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This article was reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute and the Puffin Foundation. Some names of the people profiled in this article have been changed. Roberto Ortega tried to make a living slaughtering pigs in Veracruz, Mexico. “In my town, Las Choapas, after I killed a pig, I would cut it up to sell the meat,” he recalls. But in the late 1990s, after the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) opened up Mexican markets to massive pork imports from US companies like Smithfield Foods, Ortega and other small-scale butchers in Mexico were devastated by the drop in prices.
How US Policies Fueled Mexico's Great Migration
Cross-posted at Montclair SocioBlog . What we don’t talk about when we don’t talk about class. That was the title I wanted to use, but it was too long, and besides, there are already too many of these Raymond Carver variants. Class seems to have disappeared from public discourse, except for the Republicans’ insistence that to mention inequality at all is to engage in “class warfare.” The only class we hear about, whether from politicians or the media, is the middle class.
The Declining Significance of “Class”
by jose , Jan 13, 2012, at 04:56 pm Micah Sifry has a great post at TechPresident on the use of Facebook “sentiment analysis” to explain political campagin trends. The gist of the post is that looking at whether negative or positive terms are associated with a candidate on Facebook is of little usefulness because it is impossible to detect irony. So if someone posts that they are “happy” Newt Gingrich is still in the race, it’s difficult to know if that person is saying it as a supporter or as someone who wants Mitt Romney to win.
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Class Warfare, Brought to You by the Muppets
Class Warfare, Brought to You by the Muppets Posted on Dec 5, 2011 This just in: The Muppets are brainwashing your children with liberal, anti-corporate messages, according to this astute analysis conducted by objective reporter Eric Bolling of Fox News’ “Follow the Money” propagandafest business broadcast. “Where are we, communist China?” he wonders aloud as a conservative colleague announces that Barney Frank already looks like a Muppet—and you know what means. This important discussion took place on Friday’s edition of “Follow the Money.”This powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in war traces the history of embedded and independent reporting during the carnage of World War One, the destruction of Hiroshima, the invasion of Vietnam, the current war in Afghanistan, and disaster in Iraq. As weapons and propaganda become even more sophisticated, the nature of war is developing into an electronic battlefield in which journalists play a key role, and civilians are the victims. But who is the real enemy? John Pilger says in the film: "We journalists...have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else's country...
The War You Don't See
Vatican Isn’t Buying What Benetton’s Selling With Pope-Imam Ad - In the News
Vatican Isn’t Buying What Benetton’s Selling With Pope-Imam Ad Posted on Nov 17, 2011 Italian clothing company Benetton’s latest foray into multiculturalism, this time with interfaith overtones, has landed the retailer in hot holy water with the Vatican. In a blatant bid to stay relevant while broadcasting a shock-inducing message of love in the time of globalization, Benetton launched an ad campaign Wednesday with the word “UNHATE” emblazoned on images of a host of world leaders in Photoshopped lip locks, including Barack Obama smooching Chinese President Hu Jintao, French President Nicolas Sarkozy interfacing with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Pope Benedict XVI kissing Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb.
From Miss Representation to Real Representation | Women in the World Foundation
November 15, 2011 | Culture and Media Fighting Gender Stereotypes in Media Image courtesy of Women's Media Center By Anna Louie Sussman NEW YORK CITY –- In the summer of 1993, Jennifer L. Pozner was a rising sophomore at Hampshire College, a journalism major with dreams of becoming a columnist - the next Barbara Ehrenreich or Molly Ivins, she hoped.
More Exoticization of People and Places in Fashion
We’ve posted before about the use of non-White bodies, or non-Western cultures, as props in fashion photo shoots. These shoots generally show a White model in Westernized clothing juxtaposed with animals, landscapes, architecture, and undifferentiated groups of non-White residents, all of which mark the White model as modern and the locale as exotic and primitive. The residents of the nations where these shoots occur, then, are presented as one more tourist attraction, a backdrop for the White star of the fashion display.
The Problem with War Video Games
So she is saying we should not be saying that war video games are only video games. They are a means of bad influence and should be seen as such with respect given to the fact that actually exist at all. Nice to have them but they are lacking in any 'real' reality; for lack of a better word, and an altering influence of unknown peoples for its modern take on actual events."My interest in taking video games seriously and posing challenging questions about the fictional and half-real stories they tell is because video games matter." - Nina Huntemann, producer of MEF doc "Game Over" and associate professor of media studies at Suffolk University by Nov 12
