Politics
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Mixed Month for Roustabouts
A-18 is a new blog spotlighting stories from the back of the newspaper. The beginning of January brought harsh news for the unskilled oil rig workers known as roustabouts (not to be confused with the traveling circus worker of the…
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The Rumpus Interview With General Laurent Nkunda
“What I know is that we are conducting a war of liberation”
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The Art of Nonviolence, Links by Ari Messer
Is it possible to resuscitate and reinvigorate the nonviolent resistance movements of the 20th century? It’s all about the row boat of life. Some peace boats (video) have a duty free shop and a Japanese club soundtrack. Involved with the…
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The Rumpus Interview with Van Jones
Van Jones is an award-winning activist, bestselling author, orator, and political advisor. I helped him birth his first book, The Green Collar Economy (Harper One, 2008).
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The Eyeball: Lord of the Rings
Last Friday I was laid up with some kind of nasty stomach bug that left me prone most of the day. What better time than to revisit Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring? It was literally the…
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Farewell, Dickhead
Now that President Bush has made his final grope for the exit, The Rumpus asks a few artists, curators and friends to tell us which work of art best personifies the Bush legacy for them. (On the left Robert Arneson’s…
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Che Debates Rage On
With the first half of the five-hour epic still in limited release, Steven Soderbergh’s Che film is already fomenting great debate on the Web.
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Mr. Alarcon Goes to Vegas
On Voting, People Who Collect the Folk Art of People With Whom They Have No Cultural Connection, and the Red-faced Waitress Who Pulled The Plug
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Obama Gets Advice from America’s Kids
Hot off the presses is a new book by kids titled Thanks and Have Fun Running the Country. Students of non-profit writing center 826 Valencia have
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Barack Obama: Those Johnny Cakes’ll getcha
Obama moonlights as a food critic on Chicago’s WTTW. He plugs the Dixie Kitchen for its Southern Sampler (perfect, he says, for the indecisive),