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2008-11-19T02:52:08Z

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Is Palin Preparing To Run 2012?

2008-11-06T20:56:35Z

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Kulture Clash International Presents:SATMA 2008 Welcome

2008-11-19T02:45:37Z

(SATMA)South African Traditional Music Awards held annually in Durban, South Africa currently in it's 3rd year welcomes Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of Macolm X to receive the SATMA Lasting Legacy Award on behalf of her father.Want to attend the SATMA Awards? Log onto: www.satmaawards.com

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Palin Supporter Brings Racist Monkey "Obama" Doll to Rally

2008-10-21T08:50:54Z

A Sarah Palin supporter brings a racist monkey doll wearing an Obama sticker to a campaign rally. After the man realizes he's been caught on camera, he hides the doll, passing it off to a child.

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Cultural Diversity Rendevous 2008

2008-11-19T02:23:45Z

This video is about the Cultural Diversity Rendevous organise by KDCA, 29th May 2008. How diverse the Kadazan-Dusun-Rungus-Murut-Tatana-Bisaya-Lotud-Ludayeh-and other smaller ethnic group in Sabah. This video can be downloaded at high quality format AVI DV (PAL) at www.borneofootage.com

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Title IX, Women's Sports and Social Change - Donna Lopiano

2008-10-30T09:37:15Z

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Former CEO of Women's Sports Foundation Donna Lopiano discusses the impact of Title IX on women's sports, and examines the ongoing nature of widespread social change.

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Donna Lopiano is the immediate past chief executive officer of the Women's Sports Foundation, an organization she served for 15 years.

Recently named one of "The 10 Most Powerful Women in Sports" by Fox Sports, Dr. Lopiano was also listed as one of "The 100 Most Influential People in Sports" by The Sporting News.

Prior to joining the Women's Sports Foundation, Dr. Lopiano served at the University of Texas-Austin for 18 years where she initiated and built the women's athletic program.

She has been a college coach of men's and women's volleyball, women's basketball and softball. As an athlete, she participated in 26 national championships in four sports and was a nine-time All-American at four different positions in softball, a sport in which she played on six national championship teams.

She is a member of the National Sports Hall of Fame, the National Softball Hall of Fame and the Texas Women's Hall of Fame, among others - Chautauqua Institution

Dr. Donna Lopiano is currently the President and founder of Sports Management Resources, a consulting firm that focuses on bringing the knowledge of experienced, expert former athletics directors to assist scholastic and collegiate athletics departments in solving growth and development challenges.

Dr. Lopiano was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of the Women's Sports Foundation (1992-2007)and was recently named one of The 10 Most Powerful Women in Sports by Fox Sports. The Sporting News has also listed her as one of The 100 Most Influential People in Sports.

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Why People Like "Stuff White People Like" - Christian Lander

2008-10-30T09:33:59Z

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Author Christian Lander discusses reasons for the rapid success of his satirical weblog, "Stuff White People Like," and explains some of his motivations for creating the blog.

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From kickball and dinner parties to graduate school, recycling, and knowing what's best for poor people, Lander, the Los Angeles based blogger, has been keeping track of the trends, ideas, and tendencies dear to the hearts of the majority demographic - Politics and Prose

Christian Lander is the creator of the website Stuff White People Like. He is a Ph.D. dropout who was the 2006 public speaking instructor of the year at Indiana University. He has lived in Toronto, Montreal, Copenhagen, Tucson, Indiana, and now Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, Jess, a photographer who contributed many of the photos in the book.

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The Evolution of Culture - Paul Ehrlich

2008-10-30T18:24:56Z

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Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich discusses the rapidly-accelerating evolution of human culture.

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Paul Ehrlich gives a seminar at the Long Now Foundation on his book, The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment, in which he examines the evolution of human culture and its effect on the environment.

Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a Stanford University professor and a renowned entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera (butterflies). He is also well known as a researcher and author on the subject of human overpopulation. Ehrlich has written numerous books on the subjects of ecology, entomology, overpopulation, and related subjects. His best known book is The Population Bomb, published in 1968.

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Amy Tan - Writing from Personal Experience

2008-10-29T09:41:03Z

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Bestselling author Amy Tan discusses the importance of drawing on personal experiences when creating fictional stories and characters, and explains how her own family experiences have influenced her writing.

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Amy Tan speaks as a part of "Roger Rosenblatt and Friends: On Writing" during the 2008 Chautauqua Institution morning lecture series.

Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate, and Saving Fish from Drowning. She has also written two children's books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat. The latter became a children's television series for PBS called "Sagwa." Amy is a member of the literary garage band, The Rock Bottom Remainders, for which she sings the Nancy Sinatra classic, "These Boots Are Made for Walking" to raise money for after-school literacy programs for inner city kids. Tan's rendition of the pop culture classic can be heard on the CD Stranger than Fiction, which benefits the PEN Writers Fund.

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CGI 2007: Multi Ethnic Communities

2008-11-19T02:46:20Z

Respecting local cultures is critical as we build a global community and address global challenges. Watch Turkish Republic Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erodgan, Timor-L'Este President Jose Ramos Horta, Croatian Republic President Stjepan Mesic, and Chairman and CEO of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch discuss the importance of encouraging cultural interaction within countries and understanding how others live.

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Cultural Question Time

2008-11-19T02:52:43Z

Cultural Question Time with Tony Juniper, Director of Friends of the Earth; Marcus du Sautoy, Author and

Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University; Solitaire Townsend, Co-Director of

Futerra, Architect Sarah Wigglesworth, Artist Bob & Roberta Smith and Michaela

Crimmin, Head of Arts, RSA. Chaired by author and artist Edgar Schmitz.

Friends of the Earth invites opinion formers to seek solutions to the public's questions about the environment, art and politics at Poison and Antidote, The Whitechapel on Saturday March 29th 2008.

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Art and Activism at Poison and Antidote, The Whitechapel

2008-11-19T02:52:43Z

Natalie Bennett, Guardian Weekly Editor, and Martyn Williams, Friends of the

Earth's Senior Parliamentary Campaigner, grapple with questions on politics, the environment and culture.
Artists, comedians, activists and academics reflect on questions posed by the public about the state of the

world at Poison and Antidote, organised by Friends of the Earth at the Whitechapel on March 29 2008.

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The role of artists, Poison and Antidote, the Whitechapel

2008-11-19T02:52:43Z

Michaela Crimmin, Head of Arts, RSA and artist Heather Ackroyd explore

questions about the role of artists and curators in inspiring change.
Artists, comedians, activists and academics reflect on questions posed by the public about the state of the

world at Poison and Antidote, organised by Friends of the Earth at the Whitechapel on March 29 2008.

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French nostalgic for May 1968 protests - 16 May 2008

2008-10-20T09:29:58Z

Thousands of French teachers and public sector workers have gone on strike in Paris to protest against job cuts and education reform. Estelle Youssouffa, Al Jazeera's correspondent reporting from Paris, draws on similarities from forty years ago when a social revolution shook the nation in the 1960s and education and reform thrived in the heart of French society. "May 68" was the year in which a series of student protests and a general strike caused the eventual collapse of the French government.

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Class and Family Structure in the United States

2008-10-22T15:31:35Z

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Sociology professor William Doherty examines differences in U.S. family structure across economic classes.

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The Changing American Family

The writings of social scientists and their popularizers reflect the dramatic changes that have taken place in marriage, child rearing, and family life in the United States. Where such writers once spoke simply of "the family," they now speak of "the diversity of family forms" and the rapidity with which those forms can change.

