The Queer Activist Coalition
Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by Julie Ludwig in Politics
The QAC is a politically motivated activist group at UF fighting for full civil and social equality for the LGBTQ community. We believe that discrimination based on sexuality or gender identity is not only unjust, but harmfully oppressive, yet the homosexual community remains one of the most marginalized communities in America today.
Aid, not Guns, for Haiti
Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by Joe Richard in Politics
Why is Haiti the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere? Why does the immense majority of Haitians live on less than $2 a day? Why does the capital of Port-au-Prince (which is built on a fault line) have no building codes to regulate proper building construction like similar cities? Why is the Obama administration sending thousands of troops to Haiti, instead of serious economic and humanitarian aid? Why are U.S. warships surrounding the waters off the coast and refusing to allow anyone to leave the island?
The answers to all of these questions can be found in the long history of U.S. interventions in the first modern country to abolish slavery and establish a black republic.
Brand Obama: Are You Still Buying What He’s Selling?
Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by Fine Print Staff in Politics
In light of President Obama’s one-year anniversary in office, The Fine Print staff interviewed both current and former members of the Gainesville community and of all ages and backgrounds to get their take on how Obama’s first year went.
Human Rights Awareness on Campus
Posted on 29. Dec, 2009 by Travis Pillow in Politics
The “Never Again” motto has not been taken seriously, and for decades we have overlooked human crises. We have studied, analyzed and added them to our history books, but we have not tried to ease, control or end them.
Genocide, war crimes, social abuses, displaced refugees, rape: unfortunately these tragedies continue, and Human Rights Awareness [...]
Awarding Activism: Meet the First Recipient of Gainesville’s Penrod Award
Posted on 29. Dec, 2009 by Rebecca Astorga in Politics
John Arthur Penrod, a retired UF English professor who served in the Spanish Civil War and World War II, passed away April 12, 2008, at 94. In remembrance of Penrod’s heroism, The Penrod Award was established shortly after his death by Labor Party members Carol Ordina and Chad Hood, Veterans for Peace members Scott Camil [...]
There’s Got to be a Better Way
Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by Travis Pillow in Politics
The United States spend 16 percent of its GDP on health care – far more than any other country, but has some of the worst health stats in the industrialized world. Here’s a look at the lessons we can learn from other countries:
Japan
Percentage of GDP spent on health care: 8.1
How does it work?
Under the social [...]
Helping Hands Clinic – Healthcare for the Homeless
Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by Joel Mora in Politics
Helping Hands Clinic: Health Care for the Homeless from Joel Mora on Vimeo.
In the Red: Dirty Rotten Restaurants
Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by Joe Richard in Politics
Going to work in a restaurant is like going to prison. You deal with snitches, scabs, backstabbers, dealers, narcs, dirty cops and crooked shitheads in positions of power. The knives, the drugs, the turf wars, the punishing of creative expression. The wages are low, and maybe because of this, cigarettes are worth more than money. [...]
The Democrats and The Gays
Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by Sean McCaughan in Politics
By the time this issue goes to press, rainbows will have flown over Washington, and gays in full Civil-Rights Era fervor will have marched upon the Capitol at the National LGBT March for Equality on Oct. 11. The Movement will have reached a level of activism and idealism that will seem almost retro – or [...]
Encuentro: Coming Together for Farmworkers’ Rights
Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by Kristen Abdullah and Richard Blake in Politics
As we made the four-hour journey south to tomato-town Immokalee, Fla., we ran through the itinerary for the long weekend to come and familiarized ourselves with the 40-plus pages of reading material that we were supposed to have completed three weeks before. The thick packet of literature included stories like “Immokalee family sentenced for slavery,” [...]
