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Call to action: #OCCUPYWALLSTREET
If you can't make it on Sept. 17th, this is a huge thing you could do to help.
submitted 12 hours ago by surfingatwork
Send a letter to the NYCPD expressing your solidarity with the protesters and urging the police to exercise restraint. Also, tell them the world is watching. And thank them for all their hard work.
edit. Imagine what affect it would have if the police got 100,000,000 letters of support for the protesters. Edit. x2 It'd be hard for the media to dismiss all the protesters as wackos and hooligans with that outpouring of public support.
edit: Heres a link for their address: http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/home/contact_information.shtml. Don't send anything offensive or dangerous.
..from the forum
Organizers have appointed leaders?
Posted 15 hours ago by anonymous
Do we have block captains? I assume for 20,000 people we will have some sort of system to keep people organized?
anonymous 1 points 39 minutes ago
i like this, no appointed leaders, makes sense....
anonymous 1 points 10 hours ago
Each group needs to be autonomous. Food will be delivered by bicycle to all people openly occupying wall street. We will spread blocks and blocks, through complete square miles of manhattan. We will be peaceful, and our message will be clear. We are America we are legion. And we are occupying wall street.
We the peole, demand a new order for this country. We are fed up with wall street banks running this country. We are fed up wars that never end, that only make money for the military.
We are fed up with a fiscal policy that tirelessly promotes growth and inflation ahead of sustainability. Do we need growth? Do we need CEOs and boards of directors? Do we need banks making billions of dollars in profit, providing no tangible output of work, meanwhile paying $0 is taxes, meanwhile laying of workers for short term profits?
To the op, we don't need block captains. We are 30 mil dissatisfied Americans ready to speak the truth. We will nonviolently spread across manhattan, occupying wall street, and we will change the future of Ameirca.
anonymous 1 points 14 hours ago
There won't be block captains. It was also decided that there would not be marshals at the occupation in order to prevent a hierarchy from developing. However there will be General Assembly's going on for people to participate in and information from the Comms team about what is going on will be available.
anonymous 1 points 8 hours ago
true democracy will unfold in the streets
#occupywallstreet will begin @12pm at Bowling Green Park, NYC
Posted 1 hour ago by anonymous
Music, arts, and orientation guides will greet you at 12pm in Bowling Green Park on Saturday. Bowling Green Park is in the financial district of Manhattan. More details soon.
What will happen this Saturday when thousands of us descend on Lower Manhattan and start walking toward Wall Street?
13 Sep 2011
If the police try to stop us, how will we respond?
This is what happened in Madrid last month when the Spanish government tried to stop people from gathering in the Puerta del Sol, site of the people's encampment:
"All day long, 300 police officers kept the square hermetically sealed off, even closing the Sol metro station – one of the largest and most important in the city … When the protesters realized they couldn't take the square, they quickly dissolved into a dozen side-streets and regrouped on a number of key locations … For hours now, protesters have been blocking all the main traffic arteries in the city center … Tens of thousands of indignados have brought Madrid to a complete standstill in a spontaneous and defiant bid to reclaim Puerta del Sol … The mass protest is now reported to be headed back towards Sol for a second time, in another attempt to take back the square."
If you are participating in actions on or following September 17 related to Occupy Wall Street, you might want to familiarize yourself with the following legal information:...http://www.nycga.net/?page_id=226
Hey President Obama!Are you ready for our one demand?
Adbusters , 15 Sep 2011
Dear patriots, rabble-rousers, revolutionaries,
On Saturday thousands of us will occupy Wall Street. We will wave our signs, unfurl our banners, beat our drums, chant our slogans … and then we'll get down to business and hold several people's assemblies to decide what our "one demand" will be.
Shall we demand that President Obama reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act; outlaw flash trading; impose a 1% tax on all financial transactions?
These are good ideas but not very energizing.
How about we demand the revocation of corporate personhood?...
..the battle for seattle began as a call out on line. there were no leaders. no one knew if it would ever come together. it was to begin on a friday evening where we would gather at a hall to hear people speak. i went there from vancouver. maude barlow came on stage and looked out a the crowd and said "we made it" and everyone broke out into applause and cheers. the place was overflowing with more than 1000 people. the result was the WTO agreement was derailed.
..so you see it can happen!
Has anyone else read Nick Fillmore's take on this? I cannot say I agree with everything he says (e.g. NDP, etc) but he has a point about the current effectiveness of demonstrations as not reaching ordinary people.
Take tomorrow's (September 17th) planned protest, Occupy Wall Street, in New York.
Adbusters magazine of Vancouver was the first to call for a day of action to protest the power concentrated on Wall Street.
The protest has the important long-term goal of ending private control of American's financial system. They want publicly-owned, non-profit banks established in every state. While this obviously won't happen, at least not now, it is important to introduce the public to such concepts.
Thousands of people are expected to march on America's main financial district, as well as on financial districts in Paris, London, Brussels, etc.
But it's all pretty loosey-goosey.
"If the police block us temporarily from occupying Wall Street", said their most recent Tactical Briefing, "then let's turn all of lower Manhattan into our Tahrir Square. Let's sing our songs in the lobby of Goldman Sachs and in Chase Manhattan Plaza... .
"Bring signs, flowers, food and a revolutionary mood ... and a commitment to absolute nonviolence in the Gandhian tradition." They admit that "anything can and will happen." Okay, but will this event have a positive impact on the hugely important cause of bringing the all-powerful banks to their knees?
No, it won't.
First of all, there's no specific achievable goal behind the demonstration.
I can't guess how many people will show up, but if even 5,000 enthusiastic radical types block Wall Street-even on a Saturday when the financial markets are shut down-I imagine the New York police will be pissed!
The likelihood of violence-perhaps a police riot, where agitated red-neck officers come unglued-seems more than possible to me. Unfortunately, the whole event is likely to just annoy the people who could perhaps make a difference-people who have money in banks.
Subsequently other demonstrations were closed off, closed down by the security forces. The enemy adapted (developed a learning curve); our potential, possible allies have not.
..the battle for seattle began as a call out on line. there were no leaders. no one knew if it would ever come together. it was to begin on a friday evening where we would gather at a hall to hear people speak. i went there from vancouver. maude barlow came on stage and looked out a the crowd and said "we made it" and everyone broke out into applause and cheers. the place was overflowing with more than 1000 people. the result was the WTO agreement was derailed.
