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QUESTION: Origin of a phrase

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What is the origin of the phrase "Dry as a Whistle"? Thank-you!

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QUESTION: one-day hunger strike at INS detention center in Los Angeles in 2000?

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In August 2000, during or around the time of the Democratic National Convention, male and female detainees at the San Pedro Service Processing Center (in downtown Los Angeles) staged a one-day hunger strike to protest the center's conditions. According to an interview with one of the detainees, some of their demands were met and there was some media coverage. Where would I find past media coverage about the hunger strike and/or what conditions were changed because of the hunger strike?

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San Pedro Service Processing Center Hunger Strike

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I found this article about the strike on the CommonDreams Progressive Newswire:
http://www.commondreams.org/news2000/1101-03.htm
It describes the conditions, Human Rights Watch's intervention and well as the strike and the improvments made after.

This link goes to a Media Alert for a Press Conference describing the conditions being protested as well as a solidarity march for the detainees around the time of the strike.
http://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/node/336

I hope this helps!

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QUESTION: Criminal Justice/Prison System

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I was wondering how much it costs to keep a prisoner on death row, and why the cost is higher that other prisoners (if it is).

I'd prefer to know about prisons in Pennsylvania, but any info about prisons in the US.

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QUESTION: Charter Schools

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How do Non-profit charter school companies, like Imagine Schools, profit off of their schools? If it is non-profit, how are they making their money?

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Charter School Funding

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Charter Schools are funded differently by state. This report by the Fordham Institute goes into detail by state on how they are funded, and how successful each method is.
http://www.edexcellence.net/institute/charterfinance

If you want anything more specific, feel free to contact me at natalie dot brant at gmail dot com.

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QUESTION: what is genderfucking?

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i am looking for articles on genderfucking, in particular about what that means for people who use the term and who do not identify as transgender. how do they express themselves in terms of their outward appearance and play with their gender presentation when they 'genderfuck'? i am looking for diversity of perspectives that would certainly include those who do identify as transgender.

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Answer: What is Genderfucking

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from my colleague (thanks buddy):
There are a few good articles on this subject in the book Queer Theory - edited by Iain Morland and Annabelle Willox (Palgrave 2005). See especially "Leather Daddy and the Femme" by Carol Queen (40-53), "Gender Fucking or Fucking Gender" by Stephen Whittle (115-129), and "Gender Fusion" by Del LaGrace Volcano and Indra Windh (130-141).

Judith Halberstam (USC) is perhaps the most successful scholar on the subject of genderfucking. Three of her most popular books on this subject include Posthuman Bodies (Indiana 1995), In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives ( NYU 2005), Female Masculinity (Duke 1998), and The Drag King Book (Serpent's Tale 1999).

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Searching in the Gender Studies Database (possibly available at your college), I found a reference to the following book: Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing (1996). It contains the "Gender Fucking or Fucking Gender?" essay mentioned in the answer above.

If you're interested in less scholarly uses of the term/concept, you could try searching in Google Groups, a search that includes Usenet postings going back to the 1990s.

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January 26 meeting update!

The Greater Los Angeles Collective met this past weekend, after a lull of many, many months. Five of us from Los Angeles and one from Santa Ana discussed possible projects:

QUESTION: Radio Station ownership (multiple stations)

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I would like to have a list of the corporations that own more than 25 radio stations each in the United States.

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radio station ownership

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The Columbia Jouranlism Review's Who Owns What? database is invaluable for this sort of question. Although I can't get it to spit out a list, you can go through and check manually on each company's ownership of different types of media.

I checked through the Cs and so far came up with CBS, Citadel Broadcasting, Clear Channel, Corus, Cox, and Cumulus as outfits that own more than 25 radio stations.

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Additional resources for this question

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For data as of 2005 there is a chart on the page on radio ownership and a table of the top 25 radio companies on the Project for Excellence in Journalism's report on the State of the News Media 2007. Click the table heading for "total" to sort by stations owned rather than news, and you will find that all of the top 25 own more than 25 stations. (Entercom's entry on the latter chart should read "103" not "3")

In addition to that and the above answer, you might want to check out a
similar question which was posted to the Radical Reference site in 2004. You can take a look at the previous list of resources for more sources of information on this subject.

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NYC Collective January 2008 Meeting Minutes

January 18, 2008
ABC No Rio
Present: Julie, Christi, John, Jenna, Melissa M, Alycia

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