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Thursday, October 11, 2007 : After reading Stephen Steinberg’s Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy (Beacon, 1995), I could not understand why he was not more famous. After all, Steinberg’s book so discredited the empirical basis of William Julius Wilson’s prominent work, The Declining Significance of Race, that Wilson publicly conceded his faulty analysis....

Don Fisher, the multi-billionaire founder of Gap, Inc. and "personal friend" of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, wants to build a 100,000 square foot museum for his personal art collection in the Presidio National Park. The deadline for public comments on the scope of the Environmental Impact Statement for Fisher's proposed big box museum is Monday, October 15....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Talks between Hollywood writers and studios abruptly broke off for the weekend, dimming hopes of averting a strike that could cripple the television industry. The Writers Guild of America has been in talks since July with studios represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Negotiations lasted only about an hour on Friday and were not scheduled to resume until Tuesday....

A historical, well-loved Copenhagen youth cultural house, Ungdomshuset, was sold by the city to another owner this year. This was met with days of protest. Now, users of the previous house are trying to start a subsequent center....

Friday, October 5, 2007 : Edwidge Danticat is an award winning Haitian-born writer who now lives in Miami. In November 2004, Danticat’s 81-year old uncle Reverend Joseph Dantica died in the custody of immigration officials. He had arrived from Haiti seeking political asyslum following threats on his life. Denied his medicines and accused of faking an illness, he died just days after his detention. Edwidge Danticat tells this devastating story in her latest book, “Brother I’m Dying.”...

Friday, October 5, 2007 : In the late 1980's, I published an anti-Columbus op-ed in a South Philly weekly that received a lot of negative comments from readers who questioned why a “paesan” would attack their hero. It was precisely because I was a “paesan” that I questioned why Italian/Americans are so hung up on this man who didn’t “discover” a continent that already had many thriving civilizations....

Thursday, October 4, 2007 : In her new book, leading social critic and Pulitzer-winning journalist Susan Faludi examines the cultural impact of the 9/11 attacks and concludes that the United States has been living in a myth since. She explores how the attacks led to the denigration of women here in the United States, the magnification of manly men and the call for greater domesticity. Faludi joins us to take about the Bush administration’s use of feminism to launch the war on Afghanistan; ...

"Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau" is an educational performance play about the final two days Henry David Thoreau spent in his cabin before leaving Walden Pond. On EARTH DAY 2007 over 4,000 colleges, schools, home schools and community theaters in nine nations performed the play in celebration of Thoreau, his writings about nature, and our earth. Help us spread the word for an even bigger success in 2008!...

Monday, October 1, 2007 : The Catholic right-wing is at it again. The Catholic League, which the conservative Fox News bills as a “civil rights” group, is calling for a national boycott of Miller Beer, a sponsor of San Francisco’s annual Folsom Street Fair, because of what it termed an offensive ad promoting the event this year....

Originally From New America Media Monday, October 1, 2007 is going to become a watershed day for Pakistanis and Muslims worldwide, especially for those here in America. The CW television network (CBS Warner) is launching its prime-time television series “Aliens in America ” on that date (please check local listings for exact timing)....