Harvey Weinstein’s defense team didn’t take much time.
After prosecutors laid out a broad case for the former megaproducer’s guilt, calling six women who accused him of rape or sexual assault in testimony lasting some two weeks, Weinstein’s attorneys took only about three days to say their piece.
Weinstein himself did not testify, and his attorneys relied largely on their prior cross-examinations to make the case that his alleged crimes were actually consensual encounters. (Some of those points are included in NPR’s look at prosecutors’ arguments last week.)
Check out our latest recording, The Illegitimacy of Violence, the Violence of Legitimacy, by Crimethinc.
This piece discusses the role of violence - what it is, and who gets to define it - as discussed in debates sparked during the Occupy movement.
The piece strays from the “violent vs. nonviolent tactics” part of the discussion we’ve all probably heard before, and instead opts for questioning why so-called violent tactics are written off as illegitimate forms of protest, while “nonviolent” tactics and state-sanctioned acts of violence are deemed legitimate.
“It’s important to have strategic debates: shifting away from the discourse of nonviolence doesn’t mean we have to endorse every single broken window as a good idea.. But it only obstructs these debates when dogmatists insist that all who do not share their goals and assumptions—not to say their class interests!—have no strategic sense. It’s also not strategic to focus on delegitimizing each other’s efforts rather than coordinating to act together where we overlap. That’s the point of affirming a diversity of tactics: to build a movement that has space for all of us, yet leaves no space for domination and silencing—a ‘people power’ that can both expand and intensify.”
Astronauts train all over the world, including at Johnson Space Center. Here, they learn not just how to live aboard the International Space Station, but also how to conduct science in microgravity.
Astronauts serve as the eyes and hands of researchers while their experiments are in space, so they must be trained in everything from using a microscope, to maintaining the equipment for combustion experiments.
Check out this week’s episode of NASA Explorers as we go to class with an astronaut.
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