This panel offers objective and unsentimental views of the family and addresses basic questions about family life in the United States today. How do popular myths about family life compare with verifiable realities? What constitutes a marriage or a divorce? How do contemporary adult work patterns affect family life? Featuring Doyle McCarthy, professor of sociology at Fordham University and author of Knowledge as Culture; William Doherty, professor and director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota; Arlene Skolnick, visiting scholar, Sociology Department, NYU and author of Embattled Paradise; and Andrew J. Cherlin, John Hopkins University professor and author of Public and Private Families: An Introduction - The New School

William Doherty is professor and director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota. He is involved in community based projects on families and parenting.

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Stephanie Syjuco - The Counterfeit Crochet Project

2008-10-17T13:33:59Z

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San Francisco artist Stephanie Syjuco describes her participatory artwork, the "Counterfeit Crochet Project (Critique of a Political Economy)."

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Political Is Personal Panel: Contemporary Women Artists and Political Expression.

A panel of diverse female artists discuss the feminist art movement and present works that exemplify how the political is personal.

Stephanie Syjuco was born in the Philippines in 1974. She received her MFA from Stanford University and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has shown nationally and internationally: at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; SFMOMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, and New Langton Arts, among others. She was included in the 2002 California Biennial, and is the recipient of a Eureka Fleishhacker Fellowship Grant for 2001, and a 1999 ArtCouncil Grant.

Her work is in numerous collections, most notable the Whitney Museum, SFMOMA, The New Museum, and the Contemporary Arts Museum Honolulu. Residencies include the Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA), Skowhegan (ME), and the Center for Metamedia, Czech Republic. She currently teaches at Stanford University and the California College of the Arts, San Francisco.

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Robin Wright - Iran's Rebellious Youth Vote

2008-10-24T21:31:24Z

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Award-winning Washington Post correspondent discusses emerging rebellious attitudes among Iran's younger generations.

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Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East with journalist Robin Wright in conversation with KCRW's Warren Olney. This program is part of the Los Angeles Public Library's ALOUD speakers and authors program.

Drawing on 35 years of reporting - through wars, revolutions and uprisings - one of America's most prescient journalists offers an insightful reckoning of the changes wracking the Middle East and their impact on its and America's future - Los Angeles Public Library

Robin Wright, who covers foreign policy for The Washington Post, has reported from over 140 countries for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, CBS News, The New Yorker, The Sunday Times and others. She has covered a dozen wars and revolutions in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Warren Olney IV is the host and executive producer of the nationally syndicated PRI program To the Point as well as the long-running local affairs show Which Way, L.A.?, both of which originate at Santa Monica public radio station KCRW.

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Bruce Thornton - Muslim Immigration and European Security

2008-10-14T11:27:31Z

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Author and CSU-Fresno Professor of Classics Bruce Thornton argues that muslim immigration is negatively affecting European security.

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Peter Robinson interviews Fresno State Classicist Bruce Thornton about his new book Decline and Fall: Europe's Slow Suicide.

In his new book, Decline and Fall: Europe's Slow Motion Suicide, Bruce Thornton asserts that Europe has turned its back on the Western tradition to which it owes its greatness. It has abandoned pride in the nation, discarded traditional Christianity, and, in so doing, is without unifying values, ideals, and beliefs.

But if Europe is still democratic, and if it still embraces the free market, why should anyone care that Judaeo-Christian religious beliefs are slipping away. The answer lies in the coinciding rise of radical Islam - Hoover Institution

Bruce S. Thornton is a classicist at California State University, Fresno. He is a frequent guest on talk radio shows across the United States and appeared regularly on ABC's Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. Thornton is a regular contributor to the popular, conservative website www.CaliforniaRepublic.org and has written several books.

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge.

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Guy Sorman (Empire of Lies) on the Tibetan Protests

2008-10-24T21:30:18Z

"There are not six million Tibetans in China," says Sorman. "There are one billion." In other words, if the many Chinese who are not direct beneficiaries of economic development could express themselves, they would say the same things as the Tibetans.

