The Manifesto Turns 33

On the eve of my 33rd year of life I have nothing profound to say other than I think that this is going to be a good year. Or, to embrace the wisdom of my cousin Sunita, all is good now.
I have come through some sort of trial by fire in the [...]

The manifesto goes audio

I went to India at the end of April and somewhere between Mumbai and rural Jharkand I fell pretty ill. Luckily, I was in Delhi with my good friends when I figured out what it was that I was sick with. And, lying on their couch, my friend Sanjay says “you’ve been getting lazy with [...]

The import of democracy: marginalization and conflict

On Monday I’ll be in Nepal attending the Institute for Rights and Development hosted by CREA. I’m looking forward to this though it will take a lot of traveling to get there. (I leave on Saturday morning to go to Albany to snoop on Spitzer, just kidding. Gotta do a speaking gig [...]

Thank you for dinner, Mr. Terry

Reclaiming True Grits
by Bryant Terry
Feb. 29, 2008–Mention “soul food” and you will hear scores of health and medical professionals claim that it is the downfall of the health and well-being of African Americans. It is true that African Americans have some of the highest rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and some cancers of [...]

broadway had to stop to address puerto rico’s aids crisis…

BIG UPS GINA AND EDDIE!!!
Acting Up on Broadway
 
By: PAUL SCHINDLER
11/15/2007
With roughly 75 activists and a larger lunchtime crowd looking on, a dozen demonstrators protesting what they say is the federal government’s “neglect” in stepping in to end a crisis in the delivery of AIDS services in Puerto Rico laid down across Lower [...]