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A group of high school students in Georgia stood up to military recruiters by alerting their classmates via MySpace bulletins not to take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test that the school was administering under the guise of being both mandatory and a career placement aide. The test is actually used [...]

January 25, 2008

I gave a talk last week at the Catholic Worker, reflecting on my first act of civil disobedience and subsequent arrest. I was accompanied by a panel of amazing activists, who also spoke about their experiences. By all accounts it was an incredibly moving program.

There’s a lot being written about the current crisis in Palestine–after Israel blocked commercial goods, food, fuel and even humanitarian aid to Gaza earlier this week. But the best analysis I’ve read comes from the ever-passionate Chris Hedges (former NY Times Middle East bureau chief):
This is not another typical spat between Israelis and Palestinians. This [...]

This ad for Montblanc caught my eye on the subway the other day. Not only does it feature Nicolas Cage–my favorite bad movie actor (tell me this isn’t a ridiculous filmography: Con Air, Face/Off, Ghost Rider, and of course National Treasure) with an airbrushed smug-as-all-hell grin, but it has a subtly insensitive slogan: “Helping others [...]