Re: [UC] RE: univcity-digest V1 #1537

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> univcity-digest  Saturday, January 23 2010  Volume 01 : Number 1537
> 
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> 
> In this issue:
> 
> [UC] The supreme court attacks the people
> Re: [UC] The supreme court attacks the people
> [UC] Dog groomer
> [UC] Penn incompetence
> Re: [UC] The supreme court attacks the people
> 
> --
> 
> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:33:17 -0500 (EST)
> From: Glenn moyer 
> Subject: [UC] The supreme court attacks the people
> 
> Well it's official now, corporatocracy.  Those who study totalitarian shifts
> point out that once the "point of no return" is crossed, things move rapidly.
> Being an optimist by nature, I had been holding on to hope.
> 
> Those who only get information through corporate media probably didn't know
> that this was coming to the corporate court.  This was the big one!
> 
> 
> http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/20100122_Justices_shift_campaign-finan
> ce_rules.html
> 
> 
> http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/americandebate/Nary_a_peep_of_protest.html
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> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:19:14 -0500
> From: Richard Moreau 
> Subject: Re: [UC] The supreme court attacks the people
> 
> I've always found it interesting that the tallest building in a
> community speaks to who holds the power.
> 
> In colonial (U.S.) days church steeples were the tallest, so people
> could find them over (New England) hill and dale.
> 
> Then City Hall, at least in Philadelphia, was the tallest by
> 'gentlemen's' agreement, speaking to the unifying power of a
> government of the people, for the people and by the people.
> 
> The Empire State Building arguably spoke to the power of television.
> 
> The Sears (now Willis?) Tower spoke to the power of retail and
> consumption.  (Willis is a law firm? Hmm.)
> 
> In Philadelphia, Liberty Place was eventually built, its main tenant
> being an insurance company, Cigna, speaking to the economic needs of
> the community to promote business through real estate development in a
> city that hadn't previously been very competitive in the national
> marketplace. (And shouldn't an insurance company's money be going to
> cover people in times of need, not building fancy buildings?)
> 
> The World Trade Center and nearly 3000 of its occupants were
> obliterated by an organization that uses violence and fear to get what
> it wants. Not to mention the damage done to the headquarters of
> arguably the most powerful military in the world.
> 
> Now we have Comcast (& soon NBC-Universal) with the tallest building
> in town, speaking to the rise (and consolidation) of the media, the
> internet, and communication more generally.
> 
> We're seeing internet giant Google take on China in a way that few
> countries have dared, and risk-taking big banks and mortgage companies
> threaten national and international economies, costing people their
> homes, jobs, and health care. HUP continues to build highly
> specialized and expensive facilities on land that had housed a Civic
> Center and a hospital for the poor. (While the Convention - not Civic
> - - Center expansion, and the now nearly empty Gallery and, before that,
> the "Chinese Wall" strangles Chinatown. Penn Center office buildings
> symbolically and literally send rail travel under ground. Penn builds
> a park (for now) and mixed use buildings on land that was used by an
> organization that delivers snail mail by hand, door to door -
> something that may soon seem like the Pony Express does to us now.
> Home Depot controls the world lumber market. A McDonald's

[UC] residential architect / designer

[Mark Bowerman]

Hi,

 

Request for information to the list: We are trying to identify candidates to 
help us on an upcoming home renovation. We are looking for the right 
residential architect / designer to engage for developing a plan to guide our 
efforts (for a flat fee). If you've worked with someone or know someone who 
comes highly recommended in the neighborhood, I would greatly appreciate the 
name(s).

 

Thanks,

Mark Bowerman
  

[UC] Phl Science Fiction Society meeting Friday, I-house, 8 PM

[John Desmond]

The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society's
 special January non-business meeting
 will be held at 8 Pm on Friday, January 29th
 at International House, 3701 Chestnut St,
 in Philadelphia, adjacent to the Penn campus

Our January guest will be Sheila Williams:

Ms. Williams' interest in science fiction came from her father.
 who read Edgar Rice Burroughs books to her as a child

Since 2005 Sheila Williams has edited
 _Asimov's Science Fiction_ magazine,
 and also edited or co-edited over twenty anthologies,
 the most recent of which was the
  _Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology_.

Sheila is also co-founder of
 the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence
  in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing,
 given out each year
  by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.

She studied at Elmira College, Washington University of St Louis,
 and the London School of Economics,
 and lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.

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[UC] A history of prostitution in Clark Park

[Anthony West]

Dark deeds, like bright deeds, are oft done in public spaces. Clark Park 
is a marvelous public space where the entire community comes together, 
in many good ways -- but also, at times, in ways that cause problems. 
Commercial sex, for instance.


Today, it's not a big issue. But from 1990 to 2000, a lot of commercial 
sex took place in Clark Park after hours. It appeared to be related to 
the crack epidemic. Community volunteers regularly harvested both 
condoms and crack vials from the playground. We put a brave face on it. 
One of our neighborhood artists, Amy Orr, created crack-vial artworks! 
Still, it wasn't a good thing.


