tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77480482011-08-01T14:36:42.913-05:00The Madison Observer: Representing voices of social justice at UW-Madison since 2003The Madison Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891940468495748797noreply@blogger.comBlogger401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1128043032614856762005-09-29T20:08:00.000-05:002005-09-29T20:17:12.623-05:00

As we gathered in D.C. to protest the fact that our government was lying to and ignoring us, another essential contributor to democracy was choosing to ignore us...the mainstream media.I'm not so naive to have believed before this that they were encouraged to follow our cause or highlight our successes (or even really deliver the news) - but the near absence of coverage of this rather large

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Well, Bush wasn't in D.C. but a hell of a lot of other people were today. (apparently, Bush was in Austin, TX.)We arrived at the "Ellipse" around 10:30 am, where United for Peace and Justice, ANSWER, et al were assembling. Code Pink started off just accross the way. As the crowd gathered, we were told that more were on their way, stuck up in the D.C. metro system and traffic. By around 11:30,

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Kanye West puts in his two cents about racist attitudes towards the hurricane aftermath on tv.It's always, figuratively and physically, a black and white issue. Concerning the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina, the area of New Orleans has pretty much gone to the dogs, Lord of the Flies-style. Of course most of the blame for NO's societal decay has been scapegoated on black folks, the foremost

MLnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1125451755368478682005-08-30T20:28:00.000-05:002005-09-01T11:53:47.306-05:00

I kid, I kid. But oh how I wish for someone to make such fantasic speculations for real.

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Or not at all. Check out the ridiculous quotes from ASM Chair Eric Varney from Monday's Badger Herald article.Associated Students of Madison Chair Eric Varney dismissed the possibility of a tuition freeze, however, and deemed the tuition hike acceptable.“Those seeking a tuition freeze simply aren’t being reasonable,” Varney said. “To offset rising costs, including wages, the UW System must raise

J.Sawannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1115515685209952602005-05-07T20:28:00.000-05:002005-05-07T20:28:05.293-05:00

Out of courtesy, we are not currently revealing the staffer's name. And this is the first time I've seen a presumably Beacon staffer comment on the cybersquatting situation, since according to the Badger Herald, "Mendota Beacon Editor in Chief Tim Shea declined to comment on the issue 'as a matter of policy.'"Below was the kind comment to our press releaseby what? @ 07 May 2005 02:24 amWho is

J.Sawannoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1115404126847249782005-05-06T13:28:00.000-05:002005-05-06T13:28:46.856-05:00

Rivalry between two alternative papers to result in legal actionMadObserver Press ReleaseContact: Youssef Sawan, Editor in Chief, 608.215.7653The Madison Observer, a progressive bi-weekly, is taking legal action against the conservative bi-weekly The Mendota Beacon, based on allegations that the Beacon is cybersquatting two Observer web domains. The Mendota Beacon first appeared on the UW-Madison

J.Sawannoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1115313260769559492005-05-05T12:14:00.000-05:002005-05-07T22:58:23.526-05:00

Today the Badger Herald ran a front page story on the Madison Observer and how the Mendota Beacon is cyber squatting two of our domains; "madisonobserver.com" and "madisonobserver.net" so they both redirect traffic to the "mendotabeacon.com".Check out the story online, also Dane101.com posted a story on the situation. We tried politeness and being cordial, unfortunately, the Beacon doesn't have

J.Sawannoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1113937137979953972005-04-19T13:51:00.000-05:002005-04-19T13:58:57.980-05:00

The Madison Observer produced its first 20-page paper, and there is no question that it is one of the best, if not THE best, issue that we've put together in the past two years. Two years exactly on April 17th, we're alive and managed to hit the two-year mark that only the best Madison alternative newspapers have reached in the past. As I'm about to graduate with another co-founder, Kyle Myhre,

J.Sawannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1113706544758787892005-04-16T21:27:00.000-05:002005-04-16T21:55:44.760-05:00

A simple question for the Mendota Beacon: what is integrity? More specifically, what is journalistic integrity?Apparently, this question is much more difficult than one would imagine, much less act upon. Even though the Beacon is a fledging publication, many of its actions in the past two months of its existence causes much questioning of the journalistic and moralistic capabilties of its staff

