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The next year, as many other SDS activists ventured into local community organizing in the ghettos of American cities, Paul led SDS’s Peace Research and Education Project, which sought to organize workers in defense plants facing factory closings and layoffs. Its goal was to build a coalition between blue-collar worker...
In 1964, following President Johnson’s escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, Paul and fellow SDS leader Todd Gitlin crisscrossed the country trying to interest student activists in opposing the war, but discovered little interest. But they persisted and eventually persuaded their SDS colleagues to sponsor the firs...
Supporters of the event included the Women’s Strike for Peace and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, reflecting Paul’s intent to connect the anti-war and civil rights movements. The day-long event began with picketing outside the White House, followed by music from folk singers Joan Baez and Phil Ochs and a...
Although Vietnam preoccupied Paul and SDS, he also sought to expand the movement’s horizons. In March 1965, with SDS support and drawing on union and civil rights tactics, he organized a sit-in at the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City to draw attention to the bank's ties to the pro-apartheid regime in South Africa,...
Paul moved to Chicago in 1965 to serve as SDS’s national secretary—its top job. It was while working in the group’s national office that he joined the sit-in at the University of Chicago and met Heather—a fateful day for them and for American progressivism.
In 1966, the United Packinghouse Workers of America hired Paul as its research director. He was one of the first former campus radicals to join the labor movement, which in the 1960s and 1970s was starting to lose members and political influence, but which he viewed as a necessary component of any progressive future fo...
In 1970, while working for the union, he and other Chicago activists formed Citizens Action Program (CAP), a remarkable progressive organizing force that gathered under its wing labor unions, religious congregations, and community and environmental groups. With Paul as its co-chair, CAP built grassroots campaigns to ch...
One of CAP’s boldest campaigns was designed to stop the construction of the Crosstown Expressway, a highway that would have razed thousands of homes and hundreds of small businesses in blue-collar neighborhoods, which was a favorite project of Chicago’s business and political establishment. CAP turned the expressway co...
CAP not only served as a training ground for many activists—including current Democratic Representative Jan Schakowsky of Illinois—but has also been a model for other labor-community coalitions ever since. Combining issue-oriented community organizing and transformational movement building led Heather (with Paul’s help...
In 1974, Paul went to work for AFSCME as the international union’s representative for Illinois. He helped organize AFSCME Council 31 in Illinois and, as its assistant director, led the campaigns that secured the first union contract for 40,000 state workers and 7,000 Chicago municipal employees. He also negotiated hist...
With Heather, he played a key role in electing Harold Washington as Chicago’s first black mayor in 1983, defeating the city’s corrupt patronage machine and creating a broad multiracial coalition that enacted the most progressive municipal policies of any American city.
Paul moved to Washington, D.C., in 1988 to work in AFSCME’s national office, serving for ten years as the union’s organizing director and then as Executive Assistant (essentially, chief of staff) for union presidents Gerald McEntee and Lee Saunders. In those capacities, he laid the foundation for AFSCME’s representatio...
As the chief strategist for one of the nation’s largest, most progressive, and most electorally oriented unions (almost all of AFSCME’s members were government employees), Paul often came up with innovative campaigns and initiatives that not only guided AFSCME but also much of the labor movement. In 1994, he devised th...
After the midterm elections of 1994, which cost Democrats control of the House of Representatives for the first time in decades, the discontent that had been festering among progressive unions about the AFL-CIO’s leadership burst into the open. Headed by president Lane Kirkland, the federation still seemed to be fighti...
In subsequent years, with McEntee chairing the AFL-CIO’s political committee, Paul played a major role in labor’s targeting of races, its campaign themes, and its nurturing of progressive candidates.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton appointed Paul to serve on the Democratic Party’s platform drafting committee, where he served as a bridge between the Clinton and Bernie Sanders forces. In his six-minute speech to the convention, Paul said, “I am proud to present the most ambitious platform the Democratic Party has ever offer...
Beck got many of the names and details wrong, but he was correct in viewing Paul Booth as a key player in linking people and movements into a broader progressive alliance to reshape society.
Since his student days, Paul was known as a brilliant organizer and shrewd strategist whose idealism was always balanced with a sense of practical politics.
