“Grounded,” the new one-woman play at the Gamm Theatre, examines how remotely-waged warfare may not be such a great idea vis-à-vis humanity, the soul, etc. The personal and the political are indistinguishable in American playwright George Brant’s gripping one-woman play about a hot-rod fighter pilot whose unexpected pregnancy ends her career in the sky. Reassigned …
The Bell Gallery will hold an opening reception for the American premier of Iraqi-American artist Wafaa Bilal’s The Ashes Series on Friday, April 5th at 5:30pm. The Ashes Series is composed of ten photographs of models constructed by the artist over a period of ten years documenting the aftermath of Operation Iraqi Freedom. This series …
Remember when the sons of privilege considered it an honor and a duty to fight for their country? This arch on the Brown campus is flanked by two large panels filled with the names of students and faculty who died serving their military in foreign wars, many as privates and sergeants. Today we have what’s …
Don’t forget to eat a Johnnycake or light some fireworks before Rhode Island Independence Day is over. It was just 233 years ago that the beloved General Assembly declared our independence from the tyrannical British: § 25-2-1 Rhode Island Independence Day. – The fourth day of May in each and every year is established, in this …
The complete schedule is here. Monday, November 10th Convocation: “We Have Every Right to Be Against this War” Salomon 001, 7-9 pm Pre-convocation Dinner Faculty Advising Fellow Home 22 Benevolent Street, 5-6:30 (RSVP to miles_hovis@brown.edu) Chhaya Choum of CAAAV (Organizing Asian Communities in New York City) speaks about her experience as a war refugee in …
Has this one hit the mainstream yet? Twistings of truth and outright lies — exaggerated promises of benefits, downplayed odds of seeing combat — are sadly not uncommon military recruitment tactics. (Neither is parking outside of a high school in a tricked-out Hummer with an awesome sound system, and flat screens on which you can …
Lifting the Hoods: Abu Ghraib, Torture, and the Art of Daniel Heyman Thursday, October 23, Lecture @ 5:30pm RISD College Building, Room 412 and Viewing of Prints in Minskoff Study Center
You know what you don’t see much these days? Apocalyptic sandwich boards. You know, the kind people would wear while ringing a bell and pacing the sidewalk and proclaiming that the end was nigh? I mean, I don’t think I ever actually saw anybody do that in person, although it does show up a lot …
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The Army is apparently mandating that workers at Walter Reed be subjected to sessions with Disney cartoons: Fifty medical workers — doctors, nurses, therapists and administrators among them — sat in a room at gazing at a slide of Donald Duck on a screen…. A year after a scandal erupted over the long-term treatment of …
Here’s my semi-annual posting about the Green Party and instant run-off voting and such. First off, there’s a pretty solid chance that the Green Party nomination will go to somebody other than Ralph Nader, who just announced his fourth consecutive run for the presidency. In particular, it could go to (twice-) former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. …
Don’t you hate how real news like the massive foreclosure crisis get second row to election-mania? I know I do. Well so does Howard Zinn. In a piece in the March issue of Progressive magazine he points out that even progressive activists fall into the presidential election trap of living and dying with the presidential …
Ian has this article, on concerns about Clinton’s donations from big arms manufacturers — and, in particular, the money she’ taken from Textron: Last October, in an examination of campaign contributions in 2007 from employees of major defense industry contractors, Thomas B. Edsall wrote on the Huffington Post that “Senator Clinton took $52,600, more than …
This from Charlie Bakst’s column today, about the Governor and his wife and their take on the fiscal mess. Sue invokes the ‘T’-word. (I’m sure she knows much more about terror than do most Cambodians and Laotians…) Soon she turned the conversation to a protest last month against the governor’s layoff of three Southeast Asian …
Scott Ewing is in the unusual position of having gone to fight in Iraq after he’d already been active as a campus anti-war activist: What are things really like in Iraq? How do the military and media filter information disseminated to the American public? Scott Ewing spent a year in Tall Afar, a city that …