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(James M Thorne/Flickr)Human Rights Around the World
How do other countries abide by the Geneva Conventions? As the United States debates what “degrading and humiliating treatment” means, we’ll see how other democracies with detainees set interrogation standards and why they haven’t passed the kind of law that President Bush wants, but that so troubles Colin Powell and John McCain. Also, who said what at the United Nations General Assembly; a look at the work of innovative filmmaker Shirley Clarke; and a call-in on arranged marriages.
The World Speaks, Who Is Listening?
Shashi Tharoor, United Nation's Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, and author of Bookless in Baghdad: And Other Writings About Readings (Arcade Publishing, 2005)
and
David Bosco, senior editor at Foreign Policy Magazine
- talks about the United Nation's General Assembly meeting and the speeches made by other world leaders
» Foreign Policy Magazine
» Shashi Tharoor's website
Chelsea Girl
Amy Taubin, contributing editor to Film Comment and Sight and
Sound, writes for Artforum and teaches at the School for Visual Arts,
and
Melissa Anderson, Time Out New York film editor
- on filmmaker Shirley Clarke who is to be posthumously honored with a commemorative plaque at the Chelsea Hotel
» Shirley Clarke at imdb
» Amy Taubin’s bio at SVA
» Time Out New York film
Event:
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street)
7:45 Thursday, September 21st
On the occasion of the unveiling of a commemorative plaque at the Hotel Chelsea, there will be a special screening of selected Shirley Clarke films.
Human Rights Around the World
Aryeh Neier, president of the Open Society Institute, also founder and former director of Human Rights Watch
and
Aisling Reedie, senior legal advisor, Human Rights Watch
- on how the Geneva Conventions are interpreted around the world
» Open Society Institute
» Human Rights Watch
Un-Dating
Tova Mirvis, author of
The Outside World
(Knopf, 2006)
- discusses dating techniques among conservative religious groups
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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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