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Carmen Trotta of the Catholic Worker, kneeling in an orange T shirt, being arrested at the UN as part of the “Arrest Bush” demonstration this morning. A number of members of the Catholic Worker and War Resisters League were arrested.

[From Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print]
I’ve been following the “Jena 6″ issue for a few weeks now, and I haven’t posted on it because I believe the situation is more complicated than the way in which either “side” portrays it.
“Free the Jena 6″ is the slogan being bandied around by marchers and protest organizers, [...]

[From RawStory.com Headlines]
ALEXANDRIA, Louisiana (CNN) — Authorities in Alexandria, Louisiana, arrested two people after nooses were seen hanging from the back of a red pickup Thursday night, the city’s mayor told CNN.

Alexandria is less than an hour away from Jena, Louisiana, and was a staging area Thursday for protesters who went to the smaller town [...]

[From Los Angeles Times]

Chris Graythen / Chicago Tribune
GROUNDS OF DISCONTENT: Last September, after a group of black students were allowed to sit under a tree on the unofficial “white” side of the grounds, a group of white students hung nooses from its branches.

Activists are expected to converge on this tiny town, protesting the stiff [...]

[From: ABC News]
Mathematics, Religion and Evolution in School Curricula
COMMENTARY
By JOHN ALLEN PAULOS
Sept. 2, 2007

School begins again, and we read more about the intrusion of pseudoscience into school science curricula in this country, particularly into the study of biology and evolution.
The motive, despite the claims of proponents of intelligent design and other bogus “disciplines,” has been [...]

[From: Wired News ]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Thursday said Internet service providers should be allowed to charge a fee for priority Web traffic.
The agency told the Federal Communications Commission, which is reviewing high-speed Internet practices, that it is opposed to “Net neutrality,” the principle that all Internet sites should be equally accessible [...]

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