One of his many behind-the-scenes endeavors in recent decades was to help instigate, win funding for, and guide a host of other progressive institutions—from the Economic Policy Institute and Jobs with Justice to the National Employment Law Project, the Restaurant Opportunity Center, and the Los Angeles Alliance for a ...
Paul was the quintessential inside-outside activist, recognizing the importance of protest and civil disobedience while acknowledging the necessity of forging alliances with politicians to give voice to and help implement progressive changes.
Among his friends, Paul was known for being witty, ironic and warm as well as intellectual. Together, he and Heather balanced their activism and their family life, raising two sons, and participating in a wide network of activist friends. While Paul worked for AFSCME for 43 years—and was able to use that position to he...
Paul was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 2004 but exhibited no symptoms until last month. During a December trip to Cuba with Heather and other friends, Paul experienced severe exhaustion, difficulty breathing, and some bloating. When they returned to their D.C. home in early January, Paul was admitted t...
On Monday, from his hospital bed, Paul wrote a message to the hundreds of friends who had posted comments on the website. He reminded them of the Memphis sanitation workers' strike 50 years ago, a campaign in which AFSCME helped the African American workers win a union contract and better pay and working conditions.
I would like to reply to each of you, individually; our histories together have had unique moments whose recollection comes rushing to my mind as I see your names on these notes. Some of you have been friends from elementary or high school. But if I can’t write to each of you one by one, let me at least share a few ref...
On February 1, we will remember the incident that triggered the strike, the Memphis afternoon when a downpour forced Echol Cole, 35, and Robert Walker, 29, to seek shelter in the back of their old trash truck. The compactor kicked in, crushing them to death. It was the last straw for the workers, who had an AFSCME char...
Dr. King famously said ‘the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice.’ But he knew, and I underline, that it’s up to us to do the bending. We shall do it together.
A newborn baby lemur has been born at Woburn Safari Park and he is currently without a name.
Keepers have decided they want the public to name him, because it always goes well when companies do this sort of thing.
The baby boy was born to 10-year-old ring-tailed lemur mum Kirindy and 7-year-old dad Berenti back in March.
The new addition to the Land of the Lemurs enclosure weighed about 30g when he was born – imagine if human children weighed this much.
It would make childbirth a lot more appealing, know what I’m saying?
The nameless lemur also has a half-sister who was born just a few days after him.
She has the same dad as him, but her mum is 9-year-old Sambava.
Daddy’s got his work cut out, so we guess he as no time to name his kids.
Now, the lemurs all have Malagasy (the Austronesian language of the species’ native Madagascar) names, so keepers would like to keep it that way.
Whoever picks the winning name will win a VIP Up Close Encounter for four people at the Bedfordshire park.
‘It‘s great to see so many new arrivals at Woburn this spring and I cannot wait to see the names that the public come up with for our new baby lemur,’ says animal keeper, Louise Moody, absolutely tempting fate.
‘You can see how proud Kirindy is, and she loves to show him off to visitors coming through their walk-through enclosure each day.
Submit your name suggestion for the tiny lemur here by 7 May.
They’ve already stipulated that he can’t be called King Julian, which is a crying shame.
We take another look at the Platimax series and see if Enermax continues to deliver Platinum power at higher wattages.
As promised earlier this month in or review of the Enermax Revolution87+, we have another review for Enermax this month.
This time around it is for their Platimax series of power supplies which offer superb performance at Platinum rated efficiency. We took an early look at the Platimax series late last year when the only PSU we could get our hands on at the time was the 600W model.
We wanted to follow up and see if their high wattage offerings were of the same quality as we were sure our readers would be interested in Platinum efficiency in an enthusiasts quality power supply.
Keep reading as we take an in-depth look at the Platimax 1000W from Enermax.
One of the big changes that we see between the 600W and 1000W models is that Enermax now uses a single 12V rail instead of three 25A rails. This allows for up to 83A of power on the 12V rail or 996W. Unfortunately the 3.3V and 5V rails didn't get an increase at all and are only rated for 20A each with a combined total ...
The Enermax Platimax 1000W comes packed with everything we check for. It has both native and modular cabling; all of which is fully sleeved. All your protections are present including over-temperature protection. As you would expect, the unit is rated for 100% continuous output at 50C. Enermax gives you all that you co...
Enermax has an MSRP of $299 on the Platimax 1000W unit. We were able to find it cheapest at Newegg for $289.99 at the time of writing this article.
