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Andrew Lyubarsky August 14, 2008 | Posted in
IndyBlog As more results from rural areas flood in, last Sunday’s recall referendum keeps looking better and better for Evo Morales and his Movimiento a Socialismo party. After having won the Bolivian presidency in 2005 with approximately 54% of the popular vote, Evo surprised everyone by not only winning the recall referendum convoked by the right-wing [...]
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Judith Mahoney Pasternak August 12, 2008 | Posted in
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IndyBlog The Warrior
A Play by Jack Gilhooley
Produced by the Theater of the First Amendment
Staged by the New York International Fringe Festival
At CSV Milagro Theater, 107 Suffolk Street, through August 21
All tickets $15
Tammy (Marietta Elaine Hedges) was named after a movie. Giselle (Mary Lechter) was named after a ballet. Across that cultural divide, in high school, [...]
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Andrew Lyubarsky | Posted in
IndyBlog For the Movimiento a Socialismo and Evo Morales, Sunday was indubitably a good day. After having won the Bolivian presidency in 2005 with approximately 54% of the popular vote, Evo surprised everyone by not only winning the recall referendum convoked by the right-wing opposition, but by winning big, with over 62% of the vote. Commentators [...]
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Judith Mahoney Pasternak August 11, 2008 | Posted in
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IndyBlog I Heart Hamas and Other Things I’m Afraid to Tell You
A play written and performed by Jennifer Jajeh
Staged by the New York International Fringe Festival
At the Players’ Loft, 115 MacDougal Street, until August 24th
All tickets $15
Meet Jennifer, a young Palestinian-American whose connection with her heritage in the last years of the 20th century, before the [...]
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Andrew Lyubarsky August 8, 2008 | Posted in
IndyBlog This Sunday, Bolivia will experience an improbable voting process – a recall referendum which essentially plays out as a vote of confidence in every relevant political official in the country – from left-wing indigenous president Evo Morales and his vice president Alvaro García Linera and his Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) allies at the regional level [...]
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Kenneth Crab July 23, 2008 | Posted in
IndyBlog The Exiles
directed by Kent Mackenzie
Milestone Films, 1961
“I’m not going to let you know how scared I sometimes get of history and its ways,” declares Jackson Jackson, the young Spokane (Wash.) narrator of Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” (from Ten Little Indians), “I’m a strong man, and I know that silence is the [...]
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IndyBlog We hope you can join us for this special evening….
“The 2008 Election: What’s Really At Stake?”
featuring Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Roberto Lovato, Laura Flanders and Malia Lazu.
Saturday, September 13 - 8pm
The Great Hall at The Cooper Union. 7 East 7th Street (at Third Avenue), Manhattan.
Tickets Sliding Scale $6 to $15
Special Advance Reception — A chance [...]
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Andrew Lyubarsky July 22, 2008 | Posted in
IndyBlog On July 17th, the next sad chapter of the city’s failure to stand up to Columbia University’s plans to build a new campus in West Harlem-Manhattanville unfolded as the Empire State Development Corporation, the state body that has the power to seize properties from local business-owners and turn them over to the university, issued its [...]
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