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Photo Courtesy of the New York Times.

Tonight at Georgetown University, controversial playwrite Mike Daisey is speaking on labor issues and capitalism:

In an age dominated by corporatism at the birth of the new globalism, what does it mean for human beings to speak? Mike Daisey, author and monologist, creator of “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” examines the threads of dominance and submission that bind together the story of labor across our globe, and ties that story to action. He examines the ways that our imagination has failed this age, and how the oldest human arts can come together with the latest social platforms to amplify our voices in ways unknown a generation ago. By provoking us to confront our assumptions, he tears open the shutters we unknowingly close, and sheds a different light on a story that was always sitting right in front of us.

All very interesting, but the more interesting thing about Daisey is that last week This American Life issued a retraction for a piece it did in January about Daisey’s show “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.” The problem is that in Daisey’s one-man-show he discusses work conditions at China’s infamous Foxconn factory (where many Apple products are made). Certain work conditions his play presents as actually happening did not actually happen (such as the factory having armed guards or that 13 year-olds worked there). This American Life got enmeshed in this because it presented the conditions discussed in Daisey’s play as being factual. Continue reading →

CAG’s annual Concerts in the Park are getting bigger and bigger every year and you definitely should definitely bring your family to them this summer. But before the concerts get here, you can help bring them here by attending a fun fund raiser tomorrow night at the TD bank on Wisconsin. Here are the details:

who robbed the bank?
you and any one of your friends or neighbors in georgetown could be a suspect! join us for an evening of mystery and suspense at our annual concerts in the parks fundraiser. listen to a dj spin your favorite
tunes, enjoy drinks and light bites, but keep your eyes open and your ears to the ground — clues will be all around you. the word on the street is that a heist is going down and you don’t want to be the one
to take the fall while your neighbors make off with the loot! and the suspects may really surprise you…

Join your friends and neighbors and be the one to solve the bank robbery mystery, while supporting CAG’s summer concert series.
saturday, march 3, 2012
7-11pm
TD bank
1611 wisconsin ave, nw
$125 per person
buy your tickets at
w w w . c a g t o w n . o r g / y o u m a y b e a s u s p e c t
or send a check to CAG at 1365 wisconsin ave, nw washington, dc 20007
attire: thomas crown affair chic
tickets are limited…buy yours today!

Should be a great time. GM himself is going to be one of the “suspects” so come on down and see whether he’s a dirty thief!

Photo by Boston Public Library.

Tonight the final round of the GU Campus Plan Zoning Commission hearings takes place. The record was held open to consider the plan’s transportation elements, although GM was also under the impression that GU would be given a chance to present its rebuttal to the ANC/CAG/BCA’s testimony. Either way, this is really supposed to be it, so either head on down to One Judiciary Square at 6:30 pm or check it out on the live feed.

GM would love to think this brings us close to the end of this process, but he predicts we’re still years away from that…