[Editor’s note: Revised and updated for the Web.]
Since the twin towers collapsed in flames on the 11th of September, 2001, a state of fear and unease has inundated America’s psyche as the nation has turned its ear to Washington’s power players and the national news media for the latest on the fight against terror, tragically […]
Entries Tagged as 'September'
Dispatches from Guantanamo: One Lawyer’s Tales of Terror and the U.S. Constitution
October 17th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: 2007 · AP Issues · Features · September
A Quickie with Noam Chomsky
October 17th, 2007 · No Comments
Nick Lindsley, senior in Architecture at Iowa State University, sent Noam Chomsky an e-mail asking for a short interview. Chomsky replied and said that he was too busy at that time, but he encouraged Nick to write back to him in a year. Lindsley did just that; he waited a year to the day and […]
Tags: 2007 · AP Issues · Interviews · September
The Jena 6
October 14th, 2007 · No Comments
In the small town of Jena, Louisiana (population 3,000) a complicated civil rights debate has erupted. The story originated in September 2006, when a black student requested permission from school officials to sit under a tree in his schoolyard that was typically understood as being reserved for white students. Rightfully, he was told to sit […]
Tags: 2007 · AP Issues · September · Under the Radar
Western Union Boycott
October 14th, 2007 · No Comments
A boycott started by over 150 immigrant organizations across the country has targeted the money transfer giant Western Union. The boycott has criticized Western Union for charging immigrants excessive fees and non-standard exchange rates for money they send home. “We aim to get justice for immigrants and allow them to build the wealth that […]
Tags: 2007 · AP Issues · September · Under the Radar
I Spread Euhedral
October 14th, 2007 · No Comments
I.
Here heavy, this ground. To be used
or called dirt. Call the dirt
whatever it grows. If nothing,
call it dirt. I am ready to be called
what I am. This undergrowth
will spread itself perversely-reach
out with sad avarice. Be ready to be
ready to pluck me. Be ready to be
unprepared-to see me act out my
obstinacy.
These reaches are always
reaching farther-through
thinning arms.
The […]
Tags: 2007 · AP Issues · Poetry · September
Sky Poems
October 14th, 2007 · No Comments
SKY POEM 1.A.
cataract sky:
i looked up expecting the diamond face of God
and found only a cyclops.
the floating precipitate veils the visaged-view
but makes globes of the fluorescent rust hue
that streams from the streetlights
and illuminates the crow-crowded tree.
they saturate it’s limbs like it’s the only tree in hell,
and it would they take their leave of it,
but they […]
Tags: 2007 · AP Issues · Poetry · September
The One-Man Choir: Elliott Smith’s New Moon
October 14th, 2007 · No Comments
The first posthumous collection of Elliott Smith’s songs, 2004’s From a Basement on a Hill (ANTI-Records), showcased the music he had been recording in the months immediately preceding his death. There he can be heard leaning more heavily on electric guitars, experimenting with trippy ambient noises and sounding at times like a self-conscious one-man Beatles. […]
Tags: 2007 · AP Issues · Music Reviews · September
The Greatest Social Experiment Ever Known to Man
October 14th, 2007 · No Comments
I and many others have had the privilege of being born in one of the greatest social experiments ever known to man: The United States of America.
It is our responsibility to take the legacy handed down by our forebears, guard it, and then pass it on to other generations.
I see our liberties being watered down […]
Tags: 2007 · AP Issues · Commentary · September
Numbers
October 13th, 2007 · No Comments
Test Excerpt.
