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QUESTION: Fundraising for cancer research

Posted March 4th, 2010 by Anonymousy
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I wonder if there is an update on the topics raised by Epstein in 1999:

American Cancer Society: The World's Wealthiest "Nonprofit" Institution by Samuel S. Epstein - also posted on Cancer Prevention Coalition website here.
(International Journal of Health Services, Volume 29, Number 3, Pages 565–578, 1999)

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Answer posted by: shqippy

These 7 articles have all cited that article. Hope this helps!

1. Title: The genetic conception of health: is it as radical as claimed?
Author(s): Petersen A
Source: HEALTH Volume: 10 Issue: 4 Pages: 481-500 Published: OCT 2006
Times Cited: 3
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2. Title: Health activism: Communication theory and action for social change
Author(s): Zoller HM
Source: COMMUNICATION THEORY Volume: 15 Issue: 4 Pages: 341-364 Published: NOV 2005
Times Cited: 5
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3. Title: The crisis in US and international cancer policy
Author(s): Epstein SS, Ashford NA, Blackwelder B, et al.
Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH SERVICES Volume: 32 Issue: 4 Pages: 669-707 Published: 2002
Times Cited: 7
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4. Title: The medicalization of menopause: Critique and consequences
Author(s): Meyer VF
Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH SERVICES Volume: 31 Issue: 4 Pages: 769-792 Published: 2001
Times Cited: 8
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5. Title: Dangers and unreliability of mammography: Breast examination is a safe, effective, and practical alternative
Author(s): Epstein SS, Bertell R, Seaman B
Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH SERVICES Volume: 31 Issue: 3 Pages: 605-615 Published: 2001
Times Cited: 4
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6. Title: The politics of cancer
Author(s): Epstein SS
Source: JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Volume: 284 Issue: 4 Pages: 442-+ Published: JUL 26 2000
Times Cited: 0
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7. Title: Legislative proposals for reversing the cancer epidemic and controlling run-away industrial technologies
Author(s): Epstein SS
Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH SERVICES Volume: 30 Issue: 2 Pages: 353-371 Published: 2000
Times Cited: 6
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QUESTION: post partum depression legislation

Posted February 14th, 2010 by Anonymousy
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Can you tell me what states have laws enacted that are relevant to postpartum depression AND what states have legislation somewhere in process related to postpartum depression?
Thanks so much

QUESTION: Corporate campaign donations

Posted February 9th, 2010 by snazzy
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Where can I go to find the total amount of money contributed by
corporations in a given election cycle (congressional, presidential),
and the same for unions?

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Answer posted by: acornwithwings

The Center for Responsive Politics has databases called Open Secrets which are freely available to the public. At the website I'll post in a moment you can search the total contributions, national and state, of the top 10,000 national donors in the country. This includes corporations, unions, and other special interest groups. Hope this helps!
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/index_stfed.php

QUESTION: Military Bases

Posted February 9th, 2010 by snazzy
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Where can I go to find the location of US military bases around the world?

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Answer posted by: NatalieB

You can find a copy of this book, "Directory of U.S. military bases worldwide", at many public libraries.
You didn't post a zip code, so I'm not sure what library closest to you would have it, but you check WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/ and put in your zip code and the book title.

Directory of U.S. military bases worldwide
William R Evinger
Phoenix, AZ : Oryx Press, 1998.

Answer posted by: joe

You can also find a directory of worldwide military installations on the Department of Defense website: http://www.militaryinstallations.dod.mil

QUESTION: how would i find more information about these 1970s activist groups?

Posted February 8th, 2010 by Anonymousy
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Where and how would I find more information about the Triangle Area Lesbian Feminists and the North Carolina Hard Times Prison Project? Both were active in the mid-1970s.

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Answer posted by: jim miller

Major full text commercial databases have very little on these 2 groups. The search: "Hard Times Prison Project" gets zero hits in JSTOR, Lexis Academic, Factiva, Academic Search Premier and Masterfile Premier "TX-All Text, and Dissertations and Theses Full Text (searching "Document Text"). The search: Triangle Area Lesbian Feminists DOES get 3 hits in Dissertations & Theses Full Text:

1. Singing for our lives: Exploring the interaction of community, feminism and musical performance in the common woman chorus. by Womack, Jennifer L., M.A., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009, 131 pages; AAT 1467319. 59 references.

