Author: Rob Goodspeed

Profile in American U Student Paper

I can’t resist sharing this profile of me that was printed in American University’s student newspaper. A few corrections: I probably will not make a career in journalism and my former co-editor’s name is Mike Grass, not Mike Brass. As for the rest, well, you can make up your own mind. The complete text is […]

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The More Things Change …

I was excited to hear that BAM-N is being confronted for their confrontational and counter-productive tactics. Apparently BAM-N relied on an old tried and true tactic – hijack another meeting to use it as a platform to try to provoke conflict and strife. When I was on MSA we got pretty good at shutting them […]

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BAMN Criticized by Campus NAACP Group

Alex Moffett, vice president of the NAACP, said BAMN tokenized and presented black students in a bad light when it bused in hundreds of black middle- and high-school students from Detroit for the Thursday rally on the Diag. During the rally against the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, a proposal that could ban the use of […]

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More Educational Uses of Flickr

Apparently Robert Greenwald’s production company is using Flickr to share photos they have collected while making their documentary about Wal-Mart. Whomever is managing the account could do much to raise the visibility of the material on Flickr – by adding more tags, joining groups to submit the photos to, and commenting on anything about Wal-Mart […]

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