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B-Boys Busking Their Moves Hollywood Blvd

2008-11-19T02:39:20Z

B-Boys Busking Their Moves Hollywood Blvd VJ_Tsu Live Reporting

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Shelby Steele - "Racial Masking" in American Popular Culture

2008-11-17T23:40:22Z

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Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Shelby Steele explains "racial masking," a phenomenon he identifies as a common experience for minorities in American culture.

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A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win

Shelby Steele examines the challenges that Barack Obama must overcome in his bid to become President of the United States in A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win. Having to cater to both black voters and white voters in what binds Obama, and his dilemma is that he achieved visibility more as a racial icon than as an individual. In his analysis, Shelby Steele discusses his own mixed race background, and he empathizes with Obama's inner conflicts even as he critiques him. He also identifies the two 'masks' that blacks wear in order to seek success and power in the American mainstream: bargaining and challenging, and he argues that Obama is too constrained by divisive racial politics to find his own true political voice - and proposes a way for him to break those bonds and find his own voice.

Shelby Steele is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of The Content of Our Character and White Guilt, and a contributing editor at Harper's; his work has also appeared in numerous other magazines and newspapers - Cody's Books

Shelby Steele is the Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action. He was appointed a Hoover fellow in 1994.

Steele has written widely on race in American society and the consequences of contemporary social programs on race relations

In 2006, Steele received the Bradley Prize for his contributions to the study of race in America. In 2004, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal. Steele is the author of White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era and most recently A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win.

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Shelby Steele - Race and the Obama Campaign

2008-10-22T03:30:24Z

Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Shelby Steele discusses racial issues he sees behind the success of Illinois Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama.

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A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win

Steele has written widely on race in American society and the consequences of contemporary social programs on race relations

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How Has Increased Life Expectancy Changed Aging?

2008-10-14T11:30:53Z

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Author Lilian Rubin discusses changes to our concept of aging brought about by increased life expectancy.

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Lillian Rubin discusses "60 On Up: The Truth About Aging In America."

Best-selling author, sociologist, and psychotherapist, Dr. Rubin takes a penetrating look at the profound changes - personal and societal - that come with the new longevity, for those living it now and the boomers behind them in her new book, "60 On Up." - Grace Cathedral

Lillian Rubin lives and works in San Francisco. She is an internationally known writer and lecturer, who has published twelve books over the last three decades. She is most recently the author of the book "60 On Up: The Truth About Aging In America."

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Connecting with Iraqi Students through American Pop Culture

2008-10-23T15:31:12Z

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Author Ian Klaus talks about using American pop culture to connect with Kurdish students in an excerpt from his book, "Elvis is Titanic: Classroom Tales from the Other Iraq."

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Ian Klaus delivers "Elvis is Titanic: Classroom Tales from the Other Iraq."

In the spring of 2005, Ian Klaus, a twenty-six-year-old Rhodes Scholar, traveled eight hours from Turkey, via broken-down taxi and armed convoy, to reach Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in Iraqi Kurdistan. ELVIS IS TITANIC is the poignant, funny, and uplifting story of the semester he spent there teaching US history and English in the thick of the war for hearts and minds.

Inspired by the volunteerism of so many young Americans after 9/11, Klaus exchanges the abstraction of duty for an intimate involvement with individual lives. Among the Kurds, a perennially oppressed but seemingly indomitable people, he encounters both openhearted welcome and resentful suspicion -- and soon learns firsthand how far trust can go. With assignments ranging from Elvis to Ellington, from the mysteries of baseball to de Tocqueville, from Michael Jackson to Thomas Friedman, Klaus strives to illuminate the American way for students initially far more attuned to our pop culture than our national ideals. These efforts -- recounted in unforgettable vignettes full of hope and discovery -- also occasion his own reexamination of truths we hold to be self-evident, as well as the less exalted cultural assumptions we have presumed to export to the rest of the world. - Cody's Books

Ian Klaus, who now lives in New York City, wrote for publications across the United States while he was in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in history at Harvard.

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