Tue 15 Apr 2008
Angela Davis will be speaking at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain on Thursday, April 24th. She will be taking part in two panel discussions, the first at 2:00 titled “Are Prisons Obsolete?” and the second at 5:30 titled “Race, Class and Gender Issues in American Society.” The talks are in Torp Theatre in Davidson Hall.
Thu 24 Jan 2008
January 28th is the submission deadline for the next issue of the print Hartford Undercurrent.
The Hartford Independent Media Center seeks submissions on the topic of sex–however you interpret it. Have you interviewed sex workers on Wethersfield Avenue? Reviewed the gay nightlife in Hartford? Gotten into a discussion with the steady activists who pray outside of the Hartford GYN Center on the corner of Jefferson and Main? Articles should relate to Hartford if possible, and represent your own original work.
Send submissions of 1000 words or less to himc@riseup.net and write “journal submission” in the subject line. Please include a short bio with submission, including your name as you would like to see it in print. We regret that due to space limitations we can’t publish every item received.
Fri 14 Sep 2007
Today’s Courant has an article about the latest outrage by the editor and staff of the CCSU student newspaper, The Recorder.
Seems after sitting down and actually discussing the matter, editor Mark Rowan and his writers concluded that publishing a cartoon “that made reference to locking a teenage Hispanic girl in a closet and urinating on her” would not be offensive. The cartoon appears in the September 12 print edition of The Recorder and can be viewed as a pdf on its website. (more…)
Mon 18 Jun 2007
The alleged rape at Duke University last year by members of the lacrosse team has resulted in a backlash against former prosecutor Mike Nifong. This is the price he now pays for aggressively seeking prosecution of potential rapists. (more…)
Thu 26 Apr 2007
When I went to college I was surprised to find out that the majority of the nation wasn’t Catholic. Virtually everyone I had known up until then had at the very least been trotted through the motions of baptism/first communion/confirmation.
I’m also pretty familiar with how Catholics like to put their beliefs and their medical care in a tumbler and shake that cocktail till it’s good and frothy. My grandmother was horrified at the thought of ending up in an emergency room other than St. Francis’. This was even after her sister was paralyzed there in the immediate post-war period from a botched epidural. I was told that according to my grandmother and her mother, medical malpractice was fine for secular doctors, but You Do Not Sue Priests and Nuns. For any reason, ever.
Perhaps sitting snug in this infallibility for decades can explain how stunned CT Bishops seem that their hospitals might have to be accountable to the public for some things after all. (more…)
Sat 14 Apr 2007
That headline is the mainstream media’s wet dream. Of course, little do they know, there’s some truth to it. Don Imus bears some responsibility for the demise of Anna Nicole Smith, but he has many accomplices - like Howard Stern, 50 Cent, and “man” media like Maxim. Justice has supposedly been done, and everyone is feeling good about themselves for condemning the easily condemned. Imus after all expressed a two-for of bigotry - racism and sexism. And he did so against targets so unworthy of his reactionary sentiments - the Rutgers women’s basketball team. What’s lost in this discussion are the thousands of would-be Imuses who echo his beliefs on a daily basis, who make shock jock radio, and other bigoted media, profitable. So before you pat yourself on the back, America, it’s time to take a hard look at yourself. (more…)
Mon 12 Mar 2007
Gay/Straight Alliances in Hartford Public Schools: An Update from the City of Hartford Commission on LGBT Issues
The Hartford Commission on LGBT Issues seeks to partner with Quirk Middle School to conduct a community conversation regarding the difficulty of establishing and maintaining Gay/Straight Alliances in ALL of Hartford’s Middle and High Schools. (more…)
Sat 24 Feb 2007
I was hooked in the eye by the warrior ethos from the day I could read. I am the first born son of a career US Army officer. My father is a retired Colonel who gave 35 yrs of his life to the military. He not only gave himself but he gave us to the Green Machine. My mother and my four siblings were all camp followers. We trailed after my father serving on posts all over the world and the USA. Overseas every US military post is a target and in the real sense an army of occupation. We would be the first to perish in a nuclear exchange or invasion. Our lives were hostage to the military industrial complex, so I decided to become what I was living- a warrior. (more…)
Mon 19 Feb 2007
The Hartford Courant continues to disappoint. Even my really low expectations were challenged by the Courant story “Learning to be a Lady” by Rachel Gottlieb. I’m not sure what’s worse - the event itself or the sympathetic coverage of it. (more…)
Mon 12 Feb 2007
Today at Noon there will be a Town Hall meeting to discuss John Petroski’s “Rape Only Hurts if you Fight It” article which appears in this week’s Recorder newspaper. The meeting will take place in the Student Center, Alumni Hall. There will then be a demonstration tonight at 7:30pm.
For those who haven’t read Petroski’s “satire”, you can read it here- page 7. (more…)