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  • Voice Choices

    September 28, 2011

    PETTY APPROVED

    Don't tell Michele Bachmann about this

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck Joines Forces With Mr. and Mrs. Bourdain

    Ottavia BourdainThe Bourdains, poolside.​Here's yet another reason to hope against hope that the goddamn skies finallyclear: tomorrow, from 4:30 until 6:30, the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck will be staffed in part by Ottavia Bourdain (who you can see here, accompanying her husband to a tattoo parlo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Learn to Pickle and Help Out Japan

    Brooklyn BrinePickle for a good cause​Many New York City restaurants are pitching in to assist with the crisis following Japan's tsunami and earthquake, and this week Brooklyn Brine will be holding a special pickling class, from which 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Doctors Without Bor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2011

    Japan Fights to Avoid Nuclear Disaster; Death Toll From Tsunami Could Top 10,000

    Reuters/Toru Hanai​Japan is facing what prime minister Naoto Kan called its "toughest and most difficult crisis" since World War II, as workers struggle to prevent meltdowns in two reactors at the Fukushima power plant. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said that a third reactor would possibly e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2011

    Japan Quake Death Toll Could Rise to 1300; Nuclear Plant Explosion Causes Radiation Leak, Fear of Meltdown

    Reuters via NYT​The death toll from yesterday's 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan could rise to more than 1300, government officials told Japanese news media. CNN is reporting that the number of deaths is 900 and is expected to rise. Half the population of one town, Minamisanr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    A High-Speed Bullet Train and a Cruise Ship Are Missing in Japan

    ​Details continue to come in about the aftermath of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan and the devastating tsunami that followed. The death toll, currently in the hundreds, is expected to increase dramatically. Google has launched a person-finder app to try to help people locate missing fri ... More >>

  • Film

    June 1, 2010

    Doctors Without Borders, Living in Emergency

    ​Details continue to come in about the aftermath of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan and the devastating tsunami that followed. The death toll, currently in the hundreds, is expected to increase dramatically. Google has launched a person-finder app to try to help people locate missing fri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife

    ​The Arms Around Haiti event at Public Assembly kicks off our Friday evening with a reminder that just because there haven't been any telethons lately doesn't mean the situation isn't just as awful as it ever was. The event spans over both rooms of the venue and boasts a lineup of over ten dis ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 9, 2010

    'Arms Around Haiti'

    ​The Arms Around Haiti event at Public Assembly kicks off our Friday evening with a reminder that just because there haven't been any telethons lately doesn't mean the situation isn't just as awful as it ever was. The event spans over both rooms of the venue and boasts a lineup of over ten dis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    More On Wyclef Jean and His Charity, Yele Haiti

    So over the long weekend, Wyclef Jean gave both a press conference and a personal statement via YouTube, defending his foundation, Yele Haiti, and the fundraising it did in the aftermath of the earthquake that struck Haiti last Tuesday. In the video statement, Jean said he was "disgusted" with the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Haiti: Even Your Neighborhood Bar Wants to Help

    nypress.comGive at the bar.​The Washington Commons may not be a destination bar for anyone outside of Prospect Heights, but it's a go-to for the locals. And it, too, wants to help Haitians in need of aid following last week's devastating earthquake.

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2010

    US takes over airport in haitian capital

    Médecins Sans Frontières​At the request of the haitian government, the United States Army has taken over operation of the Port au Prince airport in Haiti's capital to unblock the delivery of supplies to what the UN is calling the worst disaster they've ever dealt with.

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    NY Restaurateurs Begin to Mobilize to Raise Money for Haiti

    Getty ImagesA scene in Port au Prince.​ A day after Haiti was struck by a catastrophic earthquake, some local chefs and restaurateurs are trying to mobilize to raise money for the stricken country.