Even at that price, it is the most expensive 1000W Platinum power supply on the market by $30. Enermax backs the Platimax with their customary five year warranty.
Dig into some refreshing fruit kebabs to get over the scorching heat. The vegetarian and non-vegetarian kebabs infused with fruits..
Dig into some refreshing fruit kebabs to get over the scorching heat. The vegetarian and non-vegetarian kebabs infused with fruits, which are rich in proteins, carbohydrates and nutrients are up on the summer menu at Ignis. The delicacies include Murgh Tikka Aam Ki Chat Pat, Basa Orange Kebab, Goli Aalu Anardana etc. M...
The RCMP major crimes are investigating after Cindy McCormick and Bob Kaine were found dead in Lake Louise west of Calgary.
New Brunswick dentist Cindy McCormick was a fearless, vibrant woman, known as much for belting out karaoke tunes as for constantly changing her colourful hairstyles.
She was even a contestant on the reality television series Wipeout Canada in 2011.
“She had it all: She was the jock, she was the brainiac, she was gorgeous. And she was so humble,” says close friend Pamela Wilson Sydor.
McCormick was murdered last weekend while attending a dental conference in Alberta.
RCMP said her body was discovered Sunday afternoon in a room at the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise in the mountain resort community. About two hours earlier, officers had responded to a call of a 52-year-old man found dead in a vehicle about 35 kilometres west into British Columbia near Emerald Lake.
Police confirmed the two cases are linked. An autopsy showed the woman’s death was a homicide and the man’s death was not criminal, and officers say they are not looking for other suspects.
Sydor identified the man as McCormick’s boyfriend, Bobby Kaine, a member of the Saint John, N.B., fire department.
The pair, both divorced, started dating a few years ago and had moved in together, said Sydor. McCormick, owner of Bayside Dental Clinic, had two teenagers and Kaine had a grown son and grandchildren. They both grew up in the town of Nackawic, N.B.
Sydor of White Rock, B.C., was raised in Nackawic as well and knows both families. Kaine took her sons camping last summer and they adored him.
“It seemed like a good match. It really did,” said Sydor, who last saw the couple at a wedding in northern Alberta in September. She said her 46-year-old friend had streaks of pink and blue her in blond hair and looked happy.
She said she was shocked to learn Kaine and McCormick were dead. She wasn’t aware that the couple had problems.
“She never told me anything and she tells me everything,” Sydor said.
McCormick had invited her to join the couple in Lake Louise but she chose not to go, she added.
“What a nightmare,” said fellow Saint John dentist Jim Craft.
He didn’t attend the Dental Technology and Business Growth Summit with McCormick, he said, but word of her death spread quickly.
Working together on different dental boards, they rotated hosting lobster parties at each others’ homes. She was funny and fearless, took her family camping in the winter and played hockey, Craft said. He believes that’s how she met Kaine, who also played and coached the sport.
It’s unimaginable that such a tough woman could be the victim of domestic violence, he said.
Bob Hatheway, president of the New Brunswick Dental Society, considered McCormick a close friend. He visited her clinic Wednesday and said patients who didn’t even have appointments were stopping by to give their condolences and drop off flowers.
Everyone will miss her, he said.
Cable-car ride to Hollywood sign?
LOS ANGELES • Hollywood may sell dreams in its movies, but getting around the area is a nightmare for tourists.
Now, there could be a happy turn of events. Warner has announced plans for a US$100-million (S$135-million) cable-car project to take tourists from its studio lot to the iconic Hollywood sign, a place increasingly choked by tourist traffic.
The company, one of Tinseltown's "Big Six" film distributors, told city officials on Monday it would put up the entire funding for the "Hollywood Skyway".
The six-minute ride would extend more than 1.6km from Warner's base in Burbank up Mount Lee to a visitor centre near the sign, with pathways to a viewing area, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The studio said the project would "reduce street congestion, improve safety and ease neighbourhood frustrations". "Given our close proximity to the north side of the Hollywood sign, we believe we offer a solution that has the least impact on the environment - protecting and preserving (nearby) Griffith Park - and the s...
The project is expected to take about five years to complete, if it is approved.
The landmark was erected in 1923 as "Hollywoodland" to advertise a local real-estate development.