..so you see it can happen!
Well have you read Nick Fillmore's piece? It seems that semi-formed ideas about demonstrations bother me. I think organizing should evolve especially with a learning curve with adaptation to make things more effective.
I appreciate your energy and enthusiasm but I am not confident of the event itself.
I think way too many things that the Left does are too semi-organized, that not enough thought is put in, that responses are too knee jerk, too cliche.
I also do not like the symbology; the post Adbusters put together is too 'niche', too directed toward a particular post-modernist arts crowd. The Left is too distant from the rest of the population.
Yes I have questioned it - that should not be a problem. We should be open to discuss the effectiveness of anything - too much of what is done seem rote repetition.
Others should put their four cents in here (inflation on two cents).
..i agree there is no problem in questioning the action. i wanted to understand why you didn't and i have an idea now.
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In other parts of the world, where neo-liberal policies and uncontrolled market speculation have hit ordinary people hard, there are dozens of huge demonstrations and protests. But in North America, most people have been conditioned to disapprove of protests.
In Canada, following the May victory of the Harper Conservatives, it has been extremely disappointing that large and small progressive and liberal minded organizations—all the way from the Council of Canadian to labour groups to Greenpeace—did not come together to develop strategies to try to slow down the backward march of Stephen Harper.
..fillmore is being kind when he talks about groups not coming together since the election. this has been going on for more than a decade. there are these pieces that i have posted on babble that speak to what has been happening..yet nary a discusion took place.
posted here:
..i see this not as just a demo but part of a larger movement towards direct democracy. of course they are not going to change the economic system tomorrow or the next day. what the have is the inspiration, the idea the way forward. gather together publicly and make decisions. this needs to be supported.
..a larger discussion does need to take place but not in this thread. this thread is for looking at the internal processes and maybe realizing that it can take place anywhere, anytime. from a grassroots point of view. at least this is why i started it.
..it's hard to get any good info on what is going on but here is a link to a live stream.
Where to Order Food to Help the Occupation
Several people have asked: if I can't make it to New York City for the occupation, but still want to help, what can I do?
One of many answers is to support those who are at the occupation on Wall Street by calling various delivery places in the area and having food sent to the site. Not only will you be providing food to hungry people, you will also be supporting local establishments as opposed to corporate chains. A list has been compiled of several pizzerias, health food places, and delis around the occupation area from which you can call and order food. The list can be found at here.
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Why occupy Wall St...
It looks like there is possibly over 1,000 people back out in the Zuccotti Park. As more people join the group throughout the day, numbers can only go up from here. We all hope that by the end of the day, more people are willing to stay the night then last night. A little over 300 people slept in the Park last night. Let's make it at least 500-1,000 tonight!
earlier this morning:
Everyone in NYC in Zuccotti Park is staying strong and are keeping at it. They are continuing to be peaceful. The owner of the land is allowing them to stay on the land, regardless of what the authority says. The owner of the land said they can stay if they are peaceful. That's what they are doing, and continue to do. The law enforcement and Fire Department are trying to get them out of the area, but are not allowed to do anything about it.
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A Message From Occupied Wall Street
We Occupy Wall Street
This is the first communiqué from the 99 percent. We are occupying Wall Street.
On September 17th, 2011, approximately 2,000 of us marched on the Financial District. At twelve noon, a detachment of us marched on the head of Wall Street and formed a spontaneous blockade, prompting the New York Police Department to threaten arrest. Speakers including the Reverend Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping, and actress Rosanne Barr spoke on the steps of the American Indian Smithsonian Museum to the crowd, which included conscious rappers Lupe Fiasco and Immortal Technique.
Over 1,000 of us marched from Bowling Green Park amid heavy police presence, across the Financial District and chanting "Wall Street is our street" and "power to the people, not to the banks." Many stayed at One Liberty Plaza, where later in the evening a meal was served and water was distributed. Song, dance, puppetry, and other art added cheer across the plaza.
Two thousand strong, we held a general assembly, based upon a consensus-driven decision-making process. Decisions were made for the group to occupy One Liberty Plaza in the Wall Street corridor through the evening, bedding down in sleeping bags and donated blankets. By 7 AM ET Sunday morning, we still held the plaza under constant police presence. Another assembly is scheduled for 10 AM ET today.
We speak as one. All of our decisions, from our choices to march on Wall Street to our decision to camp at One Liberty Plaza were decided through a consensus process by the group, for the group.
News report from RT.
..as i write i am listening to a discussion on what the group will do tomorrow am. someone has proposed to go to wall street. another spoke of doing outreach in the new york boroughs thus increasing their numbers. this person also spoke of not splitting off but remaining together if they are to commit civil disobedience.
..great discussions going on. they have done it! they have navigated the nypd who were clearly ready to crush them at the 1st opportunity. serious limitations have been put on them. the police said no signs. they have said no amplification. to deal with this when someone speaks the people who have heard repeat what was said so all could hear..line by line. awesome to listen to. they vote on everything!http://anonymous-worldwide.blogspot.com/
Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 18:19 ETA real Wall Street takeover threat Hundreds of the young and disenfranchised settle into lower Manhattan to send a message to Wall Street -- and Obama
The hundreds of young people who converged on the New York Stock Exchange this weekend are calling their demonstration against Wall Street greed an "American Tahrir Square." While they have a long way to go before they create the tremors that brought down the Mubarak regime, their passion was clearly on display on a sunny Sunday afternoon in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan....http://www.salon.com/news/wall_street/index.html?story=/politics/feature/2011/09/18/wallstreet
General Assembly Minutes 9/17/11 Posted on September 17, 2011 by NYCGA
After meeting in Zuccotti park there were mini break out assembly leading up to a the main General Assembly.
There was a discusstion about the process of the General Assembly....
The day the people took back Wall Street — in pictures
FOOD & WATER:Nearby delis and pizzerias WILL deliver to the park. Liberato's Pizzeria SOLD OUT on Sunday night, after delivering 100+ pies! At least 25 came from Anonymous, and had messages written in black marker, presumably from the pizzeria themselves. [confirmed reports of pizza orders coming in from all over the world!]Liberato's Pizzeria - 17 Cedar St. -- (212)344-3464
"Anonymous Loves You!" -- It was a fun thing to see last night, and it re-energized the group. Please continue to support Liberato's, as we already have a working relationship with them. The owner also spoke by bullhorn last night at approx. 8pm. It was carried on LiveStream, and is recorded if you want to view here.Here is a list of the closest delis. If you explain you want them delivered to the park, they will come. There is already some good will between local businesses. Please consider sending gallon jugs of water or sodas.
