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[IMC-Announce] Baltimore Indymedia Digest - Nov. 2005
BALTIMORE INDYMEDIA (November 2005)
A monthly digest of articles posted through the Baltimore Independent
Media Center
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BALTIMORE INDYMEDIA ARTICLES
"East Baltimore: A Conversation between David Harvey & Marisela Gomez"
By Chuck D'Adamo (11/27/05)
In (Re)living Democracy, artists Scott Berzofsky, Lasse Lau, Nicholas
Petr, and Nicholas Wisniewski have collaborated with East Baltimore
organizers to turn the Contemporary Museum into a platform for
participation in a critical dialogue concerning the residents of East
Baltimore's struggle against urban renewal. The exhibition is accompanied
by public programs addressing these issues. The program on November 5th
featured David Harvey, author of The Limits to Capital, The Urban
Experience, and The Spaces of Hope, and Marisela Gomez, Director of Save
Middle East Action Committee. Harvey and Gomez addressed urban economic
and political problems of Baltimore through the lens of gentrification on
the eastside and Johns Hopkins University projects. (Thanks to the
Megaphone Project for access to technology for transcription, which is
based on detailed notes from videotapes done by Lasse Lau; it's almost,
but not entirely, word-for-word).
baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/11527/index.php
"Why Ted Koppel Shouldnt be Compared to Murrow"
By Bill Hughes (11/26/05)
For 25 years, the boring Ted Koppel was the anchor on ABC TVs Nightline
program. He toed the Establishment line! Now, David Zurawik, a media
critic for the Baltimore Sun, wants us to believe that Koppel is leaving
behind a legacy of innovation and integrity. This is pure nonsense!
Koppel, among other faults, failed to challenge the serial lies of the
Bush-Cheney Gang, and the Neocons, too, that led us into the Iraqi War.
That is his real legacy!
baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/11514/index.php
"On Health Care in America"
By Howard Ehrlich (11/2/05)
Each month Indymedia editorial collective member Howard Ehrlich Report
writes a monthly column of sociopolitical analysis. This month Ehrlich
uses a recent personal health experience as occasion to comment on why the
US health system, which leaves about 45 million without health insurance,
does not work. He concludes noting that racism intrudes many ways into the
health care system.
baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/11379/index.php
"Does Democracy MatterCornel West Thinks So"
By Gregg Mosson (10/30/05)
A review of Cornel West's recent book "Democracy Matters". Cornel West,
Princeton University professor of religion and social justice activist,
analyzes the contemporary crisis in US democracy and why most politicians,
whether Democrat or Republican, fail to address it. The background of this
crisis is that "free market" capitalism has come to dominate society so
completely that the pursuit of profit dominates all other values in the
United States. As a result downsizing, outsourcing, white collar
malfeasance, political corruption, and a never-ending Me Decade has so
demoralized society that most people have nothing to add to public life
today but apathy. An evangelical nihilism results. Mosson sees West's
analysis recalling the work of Irish writer W.B. Yeats who in his famous
poem The Second Coming described a European world morally bankrupt in
the wake of WWI, and on the brink of another catastrophe. The poem
published in 1921 predicts a chaos arising from a society spinning out of
controland by the 1930s, fascism brought forth a WWII engulfing every
populated continent. Yet Yeat's poem also is a psychological study of how
malicious people amass power amid moral apathy.
baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/11359/index.php
LINKS TO ARTICLES IN ALTERNATIVE PRESSES...
"AltPress E-Newsletter"
By Alternative Press Center (November 2005)
The Alternative Press Center's "Picks of the Month!" Links to articles on
the Iraqi constitution, Arnold Schwarzenegger and California politics,
business beneficiaries of the Katrina disaster, socialist-feminist author
Barbara Ehrenreich, struggles of a documentary filmmaker doing work on
GMOs, radical-feminist Robin Morgan's analysis of militarism and
terrorism, Winona LaDuke on the danger of uranium mining to the Navajo
population, alleged terrorist funding through bootleg DVD sales.
www.altpress.org/enewsletter11.html
"Cheney's Trouble with the Truth"
By Robert Scheer
Robert Scheer writes, "You've got to hand it to Dick Cheney; no other
modern politician has come so close to perfecting the theater of the
absurd. Even as he protests his innocence of lying about matters of state,
he lies about matters of state."
Truth Out (11/23/05)
www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112305N.shtml
"The Internet and Common Goods: Own or Share?"
By Philippe Aigrain
Enforcing intellectual property law in the digital age means fighting ever
more effective and powerful new modes of creation made possible in part by
collaborative development through the Internet. There is a concerted
offensive by multinational corporations, patent offices, specialized legal
consultants, the United States government and the European Union, working
together to reinforce and extend property rights. Philippe Aigrain
provides analysis. See also Ignacio Ramonet "The Spider in the Web"
mondediplo.com/2005/11/01internet .
Le Monde Diplomatique (November 2005)
mondediplo.com/2005/11/13commons
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BALTIMORE INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER
Features: baltimore.indymedia.org/feature/index.php
Newswire: baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/index.php
Media Gallery: baltimore.indymedia.org/media/index.php
Photoessays: baltimore.indymedia.org/pbook/index.php
Baltimore IMC meets monthly.
For Information about Baltimore Indymedia email: editors-AT-baltimoreimc.org .