Starting in the late '90s, after Dr. Vladimir Sled was murdered by 
junkies at 44th & Larchwood, a comprehensive response emerged. 
Neighborhood town watch, Penn and Philadelphia Police 18th Dist., and 
UCD began to patrol Clark Park at night. Working in partnership, the 
vans that parked along the borders of the park at night were spotted, 
tagged, reported, and steadily driven away. By 2001, they were largely a 
memory.


But they can come back at any time, if the neighborhood changes once 
more in their favor. There are no guarantees in urban life. A city 
community must keep working to maintain its standards and its values.


I part ways with any of my neighbors who has publicly identified himself 
with applauding that crack epidemic. That's not the "Clark Park Culture" 
we want to preserve. We can do much better than that in West 
Philadelphia -- and in the park we love. Make love for free, but not for 
pay.


-- Tony West

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[UC] Fw: [nwgreens] PAW Forum on Afghanistan, 1/28, 7:00 pm

[Bruce & Cynthia Haskin]

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Subject: [nwgreens] PAW Forum on Afghanistan, 1/28, 7:00 pm


  

PHILLY AGAINST WAR (PAW)

PAW Forum: Is Afghanistan the "good" war?
Getting beyond media and government spin on the US war in Afghanistan

By John Kirkland, phillyagainst...@gmail.com and 267.004.9448.

Philly Against War (PAW), www.phillyagainstwar.org, is having a panel 
discussion on the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. The speakers will address the 
effects of this war on both the Afghan and U.S. societies. 


President Barak Obama has drastically escalated the war in Afghanistan and the 
entire region. In particular, Obama has ramped up drone missile strikes against 
supposed Islamist insurgents and their neighbors, with an appalling cost in 
civilian casualties. In addition, he has augmented secret assassination squads, 
which are employed not only in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but also in Yemen, 
Uzbekistan, and other countries. Media and government officials have referred 
to the Afghanistan war as the "good" or necessary war as opposed to the war in 
Iraq. Is this true?



The PAW Forum will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 28, at the 
Philadelphia Ethical Society, 1906 South Rittenhouse Square. The panel of 
speakers will be: 



  a.. Glen Ford (Black Agenda Report), 
  b.. Phyllis Bennis, (Institute for Policy Studies) 
  c.. Kathy Black (U.S. Labor Against the War) 
  d.. Jimmy Tobias (University of Pennsylvania) 


Glen Ford, a former correspondent with CBS news, has been a print and broadcast 
journalist for nearly 40 years. He is the current editor of the Black Agenda 
Report, http://www.blackagendareport.com. Mr. Ford has written extensively on 
U.S. policy in Afghanistan and on domestic policy. 



"History may remember Obama as just another vapid but predatory imperialist 
president who happens to be.superficially eloquent. Unfortunately, the clarity 
of Obama's diction is not matched by coherence of policy. Af-Pak is at least as 
whack as Bush's Iraq." From the "Obama's Af-Pak is as Whack as Bush's Iraq,"

http://tns1.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/obamas-af-pak-whack-bushs-iraq. 



Phyllis Bennis is a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and has written 
and spoken on U.S. foreign policy. She is the co-author of the upcoming book; 
Ending the US War in Afghanistan: A Primer. Ms. Bennis is also the director of 
the IPS New Internationalism Project.



"There was one way in which President Obama's escalation speech brought 
significant relief to the 59% of people in this country, as well as the 
overwhelming majorities of people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Middle East and 
elsewhere who oppose the U.S. war in Afghanistan: It was a pretty lousy 
speech.Because everything else in this politically and militarily defensive 
speech reflected accountability not to President Obama's base, the 
extraordinary mobilization of people who swept this anti-war and anti-racist 
candidate into office, but rather to the exigencies of Washington's traditional 
military, political, and corporate power-brokers who define 'national 
security.'" From: "President Obama's Afghanistan Escalation Speech: An 
assessment of what Obama said-and what he didn't say" by Phyllis Bennis, 
December 2, 2009.

Kathy Black is a co-convener of the U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) steering 
committee. Sister Black is a local leader of Philadelphia's Coalition of Labor 
Union Women and of AFSCME District Council 47, which represents the City of 
Philadelphia's white collar workforce.  As part of the panel, she will be 
showing a power point presentation prepared by USLAW for use by trade unions, 
http://uslaboragainstwar.org/index.php. 
Jimmy Tobias is a student, activist and writer at the University of 
Pennsylvania. In addition to his anti-war activity, he has authored an article 
on the ties between Penn and research by the U.S. military. 
"According to Defense Industry Daily, Penn professors, through the SWARMS 
[Scalable Swarms of Autonomous Robots and Mobile Sensors] project, are trying 
to get those drones to 'autonomously converge on enemy troops, aircraft and 
ships, decide what to do, then engage the enemy with surveillance or weapons to 
help U.S. forces defeat them. All this without direct human intervention.'" 
From "The Military-Academic Complex: Where Penn Intelligence and Central 
Intelligence Collide" by Jimmy Tobias, December 3, 2009, 34th Street Magazine, 
http://www.34st.com/content/2009/dec/military-academic-complex. 
Philly Against War is a coalition of peace and justice organizations. PAW 
opposes the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and calls for the immediate 
withdrawal of US troops and mercenaries 

[UC] Anyone got spare pine floorboard?

[Brian Siano]

I'm renovating a room in my house, and there's an area where a small section
of floorboard needs to be replaced. Does anyone have a spare section of
heartwood pine floorboard, 3/4" thick, perhaps 4" wide, and about a foot
long?

[UC] RE: univcity-digest V1 #1537

[Mike Lazenka]

Hi everyone,

I've asked for instructions for unsubscribing to this list.  A URL has appeared 
on recent posts that says "." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see 
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the exception brings me to an admin menu with no clear instructions on how to 
unsubscribe.  I can browse to see which lists I'm subscribed to, but upon 
reaching that search result, there are again no instructions or clear 
indication of how to unsubscribe.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

ML

Michael C Lazenka
laze...@upenn.edu

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the 
sunlight."   Benjamin Franklin


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Subject: univcity-digest V1 #1537

univcity-digest  Saturday, January 23 2010  Volume 01 : Number 1537



In this issue:

[UC] The supreme court attacks the people
Re: [UC] The supreme court attacks the people
[UC] Dog groomer
[UC] Penn incompetence
Re: [UC] The supreme court attacks the people

--

Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:33:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Glenn moyer 
Subject: [UC] The supreme court attacks the people

Well it's official now, corporatocracy.  Those who study totalitarian shifts 
point out that once the "point of no return" is crossed, things move rapidly.  
Being an optimist by nature, I had been holding on to hope.

Those who only get information through corporate media probably didn't know 
that this was coming to the corporate court.  This was the big one!


http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/20100122_Justices_shift_campaign-finance_rules.html


http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/americandebate/Nary_a_peep_of_protest.html
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:19:14 -0500
From: Richard Moreau 
Subject: Re: [UC] The supreme court attacks the people

I've always found it interesting that the tallest building in a
community speaks to who holds the power.

In colonial (U.S.) days church steeples were the tallest, so people
could find them over (New England) hill and dale.

Then City Hall, at least in Philadelphia, was the tallest by
'gentlemen's' agreement, speaking to the unifying power of a
government of the people, for the people and by the people.

The Empire State Building arguably spoke to the power of television.

The Sears (now Willis?) Tower spoke to the power of retail and
consumption.  (Willis is a law firm? Hmm.)

In Philadelphia, Liberty Place was eventually built, its main tenant
being an insurance company, Cigna, speaking to the economic needs of
the community to promote business through real estate development in a
city that hadn't previously been very competitive in the national
marketplace. (And shouldn't an insurance company's money be going to
cover people in times of need, not building fancy buildings?)

The World Trade Center and nearly 3000 of its occupants were
obliterated by an organization that uses violence and fear to get what
it wants. Not to mention the damage done to the headquarters of
arguably the most powerful military in the world.

Now we have Comcast (& soon NBC-Universal) with the tallest building
in town, speaking to the rise (and consolidation) of the media, the
internet, and communication more generally.

We're seeing internet giant Google take on China in a way that few
countries have dared, and risk-taking big banks and mortgage companies
threaten national and international economies, costing people their
homes, jobs, and health care. HUP continues to build highly
specialized and expensive facilities on land that had housed a Civic
Center and a hospital for the poor. (While the Convention - not Civic
- - Center expansion, and the now nearly empty Gallery and, before that,
the "Chinese Wall" strangles Chinatown. Penn Center office buildings
symbolically and literally send rail travel under ground. Penn builds
a park (for now) and mixed use buildings on land that was used by an
organization that delivers snail mail by hand, door to door -
something that may soon seem like the Pony Express does to us now.
Home Depot controls the world lumber market. A McDonald's hamburger is
said to cost an acre of rain forest (so the cattle can graze.) A
developer of what we know not yet, tears down a shelter for survivors
of domestic violence and plows under a community garden in our own
neighborhood so the land can sit unused behind a cyclone fence until
when? Market conditions improve? We get so tired of the empty

[UC] does this sweet black kitty have a home?

[Linda Lee]

sorry, no pic...   There is a beautiful and friendly all-black kitty  
making the rounds on the 4500 block of Regent recently.  She (he?)  
wears a tattered pink collar, with a bell, but no tags.  She LOVES  
attention and is a serious lap cat.  She is long and slender, maybe 11  
lbs.  It is thought she may be lost or recently abandoned.  If anyone  
out there thinks they know this kitty and where it belongs please  
respond.  If you are a member of the Regent St email group I'd  
appreciate it if you would forward this note to your list.


If this kitty's home is not found we will want to find her a temporary  
or permanent mom/dad/family for her.  She is truly a love.  All local  
foster folks I know have no room for another orphan (including  
myself), alas.


Will forward a photo if I can get one.

Many thanks!
linda

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