Video I shot from Sunday, 10 October, 2011 at Occupy Wall Street. For more on the Sounds of Occupy Wall Street, see Meena’s podcast: The Sounds of Occupy Wallstreet
Music on Wallstreet A sound piece I mixed from Occupy Wallstreet! More to come–enjoy!
Police confront #occupywallstreet at Brooklyn Bridge Video we took today the #occupywallstreet.
Tahrir Square in Cairo, the Puerta de Sol in Madrid, Syntagma Square in Athens, Bloombergville in New York City, and the current “street riots” in London have been only some of the sites of dissent in which young people have attempted to counter perceived injustice embodied by dictators, self-interested politicians and insatiable corporate and financial...
My glasses fog up every time that door opens. Yesterday, it was a record high of 107 degrees with no sign of letting down. The local radio station cooked an egg on the sidewalk just to test how hot it was. Everyone showed up, even the local news channel. Unfortunately, with all the excitement about...
It’s 3:15 on a Saturday afternoon and I’m sitting at a Starbucks sipping on a chai tea latte. I think to myself about the franchise. Not the franchise of Starbucks—that’s an article all on its own, but all franchises—the whole idea of the franchise. I don’t know about you, but when I think franchise, my...
Who are all of you? Geographers, linguists, psychologists, journalists, writers, actors, historians, fundraisers, public policy experts, teachers, archeologists, sound designers, poets, organizers, musicians, researchers, mathematicians, economists, green experts, cultural studies experts, biologists, med students, philosophers, law students and lawyers, architects, engineers, political scientists, sports and fitness experts, ex-Marines, health psychologists, artists, environmental interpreters, counselors, immigration...
This is as good of a topic as any to start a discussion, and it actually points to part of the purpose of this (hopefully) collaborative blog. Last weekend I came across a group of queer students at NYU that were protesting a blood donation bus. The protestors were loud, and were stopping people asking...
This paper was originally given at the “Death, Sex, and Boredom” conference held at Fordham University, Spring 2010. The format of Thomas Mann’s novel, Death in Venice (1912), leads the reader to believe that it is a classically structured tragedy; however, I assert that this tale of a mature German man that seemingly stalks...
