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Using Documentary Film in the Classroom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMMAJoghvaA&feature=player_embedded#t=39 Check out our new educational material on the use of documentary film in the classroom developed during one of the MEDEAnet workshops this year. The cinematographic analysis of the documentary...
On the Fence About Syria? Read This!
A quick reader on why military intervention in Syria is a big mistake–and what we should be advocating instead. Since Syria has not attacked the United States and the UN Security Council hasn’t authorized any international military action, a U.S. strike on Syria would...
Explicit Lyric Warning: Feminist Law Students Clarify The Lines
The Law Revue girls would like to define those supposedly "blurred lines." Enjoy our parody of Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke. Sing Along. How many of us were disturbed by Robin Thicke's thin disguise of self-loathing? Big Dick? Really? Join in with much better...
California Hunger Strikers Enter 3rd Week
"We are starting to look death in the face with these indeterminate SHU terms," wrote Lorenzo Benton on July 8, 2013. "Looking death in the face, isolated from family and friends and with no meaningful contact with others is a lonely experience that serves no one...
Will Miss Iceland Melt?
Miss Iceland Gets a Chilly Reception From Feminists People of All Ages, Including a Few Men, Enter Contest as a Protest By ELLEN EMMERENTZE JERVELL...
Outrageous Verdict
What would JUSTICE look like for Trayvon? A jury in Sanford, Florida has found George Zimmerman not guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin. SIGN THE DOJ PETITION NOW I know I am not alone in my outrage, anger, and heartbreak over this decision. When a teenager's life is...
Tonto’s Portrayal
DEPP’S “TONTO” COSTUME BASED ON A NON-NATIVE ARTIST’S WILD IMAGINATION by Lisa Wade, PhD, From Sociological Images Johnny Depp is playing the character of “Tonto” in the movie re-make of The Lone Ranger. Critics of the original series have observed that Tonto, the...
The Academic Abolitionist Vegan
PETA's blatant abuse of the Female Human Animal continues their unethical trend. . . Media Watch asks you to pull all support of PETA in favor of Feminist Vegan Network. . . read on. If you recall, PETA launched a pornography site a couple of years ago, interweaving...
Egypt Exploding
Unedited footage of Egypt's uprising E S or Egypt's Streets on Facebook seems to have updated information on the uprising. It appears Morsi is under house arrest. for more information as the military has seized control of the media....