Headlines 11/17/11
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OWS ANNIVERSARY MARCH. NYPD Says They're Prepared.
US MILITARY EXPANDS IN AUSTRALIA. China Balks.
US WARNS EGYPT. On Government Transition.
ISOLATED SYRIA. Time Running Out.
BOA PROTEST. San Francisco.
CONGRESSIONAL INTERNET HEARINGS
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Why?
A few infringing links are enough to justify censoring an entire site, blocking good content along with the bad.
How?
The US will be able to block a site’s web traffic, ad traffic and search traffic using the same website censorship methods used by China, Iran and Syria.
Who's at risk?
Your favorite websites both inside and outside the US could be blocked based on an infringement claim.
Could this pass?
Yes. The Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act have widespread support in Congress and are expected to pass.
CAMPAIGN TO END RACISM AND SEXISM
Unfortunately, some publications and magazines have in the past published Hot Women in Politics, with unacceptable words slutty and others, to describe female candidates, another newspaper has speculated whether a congresswoman decided to have plastic surgery, and an online media claims another was playing up her femininity. Also, countless examples race and gender in media coverage devoted to public officials’ looks, clothing and hair styles.
Bronx Post Office To Be Named After Fallen Soldier
US Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx) has announced the reintroduction of his bill, H.R. 3413, to name the post office on West Avenue in the Bronx after Private Isaac T. Cortes, an Army soldier and Bronx native who was killed in Iraq in 2007.
Pvt. Cortes was raised in the Parkchester neighborhood of the Bronx and attended Christopher Columbus High School. He enlisted in the Army on November 21, 2006, completed his individual infantry training course in Fort Benning, Ga., and then moved on to Fort Drum before being deployed to Iraq in September 2007.
SLOAN AWARDS
Eight NYC public high school teachers who engage their students with passion, animation and scholarly studies have earned Sloan Awards for Excellence in Teaching Science & Mathematics.
The awards are presented annually by the Fund for the City of New York and sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation includes a $5,000 prize.
Among the criteria to be used in the evaluation of the candidates are:
• Student achievement, progress and outcomes
• Teaching style and effectiveness
• Innovation and creativity in the classroom environment
Annual Toy Drive
Deputy Bronx Borough President Aurelia Greene will join officials from the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo and children from PS 205 at the Bronx Zoo’s Dancing Crane Café to kick-off Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr.’s holiday toy drive.
In honor of the start of the holiday season, school children from PS 205 will be on hand to donate the first toys of the year.
Who: Deputy Bronx Borough President Aurelia Greene
John Calvelli, WCS Executive Vice President of Public Affairs
School children from PS205
Headlines 11/16/11
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US MILITARY PRESENCE. Australia Bases.
SYRIAN OPPOSITION. Army Defections.
EUROPEAN DEBT. Crisis Spreading?
US SUPER-COMMITTEE. Stymied.
SLOAN AWARDS. Top Teachers.
NIXON TAPES
Following 36 years of silence, the US government released former President Richard M. Nixon's testimony during a June 1975 special prosecutor's investigation of the Watergate scandal.
As most people know, the investigation, prompted by news-media disclosures of high-level sabotage and abuse of power in the White House, had begun two years earlier.
By the time Nixon appeared before the grand jury, its discoveries had already forced his resignation from the presidency
http://nixon.archives.gov/virtuallibrary/tapeexcerpts/index.php
CLEAN TECHNOLOGY VEHICLES
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. joined state and city officials, as well as representatives of the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation, to announce that electric truck manufacturer Smith Electric Vehicles will soon open a new state of the art electric truck manufacturing facility at the former Port Morris lamp warehouse at 275 Locust Avenue. Smith Electric Vehicles hopes to create more than 100 local “green” jobs.
NYC Blocks Camping at Protest Site
A New York Supreme Court judge has upheld the NYC’s right to enforce rules to bar the Occupy Wall Street protesters from camping overnight at Zuccotti Park.
Michael D. Stallman said, “The court is mindful of the movements’ First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and peaceable assembly.” But he added, quoting from another case, “Even protected speech is not equally permissible in all places and at all times.”