Panini & Co Bread - 115 Broadway, (212) 732-3110
Champs Deli - 30 Broad, (212) 363-2100
Charly's Deli - 110 Trinity Pl, (212) 566-0006 <-- 24 HOUR DELIVERY!
I have spoken to several pharmacies and found an independently owned business who WILL deliver by CC to Zucotti Park. Please consider calling in an order of any size, even a $20 donation could make a difference. I have CONFIRMED they will deliver by CC, even without the cardholder present.Kings Pharmacy - 5 Hudson St. -- 8AM to 8PM -- (212) 791-3100
Suggested items:
Band Aids
Hand sanitizer
Baby wipes or Sani Hands
Baby powder
Female products
Lip Balm or vaseline
Chewing gum [everyone loves candy!]
Ponchos [it may rain on Wednesday]
We need deeper changes to our financial system, or tent cities of people angry at corporate greed will keep appearingOn Saturday 17 September, many of us watched in awe as 5,000 Americans descended on to the financial district of lower Manhattan, waved signs, unfurled banners, beat drums, chanted slogans and proceeded to walk towards the "financial Gomorrah" of the nation. They vowed to "occupy Wall Street" and to "bring justice to the bankers", but the New York police thwarted their efforts temporarily, locking down the symbolic street with barricades and checkpoints....


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Today, Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland issued a press statement on bilateral talks between the United States and North Korea. The text of her statement follows:
A U.S. delegation has just returned from Beijing following a third exploratory round of U.S.-DPRK bilateral talks. To improve the atmosphere for dialogue and demonstrate its commitment to denuclearization, the DPRK has agreed to implement a moratorium on long-range missile launches, nuclear tests and nuclear activities at Yongbyon, including uranium enrichment activities. The DPRK has also agreed to the return of IAEA inspectors to verify and monitor the moratorium on uranium enrichment activities at Yongbyon and confirm the disablement of the 5-MW reactor and associated facilities.
The United States still has profound concerns regarding North Korean behavior across a wide range of areas, but today's announcement reflects important, if limited, progress in addressing some of these. We have agreed to meet with the DPRK to finalize administrative details necessary to move forward with our proposed package of 240,000 metric tons of nutritional assistance along with the intensive monitoring required for the delivery of such assistance.
The following points flow from the February 23-24 discussions in Beijing:
•The United States reaffirms that it does not have hostile intent toward the DPRK and is prepared to take steps to improve our bilateral relationship in the spirit of mutual respect for sovereignty and equality.
•The United States reaffirms its commitment to the September 19, 2005 Joint Statement.
•The United States recognizes the 1953 Armistice Agreement as the cornerstone of peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.
•U.S. and DPRK nutritional assistance teams will meet in the immediate future to finalize administrative details on a targeted U.S. program consisting of an initial 240,000 metric tons of nutritional assistance with the prospect of additional assistance based on continued need.
•The United States is prepared to take steps to increase people-to-people exchanges, including in the areas of culture, education, and sports.
•U.S. sanctions against the DPRK are not targeted against the livelihood of the DPRK people.
You can also find her statement here on www.state.gov.
Ashim C. in India writes:
This is one good piece of news. Military use of nuclear is expensive deterrant, which all middle and low income group countries would do better not to resort to. But the security concerns of individual countries can be typically different and has to be addressed. There are ambitious countries with many internal problems and have to persist with strong armament policy and show military strength to their internal audience more than to their external audience and neighbours in particular. This problem is most acute in Asia. Therefore, diplomacy for disarmament has to be proactive here.
Frankly, non in Central Asia would have reason for strategic nuclear program if perceived threats from Israel are allayed, India won't need it if threats from China and Pakistan are removed; Once India walks the path of disarmament, Pakistan will have to fall in line but the problem lies in China's aggressive behaviour with not only India but most of it's other neighbours on territorial, water and other natural resource related issues. Logically, therefore, international community has to find ways of dealing with China. However, it seems a practical immediate solution can be US offering suo-moto guranteed military intervention under an institutionalised mechanism if India is attacked by any one if India progressively curtails defense spending and diverts them towards socio-economic sector and development of market economy. In that situation big powers including China can sit and pursuade each other for complete disarmament so that they too can divert their resources to more pressing problems of their economies. The process will not necessarily natural and cause disruptions and difficulties to individual economies because defense oriented industries exist in all developed countries and contribute to their economy. The developed economies have to be prepared to take the hit to be able to pursuade each other on disarmament more effectively.
Ultimately, developed countries cannot preach what they don't practise and if they persist on preaching without practice, that would be seen as an attempt to retain military superiority without having invest more on defense because of recessionary pressures, which sweeps across North America and Europe most painfully. So ideally, when big powers negotiate disarmament, they should keep the entire international community in loop on their own and give international community participation in monitoring of their strategic facilities rather than limiting access and monitoring to bilateral and trilateral mechanisms. North Korea is indeed a good development and while US diplomacy deserves kudos for this, North korea deserves the same in greater measure because it seems North Korea has yielded more ground than US and others who stake in North Korea's de-nuclearisation.


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We arrived at the airport with the team's TV crew, which accompanied us the entire trip. Fans organized a cheerful sendoff at the airport of about 75-100 supporters who sang us songs of pride and brought us gifts to take with us on our journey. It was encouraging to have the support of the club and also the loyal fans. The long trip to Japan had begun. Fourteen hours of flying (not including layovers) and then an hour drive to the hotel. I was spent!