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2009

    Animal Collective Engage In Real World Activity, Auction Test Presses for Charity

    Note to band--retain this designer In what an internet judge might charitably deem second- or third-degree community blogger service, we direct you to the Animal Crack Box 3LP Animal Collective TEST PRESSING!! auction currently underway over at eBay. Catsup Plate, the auctioneer here, patiently exp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2008

    Win one for the gyppers: Banks' current playoffs eerily like the NFL's

    Note to band--retain this designer In what an internet judge might charitably deem second- or third-degree community blogger service, we direct you to the Animal Crack Box 3LP Animal Collective TEST PRESSING!! auction currently underway over at eBay. Catsup Plate, the auctioneer here, patiently exp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2008

    Pulp Fictions: I Live Here and Guy Delisle's Burma Chronicles

    Note to band--retain this designer In what an internet judge might charitably deem second- or third-degree community blogger service, we direct you to the Animal Crack Box 3LP Animal Collective TEST PRESSING!! auction currently underway over at eBay. Catsup Plate, the auctioneer here, patiently exp ... More >>

  • News

    June 3, 2008

    Pacifism Fails in the Face of Sovereign Evil

    If the U.N. won't act on its own mandate, then we should use force to combat immutable evil

  • News

    September 19, 2006

    Darfur in Central Park

    "Try to imagine that your whole way of life destroyed"

  • News

    March 21, 2006

    Rabbi Meets Genocide's General

    A close-up of Sudan's chief mass murderer and his genteel, cultivated entourage

  • Screens

    October 25, 2005

    Remote Patrol

    A close-up of Sudan's chief mass murderer and his genteel, cultivated entourage

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2005

    Morning Report 8/11/05
    Bush Less Complex Than a Grain of Rice, Scientists Discover

    A close-up of Sudan's chief mass murderer and his genteel, cultivated entourage

  • News

    August 2, 2005

    U.N. to Investigate Alleged Haiti Massacre

    Local Red Cross tells of handing out body bags and shovels

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2005

    Famine in Niger? Let Them Eat Yellowcake.

    Local Red Cross tells of handing out body bags and shovels

  • News

    July 12, 2005

    Haitians Accuse the U.N. of Massacre

    Demonstrators say peacekeepers fired on slum dwellers in Cite Soleil

  • News

    January 4, 2005

    Sea Change

    In Sri Lanka, mothers' breasts ache for phantom children. What will it take to rebuild?

  • News

    December 28, 2004

    Conservatives on Parade

    Capital preps for coronation of Republican king

  • Books

    August 24, 2004

    Blame It on Rio

    Humanitarian Rufin tries to put the story back in history

  • News

    April 6, 2004

    No More Neutral in Iraq

    New consequences of a 'humanitarian' war

  • Columns

    January 27, 2004

    NY Mirror

    New consequences of a 'humanitarian' war

  • News

    November 18, 2003

    Fine Young Communists

    Uncle Sam Is Losing the War for Students in South Korea

  • News

    March 18, 2003

    Left Behind

    'New York Times' Freelancer Languishes in Chinese Jail

  • Film

    November 6, 2001

    In Sickness and in Stealth

    'New York Times' Freelancer Languishes in Chinese Jail

  • News

    June 19, 2001

    Acting Up Again

    AIDS Activism Goes Global

  • Music

    November 7, 2000

    Dog Food for Justice

    A Tribute to Art and a Tribute From the Heart

  • News

    July 18, 2000

    Turning Point

    The International AIDS Conference Makes a Commitment to Saving Third-World Lives

  • News

    July 11, 2000

    Lost Opportunity

    South African President Hedges on Cause of AIDS, Ignores Access to Medicine

  • News

    April 4, 2000

    Giving It Away

    An American Pharmaceutical Giant Offers to Donate an AIDS Drug to South Africa

  • News

    March 21, 2000

    The War For Drugs

    South Africa Organizes Against the High Price of AIDS Medicines

  • News

    December 21, 1999

    Part 7: South Africa Acts Up

    Building a Movement on the Ruins of Apartheid

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