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Table of Contents - March 2010

This Month's Free Z Magazine Articles

New Deadline: Z Media Institute 2010 by Z Staff
In Memoriam: Howard Zinn (1922-2010) by Amy Goodman
Disarmament: "Four Horsemen" Call For Nuclear Weapons Surge by Darwin Bondgraham
Food Politics: Three Approved GMOs Linked to Organ Damage by Rady Ananda
Special Report: Haiti: A New U.S. Occupation Disguised as Disaster Relief? by Arun Gupta
Media Matters: The Comcast-NBC Merger & the Future of Internet Video by David Rosen
Looking Forward: Participatory Politics by Stephen Shalom
Book Review: Covering for the Bosses by Roger Bybee
Book Review: A World of Gangs by Jeffrey Frank
Free Listings: Zaps - March 2010 by Various Contributors

COMMENTARY
| ACTIVISM
| FEATURES
| CULTURE
| ZAPS

Commentary

NEW DEADLINE: Z Media Institute 2010 by Z Staff

Apply to Z's summer school by March 5

IN MEMORIAM: Howard Zinn (1922-2010) by Amy Goodman

Friends and colleagues remember an activist-educator

FOG WATCH: Obama and the Steady Drift to the Right by Edward s. Herman

Regressive politics and institutional constraints on change

DISARMAMENT: "Four Horsemen" Call For Nuclear Weapons Surge by Darwin Bondgraham

Deal-making and public posturing for more nuke money

FOOD POLITICS: Three Approved GMOs Linked to Organ Damage by Rady Ananda

A new study looks at Monsanto's flawed testing

Activism

NUKEWATCH: Priest Gets "Time Served" for ICBM Protest in Colorado by John Laforge

Carl Kabat's trial for "mischief"

HUMAN RIGHTS: Palestine at the Crossroads by Stephen Mccloskey

An Irish delegation's visit to occupied Palestine

LATIN AMERICA: Movements Face Off with Ecuador's President Correa by Roger Burbach

Disenchantment with increasingly corporate policies in Ecuador

Features

SPECIAL REPORT: Haiti: A New U.S. Occupation Disguised as Disaster Relief? by Arun Gupta

The missing context behind the latest imperial machinations

IMPERIAL AFFAIRS: The Unipolar Moment and the Obama Era by Noam Chomsky

The architects of policy at the "end of history"

MEDIA MATTERS: The Comcast-NBC Merger & the Future of Internet Video by David Rosen

New developments in media conglomerates' empire building

HOMELAND INSECURITY: The Enemy at Home by Paul Street

Presidential speechifying and nationalistic nonsense

HEALTHCARE POLITICS: Pig Flu or Pig Fluke? by Niko Kyriakou

Profits behind the swine flu pandemic designation

ECONOMIC POLICY: Epic Recession: Prelude to Global Depression? Part II by Jack Rasmus

The second part of a series on the economic crisis in 2010

LOOKING FORWARD: Participatory Politics by Stephen Shalom

An outline of an alternative democratic political system

Culture

BOOK REVIEW: A World of Gangs by Jeffrey Frank

A new book by John M. Hagedorn on globalization and gang economics

BOOK REVIEW: Covering for the Bosses by Roger Bybee

A new book by Joseph B. Atkins on media and labor in the U.S. south

Zaps

FREE LISTINGS: Zaps - March 2010 by Various Contributors

Announcements of new events, campaigns, organizations, and media

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Events from Zaps

ART - A juried art exhibit, performances, and special installations at a gallery in Los Angeles during Oscar week (March 3-7), the "ManifestEquality" events seek to raise visibility for the grassroots campaign to ensure full equal rights to LGBT Americans, especially in California following recent legislative discrimination.

Contact: ManifestEquality, 1341 Vine Street, Los Angeles, CA 90028; www.manifestequality.org.

STUDENT STRIKE - In response to program cuts and fee hikes in California's school system, students and education activists there have called for a Strike and Day of Action in Defense of Public Education on March 4. Plans are under way for walkouts, marches, occupations, and teach-ins, both in California and nationally.

Contact: www.defendeducation.org.

BOOKFEST - The Raza Press and Media Association is sponsoring the 4th Barrio Book Festival at the Centro Cultural Francisco Villa in Los Angeles on March 6, with panel discussions, vendors, and more.

Contact: www.razapressassociation.org.

WOMEN'S STRIKE - International Women's Day, March 8, has been a day of protest, education, and direct action to redress the ongoing oppression of women who do two-thirds of all the world's work—most of it without pay or formal benefits and often in slave conditions.

Contact: www.globalwomenstrike.net.

LEFT FORUM - The 2010 Left Forum is scheduled for March 19-21 at Pace University in New York City. This year's theme is "The Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the Radical Imagination" and will feature hundreds of panel discussions, art and film shows, and exhibitors. Opening plenary speaker will be Jesse Jackson, while the final plenary will feature Noam Chomsky. Z will also have a table and be sponsoring discussions through the Reimagining Society Project.

Contact: Left Forum, c/o PhD Program in Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016; 212-817-2003; leftforum@leftforum.org; www.leftforum.org.

RNC-8 - Supporters of the eight activists (the RNC-8) on trial for protesting during the 2008 Republican National Convention have called for a National Day of Solidarity on March 23, when local groups can distribute information, hold informational events, or raise legal support funds for those facing draconian fines and prison terms for non-violent political actions.

Contact: Friends of the RNC 8, PO Box 7475, Minneapolis, MN 55407; info@rnc8.org; www.rnc8.org.

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