The very worst thing about sprawl, of course, is that it’s just about impossible to put your Independent Weekly in enough places that everybody gets to see it every week. But now, with the online edition at www.indyweek.com, everybody can! And what comes after an online edition? That’s right, we’re getting ready to blog. Because, […]
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The End–of oil and of Erin Kuczmarski
Excellent turnout at the Colony in Raleigh last Wednesday for The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream, the docu-polemic written and directed by Toronto filmmaker Gregory Greene and brought to the Triangle by such southpaw groups as SURGE, the student environmentalists in Chapel Hill, and the Indy Media Center. […]
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‘Real men wear pink’
While President Bush was using Fort Bragg as a prop Tuesday, Medea Benjamin was in the Triangle plugging the new book she co-edited, Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism (Inner Ocean Publishing). An economist by training, Benjamin’s been a leader in the fair-trade arena for more than two decades, working […]
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Extra heat
“We are in for the fight of our lives,” says journalist Bill Moyers. He’s talking about control of the media, but also about what’s at stake: whether our country will ever be the shining beacon on a hill that the planet needs, rather than the greed-driven, oil-guzzling, military-industrial-establishment-run disaster we’ve become. On that light and […]
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Honoring Dr. K
The best thing about writing for the Indy is the chance, on a pretty regular basis, to talk to people who are generous of spirit and engaged in the hard work of trying to make the world a better place for the rest of us, not just for themselves. Even so, Dr. Carol Kirschenbaum stands […]
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Fighting predatory lending
Martin Eakes and his wife, Bonnie Wright, started Self-Help in Durham 25 years ago as a way to help low-income folks build wealth. The heart of the nonprofit enterprise: making mortgages, and later small-business loans, available to people with steady jobs and rental-payment histories but who, nonetheless, weren’t considered “good risks” by traditional bankers. Starting […]
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Rip-off America
Maybe you’ve seen one of their stores in a strip mall somewhere. They’re scattered around the Triangle, and while the company doesn’t like being accused of targeting low-income neighborhoods, they certainly don’t do business in the upscale ‘burbs either. And unlike the other mall stores, Advance America’s stand out because they sell just one product: […]
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Jail, or treatment?
You’re a cop. You’re called to a “scene,” which turns out to be a parking lot where a young man, naked, is screaming and fighting off an older man–his father–who is trying to get him into his car. Is this a crime in progress? Soon to be compounded by resisting arrest when the cop tries […]
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Five N.C. congressmen want out of Iraq
If you’re keeping score, the number of North Carolina’s members of Congress who’ve supported any of the various “get out of Iraq” initiatives floating around in Washington is now up to five. And two of the five are Republicans! It’s true. When Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) offered an amendment to the defense spending bill last […]
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Remember Bush v. Gore?
Does it bother you that, six months after the election, we still have no one seated as our state superintendent of public schools? Well, of course it doesn’t. A governor’s appointee is running the Department of Public Instruction in the meantime, which is really what should happen anyway–there is no reason to have an elected […]
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