† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Requiem for a Lightweight by nancy a heitzeg “Hector…
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Norquist Tax Pledge Begins to Crumble A Minimum Tax for the Wealthy by Warren E. Buffet The group’s [the Forbe’s 400] average income in 2009 was $202 million — which works out to a “wage” of $97,000 per hour, based on a 40-hour workweek. (I’m assuming they’re paid during lunch…
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Factory Fire Kills More Than 100 People in Bangladesh, New York Times: MUMBAI — More than 100 people died Saturday and Sunday in a fire at a garment factory outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, in one of the worst industrial tragedies in that country… Bangladesh’s garment industry, the second largest exporter of…
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Obama’s ‘Runway To Win’ Fashion Line Rakes In Over $40 Million: Conservatives mocked Vogue’s Ann Wintour and the campaign of President Barack Obama for a “ritzy” fashion initiative called ‘Runway To Win,” conceived by Wintour to raise money for the president’s re-election efforts. Well, it appears as if the joke…
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The Fabulous Life Of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid by Walter Hickey, Business Insider Most people know Harry Reid as the quiet Democrat in charge of the Senate. Some consider him boring, but they couldn’t be more wrong.The Harry Reid story is a long one. He’s had a remarkable career…
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† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Remembering Transgender Victims of Structural Violence by nancy a…
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Norman R. Morrison 1933-1965: A Light Cuts Through the Fog of War commentary by nancy a heitzeg “The life is mightier than the book that reports it. The most important thing in the world is that our faith becomes living experience and deed of life.” `Norman Morrison, 1965 (notes from…
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“Love on the March” Alex Ross, The New Yorker: Like most gay men, I have been called a faggot a few times. I’ve seen friends talk back to homophobes. But I’d never witnessed anything like this: it had a weird theatrical intensity, as if the young man were being goaded…
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