Baltimore Independent Media Center
1443 Gorsuch Ave
Baltimore, MD 21218
baltimore.indymedia.org/
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BALTIMORE INDYMEDIA ARTICLES
"East Baltimore: A Conversation between David Harvey & Marisela Gomez"
By Chuck D'Adamo (11/27/05)
In (Re)living Democracy, artists Scott Berzofsky, Lasse Lau, Nicholas
Petr, and Nicholas Wisniewski have collaborated with East Baltimore
organizers to turn the Contemporary Museum into a platform for
participation in a critical dialogue concerning the residents of East
Baltimore's struggle against urban renewal. The exhibition is accompanied
by public programs addressing these issues. The program on November 5th
featured David Harvey, author of The Limits to Capital, The Urban
Experience, and The Spaces of Hope, and Marisela Gomez, Director of Save
Middle East Action Committee. Harvey and Gomez addressed urban economic
and political problems of Baltimore through the lens of gentrification on
the eastside and Johns Hopkins University projects. (Thanks to the
Megaphone Project for access to technology for transcription, which is
based on detailed notes from videotapes done by Lasse Lau; it's almost,
but not entirely, word-for-word).
baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/11527/index.php
"Why Ted Koppel Shouldnt be Compared to Murrow"
By Bill Hughes (11/26/05)
For 25 years, the boring Ted Koppel was the anchor on ABC TVs Nightline
program. He toed the Establishment line! Now, David Zurawik, a media
critic for the Baltimore Sun, wants us to believe that Koppel is leaving
behind a legacy of innovation and integrity. This is pure nonsense!
Koppel, among other faults, failed to challenge the serial lies of the
Bush-Cheney Gang, and the Neocons, too, that led us into the Iraqi War.
That is his real legacy!
baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/11514/index.php
"On Health Care in America"
By Howard Ehrlich (11/2/05)
Each month Indymedia editorial collective member Howard Ehrlich Report
writes a monthly column of sociopolitical analysis. This month Ehrlich
uses a recent personal health experience as occasion to comment on why the
US health system, which leaves about 45 million without health insurance,
does not work. He concludes noting that racism intrudes many ways into the
health care system.
baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/11379/index.php
"Does Democracy MatterCornel West Thinks So"
By Gregg Mosson (10/30/05)
A review of Cornel West's recent book "Democracy Matters". Cornel West,
Princeton University professor of religion and social justice activist,
analyzes the contemporary crisis in US democracy and why most politicians,
whether Democrat or Republican, fail to address it. The background of this
crisis is that "free market" capitalism has come to dominate society so
completely that the pursuit of profit dominates all other values in the
United States. As a result downsizing, outsourcing, white collar
malfeasance, political corruption, and a never-ending Me Decade has so
demoralized society that most people have nothing to add to public life
today but apathy. An evangelical nihilism results. Mosson sees West's
analysis recalling the work of Irish writer W.B. Yeats who in his famous
poem The Second Coming described a European world morally bankrupt in
the wake of WWI, and on the brink of another catastrophe. The poem
published in 1921 predicts a chaos arising from a society spinning out of
controland by the 1930s, fascism brought forth a WWII engulfing every
populated continent. Yet Yeat's poem also is a psychological study of how
malicious people amass power amid moral apathy.
baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/11359/index.php
LINKS TO ARTICLES IN ALTERNATIVE PRESSES...
"AltPress E-Newsletter"
By Alternative Press Center (November 2005)
The Alternative Press Center's "Picks of the Month!" Links to articles on
the Iraqi constitution, Arnold Schwarzenegger and California politics,
business beneficiaries of the Katrina disaster, socialist-feminist author
Barbara Ehrenreich, struggles of a documentary filmmaker doing work on
GMOs, radical-feminist Robin Morgan's analysis of militarism and
terrorism, Winona LaDuke on the danger of uranium mining to the Navajo
population, alleged terrorist funding through bootleg DVD sales.
www.altpress.org/enewsletter11.html
"Cheney's Trouble with the Truth"
By Robert Scheer
Robert Scheer writes, "You've got to hand it to Dick Cheney; no other
modern politician has come so close to perfecting the theater of the
absurd. Even as he protests his innocence of lying about matters of state,
he lies about matters of state."
Truth Out (11/23/05)
www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112305N.shtml
"The Internet and Common Goods: Own or Share?"
By Philippe Aigrain
Enforcing intellectual property law in the digital age means fighting ever
more effective and powerful new modes of creation made possible in part by
collaborative development through the Internet. There is a concerted
offensive by multinational corporations, patent offices, specialized legal
consultants, the United States government and the European Union, working
together to reinforce and extend property rights. Philippe Aigrain
provides analysis. See also Ignacio Ramonet "The Spider in the Web"
mondediplo.com/2005/11/01internet .
Le Monde Diplomatique (November 2005)
mondediplo.com/2005/11/13commons
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BALTIMORE INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER
Features: baltimore.indymedia.org/feature/index.php
Newswire: baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/index.php
Media Gallery: baltimore.indymedia.org/media/index.php
Photoessays: baltimore.indymedia.org/pbook/index.php
Baltimore IMC meets monthly.
For Information about Baltimore Indymedia email: editors-AT-baltimoreimc.org .
Baltimore Independent Media Center
1443 Gorsuch Ave
Baltimore, MD 21218
baltimore.indymedia.org/
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