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Maybe it's because I'm reading a book about white privilege right now...

...but this review really pissed me off.

Cutter, Martha, J. Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity. Reviewer: S.L. Kremer. Choice, April 2006, p. 1402.

"Although her title leads the reader to anticipate and inclusive approach, in fact Cutter (Kent State Univ.) offers an authoritative and full discussion of the four groups conventionally privileged in this field, Native, African, Asian, and Hispanic Americans--to the exclusion of significant Euro-American ethnic authors. In so doing the book illustrates both the strengths and weaknesses of current multicultural exclusivity."

It goes on, but that's the worst of it. "Current multicultural exclusivity"?!?

Hennepin County Library Catalog Back Online

I know not the details, but a beta version of the Hennepin County Library catalog, worked on by revolutionary cataloger Sanford Berman, is online, and searchable.

American Left Ephemera Collection

From Resource Shelf:

Univerity of Pittsburg's

Tactical RR unit needed

Imagine the street reference that RR could do with one of these babies?! We'd be unstoppable!!

Who's Afraid of Free Speech? The New York Public Library.

http://parkerstudio.com/whoisafraid.html

From this account by 2 artist/activists, it seems that NYPL's security staff is emulating the Homeland Security officers that just got busted in Maryland for enforcing non-existent policy.

Jenna Freedman on MobyLives radio

Check out the interview of our illustrious Jenna Freedman! Dennis Johnson, an editor at Melville House Books (an independent publishing house in Hoboken, NJ) does this cool podcast called MobyLives, a weekly radio program about books and writers. Way to go Jenna and thanks Dennis!!

Soft Skull poetry subscription announcement

I wanted to share this annoucement from Soft Skull Press...

OK, it's time...Soft Skull launches a subscription model...

Having been thinking about this for a while, and with the help of some prodding from

Autonomedia Benefit: Marx in Soho

Event: Performance of Howard Zinn's play Marx in Soho to benefit Autonomedia, a NYC radical small press

NYT: Police Memos Say Arrest Tactics Calmed Protest

Free FOIA training

News University offers free online FOIA training

News University, a project of The Poynter Institute funded by the Knight Foundation, is offering this online course about how to use the Freedom of Information Act, Public Records Laws and Open Meetings Laws to uphold your right to know the government's actions. "Learn not only the details of FOI laws in your state, but how to use FOI to write better stories today."

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