It has undergone a number of transformations over the years, including in 1987, when pranksters changed it to "Holywood" to mark the visit of Pope John Paul II.
In a few hours we will see millions of people trying to upgrade to iOS 9, as the download is expected to go live in just over two hours time worldwide. However, because there are likely to be a few issues that could cause issues for iOS devices, some of you have already made the decision to postpone the update.
iOS 9 upgrade wait for 9.0.1 to be released — As with the past few iOS updates we have seen a growing number of people hanging back and not being caught up in all those early issues. We suspect this will be the same this year, although maybe a higher number of you will decide to wait for iOS 9.01 to go live — whenever ...
It’s common knowledge that Apple will release its new mobile OS and with it will be a host of problems for some of you. Procrastinators usually find that given time Apple will iron out those early issues. I know that we cannot foresee there being any problems, but let’s face it, there are going to be a few because it i...
People do not make this decision lightly, as they know they will be missing out on the latest features, but are not prepared to fall prey to the early bugs and hiccups. We know that Apple would have tested iOS 9 solidly, but there will always be bugs that are not apparent until released on a much larger scale, which wi...
Do you plan to upgrade today, or will you be waiting for iOS 9.0.1 to be released?
Look who it is! Catelynn Baltierra, Maci Bookout, Amber Portwood, Bristol Palin and Cheyenne Floyd are hanging out here during a night out in New York City.
Cheyenne Floyd: I'm Not Racist! Please Watch Me on Teen Mom OG!
Julia Child wrote that the Gateau Reine de Saba was the first French cake she ever ate. My version is a bit simpler to make than hers. I melt the chocolate with liquid, and I use all ground almonds rather than the traditional mixture of flour and almonds. I like my Reine de Saba to be slightly more like pudding and vol...
Featured in: At My Table; In Defense Of Poor, Maligned Chocolate.
Heat oven to 325 degrees. Butter a 9-inch springform pan, and line the side wall with parchment paper. In a heavy-bottomed pan, combine 12 tablespoons butter, 6 ounces chopped chocolate, almond extract and coffee. Melt over low heat, then transfer to a bowl and allow to cool.
With an electric mixer, whisk egg whites and salt until soft peaks form. Slowly add 1/2 cup sugar until thick and glossy. Set aside.
In a separate bowl, whisk together egg yolks with remaining 1/2 cup sugar until thick. Fold in the melted chocolate mixture. Add ground almonds and mix well. Whisk in a dollop of egg whites to lighten mixture. Using a rubber spatula, gently fold in the rest of egg whites, keeping batter airy.
Scrape batter into pan and bake until cake is dry on top and a bit gooey in center, 30 to 40 minutes. (After 30 minutes of baking, check center of cake with a tester or toothpick. If center seems very wet, continue baking.) Cool cake on a rack for 20 minutes, then remove side of pan. Allow to continue cooling. Top of c...
In a small saucepan, combine 2 tablespoons sugar, the corn syrup and 1/4 cup water. Bring to a boil, then remove from heat. Add 4 ounces chopped chocolate, swirl pan to mix, and allow to stand until melted, about 3 minutes.
Whisk 1 tablespoon butter into icing, then pour evenly over cake. Use a spatula to ease icing out to edges of cake. Allow icing to cool, and set before slicing.
KATE CHARLET is Director of the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Military and political leaders have worried about large-scale biological warfare for more than a century. “Blight to destroy crops, Anthrax to slay horses and cattle, Plague to poison not armies only but whole districts—such are the lines along which military science is remorselessly advancing,” Winston Churchill lamen...
Recent breakthroughs in gene editing have generated massive excitement, but they have also reenergized fears about weaponized pathogens. Using gene-editing tools, including a system known as CRISPR, scientists are now able to modify an organism’s DNA more efficiently, flexibly, and accurately than ever before. The full...
These technologies offer vast potential for global good. Researchers are studying the use of new gene-editing techniques to fix deadly genetic mutations, create disease-resistant crops, and treat cancer. Top scientists at Harvard are pursuing medical applications once thought to be out of reach, such as age reversal an...
One of the most worrisome questions today is whether advances in biotechnology could tempt states to revive their old biological weapons programs or start new ones. Such an outcome would drastically undermine the progress of the last several decades. A revitalization of state biological weapons programs could trigger n...

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