Hour. "Coal, Appalachia and America: A Slide Presentation," by Antrim Caskey. Ed Wiley, a Appalachian grandfather seeking justice in NYC, will highlight the dangerous proximity of the Massey Energy coal plant to the 230 students at Marsh Fork Elementary School in Sundial, West Virginia, with photos by Antrim Caskey, of ground and aerial views. Where the Green Ants Dream, a 1984 film by German film director Werner Herzog, about a land feud between a mining company and Australian aborigines. The aborigines claim that an area the mining company wishes to work on is the place where green ants dream, and that disturbing them will destroy humanity. Brook Park, 141st Street and Brook Avenue.
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A talk by Naomi Klein on her new best-selling book. At the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St. Tickets are $5 and may be purchased at Harvard Book Store or over the phone at 617-661-1515.
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Join author and filmmaker Avi Lewis for a discussion and book launch of Sin Patron: Stories From Argentina's Worker-Run Factories, an inspiring account of the worker-run factories that developed out of the struggle against neoliberalism in Argentina. Bluestockings bookstore and cafe at 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington streets. Call 212.777.6028 for questions. Co-Sponsored by Haymarket Books.
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