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Today I went to and spoke at the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) meeting. I was asked to come by a friend who wanted to inform the Senate about Governor Patterson’s...
The End of Pseudo-Democracy
The Supreme Court has just handed the remains of America’s pseudo-democracy to the corporate elite. Previously, corporations could form Political Action Committees...
Haiti’s Pact With The Devil
“They were under the heel of the French, you know Napoleon the third and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said ‘We...
Obama Administration: Nearly One Year In
Everyone talks about the first one hundred days of a president’s term as being prophetic. What the president accomplishes in the first one hundred days will...
Marriage Equality Stadium
In the wake of New York State’s unfortunate (but also unsurprising) rejection of marriage equality, some Stony Brook students have called for the renaming...
Student Hacktivism
In 1968 Mexican civil society decided that it had had enough with the leadership that had followed the 1910 revolution. Exhausted by corrupt one-party rule and increasing...
Community Organizing In Mexico: Robin Hood Meets Cinderella
The FPFVI (Frente Popular Francisco Villa Independiente) is a community based organization in Mexico City, a family of which I’ve been living with for the...
The Health Care Solution To NY’s Budget Deficit
The SUNY system is no stranger to budget cuts. It seems that for decades state politicians have tried (and sometimes succeeded) at putting public education on the...