November 2011
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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 Olson led to a general strike and a large and…
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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 for our health. Three new elements now have names. Really…
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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 a reading to benefit 826 Chicago. Details are still being…
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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 would bet my personal 99 percenter savings on it –…
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Horn! Reviews
HORN! REVIEWS: Zipper Mouth Kevin Thomas reviews the October Rumpus Book Club selection, Zipper Mouth, Rumpus-Comics style.
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Meanwhile,
6th and MissionAmazing artist Wendy MacNaughton illustrates the worlds of 6th and Mission, as well as 5th and Mission (but mostly 6th), in San Francisco, CA. …more
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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.
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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 more than one-third, from 6.6 million to 8.7 million.” The…