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New World: December 2013
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013. William Gary (1967 - 2013). William Gary was sitting at the security desk of 66 West 12. 8220;Have a great holiday Gary. You spending it with your son? 8221; I asked. 8220;Sure am.” The doting father of a 10-year-old-son said smiling and waving at me for one last time…. A week later, William Gary, 46, would (according to. 8220;suffer from a neck injury while lifting weights. The injury led to an allergic reaction to his medical treatment.”. To help support his son. Airborne In...
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New World: William Gary (1967 - 2013)
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013. William Gary (1967 - 2013). William Gary was sitting at the security desk of 66 West 12. 8220;Have a great holiday Gary. You spending it with your son? 8221; I asked. 8220;Sure am.” The doting father of a 10-year-old-son said smiling and waving at me for one last time…. A week later, William Gary, 46, would (according to. 8220;suffer from a neck injury while lifting weights. The injury led to an allergic reaction to his medical treatment.”. To help support his son.
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New World: Esperanza's Workshop
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Sunday, March 16, 2014. Esperanza Spalding with her beautiful afro. Showcased ten new songs to a sold-out house of young fans and older Jazz aficionados, all were eager to hear the “prodigy from Portland” perform as the headlining act of the. 92y Soul Jazz Festival. What was most amazing about last night’s performance, wasn’t the reaction to Spalding’s new music, but the new appearance (or persona) of the artist herself. Instead of enjoying Spalding’s powerful and moving set, the audience was consi...
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New World: November 2013
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Saturday, November 02, 2013. On David Graeber’s “The Democracy Project”. Two years ago, this page was inspired by the social activism of the Occupy Wall Street movement. “We are the 99%! 8221; was heard throughout the streets, college campuses, and shockingly, the. The Brooklyn Bridge on Oct. 2nd. The real work of OWS to those more passionate, committed individuals with nothing to lose. These activists should be commended for at least trying to bring real. Change to this inequitable and, presumably, R...
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New World: "Education is Our Basic Right."
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Saturday, November 02, 2013. Education is Our Basic Right.". Would be arriving within the hour to interview the defiant and heroic sixteen-year-old education advocate,. You don’t know who Malala is? 8221; A snide, fashionable upper-East Sider snapped in an entitled and sardonic tone as she pushed her way past a scruffy looking hipster trying to find his way to the T.C. Boyle. It’s just disgusting! While Malala healed, we learned more about the struggle for women’s rights in Pakistan. The world ...The int...
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New World: On David Graeber’s “The Democracy Project”
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Saturday, November 02, 2013. On David Graeber’s “The Democracy Project”. Two years ago, this page was inspired by the social activism of the Occupy Wall Street movement. “We are the 99%! 8221; was heard throughout the streets, college campuses, and shockingly, the. The Brooklyn Bridge on Oct. 2nd. The real work of OWS to those more passionate, committed individuals with nothing to lose. These activists should be commended for at least trying to bring real. Change to this inequitable and, presumably, R...
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New World: This Changes Nothing...
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Friday, May 22, 2015. Not much has changed since Naomi Klein published her book in Fall 2014,. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. Instead, a dire situation only continues to deteriorate. That same week, world leaders. Gathered at the UN. Many were poised and ready to do more. Throughout North America, does not mean it wasn’t the warmest globally. The weather is getting wilder and weirder. So, how will we adapt? Of the XL Oil pipeline. Universities ( like The New School. As Bill McKibben...
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New World: Richard Wortman Jr. (1929 - 2013)
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013. Richard Wortman Jr. (1929 - 2013). Richard Wortman was born into the Great Depression and grew up through the Second World War. As a young man, he became a member of the 101. Airborne Infantry in the Army during the Korean Conflict. Needless to say, Richard Wortman knew a thing or two about frugality and efficiency. “Waste not, want not” were words he often reminded boys of assigned to student home “Union” at the Milton Hershey School. But he was a disciplined leader who loved...
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New World: #heartland
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013. As I sat, eating a Wendy's "Baconator" in the Philadelphia airport, I thought about those times and then looked up to the news screens above broadcasting scenes from Cairo, Egypt. The human "pursuit of happiness" races on. This would be my first trip to the Midwest. I was here to visit one of my best friends, social justice activist, musician, and "man of the people," Jesse Villalobos. At his hotel (Carter was in town for a couple days for the 80/35 music festiva. Jesse was the ...
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New World: March 2014
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Sunday, March 16, 2014. Esperanza Spalding with her beautiful afro. Showcased ten new songs to a sold-out house of young fans and older Jazz aficionados, all were eager to hear the “prodigy from Portland” perform as the headlining act of the. 92y Soul Jazz Festival. What was most amazing about last night’s performance, wasn’t the reaction to Spalding’s new music, but the new appearance (or persona) of the artist herself. Instead of enjoying Spalding’s powerful and moving set, the audience was consi...
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