Class Recording (HUM225)

This is my first experiment with recording class and posting it on the blog. If you were there today, it may be a bit redundant. However if you did not make it to class then you’ll definitely want to listen to this. VN520024

MSNBC Steps Up

I have to say, I never expected to see something like this on US television:

US Government Murders Two US Citizens

    http://www.salon.com/news/yemen/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2011/09/30/awlaki  

Continents (HUM455)

Here’s the clip I mentioned in class:

Have it Your Way (HUM415)

The Commodity (HUM225/ HUM415)

“A commodity is… a mysterious thing, simply because in it the social character of men’s labour appears to them as an objective character stamped upon the product of that labour; because the relation of the producers to the sum total of their own labour is presented to them as a social relation, existing not between [...]

Selling the President (HUM415)

An ad for Eisenhower’s 1956 campaign: An ad for Obama’s 2008 campaign:

Wealth Isn’t About Money (HUM415)

UP

UP 240%: student fees at CSU (since 1998) UP 66%: CSU Chancellor Carroll Reed’s salary (since 1998) UP $100,000,000: additional budget cuts to CSU expected in December, on top of $650,000,000 in cuts this Fall UP to 14.8% (official, though likely it’s larger): unemployment rate for Americans age 20-24 (August 2011) UP to $850,000,000,000: total [...]

Araya (HUM455)

Margot Benacerraf’s Araya was recently restored. Currently you can screen it on instantview at Netflix. Here’s the trailer: