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(Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)On the Fence
President Bush is trying to bring immigration reform back on the agenda. What will reform mean for border enforcement and for the millions of illegal immigrants already here? Plus, the new New York City Council Education Committee chairman Robert Jackson on cell phones in the classroom and No Child Left Behind, students commence protesting John McCain and listeners call in on cell phones ... in schools.
Crossing Over
Bay Buchanan, Chairman, Team America PAC
- on why America needs a strong border defense program
and
Frank Sherry, Executive Director, National Immigration Forum
- on why you can't enforce the border until you fix immigration
and
Jennifer Allen, Director, Border Action Network
- on why we should be focusing on a path to citizenship, not militarizing the border
» Team America
» National Immigration Forum
» Border Action Network
School of Thought
Robert Jackson, City Council Member (D-7), chair of the education committee
- describes his agenda as the new chair of the education committee and why he thinks kids should be allowed use cell phones in school
» Robert Jackson's Council website
Is McCain Able?
Brittany Charlton, The New School University Student Senate vice chairman
- explains planned protest against Sen. McCain's commencement address
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Jan Clausen, poet, creative writing teacher at Eugene Lang College, New School University
- on her petition campaign to protest John McCain's commencement address
and
Jonathan Chait, senior editor, The New Republic and columnist at the Los Angeles Times
- on John McCain's place on the political spectrum
» The New School Commencement 2006 Petition website
» Jonathan Chait's recent articles inThe New Republic
» Jonathan Chait on John McCain in the Los Angeles Times
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [40]
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What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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