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Thursday OT - Where I Get Sidetracked!

Submitted by Shahryar on Thu, 10/01/2015 - 6:00am

yes, I was going to go on a rave about market research and the voodoo involved. Next time! For this one we'll ask the question...

So what good are computers? Have they made our lives better? Am I being a Luddite when I say that before computers people had to know how to spell and how to add? Pre-computers we had J. Edgar Hoover and his goons snooping around, writing reports, getting people blacklisted, blackmailing others. So the world wasn't Eden.

Mr. Potato Head

Submitted by hecate on Thu, 10/01/2015 - 3:37am

Though the French had a series of revolutions, these were never directed against strong governments. Under Louis XIV and XV, they accepted the most outrageous degrees of royal exploitation, waste, arrogance, intolerance, and immorality without a murmur.

Youngstown Steel Strike

Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 09/30/2015 - 6:44pm

Youngstown was one of the hubs of the steel industry in 1916.
The mills hummed with activity as they tried to meet the demand from the war in Europe.
The steel unions had been crushed in the 1890's. The shantytown slums on the town outskirts were filled with recent immigrants from eastern Europe who were willing to work in those dangerous jobs with long hours and little pay.

It was a good time to be a capitalist.

If they don't count us, then we don't count

Submitted by Robyn on Wed, 09/30/2015 - 1:20pm

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Laverne Cox appeared Monday at the Social Good Summit on a panel with Shelby Chestnut, co-director of community organizing and public advocacyat the Anti-Violence Project and Cecelia Chung, senior strategist of the Transgender Law Center.

The subject of the Census arose.

Census data has historically focused on the binary gender options: male and female. Emmy-nominated actress and transgender activist Laverne Cox is critical of that fact. The census doesn’t include her, and people like her, by assuming everyone is born into the gender they will forever identify.

I was thinking that visibility is only part of the equation. We must have social policy, systemic change. And then I thought about the census. Systemically, this idea of the gender binary is very much institutionalized in the fact that we just don't count trans people.

--Cox

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