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Homeless Hotspot
There has been substantial debate, and much virtual ink spilt, over the Homeless Hotspot program in Austin, Texas. The program is relatively straightforward from the title: 13 homeless men and one woman with mobile wireless internet hotspots in their pockets hawking internet access on street corners. Launched at SXSW, the premier gathering of hip indie rockers, it has been read by many as the corporate horror-tech future to come, where poor people are little more than machines designed to serve as human infrastructure to extend the privilege of the few.
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Race, Civility, and a Good Cup of Tea
Despite decries of violence as “mindless vigilantism,” and self-aggrandizing volunteer clean-up squads, the London riots convey important ideas about race, civility, and the concept of the “political” in western liberal democracy.
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Nameless and homeless: Affordable housing—if not now, when?
Today, it’s widely acknowledged that the “deinstitutionalization” of psychiatric survivors has been a total failure and fraud; it was from the very start. Why? Because of government incompetence and negligence, poor urban planning, and public indifference to “discharged” psychiatric survivors and other poor, marginalized and stigmatized people in our communities.
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Web Exclusive: Turning Upside Down
Spoiler: we announce the winner of the Haitian election in this piece.
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Mud, Hubris and Malevolent Urban Change
India seems more preoccupied than ever with showing off its resources and firepower, of which it certainly has plenty, than worrying about their mal-distribution and misuse. This attitude, as my article suggests, is at the heart of all that is wrong with the Commonwealth Games.
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Web Exclusive: Clinton is Screwed
After we reported a couple of days ago that rumours were circulating that Americans had planted the cholera bacterium in Haiti, we were reprimanded for trivializing an important issue. The press, establishment or alternative, are sticking to the ‘facts’ in the case. However, the Haitian masses never allow the facts to get in the way of the truth.
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Web Exclusive: Differing Deadly Realities
With the cholera epidemic looming, Joegodson keeps in touch with his family in Saut d’Eau. His aunt is listening for the response of the local peasants to the knowledge that their waters are the source of the current cholera epidemic. Joegodson listens in Port-au-Prince and Gros Morne.
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Web Exclusive: A Worrisome Trend in Port-au-Prince
People are used to the rubble. They walk around it. But it is more difficult to avoid the violence and criminality.
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Web Exclusive: Bhopal’s Healing Wounds
Those unfortunate enough to reside in the poorest areas of Bhopal continue to live a life of pain and neglect in the shadow of Union Carbides poisonous legacy, almost 26 years on from that tragic night when 27 tonnes of Methyl Isocyanate gas descended on Bhopal’s shanty-towns.
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In pursuit of leisure: A political imperative
What were to happen if we were to challenge our existing social structure by demanding a shorter working day? With more time to pursue personal creative efforts and desires, society could move away from a state of near-constant fatigue and towards a more just society; a society that could focus on more grave concerns that the planet’s neglected majority face on a daily basis.
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