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November 2011
306 posts
An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
Latest from the American Occupation of America: The Oakland Occupation is the hot front in the struggle against Corporate Exploitation: an attack by the police that injured Iraq vet Scott…
Science Saturday
The first Marstronauts (I just made that word up) are about to return from their 520-day mission. Sort of. David Biello argues that eliminating Daylight Savings Time would be better…
Saturday Morning Links
So if you’re going to the AWP conference in Chicago next February-March, you should keep that Thursday evening free so you can come hang with The Rumpus as we host…
Jerry Stahl on Occupy Wall Street
“Citizens United may have transformed Corporations into People… And Occupy Wall Street – Occupy the World – has transformed people into Citizens. Into activists. And in the end – I…
Horn! Reviews
HORN! REVIEWS: Zipper Mouth Kevin Thomas reviews the October Rumpus Book Club selection, Zipper Mouth, Rumpus-Comics style.
Meanwhile,
6th and Mission
Amazing artist Wendy MacNaughton illustrates the worlds of 6th and Mission, as well as 5th and Mission (but mostly 6th), in San Francisco, CA. …more
The Night is a God’s Wound
This [collection] is a rare effort to “open the window” for western readers onto the last fifty years of Chinese poetics.
Poverty Mapped
While a 2003 report announced progress in the reduction of poverty, a new Brookings report has found that “between 2000 and 2005-09, the population in extremely poor neighborhoods climbed by…