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Slate Asks: "Is Occupy Wall Street Outperforming the Red Cross in Hurricane Relief?"

An estimated 10,000 meals served in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, thousands of pounds of clothes and supplies distributed. All of this organized by Occupy Sandy, Occupy Wall Street's hurricane relief effort. Slate.com asks: "Is Occupy Wall Street Outperforming the Red Cross in Hurricane Relief?"

Is horizontal organizing more effective…

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Added by The Establishment on November 6, 2012 at 11:37am — No Comments

Malawi's New President Joyce Banda Renounces Private Jet and 60 Mercedes

Everyone's talking about "the crisis" and how the little guy needs to hang in there and sacrifice for the greater good. Well Malawi's first female President, Joyce Banda, just sold off the presidential jet and a fleet of 60 Mercedes. Banda said: "I can well use private airlines". Should other leaders, not only in African countries, but everywhere, take note or what? Look into the cost of perks for government members in your country, wherever you are, you'll be baffled...

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Added by The Establishment on June 6, 2012 at 7:00am — 4 Comments

Slate Questions the New Generation of British White Female Soul Singers

The singer Adele Adkins—better known, simply, as Adele—belongs to a cadre of young white British girls who, over the past seven years, have made names for themselves as "soul singers," a term meant to imply authenticity and legitimacy as well as retro chic. Her contemporaries are Joss Stone, Duffy, and Amy Winehouse, the first two of which were crafted by the same… Continue

Added by The Establishment on March 4, 2011 at 3:02pm — 14 Comments

If it bleeds, it leads...isn't that right?



We're all guilty of it. There is something in us that wants to pass along negative news that will illicit a response from our friends. Many people in the Afro-punk community voice that they are tired of the tainted stigma people of color seem to be casted with, but sometimes, do you feel as though we slip into the trap of guilty pleasures as well (sending the… Continue

Added by The Establishment on December 3, 2010 at 5:30pm — 6 Comments


 

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