Check out this story on the Huffington Post on how Google banked off subprime advertisements and turned out to be one of the few who profited from the housing bubble bursting. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-newman/the-cost-of-lost-privacy-_3_b_893042.html#es_share_ended
If you could stop murders before they happened, would you? What about job loss and increased poverty? With the Colombian Free Trade Agreement (FTA) still pending you can. According to Arthur Stamoulis, of the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign, there is still a week to urge your representatives to vote against the passage of FTA. 70,000 …
Opening of “Remember Me” Art Exhibition and Panel Discussion Recap Read More »
David and Kevin, who asked to keep their real names off the record, were both convicted of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. For David, a 31-year-old black male, and Kevin, a 21-year-old white male, this is where the similarities end. David comes from an immigrant family in one of the poorer neighborhoods in …
Unreleased: The Drug War and Jim Crow’s Cosmetic Overhaul Read More »
In what could go down as the most explosive, yet under reported story of the summer, The Independent reported that a prominent human rights group could find no evidence that Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader and despised despot, ordered mass rapes among other shocking crimes during the Libyan protests. According to Amnesty International, there was …
With the black unemployment rate almost twice the national average at 16.2 percent compared to 9.2 percent (and 8.1 percent for whites), it’s clear the financial crisis has had a particularly detrimental effect on the black community. This gap has, however, been consistent throughout American history. Unsurprisingly, the lack of employment has been filled by …
Here’s an archive to some of the work I did while writing for the Oregon Daily Emerald. http://www.dailyemerald.com/author/bpoinsette/
Reading and running are similar in the sense that both are only so motivating when you simply do them for fun. Sure, there are many people that do these activities for leisure but they have much more power when done with a purpose. The idea of running to get in shape, especially when you’ve barely …