http://www.blogher.com/node/20050 Comments for "The First Carnival for Radical Action" en http://www.blogher.com/node/20050 <p>Happy Memorial Day. Here are some links for your reading pleasure: two carnivals, and two blog posts criticizing mainstream media.</p> <p><a href="http://antiessentialistspeaksup.wordpress.com/2007/05/26/the-first-carnival-for-radical-action/">The First Carnival for Radical Action</a> is hot off the press at <b>The Anti-Essentialist Conundrum</b>. This carnival contains lots of strategizing about how to organize at the grassroots level. The May issue of <a href="http://theangryblackwoman.wordpress.com/2007/05/21/may-2007-erase-racism-carnival/">The Erase Racism Carnival</a> is hosted at <b>The Angry Black Woman</b>. Both hosts have done smashing jobs on these carnivals, so drop by and leave a comment if you appreciate their work.</p> <p>Misleading reports by the mainstream media about birth control get <b>The Well-Timed Period</b> blogging in <a href="http://thewelltimedperiod.blogspot.com/2007/05/lybrel-approved.html">Lybrel Approved</a>.</p> <p>And <b>The Crone Speaks</b> responds to a <em>New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/world/africa/26algeria.html?_r=2&amp;hp=&amp;oref=slogin&amp;pagewanted=print&amp;oref=slogin">article</a> about the women of Algiers. See her post, <a href="http://cronespeaks.wordpress.com/2007/05/26/desire-and-opportunity/">Desire and Opportunity</a>.</p> <p><em>Melinda Casino also writes at <a href="http://sourduck.blogspot.com/">Sour Duck</a>.</em></p> http://www.blogher.com/node/20050#comments Media &amp; Journalism Race &amp; Ethnicity Gender Mon, 28 May 2007 08:32:27 -0500 Melinda Casino 20050 at http://www.blogher.com