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Another Green World (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
There seems to be a full on hate campaign against Peter Tatchell, one of the most honorable Green Party activists I know, disagreement is one thing, a full scale assault on the truth is another. Andy Newman’s post (12.) repeats the false allegations against myself and OutRage! by a group of African LGBTI activists. Most African LGBTI activists refused to sign the letter denouncing...
the nytpicker (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... has been getting impatient for a breakout front-runner for the prize. We knew last year's winner, Andy Newman -- the NYT metro reporter who penned the August 2008 faux -poetic ode to the end of the subway line , "The Curious World of the Last Stop" -- had to be at work on something! Then suddenly this morning, Andy emerged with a late-breaking, likely winner: "Block-a-Thon,"...
UNITYblogNZ.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... for a historical re-evaluation.Histories, Analyses and Views – Part 1:Auferstanden Aus Ruinen, Andy Newman argues we need to remember both the good and the bad about the DDR.John Wight laments the passing of the USSR in a brief history of the Soviet Union.Neil Davidson celebrates The revolutions of 1989.Sinead Daly and Christine Thomas on Women & Family after the fall of the Wall.Kevin...
Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... Orwell “Democracy is the road to socialism” – Karl Marx - Bob Friends, Readers and Contributors, New issue of Democratic Green Socialist online magazine out now and free to view at: www.democraticgreensocialist.org For all those seeking a left antidote to the mainstream media free market triumphalism around the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Issue No 9 of DGS is a special issue...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... with crews hailing from the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Andy Newman) KEY WEST, Fla. -- Peter Meyer and Johnny Stanch have won a second consecutive Super Vee Unlimited class title at the Key West World Championship offshore powerboat races.Meyer, of Port Washington, N.Y., and Stanch, of Camden, N.J., piloted Seminole Hard Rock at an average...
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
This is a guest post by MoreMediaNonsense There’s been an interesting discussion on Socialist Unity about (again) the Peter Tatchell row. Andy Newman of Respect published a piece agreeing in some points with the nasty (and since withdrawn) “Gay Imperialism” attack on Peter Tatchell by Jin Haritaworn, Tamsila Tauqir and Esra Erdem. Andy’s view on this is...
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Over at Socialist Unity, Andy Newman notes: The draconian anti-gay laws being introduced in Uganda seem to have received very little attention in the Western press. This will widen the current legal definition of homosexuality, which involves a lengthy prison sentance (sic), and introduces a new offence of “aggravated homosexuality” which would be punishable by death. The...
the nytpicker (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... Cinematographer and Professor. AND: Metaphor That Block! With "Block-a-Thon," NYT's Andy Newman Becomes Leading Contender For NYTPicker's "Worst NYT Story of 2009" Award.
John's Labour blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... ”. (Wot!) Then the shock horror news here about the editor of Socialist Disunity - Andy Newman and his deep...dark secret:- “... We all have guilty pleasures that we are slightly embarrassed to admit to. My dirty secret is that I regularly read John Gray’s blog ”... I actually don’t mind since Andy he is one of the very few Ultra left bloggers...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Runners in last year's NYC Marathon, by lempkin on Flickr And they're off! Over 40,000 runners are on their way to finishing the 2009 New York City Marathon, which snakes across all five boroughs before its dramatic — and surprisingly hilly — finish in Central Park. All eyes are on three-time winner Paula Radcliffe , the British champ who this summer won the NYC Half Marathon ....
Though Cowards Flinch (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
... associated with piously lecturing their fellow Lefties (as I have occasionally been accused of ). Andy Newman mentioned the the rumour that the SWP had expelled some of their SWS activists for whatever reason, potentially raising the question of expulsions as a party-building tactic and over when they are justifiable. Continuing on a theme of expulsions from socialist organisations,...
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
... David Kelly, around various Indymedia-style conferences and had it serialised in The Daily Mail . Andy Newman delivered the bad news about the sanity of the Green Party’s McKinney on the Socialist Unity blog back in October 2008. Surprisingly, that didn’t stop his co-blogger Derek Wall endorsing her a month later. Of course, the signs were always there. A year before, former congresswoman...
