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Noam Chomksy will be in New York, Sunday for the closing of the Left Forum, a three day event this year called The Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the Radical Imagination, with panel discussions on from nuclear power to US Imperialism & Oil Politics, the Fiscal Crises of the States, Transnational Labor Movements, Women, Militancy and Organizing to Why are we in Afghanistan?

http://www.leftforum.org/

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN interviewed Noam Chomsky today

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The Feminist Press is celebrating its 40th anniversary, and is hosting a party at Joe's Pub with the likes of performance artist Karen Finlay, Sapphire who wrote Push which became the movie Precious, Elizabeth Streb who seeks to break the rules of dance and emcc Justice Bond.  The Feminist Press is nonprofit housed in the City University of New York graduation center in midtown.  It promotes freedom of expression and social justice, was founded in 1970 and they began by rescuing lost works by writers such as Harlem Ranaissance writer, Zora Neal Hurston and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I just bumped into my roommate (I actually told him I wouldn't mention that but then I realized there's just no way around it). I was feeling particularly social and after striking up a conversation, forced myself into his room to share a glass of his wine. We talked a bit about the economy, universal and a priori-truth, you know, the usual pseudo-intellectual favorites, and then someone brought up “animal behavior”. That was me.

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Public school education in New York is one of the trickest topics to cover, write about, or to form an opinion.  It seems like it wouldn't be.  Our taxes pay for a public school system.  t is the largest draw, with pensions, on the state's budget, and a city needs to be concerned that its citizens are educated, as does a country. 

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Mayor Bloomberg, after he bullied, bought and persuaded the City Council to extend term limits so he could run for a third term as Mayor, said he would convene a charter commission to look at the issue again.  I kid you not!

He has created a commission to review the City Charter - a set of rules for city governance.  The result of the commission could be that term limits are put before the voters for a referendum.  They were last time, and we voted to limit term limits, but who is paying attention!

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Bloggers, and those who file for non-traditional news outlets, scored a victory this week.  Three New York reporters, Rafael Martrinez Alequin, Ralph E. Smith and Davis Wallis won a lawsuit they'd filed against the New York City and NYPD because they were denied working press passes.

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This bookstore cooperative, in the heart of Manhattan, is a real comer.  It books are alternative and useful, the cafe is fair trade, and their events answer to all tastes of inquiry.  So go yet you some. 

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Members representing the United States Chamber of Commerce to the American Bankers Assocation are busy lobbying Congress this week trying to fight proposed financial regulations as to how banks do business and against the creation of a Consumer Agency to regulate financial products.

There are reforms that go into effect this week concerning credit cards and overdraft charges, presented by the Federal Reserve, but they are tame, and probably won't alter too much how they make $20 billion dollars from debt and overdraft fees.

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A pilot intentionally drove his plane in the Austin offices of the Internal Revenue Service.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html