Re: College 'Party Towns', Rape & Class

[Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brian McKenna wrote:
> Hi Leigh, for some reason I cannot get the text of this piece. . .can you
> send a good URL or just paste the piece? I'm interested in this for a book I'm
> writing. . .
>
> Best,
>
> Brian McKenna
>   
Brian,

The page at my wordpress blog lists the items in the news segment and 
contains the link
to the audio, there's no real text on page in re Rape & Class.

FWIW, I'm sure Travus wouldn't mind if you transcribed under the terms 
of the CC licensing.

He does post commentaries every week or so to 
http://fatchance.org/travus/comment.htm
which are articles he does for the Spark (NV) Tribune, and I get 
notified by changedetection.com.

If it shows up there I'll notify you offlist, but right now the posted 
commentary is:

Sparks Trib 4/16/06
RED HERRING RUN ON THE POTOMAC

   WE ARE AT WAR! So far in April thirty six American troopers have 
died in Iraq, more than the entire month of March. Five retired general 
officers, including one combat commander , have gone public with their 
demands for the resignation of Defense Secretary. Donald Rumsfeld. A 
Spring offensive in Afghanistan is under way by both our Marines and the 
resurgent Taliban, Venezuela is about to expel our ambassador and 
Bolivia has deserted the war on drugs. The Bush foreign policy is a 
dismal record of mistakes and failures and election threatened 
Republicans are beginning to look to the lifeboats as the ship of state 
settles lower in the water. Obviously, itâs time to change the subject.

   History teaches us that the surest formula for distracting the 
public must combine racism, nationalism of the most jingoistic variety 
and soupcon of economic fear to give the debate an edge. What better 
target than our near neighbors to the south whose migrant low cost labor 
has fueled the U.S. economic engine for most of the twentieth century.
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Leigh
http://leighm.wordpress.com/