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Fired the single most prolific coach in football history, Paul Brown, for refusing to play a man dying from lukemia only two years into his ownership of the team. If it was about the trade, who the hell was Modell to question it? Brown was a 6% team owner, too. If it was about not playing Davis, well he died a year after being diagnosed and Modell is a bastard. Drove arguably the greatest running back of all time, Jim Brown, out of town and into retirement at only 29 years of age Because he wanted to come late to training camp. Great trade off, Art. World's largest hypocrite Brooklyn Dodger fan who "felt saddened and betrayed" when the team left in 1958 Criticized the Raiders move to LA in 1982 Criticized Robert Irsay for moving the Colts in 1984 Lied to a city and stole its team in 1996 Incredibly, claims he was "losing money" owning a NFL franchise in the 1990s in a city with the most loyal fan base in the NFL [1] VOLUNTARILY PASSED on the Gateway project and then cited his lack of a new stadium as a reason for the move. Moved during the day not in the middle of the night which eliminates any possibility of it being betrayal Initially wanted to steal the team history, too, until fans and public pressure from both Cleveland AND Baltimore convinced him to leave it. Hasn't visited Cleveland since 1996 and won't until after he dies if he knows what's good for him Will never, ever make it into the Hall of Fame because the drive from Cleveland to Canton is short enough that there's still plenty of gas left in the tank to torch the entire fucking building Seriously, no way in hell When asked why he didn't just sell the franchise, claimed he wanted to leave it to his family Then sold the franchise years later in Baltimore, to someone not in his family
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For the dogs, cats, and rabbits inside Professional Laboratory and Research Services (PLRS), the cruel poisoning tests were only part of the abuse.
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- Dogs were deliberately kept infested with worms for months at a time even when no tests required it.
- PETA's investigator was instructed not to report numerous dogs' red, raw sores to the lab's veterinarian—who only visited the laboratory once a week. Bloody diarrhea, skin conditions, worm infestations, oozing sores, abscessed teeth, and pus- and blood-filled infections on ears went untreated or were ineffectively handled by workers who had no veterinary training or credentials.
- PLRS operated a side business raising and selling ticks and attached thousands of ticks onto rabbits' shaved bodies to allow the ticks to gorge for five days. Many rabbits were subjected to this twice and were then killed. Non-animal methods for raising ticks have been available since the mid-'90s. Other rabbits were held over thousands of mosquitoes, who fed on the animals and sucked blood from their shaved backs for 15 minutes a day for up to five days.
- Workers cleaned the bottoms of rabbit cages by vigorously shaking the cage floors up and down—with the rabbits still inside. According to what PETA's investigator was told, this caused at least two rabbits' feet to be completely severed. The investigator asked her supervisor if the employee was disciplined for dismembering a rabbit and was told, "No, but don't clock in late, then you will get in trouble."
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- A supervisor pulled a tooth from a dog who had been inadequately sedated with an expired drug. As the supervisor yanked at the tooth, the dog kicked and shook.
Dogs were so traumatized from living locked up for months—and sometimes years—without affection, enrichment, companionship, exercise, or even an occasional kind word, they circled and paced continuously.
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I am absolutely disgusted with humanity. I cannot even believe people could be so heartless and cruel. Not only with lab experiments, but also what goes on with factory farming. The images I have seen of the sheer cruelty, neglect and intentional abuse has traumatized me, and has changed my opinion of us as a human race. What gives us the right to do this? Is it okay because these animals can't speak? NO! it's not ok! They feel the same hurt we do. Experience the same emotions we do.
I would like to reverse the roles and put these sick people in these cages and let them feel the pain these poor creatures feel.
I am a vegetarian and would NEVER eat meat again.
I believe in karma and what these people do will come back to haunt them, and they deserve it!
I am totally against animal testing for anything! I can't believe people and companies still do this. Where do they get thses horrible people that staff these places. The products should be tested on them after all the products are used by people and yes they should be kept in cages. The veterinarians that work for these places should be ashamed of themselves for idlely letting cruelty and abuse to animals happen around them. If you ask me thses vets are a disgrace to the profession.
These people in the labs should be treated like these animals, lets lock them in a swamped in a cage, let bugs bite them give , give the diseases. Theses products were tested years ago and none of them need to be changed. No dog ir cat of a good family is forced to have thousands of ticks bite them. Good parents put on K9 advantix…
I am sickened by what i see in these investigations.. the labs and the abusers should be stopped sooner.
Enough …there is a lack of compasion the is frightening in the world today.
I,am really schocked at what I,ve seen here,or maybe I should not be!people are really cruel and heartless an will always be that way.ALL them workers from the littlest person on the totem pole to the owner should be locked away.when people are in formed gangs or comit crimes we call for them to be locked up why should this be any different only difference i see is that we should be allowed to treat them in the same exact matter as they are not even human.
Why do we always ascribe these documented atrocities to "this or that LAB/UNIVERSITY". Why do we not ascribe at least some responsibility to the scientists who run these cruel experiments? Do they not have the ultimate responsibility to ensure that all animal protection laws and best practices are observed at all times? In many cases, they clearly don't care and don't bother. These "professionals" make a handsome living off the pain and suffering of helpless, imprisoned animals.
As long as the money train continues to run, these medical folks and scientists will continue to profit from it, at the expense of animals, not to mention at the expense, in many cases, of us taxpayers. They hire people to "care" for the poor animals at the lowest possible cost. Clearly, there is no formal training and no capable person oversees the level of "care" these animals receive. The animals are dispensable nothings…a meal ticket for those who use them so cruelly. While the caretakers are the ones often caught abusing the animals, it is the professionals who so mame these poor fur kids, subjecting them to incredible horrors and then turning them over to the abusive caretakers for yet more abuse and suffering. What a sick world we live in! Particularly when we realize that most of the so-called "data" derived from these cruel experiments, cannot be extrapolated to human beings, with any degree of accuracy. So, what's the point? What's the justification? In my humble opinion, there is no justification for such treatment of any living creature…not for food, not for pharmaceuticals, not for the cosmetic industry and not for any other industry. However, this being the USA, this pathetic testing is the LEGAL way big pharma and other big industries avoid lawsuits…through generally worthless testing on animals who have no voice in the matter.
Lambast your congressmen/women on this topic till the cows comes home. LITERALLY! So much reform is needed it's unreal. Today is as good a place to start as any. Do whatever you can. Speak from your experiences, your heart, your emotions, your outrage or whatever else you can effectively speak from, on behalf of all the animals languishing in absolute misery and terror, with no voice of their own, except the lonesome voice of their pain, which falls only upon deaf ears.
These people (if we can call them that) are heartless cruel individuals whom need allot of the same punishment. They will inturn be under the ruler of all animals. SHAME ON YOU!
No es suficiente con todos los productos que existen en el mercado como para continuar este inùtil masacro de seres vivos?? Los animales son afidadados a nosotros para vivir en PAZ y ARMONìA, NO para destruirlos!! Gracias
Researchers in Labs don't care about animals otherwise they wouldn't have taken on such roles.
