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On Not Seeing
By Geo Ong A 1974 issue of Time reported that applications to journalism schools were at an all-time high, a big part of the reason being the media’s substantial role in the Watergate scandal. Without the investigative journalism of the … Continue reading
That’s What He Said
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of … Continue reading
The Road Yet Taken
By Geo Ong One day, while doing some research on an essay about Los Angeles and Brooklyn, I looked up the distance between these two homes on a Google map. The two cities are 4,480 kilometres (2,784 miles) apart. The … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Travel
Tagged america, cross country road trip, driving, expectations, road trip
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We’re Ardent and Astray, Not Apathetic
By Gina Williams [Gina Williams is a guest writer for the Urchin Movement. In the following article, she discusses current problems facing the U.S. Gina also writes about motorcycle accidents.] We belong to a generation viewed by the world as … Continue reading
And Now, Langston Hughes Demonstrates How to Live a Decade
By Geo Ong Langston Hughes, primarily known as a poet of the Harlem Renaissance, also happened to be a pretty legit traveller. No further evidence is required than his travelogue of the 1930s, I Wonder As I Wander. In a … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Literature, Travel
Tagged 1930s, america, books, communism, francisco franco, great depression, henri cartier-bresson, i wonder as i wander, jim crow, langston hughes, madame sun yat sen, mulatto, poets, russia, soviet union, spanish civil war, travel literature, travel writing, travelogues, World War II
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The Power of the Outsider Lens: Sofie Benoot’s ‘Blue Meridian’
By Geo Ong For nearly anyone not from there, the Deep South is a mythic place. Its histories and presence has given us numerous works of fiction, from novels to films to music. In ways both positive and antagonistic, the … Continue reading
Occupied.
by Natalie Peart [Natalie Peart is a feminist, activist, and writer (in no particular order) living in Brooklyn. She loves to keep the (political) pot stirring.] It has been over one month since the protesters have taken over Liberty Square … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Urchins, Politics & Global Issues
Tagged america, arab spring, bank of america, banks, brooklyn bridge, brooklyn bridge protests, consumerism, corporate greed, greed, indignados, liberty square, marcel marzouki, move your money project, naomi klein, natalie peart, new york city, new york times, Occupy Wall Street, ows, police, political awareness, political rally, protests, Tunisia, voting, wall street, zuccotti park
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