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We continue our election year series 30 Issues in 30 Days with Issue 19: Will My Vote Count? -- two views on access to, suppression of, casting and counting ballots. Plus, The Subway Chronicles.
30 Issues in 30 Days: Does Your Vote Count
Michael Waldman , executive director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU
School of Law and former speechwriter for President Bill Clinton
and
Dr. Tony Minor, pastor for Community of Faith in Cleveland Ohio
and
Robert Pollock, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board member
-discuss whether voter suppression is a problem in the United States
Underneath It All
Jacquelin Cangro, founder of thesubwaychronicles.com and editor of the book
of essays,
The Subway Chronicles: Scenes from Life in New York (Penguin/Plume, 2006)
and
Amy Holman, poet and author of An Insider's Guide to Creative Writing
Programs (Perigee, 2006) and the poetry collection, Wait For Me, I'm Gone (Dream Horse Press) and contributor to The Subway Chronicles: Scenes from Life in New York (Penguin/Plume, 2006)
and
Daniels Parseliti, writer and contributor to
The Subway Chronicles: Scenes from Life in New York (Penguin/Plume, 2006)
-share their stories and take calls from listeners with their one-minute tales from New York's subways
The Subway Chronicles is available for purchase at Amazon.com
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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]
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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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