2."Thank you Anita.": Gay and lesbian activist and experimental filmmaking of the late 1970s
by Youmans, Greg, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 2009, 303 pages; AAT 3384782

3.Women's organizations and grassroots politics: Denver, Durham, and Indianapolis 1960--1975. by Blair, Melissa Anna Estes, Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2008, 284 pages; AAT 3312197

But even if you ordered these on interlibrary loan, it's quite possible that "Triangle Area Lesbian Feminists" was mentioned only in passing. To be sure, Proquest's PDF search is probably not the most accurate in the database business, and there may even be MORE there than appears to be.

But clearly, since Lexis and Factiva "All dates" search gets no mention of these in even regional news sources, your best bet appears to be the Web. Google gets "about 2450" hits for the search: "Triangle Area Lesbian Feminists", and 10 even if you limit to site:edu. Google gets only 6 hits for: "Hard Times Prison Project". Google Books gets 3.

You might try searching for any names of major figures mentioned in these groups - especially the ones that appear to be listed along with where they currently work. Also, if any of the sites found in these web searches (even the .com or .net ones, etc.) appear to be based at a college or university, or a local library or museum, it may help to go to the main websites of those organizations, to see if they mention research on North Carolina activist history. Google and all other search engines are limited in how many levels down into a site they can search. The home pages of organizations - even "official" mainline state and local history sites - may well have more information, or their own local catalog or database.

Jim Miller
jmiller2@umd.edu

QUESTION: more info on 1975 & 1976 class-action suits by NC women prisoners?

Posted February 8th, 2010 by Anonymousy
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On Dec 3, 1975, there was a class-action suit filed by women incarcerated in North Carolina. How would I find the name of the suit and more details about it?

On Jan 16, 1976, the National Conference on Black Lawyers and Prisoners' Rights to Organized Defense introduced a $25 million class action suit on behalf of women incarcerated in North Carolina. How would I find out more information about that suit and its relation (if any) to the December 1975 class-action suit?

this is a test

Posted January 27th, 2010 by Anonymousy
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my question is simple, is the ability of anon users to ask a question working now?

final test I hope

Posted January 27th, 2010 by Anonymousy
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just another test

QUESTION: Dove Foundation

Posted January 19th, 2010 by Anonymousy
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I'm a newbie here and tried to post this. I want to know more about Dick Rolfe and the Dove Foundation, which rates films for "family-friendly" content. I buy DVDs for a public library and it seems most of the movies get horrible reviews, but many of our patrons think "Dove-approved" movies are the greatest. Who is Dick Rolfe? Why did he get money from the Prince Foundation (Eric Prince? Blackwater?)

[reposted as question after site upgrade]

QUESTION: what software to use to create catalog of zines for our infoshop?

Posted January 12th, 2010 by Anonymousy
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Hello,
This is more of a library logistics type question, but I figured I'd try here because it seems some of yall would have experience with this sort of thing. We are looking to catalog our zine archive at our infoshop, which is quite large (25 years worth of zines). We'd like a program that: can be used on both macs and pcs, imported and exported between computers, can be eventually put online and linked from our website, and has fields that are flexible to accommodate the fact that these are zines and not books (slightly different information will be cataloged). Can you recommend a program that we use, given that we don't host our site and we don't have linux on our computers? We looked at Librarything but are wary about having it hosted by something big and unknown given the content of our zines (paranoid?). I've also looked at MS access but don't know too much about it (esp. about putting it online...?)
Thanks!

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Answer posted by: jenna

Hi Long Haul,

This is a question we spent some time discussing at the Zine Libraries (un)Conference last spring in Seattle. Of the five we considered for a shared catalog, and given your constraints, <!--break-->I do think LibraryThing could be a good way to go, though I appreciate your concern. LibraryThing's librarian is a zine advocate. Having a member library to work with might help her efforts to make LT more zine friendly. She should also be able to respond appropriately to your content concerns.

Almost any solution will cost a little dough, so if you'd rather spend it on software than labor, you could look into Athaeneum. I believe it's more or less an adapted version of FileMaker Pro (which kicks MS Access's ass). Email the folks at QZAP to get their take on it. I do not recommend Microsoft Access.

A potentially free option would be a hosted WordPress or Blogger blog. Ms. Valerie Park is a zine distro that uses the latter.

If you can wait until they offer hosting, I recommend Omeka. It's an images/archives friendly catalog that I think is a little more 21st century and possibly more out of the box friendly than some of the other tools out there. The Barnard Center for Research on Women recently implemented Omeka for their print ephemera collection. They did have to pay a developer a couple hundred bucks (not sure of exact cost) to help them with their install.

You might want to join the Zine Librarians list to discuss this further, and you're welcome to contact me directly.

Jenna, Barnard Library Zine Librarian

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