Most definitely there should be a maximum punishment for anyone including those working at PLRS for treating any animal no matter what the species in a harmful or cruel manner. In fact, these organizations should be banned from even having animals in their posession. This must stop and these animals should be treated with kindness and those that are involved need to be fined/jailed.
Am thinking… why we do it the same things with her???? and the other people, maybe works, maybe they fells that animals feels, this make me sick and angry…. Some people the United State is the same thing that the other countries…. =0( feel so sad…. RESPECT THE LIfe!!! fell so bad
No comprendo la crueldad hacia los indefensos animales, por Dios! no les enternece su mirada? solo quieren VIVIR por algo están conviviendo con nosotros en este planeta. Ojalá haya castigos más severos para esa gente. Gracias
She is a criminal, why blurry her face?, she is mentaly disturbed, she continue working in that place?…jail for her and all the criminals like her
Absolutely sickening! Frightening isn't it! Seeing how heartless some people can be to defenceless animals. How much more cruel can they be to their fellow human beings. Prosecute them, lock them in jail and throw away the key. That's what they deserve. May God have mercy on those poor little animals.
Karma, what comes round goes around.
These people do not deserve the right to have their faces blurred out to protect their identity! What kind of sick person can abuse a poor and defenseless animal!
You should reveal the identities of these monsters who torture animals. Why are they always blurred?
They have to be punished completely for what they have done.
We always will support Peta and their fight against animal cruelty.
I will never understand the heart of these persons. Must be a dark, dreary one! I hope they get the maximum punishment but their end of life punishment may be far worse. I would hate to have to answer to God about mistreating His creatures like this. I will continue to do what I can to promote animal advocacy.
Soon enough, what goes around comes around, especially for the stupid female whose face is out of focus. She will get her face kicked in very soon too. That is what happens to all these type of idiots in our sick world, and it will happen to her as soon as she least expects it.
"She is not innocent and deserves no protection from being seen for who she is." I hope she is FULLY aware that she was filmed. She should be scared to step outside for fear someone will recognize her for the a$$hole she is.
I'm almost speechless at the depth of suffering these morons have caused these poor animals. These animals didn't ask to be born, especially born to be tortured by disgusting pathetic people like these – and why smudge out the her face – why not let it be seen. She's done wrong and deserves what she gets.
I cold'nt watch the videos the descriptions of what were going on was enough. I am heart broken to think of these beautiful and intelligent creatures being abused in every sense of the word on a daily basis. The offenders who work in these places are truly evil, how dare they think that this is ok, to terrorise and torture these helpless animals. They have no voice, no love, no care, just eternal horror and torture, these people should have the same things done to them. Keep up the good work peta, and are all these monsters going to get lentghy jail sentences ?
Hopefully justice is served and the "people" in this video will be behind bars themselves soon.
WHY!!!! There are so many heartless, dispicable people in this world. It breaks my heart, thank god for peta and all they do, it's a never ending battle but we have to keep fighting. It seems like so little is being achieved but our fight will continue. If we all do what we can we will make a difference xxxx
I don't understand how the workers in these horrible labs have NO FEELINGS for these poor creatures to treat them in such a way. Are these workers ALL PSYCHOTIC OR BORDERLINE SERIAL KILLERS? Because I can't understand anyone with feelings treating any creature the way these were treated. What I REALLY cannot understand, however, is WHY THE HELL DO WE NEED TO FATTEN TICKS AND MOSQUITOES ARTIFICIALLY, FOR GOD'S SAKE? WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF SUCH A PRACTICE? This is TRULY APPALLING, and an illustration of the STUPIDITY OF HUMANS. We will be the creators of our own demise in the end, and unfortunately we will probably take all other beings down with us… Humans think we are superior, but we are the ONLY SPECIES THAT TAKES PERVERSE DELIGHT IN MAKING WEAKER BEINGS SUFFER!!!
Horrible, it must stop. We have to imagine that we are in this cage and we are suffering entire our life until our end. No one is a right to do this to another being.
We have to help, this can be our reason to live.
After reading about what happened to these poor defenseless animals I was in tears. How anyone could be so cruel and unfeeling is beyond me. Thank God this sick excuse for "research" has been stopped!
ayyy ayyy my eyes thats just terrible.
Where are those animals now??????
I hope they didn't go to the Robeson in NC -!!!- There are animal shelters in NC who are very cruel and not better than this research lab … the Robeson Shelter poured bleach over puppies and had fun watching the dog mother licking her crying babies … the manager J.Bass is gone but I hear nothing has changed … I hope those animals from that lab didn't end up in a shelter. Who has info???
Thank you Peta.org!!!
I thing this situation is stop. The human´s had haven´t a sensibility for understanding this a very sickness of mankind. We don´t need participate. I recommmend a everyone to think and reavaliate your concepts.
closing this place down is the rightt thing to do. I want to thank those who followed the situation of the poor animals and obtain the closure of this hellish place. BUT those responsibles shoul pay for this.justice should be done.
I know animal testing has to go on but there is no excuse for unnecessary pain and suffering to be inflicted on these poor harmless animals.Why don't they test on humans,but then they have to pay for that,don't they,so do it to the animals ,it costs nothing.
This is the most revolting lab I have seen yet. The Governor and Senators from N.Carolina should be ashamed of themselves. They can not cop a plea of ignorance, because who in their right mind would ever again vote for someone to watch over the peoples affairs who are so inept. Praise and glory to PETA. You are my new heros. Please put pressure on the "compassionate state" of Utah who also has a deplorable lab. Do the citizens know that this is going on? Have any major papers even attempted to cover either story, like they do when they discover someone hoarding animals? Keep their feet to the fire and let any of us know which is the most effective way to expose these monsters. I will never again recommend any shelter or trust any of them ever again. My good trust once lost, is lost forever. The violators need to have their own special website like child molesters do so everyone who sees them will shun them like the non humans they are. They should be locked up forever. I am listing in huge bold print, every major and not so major company that was participating in the sick, sick, project. What is N.Carolina conducting, its own class for creating socipaths and future serial killers. The same can be asked about Utah. Unless those in charge are ready to really act and by acting I mean do away completely with these labs, creating a lifetime ban against those responsible from ever even touching an animal, much less owning one, then I don't have time for them and they need to pack up and go home and allow someone who cares to take over. And this doesn't just mean a yearly, weekly inspection that everyone breathing knows is a croc. This means have someone like Peta represent the animals for heaven sakes like they do every time they they make a movie. Bottom line, they do not need any animal testing. God has seem it and His mercy will correspond accordingly. It isn't enough to just feel sick and look away from the suffering of these poor helpless creatures. WE that care need to know where are efforts need to be centered. I am plastering the town where I live with the disgusting pictures and articles from N.Carolina and Utah.These idiots can no longer hide. Maybe from a jail cell they can try on a cell mate what they did to the animals and see how far they get.
