Here's a quick lowdown on the controversy between Canada Goose and Factory Farms from our NYC Producer, Sonia Ahuja.
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Now, more than ever, we need to engage openly and fiercely with everyone.
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I haven’t seen the movie. I’m not going to. But I have seen both trailers twice, and I read most of the Wikipedia synopsis, which is all I need to denounce this congregation of moving images as a blight on humanity. If you haven’t seen the trailers, nor read most of the Wikipedia synopsis, worry not. I’ll save you the trouble.
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After I shared an article that addressed the conspicuous lack of women of color on magazine covers, a friend exclaimed, “Let’s not forget there is a lack of our Latina and Asian sisters.” That comment, while coming from someone with all the best intentions in the world, prompted me to ask a series of awkward and sobering questions..
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The super bowl is a staple of American culture and no one understands that better than the good ol’ American brands selling you stuff.
Besides being a tour de force of athletic prowess, the super bowl shares the spotlight for ads which have arguably become just as much or a spectacle as the game itself.
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Our political reality is sad and outrageous and the source of its current corrupted state of affairs isn’t something we can offload onto others. I’m convinced that our current civil conflict falls in the lineage of spiritual battles that pits a fearful, shrinking heart against a courageous, expansive love.
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In what could fairly be described as the de Blasio administration's entry in the contest for the Sean Spicer medal for the the most blatant lie by a government spokesperson this month, here's a recent statement by J. Peter Donald, an NYPD mouthpiece: "Quotas for arrests, summonses, or stops have never been used by the NYPD. The department measures success based on the prevention and reduction of crime."
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Two years after a federal lawsuit dealt the NYPD a legal blow to its wanton stopping and frisking of Black and Latino residents, it seems the country’s largest police department still can’t adhere to the law.
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Much like the 1940s, a lot of the rhetoric surrounding this issue is focused on fear mongering that terrorists will somehow infiltrate the refugees from Syria and Iraq and carry out an attack on the United States. To reiterate, these refugees are trying to come here to escape exactly that kind of violence, not to carry it out. The fact is that there has not been a single case of someone posing as a refugee and carrying out an act of terror.
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Hospitality of mind allows us to host strange ideas. It acknowledges the importance of crafting moments for deep listening. Similar to a dinner host setting a table for guests — a process of preparation and place-making — our minds require space to allow the ideas and experiences of others to linger within us.
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They claim they’re keeping ‘men out of the women’s’ bathroom. I am being told that I am a predator. That I am likely a rapist. That I am likely a pedophile. Of course, none of these things are true, and if anything these bills put men in the women’s bathroom by forcing trans-men to use the women’s room. Once again, my basic humanity is a subject of debate by mostly heterosexual cisgender men who know nothing of trans identity other than their own prejudice and don’t care to learn about it or to humanize it"
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The sooner we accept that the majority of human discord can be attributed to willful ignorance and blatant rejection of new ideas, the sooner we will begin working from the inside, out. [..] Have I left you wondering how a Catholic monk could be the founder of genetics, or a Muslim scholar the father of modern medicine? I hope so.
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Every once in a while you find a production that gets everything right. A one-man show set in a vacant office might not sound intriguing, until you witness the complexities woven throughout the entire story of a 38 year-old playwright’s struggle with his tumultuous past. This, is that kind of play.
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You think about those sort of things, especially the instant you realize that, yes, this asshole is really gonna run the light. And that no, no amount of pedaling or breaking is going to change what’s going to happen. You are fucked. Just accept it. Or don’t. It really doesn’t matter because -
Boom.
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I peek behind me to find a patrol car flashing its lights. I guess some poor fool in those high-fangled horseless carriages is getting a ticket. They should, they’re not at all saving the environ…
“Sir, stop pedaling and move to the side of the road please.”
This is the moment my left-wing, bleeding heart nirvana ends. Police are no longer my favorite sort of people. I retract my forgiveness.
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Why hasn’t anyone given Scott Pilgrim Vs. the Universe its due?
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Seriously, we’ve all been here before: you’re drinking with your friends, talking about I dunno..leather and then some jackass pop’s outta nowhere - I mean literally shouts - nay screams: “What the fuck has Obama really done for us?”
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