Peter Rothberg
Associate Publisher, The Nation
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I'm the Associate Publisher of The Nation magazine; I blog at @thenation and edit StudentNation. I'd rather be playing basketball.
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tweets RT @AlliWelton: Think we need a bigger #climatejustice movement? Help these students launch a community hub to do that http://t.co/wUn3Vr0o…
Climate Justice Hub: A Basecamp For Building The Climate Movement This Summer
indiegogo.com — "The beauty of this whole thing is that because it's the greatest challenge that we're facing, it's also the greatest opportunity to come together and reclaim community" Dorian Williams, SJSF Our Vision for the Climate Justice Hub This summer, we want to launch a project called "the Climate Justice Hub," a student-run community space in Boston to intensify the climate movement in New England.Ad-Rock's dedication at the naming of Adam Yauch Park. youtu.be/0vbgUHKCHRE via @youtube
Adam MCA Yauch Park-AdRock Speaking at the Dedication.
youtube.com — On May 3rd 2013, Palmetto park in Brooklyn was officially renamed Adam Yauch park. Here Adam AdRock Horovitz speaks about his friend and band matePlease help out in this new @nationaction campaign and implore President Obama to enforce the Civil Rights Act. thenation.com/blog/174438/im…
Implore President Obama to Enforce the Civil Rights Act | The Nation
thenation.com — Title VI of the Civil Rights Act gives the executive branch of the US government the power to cut off federal funds from any agency that employs federal funding in a racist or discriminatory manner.My Daughter Was Arrested, Expelled And Charged With A Felony For A Same-Sex Relationship She Had As A Minor
xojane.com — On Saturday, February 16, our family's world was torn apart and our daughter's life turned upside down. The police came and arrested my daughter, put her in handcuffs and no reason was given at all. They refused to tell her mother anything at first because she had turned 18.RT @AriBerman: How to protect and expand voting rights: it starts with voter registration thenation.com/blog/174431/ho… ##NVRAat20
How to Make Voting Easier | The Nation
thenation.com — Throughout American history, restrictions on voter registration were a major tool of disenfranchisement. Before the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, only a quarter of African-Americans in the South were registered to vote.How Michelle Rhee Misled Education Reform newrepublic.com/article/113096…
How Michelle Rhee Misled Education Reform
newrepublic.com — The other day I picked up a copy of The Adventures of Augie March . I hadn't remembered that Saul Bellow, writing in the early 1950s, when he was not yet forty, about Chicago in the 1920s, had been in full sympathy with the urban poor, as he definitely was not later in his career.ICYMI: What You Should Know About Yesterday's Philly Student Walkout thenation.com/blog/174401/wh…
What You Should Know About the Philly Student Walkout | The Nation
thenation.com — Running a massive deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars, Philadelphia's school system is planning to eliminate all sports, extracurricular activities, counselors and libraries-beyond which, for schools eviscerated by austerity politics, there's not much left to lose. At noon today, May 17, thousands of students are expected to walk out of class and flood downtown.Sign up to discover more journalists who cover Opinion and Editorial, Politics and more.
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