Thanks for your time. DaleAnn Rohman
may God……vamos socorrer nossos animais…
I did watch the video and I am so glad they are shut down. I wish/hope that those women who ran the place are prosecuted too. I hope they can never find employment again. I hope that they will get jail time and heavy fines…… I was so happy that the animals are safe now.. I hope that they get slammed around in prison. they deserve to be punished for that poor cat nails against the fencin and all I saw I hope that the cat that was in that video gets a wonderful home… someone who cares
I did watch the video and I am so glad they are shut down. I wish/hope that those women who ran the place are prosecuted too. I hope they can never find employment again. I hope that they will get jail time and heavy fines…… I was so happy that the animals are safe now.. I hope that they get slammed around in prison. they deserve to be punished for that poor cat nails agains the fencin and all I saw I hope that the cat that was in that video gets a wonderful home… someone who cares
The Nazis of the new generation
I just can not stand to watch those videos…it really breaks my heart that animals have to endure such cruelty. I can not understand how you can call yourself a human being by treating animals this way. The people who work at laboratories want locking up. i hope one day PETA, with all your hard work that one day animal cruelty will come to an end.
Reading this story honestly made me sick to my stomach! Poor animals, so helpless…
I think its ashamed that the worthless human being that is being so abusive to that beautiful cat has her face grayed out where she cant be seen. She is not innocent and deserves no protection from being seen for who she is.
These people should be tortured just like they did to these animals. I am in tears just viewing the picture of the woman with the cat, did she get any punishment from the company and what is PETA doing about these employees? They should be terminated from their jobs.
I am sorry. I am ashamed. I hope that mankind will become wiser soon. I cannot say a lot more. I am speechless right now…
they ae just disgusting……………
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In 1975, shortly after the family sold their boat and settled in Washington State, Macklow's 11-year-old daughter was swept downriver on a family rafting trip and drowned. Macklow was 41 years old. She and her husband split soon after.
For Macklow, the next 10 years were not unlike a 100-mile race—mentally taxing and physically exhausting. Raising four kids alone on a shoestring budget, she worked the overnight shift as an ER nurse and kept animals on their five-acre farm. The demands of managing work, family and farm afforded a very slow recovery process from her daughter's death.
When her youngest child left for college in 1985, Macklow found herself with more free time than she'd had in decades. She started cycling for exercise, then one day decided to go for a run. "It was a fitness thing," she says of her motivation to get moving. "And I didn't like it a whole lot at first."
Still reeling from the accumulated stress of those years, running became a reprieve from her grief—a sort of balm for her soul. "When you're stressing your body and pushing yourself physically, especially in a beautiful environment, it gives peace of mind," she says. "Running long distances is like therapy."
Soon she was hooked. Ten years later, Macklow entered her first foot race, a local four-miler, which opened the door to longer races. At 62, she ran her first marathon, in 4:36.
Then in 1999, at 65, Macklow entered her first trail race, the Chuckanut Mountain 50K in Bellingham, Washington, and a love for trail running was born. "Barb is so adept at trails," says Macklow's long-time training partner, 68-year-old Vicki Griffiths. "She has no fear ... if she falls, it's no big deal."
"After Chuckanut, I started cutting out road races," Macklow says. The trails beckoned her back to Chuckanut every spring and to the Baker Lake 50K Trail Run every fall. Then, after running a few 50Ks she started to wonder what it would be like to run farther.
In 2006, Macklow and Griffiths, at ages 72 and 63 respectively, finished the Pacific Crest Trail 50-Mile Trail Run together, in 13:56, just four minutes under the cutoff time. The next year Macklow ran the JFK 50 in 12:37, running cycles of 18 minutes with two-minute walk breaks.
"All this ultrarunning is Barb's fault," says Griffiths. "When Barb says, `You know you could do this,' what am I supposed to say to someone nine years older than I?"
In 2009, both Macklow and Griffiths entered the Umstead 100-Mile Endurance Run. Race director, Blake Norwood, was impressed by Macklow's tenacity even before the race, as her registration sat on the waitlist. "She's got a lot of heart, and a lot of determination," he says of their pre-race conversations.
Meanwhile, she pored over race reports and tweaked her 50-mile training plan for a 100-miler. By the time she was bumped into the registration pool and had flown to North Carolina, she was ready.
"You run the first 50 miles with your legs, and the second 50 with your brain," she says. "But the first hour and the last hour are the hardest."
At Umstead, runners must begin their final 12.5-mile loop by 26 hours to avoid getting pulled from the race. Macklow started her final lap with 20 minutes to spare. "She was obviously tired, but she was so determined," recalls Norwood. "When I saw her I had every confidence she was going to make it." After 29 hours 46 minutes 11 seconds, a worn but "incredibly happy" Macklow earned her 100-mile finisher belt buckle.
Last year, she ran 75 miles in 20 hours at the Rocky Raccoon 100-Mile Endurance Trail Run, in Huntsville, Texas, but feeling ill and dropping out. Macklow, who has never put much stock in what she can't do, was not devastated by the DNF. "It's not a matter of life and death. I've already had the greatest loss -- finishing a race is not that vital," she says.
Macklow plans to finish Umstead next year. If she does, she will be the oldest woman in the United States to race a 100-miler. "If you really want to do something, the time is now," she says. "That's where I am with my running. I'm going to keep going until I'm physically unable to do it."


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I have a model named link, which contains the columns name (for building the url, e.g. this_is_a_link) and description (which is shown to the user, e.g. This is a link).
Now i have two questions:
1. A Link should be created like this: Link.create(:name => 'This is a link'). Internally, the model should set description=name.downcase.strip.gsub(' ', '_'), where can i realize this? I tried the initialize-method of class link, but i didn't succeed.
