Re: [UC] DP: Last Store Standing
Wilma, These propaganda pieces do seem like an Abbott and Costello sketch to the critically thinking eye. Why does McDonald's need to go? Answer: Because of Vladimir Sled and 47th and Pine. If the whole thing wasn't so frightening, it would seem like slapstick comedy. When Penn started calling the people of Clark Park criminals ten years ago, they told our community leaders that it was necessary to bring in the grants. I begged those idiots to see the truth about conspiring with liars and fraudsters, and tried to explain the actual reasons for the false portrayal that are abundant in world history. But they couldn't take their minds off the belief in Penn gold trickling down to them! (They also thought they would join that elite and were better than the rest of their neighbors.) There is a foreboding change in the new tone of this piece, that George Carlin spoke about in that excellent clip you posted! With an angry tone that is being used from Wisconsin to New Jersey, the official barks out that Penn OWNS this town. (Mission almost accomplished!) We didn't see that boldness over the past ten years, as local residents were characterized as criminals scaring the good folks away. Previously, Penn was investing in the community because they loved the few good people on civic association boards and wanted them to be happy. They no longer feel the need to play that song anymore and the state sponsored brutality is about to get much worse, as you are aware. The elites who own us don't want lower or middle class people in their upscale neighborhood. So they don't want the businesses that will serve them. Racism is one of the tools (divide and conquer) that can be exploited in the interest neo-colonialism. A clear message and chant emerging in the people's revolution is, we are one! Glenn PS: I'll be with the Mayan people for a couple of weeks. Keep speaking truth to power while I'm gone! On 3/1/2011 8:06 PM, Wilma de Soto wrote: http://thedp.com/article/last-store-standing-past-and-present-mcdonalds-40t h-and-walnut Dear Neighbors, I am happy to announce that I should never again have to argue on the UC Listserv that the UPenn has always wanted to move people of color from their neighborhoods, whom they deem as dangerous criminals, and extend their jurisdiction, and take poor people's properties. The above article link states their agenda plainly and distinctly with more code speech that I have ever seen in a single article since the G.W. Bush era. Now they would declare Mission Accomplished except for the dreaded McDonald's. I could now become a danger to our community because of who I am. On 3/1/11 5:43 PM, UNIVERSITY*CITOYENlaserb...@speedymail.org wrote: On 2/26/11 1:10 PM, Freda Egnal wrote: GARDEN COURT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ZONING COMMITTEE invites you to a community meeting regarding the sale by the City of Philadelphia and subsequent development of the parking lot at 49th and Spruce Street. Please attend and meet the possible developers for the site. They will be there to describe their plans and address your questions and concerns. When: Monday, February 28, 2011 Where: Beulah Baptist Church 50th St. Entrance* Time: 7 PM anything to report for those of us unable to attend? .. UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.872 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3475 - Release Date: 03/01/11 02:34:00
[UC] This could be interesting... (posted by Al Krigman)
(From today's Dippy) WikiLeaks comes to college campuses by _Dorcy Chen_ (http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/author/dorcy-chen) | Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 1:01 am A version of WikiLeaks may be making its way to college campuses. UniLeaks, a newly launched website, announced its aim to expose “corruption and mismanagement” in United States colleges in an open letter to university presidents on Monday. The website, which also operates in the United Kingdom and Australia, is dedicated to reporting on and publishing confidential university documents to scrutinize university operations. UniLeaks only accepts restricted or censored material relating to higher education anonymously through its website. Careful to distinguish itself from being “just another rumor mill,” Captain Kangaroo, a UniLeaks spokesperson, wrote that the website seeks “hard evidence of malfeasance and corruption” and will not “accept rumor or conjecture.” While Penn administrators were unable to comment on the launch of UniLeaks, Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli said the University “communicates openly, engages and consults broadly with its varied constituencies, both internal and external” in many ways. He cited faculty groups, student meetings with administrators, open forums and meetings as examples of how the University maintains transparency. Peter Collopy, a third-year graduate student in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, said while it is unclear what the “political analysis” of UniLeaks is, the website is bound to attract an audience. “Colleges and universities have a lot of planning processes that tend to be fairly closed-doors,” Collopy said. “While the decisions made are announced, the research and the process are not, and I think a lot of stakeholders such as students and faculty would be interested in these processes.” He added that UniLeaks could also serve as a platform for those who hold views that are in the minority to seek anonymous support. Since the launch of WikiLeaks — a website that exposes confidential diplomatic messages — many similar projects have sprung up, including OpenLeaks, IndoLeaks and Balkan Leaks. Kristoffer Whitney — a graduate student in the Department of History and Sociology of Science who taught a summer course called “The Information Age: Computer, Bodies, Environment” — said it is possible to adapt WikiLeaks to higher education. “In most cases, granting corporations rights means infringing on those of actual human beings,” Whitney said. “It is certainly possible to apply that by analogy to transparency and higher education.” However, the impact of UniLeaks in the United States is unclear, said Joanna Radin, a History and Sociology of Science graduate student. Radin, who also taught “The Information Age,” said “it is possible to imagine a scenario in which it might direct attention to more systemic issues characteristic of the relationship between higher education, economic conditions and citizenship.” “As an elite institution with a global presence, I would expect Penn to be aware of the emergence of UniLeaks and prepared to participate in discussions about the broader issues at play,” she added. Currently, there is only one document on the University of Birmingham posted on UniLeaks.
