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Indypendent.Org Take Back the Summer! Pages 9-12 TAKE BACK THE SUMMER! Pages 9-12 Issue #153, June 23 - July 20, 2010 THE INDYPENDENT A FREE PAPER FOR FREE PEOPLE An Ocean of Troubles LOUISIANA GULF COMMUNITIES FACE A SLOW DEATH BY glOBALIZATION, CONTAMINATION AND CATASTROPHE. B y Brian Marks, Jordan Flaherty. Page 6 Fisherman Glenn Swift in Buras, La., in early June. The contract that he signed to work for BP after the oil spill barred him from speaking to the press. PHOTO: JACQUELINE SOOHEN HONDURAS ONE FLOTILLA GROWING FOODJUSTICE, YEAR LATER, OF RAGE, p5 p14 p18 indypendent.org community calendar P LEASE SEND EVENT ANNOUNCEMENTS TO [email protected]. JU LY THU JULY 1 tor of Glacier Works, David Breashears. 6:30-9pm • Free The Asia Society Museum, 725 Park Ave FILM SCREENING: THE FALL OF 212-288-6400 • asiasociety.org SUN JULY 11 • 2pm FUJIMORI. Part of the Conflicts in Latin READING: Noted playwright, actor and America Film Festival, this political thriller THU JULY 15 political humorist Wallace Shawn will documents Peruvian President Alberto 7 -8:30pm • Free be the keynote speaker of the first an- Fujimori, whose rule was marked by WORKSHOP: STREET CARE 101. Learn nual Annette Rubinstein arts and let- TE H INDYPENDENT, inC. violence, corruption and controversy. to care for local street trees. Learn the ters lecture. Shawn will be reading P.O. BOX 1417 Community Church of New York, John benefits of trees in your neighborhood, from his latest book essay and discuss NEW YORK, NY 10276 Holmes House Gallery Room, 28 E 35th St including how they reduce air pollution literature and the political sphere. 646-723-1749 • panys.org and increase business. Order free trees Special 35th anniversary event! PhE ON : 212-904-1282 for your block and receive a free street Sliding scale: $10-$50 SUN JULY 4 tree care kit. 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Join author Dec. 19. that took place. [email protected] Barry Eisler for a reading of his new Museum of Contemporary Art of African Sliding scale: $10/$12/$15 SUBSI CR PTIONS: political fictional thriller,Inside Out, and a Diaspora Art, 80 Hansen Place, Bklyn indypendent.org discussion with Truthout and GRITtv host 718-230-0492 • mocada.org TUES JULY 13 • 7:30pm VO LUNTEER: Laura Flanders. DISCUSSION: THE EUROPEAN LEFT [email protected] Partners & Crime Books THU JULY 15 UPCOMING TODAY. Walter Baier of the Transform GENERAL COORDINATORS: Jessica Lee, Elizabeth Henderson 44 Greenwich Ave 6:30-9pm • Free Network will present an overview of truthout.org/eislernyc • 212-243-0440 FILM SCREENING: PLAN COLOMBIA: EVENTS the European Left and then will engage C ULTURE editOR: Kate Perkins CASHING IN ON THE DRUG WAR in conversation with Rick Wolff about I LLUSTRATIONS COORDINATOR: M ON JULY 7 FAILURE. 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Winner of more than 50 New York 212-477-4022 • lesecologycenter.org 212-780-9386 • nuyorican.org INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED. edy Antigone is resurrected by Brooklyn- Community Media Alliance awards, The Indy- The Center for the Independence of the based multi-media queer, gender-queer pendent is dedicated to empowering people to Disabled (CIDNY) presents the 20th and transgender performance collective create a true alternative to the corporate press WED JULY 14 M ON JULY 26 by encouraging people to produce their own 6-8pm • $11 ($9 students, seniors) 7-8pm • Free anniversary of the Americans with Theater Transgression. House of Yes, 342 media. The Indypendent is funded by subscrip- CONVERSATION: THE HIMALAYAN READING: COFFEE HOUSE PRESS Disabilities Act with a screening of Tales Maujer St, Bklyn tions, reader donations, grants, merchandise GLACIERS AND ASIA’S LOOMING AUTHORS. 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Response to “A Look at Art and Shall we ask painters how much force against each other to try nounce one-sidedness, no mat- V OLUNTEER CONTRIBUTORS: Public Pedagogy in New York social change their effect with and control each other. What ter who is doing it. Please open Sam Alcoff, Steven Arnerich, Mark Bailey, City” June 2: their work? I think the proof angers me is that this article has your eyes and give all the facts. Bennett Baumer, Mike Burke, Ellen Davidson, of their importance is plain and many facts about Palestinian ca- Fox News does not do that, but Dondi J, Rob Eletto, Daniel Fishel, Seth Fisher, One of the problematic areas is simple — they are finding ways sualties and suffering, but has neither do you. So that puts you Jeff Friedrich, Leo Garcia, Samantha Gorelick, that many of these groups keep to change people’s perspectives no facts about Jewish casualties in the same boat as them. T Arun Gupta, Elizabeth Gyori, Mary Heglar, one foot in the art world, and on obligatory schooling. and suffering. I call that bad —Edo Ceder Andrew Hinderaker, Helen Hyppolite, Irina with their other foot, they are —Eric press. Ivanova, Alice Joyce, Alex Kane, Lisa Lin, invested in and exploring educa- News are supposed to be as Thomas Marczewski, Jaisal Noor, Polina tion and the facets within educa- ONE-SIDED NEWS objective as possible, yet this COMMUNITY REPORTBACK Portnaya, Sarah Secunda, Matthew Scott tion they have chosen (architec- Response to “Palestine Solidar- article sees just one side of the Response to “Activists Recount THE INDYPENDEN Smith, John Tarleton, Mary Williams, Steven ture, sociology, writing, etc).
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