2. A link should have the method url() (http://mywebsite.de/whatever/this_is_a_link), which should use a named route or url_for method. But these methods i can only use in controller and helper methods, so must i place such a method there?
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Until it is commonly understood that Capitalism is amoral
Until it is commonly understood that Capitalism is amoral--neither moral or immoral--we run up against the notion that the free market is sacrosanct and regulation is bad! Capitalism & markets are largely a means of organizing resources. Without society setting limits, markets and capitalism will rewards monopolies as well as unfair trade & labor practices without regard to the harm done. There is some notion that in the long term, greedy & dishonest behavior will be punished by the market, but I don't think it is very efficient in doing so.
Society must take responsibility for establishing rules & incentives that reflect the best values of that society. If a society abdicates its role in developing the rules to government, it runs the risk of special interests vying to direct whatever the government regulation is. Because money is power, we more often have industry abusing the public by pressing the government to pass rules for its advantage. However, there are cases when advocates for labor or environment or other issues lobby for rules that give them advantages in a way that doesn't serve the public. Society needs to be reminded that it has a vital role. Ms Blank touches on some of this but her points seems a bit murky.

The belief that greed will be transformed into good by
The belief that greed will be transformed into good by the Invisible Hand of the Market is, well, idolatry. Greed is still one of the seven deadly sins. And today we can more clearly see this. Yet the belief in grief seems harder to let go of than belief in God.

It's interesting that when people talk about free markets
It's interesting that when people talk about free markets, they so often quote that line from the movie Wall Street: "Greed is good." I recently read an essay by Stanley Weiser, who wrote the screenplay for Wall Street, explaining that he never understood why "Greed is good," became a such rallying cry for capitalists. After all, the character who makes that pronouncement ends up in jail by the end of the movie. And Adam Smith wasn't in favor of greed either. His theory was that economies tend to benefit as a whole when individuals are given the freedom to pursue their separate self interests. But as we pointed out in our program, The Buddha in the World, Adam Smith also wrote about the dangers of materialism:
"Power and riches....are enormous machines contrived to produce a few trifling conveniences to the body. They are immense fabrics, which it requires the labor of a life to raise, which threaten every moment to overwhelm the person that dwells in them, and which, while they stand, can protect him from none of the severer inclemencies of the season. They keep off the summer shower, not the winter storm, but leave him always as much and sometimes more exposed than before to anxiety, to fear and to sorrow, to diseases, to danger and to death."

I believe the financial market is functioning as it is
I believe the financial market is functioning as it is designed. Where we see a flaw there is really mathematical poetry going on in the background. To say poetry, I mean the wail of a macabre discourse for the seemingly powerful to retain such a perspective over those deemed powerless.
Business is an entity of people bent on making money, etc. I do not see where an ethic or morality of business can be defined based on this pluralistic nature of describing the legal way with which one can satisfy their greed or circumvent all legalities to immerse themselves in the perception that: I need more.
The moral and ethics seems to stem from the outsiders of those that do not benefit, directly, in this "Free Market" or "Globalized" economy. It is always easier after something has been unearthed to say this or say that about it and the bottom line is that we can discuss morals and ethics in business, but have they yet - even at a governmental level - changed their practices? If they did, would we know it?
I can speak to the fact that I am at a loss, but I wonder if it is part of the free market plan, if you will. I beat myself up for this and that: my children will be paying for my generation's mistakes, I will not retire, and so on. What I am believing is that the market is setup in conjunction with transparent connections to other areas, such as the media, that this is the plan.
The rant from a labeled, categorized, and statistically tracked consumer: one who finds free market to be anything resembling free or a market, but a costly sweatshop from the rich to the poor.

I do not need to see the face of other people to know
I do not need to see the face of other people to know what kind of person she would be, how he may behave, and how they live their lives. It is because we are all the same human being on earth in spite of how diverse it can be or how many ethnics existing. Understanding major differences embrace our human condition. The creation of all major religions in the world and other many expressions of faith and disbelief is what makes our human dynamics ethical. Hence, any political, economic, and social movement will be always reflected under the shadow of ethics. Ethics is the new model of the world. Ethics is the soul of our human relationships. Ethics is the salt of any human intervention. Everyone has already made a faith commitment to believe what he thinks is the spiritual life or the thought that she is supposed to direct her life. No matter how we conduct our lives, the fact of survival will breathe ethics- for the good or the bad - into our behavior. A global economic turndown is like if the whole humanity is losing its job. Several causes (1) abuse of power (2) retaliation (3) selfishness to work with other people (4) indolence (5) discrimination (6) lack of commitment (7) cupidity (8) hypocrisy (9) grandeur delirium (10) lack of care for the consequences. The solution to continue getting our food is to make the transition to the next level smoothly: the ethical age. Who is in charge to lead this enterprise? Yourself! It is not the common sense but the common people that brings the necessary change.

Rebecca Blank is right, we're not all good people, and
Rebecca Blank is right, we're not all good people, and people end up doing harm, even when they don't intend to. The market itself isn't moral or amoral, but people are, and people control the market. We do have responsibilities to each other and the world in terms of financial gain and overall the health of people and the planet. More is not always the best way to think. On black Friday, people stampeded a man to death at Wal-Mart in order to buy televisions. The customers were angry when the store was closed, because they wanted a TV. They did not care that this was a person, and he had people who now don't have him anymore. Globalization isn't necessarily bad, but we need to stop and think about how this process divorces us from intimacy with our communities. We now have to work to remind ourselves that there are people around us and our responsibilities to each other if we're going to survive.


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Western Digital has unveiled its first solid-state drives (SSDs) designed for consumers. The new drives boast with high performance and will allow WD to offer something even more advanced than the company's VelociRaptor hard disk drives (HDDs).
WD SiliconEdge Blue SSDs will be available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities and will feature up to 250MB/s read speed, up to 170MB/s write speed along with Serial ATA-300 interface. Western Digital claims that, just like all the latest SSDs, its solid-state drives support Trim command that optimizes performance, but fails to disclose the controller, which powers the drive. Since the SiliconEdge Blue is aimed at consumers, it is based on multi-level cell (MLC) flash memory.
Although Western Digital is a relatively new player on the market of SSDs, the company does have a lot of experience in creation of solid-state drives thanks to acquisition of SiliconSystems back in 2009.