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I just wanted to apologize, since I said that the Ten Percent Society gave us $200, while they in fact donated $500. Sorry for the confusion...thanks again for all your support!-youssef

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(from el guante's angryblog)So there seems to be some confusion about what the Madison Observer (www.madisonobserver.org) is. Here are a few common misconceptions:1. We're a bunch of radical socialists who hate white people and want to overthrow the government. (The slower liberals and conservatives alike tend to think this, and whenever i hear it i KNOW that the person saying it has never really

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So there's been some talk about the future of the Madison Observer, and we've been working hard to maintain a decent advertising base. Unfortunately, advertising has not been sufficient to keep ourselves out of the red. And no, we are NOT receiving any funding from the MultiCultural Student Coalition (MCSC) or from the Student Services Finance Committee (SSFC). Contrary to recent allegations

J.Sawannoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1108805971308760912005-02-19T03:38:00.000-06:002005-02-19T03:39:31.310-06:00

By Kristian KnutsenGuestBlog, FightingBob.comLast Monday, the Chicago Tribune ran an article titled “Right-on gets new take at UW-Madison: Conservative paper to bow on campus.” It detailed the February 12 debut of a new UW-Madison student newspaper named the Mendota Beacon.Affiliated with the UW College Republicans, the Mendota Beacon is scheduled to be published every other week this spring, and

J.Sawannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1106143661074024762005-01-19T08:02:00.000-06:002005-01-19T08:10:47.073-06:00

An article by George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 18th January 2005. "The role of the media corporations in the United States is similar to that of repressive state regimes elsewhere: they decide what the public will and won’t be allowed to hear, and either punish or recruit the social deviants who insist on telling a different story. The journalists they employ do what almost all

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“This is our world; you are just living in it.” In a comment published in The Guardian, this is how Gary Younge described the attitude of the self-proclaimed majority towards minorities. By any rational analysis, this group of white heterosexual men who live in the western hemisphere is, in fact, the smallest minority on earth. Yet, this group believes that their way of life is the best for

Deciamos Ayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10794052329326031121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1105231646767489132005-01-08T18:45:00.000-06:002005-01-08T18:47:26.766-06:00

Yes, it's finally up! New template, interactive calendar, post your comments, and a search featuer!!! Thanks to CuteNews PHP script and a lot of free time in Kansas... Good shit. Stay tuned for the next issue coming out January 24th...

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Amazing issue. Check it out and also be sure to see the updated website with .pdf versions of the last three issues up and running. Very good shit.

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Issue Five is coming out, so you all better be prepared to snatch a copy. Youssef stayed up all night doing micro-editing. I should know because I was up all night too.

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so Volume 3, Issue 3 hit newstands this past monday. It's also available online at www.madisonobserver.org. With articles about campus climate, diversity, plan 2008, racist dress codes and much, much more, i personally think that it's our best issue to date. The response has been great so far. Any more feedback?

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Students of history who have been following the world events during the past three years must be shaking their heads in disbelief, and asking “Haven’t we seen it all before?” Yes, we did. We saw many evil plots aiming to bring down civilization as we knew it. The current world situation is eerily similar to what the world lived through in the last two decades of the 19th century. During

Deciamos Ayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10794052329326031121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1096310631403517292004-09-27T13:42:00.000-05:002004-09-27T13:43:51.403-05:00

A lot of important things are happening all around us. We all know that and feel it. The little things that may seem irrelevant to us may be the most significant. That is why we should work hard to become knowledgeable, not just informed. We need to analyze what we read and go far beyond the sensational sound bites delivered in drive-through news outlets. It is our duty to be

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From a speech by Bill Moyers. Click on the above title to read the full speech at Common Dreams. "One of the biggest changes in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. How do we fathom and explain the mindset of violent exhibitionists and extremists who blow to smithereens hundreds of children and teachers of Middle School Number One in Beslan, Russia? Or the radical utopianism

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"A key issue for young Americans and their families to consider as they prepare to cast their votes in the upcoming presidential election is the real likelihood of a military draft being reinstated if President Bush is re-elected. President Bush should tell us now whether he supports a military draft." Read the full article at Common Dreams.

Deciamos Ayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10794052329326031121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1095096471276376042004-09-13T13:26:00.000-05:002004-09-14T03:32:51.943-05:00

our first 16 page effort. vol 3 issue 2 any comments?

Guantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02587613638497439451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1094841452085453182004-09-10T13:35:00.000-05:002004-09-10T13:49:55.703-05:00

More than three hundred people, mostly school children were killed after being taken hostage in a city in southern Russia. Who could possibly be behind such indiscriminate killing of children on their first day of school? They must be bad people, truly evil people. They are terrorists. They are Muslims. Some of them were Arabs. We heard it all before. Please try to tell me something I need to

Deciamos Ayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10794052329326031121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1094841309790846682004-09-10T13:32:00.000-05:002004-09-10T13:35:09.790-05:00

A powerful article by Naomi Klein from The Guardian

Deciamos Ayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10794052329326031121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1094062558392575982004-09-01T13:15:00.000-05:002004-09-13T08:03:06.960-05:00

Think about it! Nearly 36 million Americans live under the “poverty line.” Think again! One in eight Americans is poor. One of the eight families who live on my block is poor. Is this supposed to happen right here in the land of the plenty? Let us even look a bit closer and figure out how poverty is defined by our government.A family of two parents and two children is judged to be poor if they

Deciamos Ayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10794052329326031121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1094051802302838122004-09-01T10:14:00.000-05:002004-09-01T10:19:27.473-05:00

Something to think about before November 2.... [Elections are due soon in the United States, Afghanistan, Iraq and Indonesia. Democracy, the creation of the Greeks, remains the least bad political system. But it has to work properly: it must remain accountable to ordinary people and not suborn power.] by José Saramago

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So after another long week of layout, last-minute writing and advertising coordination, the first issue of the fall semester is now complete. It should hit the racks either Tuesday or Wednesday, just in time for school to start. Inside, we have articles about tuition hikes, outsourcing, media homogeniztion, misconceptions about Africa, the struggle for abortion rights, reviews of TEN summer

Guantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02587613638497439451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1093354507239436602004-08-24T08:34:00.000-05:002004-08-24T08:35:07.240-05:00

A comment published in the Guardian about sociologists in the US.

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By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer WASHINGTON - A Pentagon (news - web sites) investigation has concluded that a senior military intelligence officer violated regulations by failing to make clear he was not speaking in an official capacity when he made church speeches casting the war on terrorism in religious terms, a senior defense official said Thursday. In most instances the officer, Lt.

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I once heard on the old TV show The Comish, “There are three types of people: stupid people who do not learn from their own mistakes, smart people who learn from their mistakes, and wise people who learn from other people’s mistakes.” Once denounced as “voodoo economics” by former president Bush, Sr., the trickle-down philosophy of Reagan has been discredited by numerous economists. It was

Deciamos Ayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10794052329326031121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1092161902965240352004-08-10T13:16:00.000-05:002004-08-13T11:06:40.130-05:00

A very interesting article about young Turkish emcees in Germany, talking a lot about identity issues. I guess you have to register with the LA times to see it, but it's free and the article is very good. So often, i think we get stuck in the black/white mindset of race relations and forget that other countries have different situations. It's also amazing to see hip hop spread so far, and with

Guantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02587613638497439451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1092013309581530762004-08-08T19:59:00.000-05:002004-08-08T20:01:49.580-05:00

“True security rests with the people. The president should recognize that by assuring no one is left behind, including those who have long suffered the neglect of many inner-city neighborhoods.” Ralph Nader. We all remember September 11, when a horrible crime was committed on our soil. Several thousands of innocent people lost their lives in New York, Washington and Pittsburgh. On the same

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by David Croteau, Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 1998. An older-- but still highly interesting and certainly useful-- article debunking the oft-repeated notion that journalists are more liberal than average americans and that this is somehow reflected in news coverage. For those who already know that the "liberal media" is just a bogeyman conjured up

Guantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02587613638497439451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748048.post-1091148347918360872004-07-29T19:12:00.000-05:002004-07-29T19:45:47.916-05:00

"Our Media kills a Troubling Story that the Rest of the World Saw" by Joshua Holland presents a detailed analysis of how media has failed very important events in the world...

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Very interesting article analyzing how US media has come to be the voice of the White House and elite...

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What do you think of the SOAR edition of The Madison Observer? Post your comments below...

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The Madison Observer has been around for a year now...what are YOUR thoughts of where it will be a year from now? We need YOU to help shape what the Madison Observer is all about.

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