[UC] Addendum to Unileaks posting... corporate privacy rights | Reuters
_Click here: Supreme Court rejects ATT corporate privacy rights | Reuters_ (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/01/us-att-privacy-idUSTRE7203UN20110301) As an addendum to my previous posting about UniLeaks, the US Supreme Court has just ruled that corporations (presumably including universities) do not have the same rights to privacy that are accorded to individuals. Here's an excerpt from the Reuters article (the link above is to the whole thing). ATT Inc and other corporations do not have personal privacy rights to prevent disclosure of federal government records about them, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. The justices unanimously overturned a ruling by a U.S. appeals court for the telecommunications company that corporations can assert personal privacy in claiming the records should be exempt from disclosure. The high court, in an opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, agreed with the Obama administration's argument that the personal privacy exemption under the Freedom of Information law applied only to individuals, not to corporations. - Alan Krigman KRF Management, ICON/Information Concepts Inc 211 S 45th St, Philadelphia PA 19104-2918 215-349-6500, fax 215-349-6502 krf...@aol.com or al.krig...@krf.icodat.com
Re: [UC] Addendum to Unileaks posting... corporate privacy rights | Reuters
That's a relief! Jim On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:50 AM, krf...@aol.com wrote: Click here: Supreme Court rejects ATT corporate privacy rights | Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/01/us-att-privacy-idUSTRE7203UN20110301 As an addendum to my previous posting about UniLeaks, the US Supreme Court has just ruled that corporations (presumably including universities) do not have the same rights to privacy that are accorded to individuals. Here's an excerpt from the Reuters article (the link above is to the whole thing). ATT Inc and other corporations do not have personal privacy rights to prevent disclosure of federal government records about them, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. The justices unanimously overturned a ruling by a U.S. appeals court for the telecommunications company that corporations can assert personal privacy in claiming the records should be exempt from disclosure. The high court, in an opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, agreed with the Obama administration's argument that the personal privacy exemption under the Freedom of Information law applied only to individuals, not to corporations. *- * Alan Krigman KRF Management, ICON/Information Concepts Inc 211 S 45th St, Philadelphia PA 19104-2918 215-349-6500, fax 215-349-6502 krf...@aol.com or al.krig...@krf.icodat.com -- Jim Cummings
Re: [UC] DP: Last Store Standing
In a message dated 3/1/2011 20:20:24 Eastern Standard Time, wil.p...@comcast.net writes: http://thedp.com/article/last-store-standing-past-and-present-mcdonalds-40t h-and-walnut Dear Neighbors, I am happy to announce that I should never again have to argue on the UC Listserv that the UPenn has always wanted to move people of color from their neighborhoods, whom they deem as dangerous criminals, and extend their jurisdiction, and take poor people's properties. _ I think you are reading too much into the redevelopment process for the specific NE corner of 40th Walnut. 1) Rush complained about problem kids of any color; think along the line of utes in My Cousin Vinny. Modern dressed down Blue Boys and Van Dicks err Dykes all transitioning between the second and third generation of life are UPenn's biblical equivalent of the bread of life. Occasionally, the wheat and barley are a littler fermented and the hops burned . 2) The desired population displacement is nothing more than economic apartheid. If it aint gonna contribute to UPenn's green economy -its outa here. There is always one thing constant in the secular life, Show me the money; money talks and BS walks! $13 for a Flay burger? I can buy a very nice six pack with readily bio-available cals and ETOH. Is this how society degrades when the sciences are no longer part of higher education's core curriculum? And as to a Marley bangin' and John Lennon give piece a chance world -up in smoke. Didn't make MickeyD's peaceful, though. Chow, Craig
Re: [UC] DP: Last Store Standing
What strikes me about this article is that its author -- and, it would seem, none of the informants, either -- lacks any notion of the history of that particular intersection and/or block, especially in two regards: 1) For many years, the NW corner of 40th Market was the site of a Penn womens' dormitory. (The same building also contained the campus branch of the long- gone local Chuckwagon restaurant chain.) This was in the era where Penn took in loco parentis far more seriously than it does today. To me, that indicates that there was a time when Penn did not consider the corner to be particularly dangerous. 2) That particular McDonald's has its own rather infamous link with crime history. It's where serial killer Gary Heidnik used to take his victims for dinner! On Mar 1, 2011, at 8:06 PM, Wilma de Soto wrote: http://thedp.com/article/last-store-standing-past-and-present-mcdonalds-40t h-and-walnut Dear Neighbors, I am happy to announce that I should never again have to argue on the UC Listserv that the UPenn has always wanted to move people of color from their neighborhoods, whom they deem as dangerous criminals, and extend their jurisdiction, and take poor people's properties. The above article link states their agenda plainly and distinctly with more code speech that I have ever seen in a single article since the G.W. Bush era. Now they would declare Mission Accomplished except for the dreaded McDonald's. I could now become a danger to our community because of who I am. On 3/1/11 5:43 PM, UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN laserb...@speedymail.org wrote: On 2/26/11 1:10 PM, Freda Egnal wrote: GARDEN COURT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ZONING COMMITTEE invites you to a community meeting regarding the sale by the City of Philadelphia and subsequent development of the parking lot at 49th and Spruce Street. Please attend and meet the possible developers for the site. They will be there to describe their plans and address your questions and concerns. When: Monday, February 28, 2011 Where: Beulah Baptist Church 50th St. Entrance* Time: 7 PM anything to report for those of us unable to attend? .. UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html.