"The development of the WD SiliconEdge Blue product family leverages WD's extensive experience in designing and manufacturing highly reliable storage products and the company's worldwide sales and distribution network to accelerate SSD technology adoption by OEMs, technology enthusiasts, gamers and road warriors. Customers who demand the ultimate in performance will find the WD SiliconEdge Blue SSDs exceed all their requirements," said Michael Hajeck, senior vice presidentand general manager of WD's solid state storage business unit.
WD SiliconEdge Blue SSDs are available through select distributors and resellers. The manufacturers suggested retail price (MSRP) for WD SiliconEdge Blue SSD 64 GB is $279, the 128GB model costs $529 and the 256GB product costs $999. The WD SiliconEdge Blue drive comes with a three-year limited warranty.
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Fredonia vs.?Allegany-Limestone
Tonight's Fredonia vs.?Allegany-Limestone boys high school basketbal game will be televised on Channel 12 in Dunkirk and Channel 5 in Fredonia. Game time is set for 7:30 p.m.
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Inaugural Festival Golf Tournament A Success
PHOENIX, ARIZONA – USA Field Hockey hosted its first annual Golf Tournament on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at the Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort in Phoenix, Arizona. All proceeds from the Tournament went directly to the Futures Scholarship Fund.
The Futures Program is USA Field Hockey's Olympic pipeline program. The mission of the program is to regionally develop the best athletes for the purpose of identifying talented "future" Olympic level athletes, and to strengthen the level of field hockey throughout the United States.
Every year talented athletes are unable to afford the Futures tuition. The Golf Tournament can help make the difference in allowing young athletes to continue their hockey journeys towards one day representing the USA.
Fifty participants came out to play in USA Field Hockey's first Golf Tournament. The Phoenix Sports Commission and the Phoenix Convention and Visitors Bureau tied with a final score of 59. Following the Tournament was a banquet with a buffet dinner, awards and door prizes for all participants.
For media inquiries, please contact Ashley Meunier, USA Field Hockey Communications Manager, at firstname.lastname@example.com, or at (719) 866-4365. Additional information regarding the USA Field Hockey team and the Futures Program can be found online by visiting www.usafieldhockey.com.


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I love it when I find the perfect thing after I've been hunting for it for weeks (sometimes months or years.) Actually, it's sweet when I find the perfect thing right away, but I do need to practice my patience, so this was a good opportunity to do that. Anyway, I was shopping for basic staples at Target and, as those of you who love Target know, it's difficult to leave Target with just the basic staples. I always wander into the home section just to check things out. I may be shopping for bananas and I know bananas aren't with the lamps, but I can't help myself.
While looking around the kitchen section, I found this great green & white rug. It was exactly the kind of rug I've been looking for to use on my new white Carrara-ish kitchen tiles. The rugs I had in my kitchen before were gold shag runners that I found on clearance at Wal-Mart a few years ago. They worked with the old linoleum floor, because they sort of blended in, but they looked grungy against the crisp white. I really needed some kind of rug under the sink, though, because it would get pretty spotted between drips from the sink and things that missed the trash can, which is in the cabinet under the sink.
This does the job perfectly. I had a hard time finding a cute rug I liked that wouldn't slide all over the place and this has a rubber grip on the entire bottom. I'm also sort of picky about rugs. I like cotton and wool rugs and am not a fan of those poly-blend-plastic-ish kind of rugs. This one feels nice and natural under foot. (This isn't a sponsored post, by the way.)
…and it goes perfectly with my Lucketts Green milk paint stool.
It's a winner!
Just a funny little story on the side – See those letters drawn on the chalkboard? My five year old boy is learning to read and that's where I write his word families to review them a few times a day. My younger son likes to get involved in this drill. He erases the words I write and writes new words. The other day, he was pointing to these hieroglyphics asking his older brother to read them. After looking at the wall blankly for a few seconds, he looked at me, exasperated. "Umm…mommy. I can't read those! They're not even words!"
I thought I would hate having scribbles on my wall, but I actually really like the chalkboard in the kitchen. There is something playful and inviting about it.
I also found a couple of rosemary topiaries at the grocery store and, of course, I had to buy them! They're great for photo shoots…
…as long as they are alive.
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"Boys score as well as or better than girls on most standardized tests, yet they are far less likely to get good grades, take advanced classes or attend college, writes Christina Hoff Sommers in The Boys at the Back in the New York Times.
Elementary teachers give boys lower grades than their test scores would have predicted, according to a study in The Journal of Human Resources. Boys can't keep up with girls in "attentiveness, persistence, eagerness to learn, the ability to sit still and work independently," the researchers say.
. . . one critic told me recently, the classroom is no more rigged against boys than workplaces are rigged against lazy and unfocused workers. But unproductive workers are adults — not 5-year-olds. If boys are restless and unfocused, why not look for ways to help them do better? As a nation, can we afford not to?
In a revised version of her book, The War on Boys, Sommers hits "boy-averse trends like the decline of recess, zero-tolerance disciplinary policies, the tendency to criminalize minor juvenile misconduct and the turn away from single-sex schooling."
As our schools have become more feelings-centered, risk-averse, collaboration-oriented and sedentary, they have moved further and further from boys' characteristic sensibilities.
Male underachievement in school is a global phenomenon. The British, the Canadians and the Australians are experimenting with ways to help boys do well in school, Sommers writes. That ranges from "boy-friendly reading assignments" to single-sex classes.
At Aviation High School in New York City, students spend half their day learning traditional subjects and the other half on aviation mechanics.
. . . I observed a classroom of 14- and 15-year-olds focused on constructing miniaturized, electrically wired airplane wings from mostly raw materials. In another class, students worked in teams — with a student foreman and crew chief — to take apart and then rebuild a small jet engine in just 20 days.
The school's 2,200 pupils — mostly students of color, from low-income households — have a 95 percent attendance rate and a 90 percent graduation rate, with 80 percent going on to college.
. . . "The school is all about structure," an assistant principal, Ralph Santiago, told me. The faculty emphasizes organization, precision, workmanship and attention to detail.
Aviation High is co-ed, but only 16 percent of students are girls. The school has received the district's "A" rating six years in a row.
"Vocational high schools with serious academic requirements are an important part of the solution to male disengagement from school," Sommers concludes.
Ilana Garon couldn't control a nearly all-male special ed class, until her female co-teacher was replaced by a male teacher, she writes on Ed Week's View from the Bronx.


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