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. 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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).