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East WillyB, The Price of Sex, and San Francisco Action
April 22, 2011"We need to be able to laugh about issues but we also need to know that aside from the comedy, there is a very real issue of displacement in many urban communities," says Julia Ahumada Grob, the co-creator and lead actor of the web TV series East WillyB. The show is set in Bushwick a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, and it addresses the problems of gentrification and displacement of communities of color through humor, and brings high-quality TV production values to the 'net.The F Word: Citizens United Allowing Workplace Propaganda
April 22, 2011We've talked a lot about the devastating effects of corporate cash on elections following the Citizens United decision, but a new story in The Nation shows that the Supreme Court's also made it a lot easier for companies to pressure their employees directly about voting.U.S. Corporate Swine Flu? Arlen Specter's Defection, and the Torture Debate
May 1, 2009Daphne Eviatar, Legal Correspondent for The Washington Independent, Mark Ames journalist and founder of the eXile, now the Exiled Online, and Kate Clinton look at the media coverage of the past week.
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