Occupy Wall Street

Tea party movement of the left ... maybe but not necessarily of the Democratic party!



First hand coverage here: http://whatisthewhat.wordpress.com/

The cost of higher education in the USA

Cost of education growing fast, due in great part due to decreasing government support for higher education.

Full story here and here

Trapped in Tijuana

Deportees Trapped in Tijuana from the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/03/world/americas/mexican-immigrants-repeatedly-brave-risks-to-resume-lives-in-united-states.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all%3Fsrc%3Dtp&smid=fb-share

Keeping Mexican Culture Alive

Keeping Mexican Culture Alive

My humble and imperfect participation at a panel on Nevadas' Public Radio regarding Mexican Independence Day (September 16th not 5 de Mayo)

http://www.knpr.org/son/archive/detail2.cfm?SegmentID=8191&ProgramID=2324

Genial social network map about Anders Breivik the man behind the shootings in Norway, and against the theory of the lone actor.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/sep/07/norway-breivik-manifesto-mapped

Jorge Castañeda on Mexico

Two great interventions by Jorge Castañeda

http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/zocalo_video_podcasts/media/zocalo_110603.mp4

and with Charlie Rose

http://www.charlierose.com/view/content/11839

Social Change in Catalunya

Social Change in Catalunya

Video by Joana Conill, Manuel Castells i l’Àlex Ruiz. Thanks to Amalia Cardenas for making me aware of it.

English subtitles



Catala


From
http://homenatgeacatalunyaii.org/en

And great photos from the Indignado movement in Spain by Gilberto Cardenas:

http://gilbertocardenas.com/15m/

Mexicans among the Hardest Workers

Results from OECD survey 2011.

Hardest workers are south of the border

Mexicans work the most each day, 9.9 hours, according to a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. A breakdown of those hours shows that they also do the most unpaid work and are passed only by the Japanese and South Koreans for working the most paid hours.

THE WASHINGTON POST & Foreign Policy / May 1, 2011 /