Miss Representation, a documentary on the media’s misrepresentation of women, came to AU on Thursday as part of the React to Film College Action Network.
Written, directed and produced by actress and activist Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the film explores how the exploitation of women in mainstream media directly contributes to the under-representation of women in government and other positions of power in America.
Bits of journalism and current events collected by AWOL editors.New York Magazine -- "The Kids Are Actually Sort of Alright": Noreen Malone on how the twentysomethings are making do in the recession of their generation.
SONG OF THE DAY courtesy of the Occupy Wall Street drummers -- and how their beats may be the loudest debate of the protests (via NPR).
The Washington Post says IBM just named its first female CEO.
The Economist -- "The Hypocrisy and the West: When to Celebrate a Death": "The assassination in Pakistan in May of Osama bin Laden, without the Pakistani government’s knowledge, let alone permission, and the Western-backed onslaught on Sirte which culminated in the death of Qaddafi leave an impression of double standards."
TBD: How the Occupy protests have spread to universities.
From The Chronicle -- The possible consequences of Mississippi's "Personhood Amendment, and why it's not just about abortion.
And finally: What is the Herman Cain campaign smoking?
EVENTS
The return of the Washington Psychotronic Film Society: The group that brings the weird, bizarre and unacknowledged films to Washington is back in full force with a free "Halloweenathon" at McFadden's in Foggy Bottom.
We can no longer argue the fact that the Occupy Wall Street movement has arrived. This past weekend marked its largest efforts yet, not only with a massive march to Times Squares but also with global protests echoing the message first voiced at Zuccotti Park.
Protesters have occupied Zuccotti Park in New York City since September 17th. This protest, Occupy Wall Street, has since spread across the United States: from Boston, Los Angeles and Chicago to our own Washington, DC.
The president’s message was simple enough, but just to make sure that it reached the 535 members of Congress sitting before him he repeated it more than seventeen times: his bumper-sticker ready message, “Pass this bill now.” That bill was the American Jobs Act, the president’s $447 billion stimulative response to anemic job growth that he outlined before a joint session of Congress in early September.
I first heard about Troy Davis three years ago as a freshman in Professor Richard Stack’s understanding media class, and I will admit that I naively believed for a long time that the Georgia death row inmate would one day be free.
For the US, the Great Recession was an economic crisis brought about by the manipulative excesses of banks and big business that had an economic domino effect.
A few Georgetown students were just sitting around talking about the debt ceiling negotiations, expressing their frustration at the stalemate in Congress about two and a half weeks ago.
Earlier this week, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jose Vargas wrote a chilling piece in which he finally “came out” as an illegal alien of the United States.
