April 10, 2011 – DocuDharma

Apr 10 2011

Today on The Stars Hollow Gazette

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Our regular featured content-

Six in The Morning by mishima
On This Day In History by TheMomCat
Evening Edition by ek hornbeck

our weekly features-

Punting the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition by TheMomCat
Rant of the Week by TheMomCat
Pique the Geek by Translator

and these featured articles-

The Week in Editorial Cartoons – The New Wisconsin Workers Anthem by JekyllnHyde
Stiglitz: The Cost Of War and Redistribution of Wealth by TheMomCat
My Little Town 20110407: Roy W. Smith by Translator

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Apr 10 2011

A Plague Of Forgetting

By davidseth

This story begins in 1928 with bananas. On the Caribbean coast of Colombia, campesinos who are employed by United Fruit are paid less than $1 per day for backbreaking work. They live in filthy hovels. And they die of malaria and tuberculosis. Then they form a union. Then they go on strike and paralyze the exportation of bananas.

General Carlos Cortez Vargas announces in Aracataca at a dinner put on by United Fruit that he will end the strike.

The workers are told that a manager of United Fruit will arrive to accede to their demands, so they gather together to hear the announcement of their victory. Instead of a United Fruit manager, General Cortez Vargas appears. He doesn’t issue a concession. Not at all. He issues instead an ultimatum: get back to work, end the strike right now. Or else.

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Apr 10 2011

Six In The Morning

Giving female veterans a chance to share their pain

At a weekend retreat in Oceanside, participants find that, by learning how other women have had experiences like theirs, they can feel less alone.

By Alexandra Zavis, Times Staff Writer

April 10, 2011

The war veterans gathered amid the tranquil gardens and arched walkways of the Mission San Luis Rey in Oceanside. In a circle, they sat together, more than 50 women in all.

Some laughed and chatted as they settled in chairs or propped themselves up on the floor of an adobe-walled hall. Others glanced around, uncertain what to expect from a weekend retreat.

Several commented that it was the first time they had been in a room with so many women.

Six In The Morning

Apr 10 2011

Gha!

By RiaD

Eggs laid by the various cuckoos (top row) and their hosts (bottom row)

Cuckoo in egg pattern ‘arms race’

cuckoo, Evolution, gha
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Apr 10 2011

Late Night Karaoke

Late Night Karaoke

Apr 10 2011

The New Workers Anthem and Editorial Cartoons on the Wisconsin Fight

By JekyllnHyde

While we don’t keep it political on RTD all the time, we’re not just all music all the time. We come from the era of Public Enemy, where the music was a tool that helped the outside world understand what was going on. Also helped those within the scene get a better understanding of the ills that life tried throwing at us. On this leak from the forthcoming rockthedub fifth anniversary compilation, FiF, AWK and Y-Love don’t hold back in trying to educate those who might sleep on the ills of the GOP.

— Y-Love & AWKWORD will be IN MADISON, WI on Thursday, April 7, on the streets, filming a video for this song!… If you want to get involved, email TheWisconsinSong[at]gmail.com

Apr 10 2011