Editorial
What Will It Take?
Lydia Sargent
Sale of Z Videos
Z Staff
Commentary
CIVIL LIBERTIES
Criminalization of Dissent
Bill Quigley
LEGAL MANEUVERS
S 1867
American Civil Liberties
MIDEAST
Gaza Boats Seized
Ramzy Baroud
OPERATIONAL COSTS
Wasting $13 Million
Aaron Cynic
GREEN TIDE
Frankenstorm
Chris Williams
Activism
PHOTO ESSAY
What Happened to Children First?
Johnny Barber
Interviews
Impressions
Arun Gupta
Outlawing War
Bruce E. Levine
The Student Debt Bubble
Collin Harris
Features
ECONOMIC TIMES
Economic Predictions
Jack Rasmus
SPECIAL REPORT
Popular Resistance
Nicolas J.S. Davies
POLITICS
The Obama Doctrine
James Petras
POLITICAL ALLIANCES
The Power Couple
Laurence h. Shoup
HISTORY HANDBOOK
Bread and Roses
Andy Piascik
MEDIA MATTERS
The Monopoly of Manipulation
Brendan Libertad
Reviews
BOOK
Global Slump
David Mcnally
Zaps
Free Listings
Various Contributors
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Events
OCCUPY TOGETHER - Occupy Together is the unofficial hub for various occupations across the country who are in solidarity with
Contact: http://www.occupy/ together.org/.
OCCUPY/CAPITALISM - The Left Forum is calling for panel proposals for their 2012 conference, “Occupy the System: Confronting Global Capitalism,” to be held March 16-18 at
Contact: 212-817-2003; panels@leftforum.org; http://www. leftforum.org.
ANARCHIST STUDIES - The Third North American Anarchist Studies Network Conference is scheduled for January 7-8 at the Ateneo Puertorriqueno in
Contact: http://www.naasn. org/.
Contact: http://www.amnesty usa.org/;http://www.witness torture.org/; http://www. nrcat.org/.
UNEMPLOYMENT - The 4th annual Virginia People’s Assembly will be held January 14, in
Contact: 804-644-5834; DefendersFJE@hotmail.com; http://warisacrime.org/content/4th-annual-virginia-peoples-assembly.
MLK DAY - The Martin Luther King holiday is Monday, January 16. Community groups across the country will honor King with a Day of Service. Peace groups will highlight MLK’s anti-imperialist, antiwar activism. Events are planned in many cities, including
Contact: mlkdayofservice@ globalcitizen.us.com; http:// www.mlkdayofservice.org/; http://mlkday.gov/; http:// www.mlkdetroit.org/; http:// mlksymposium.umich.edu.
ART/SOCIAL JUSTICE - The 2012 ART&DESIGN for Social Justice Symposium will be held January 16, at
Contact: http://socialjustice symposium.fsu.edu/; http:/cvatd.fsu.edu/News/Featured-Stories/Art-Design-for-
Social-Justice-Symposium.
CITIZENS UNITED - Move To Amend is planning Occupy the Courts, a one-day occupation of Federal courthouses across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court in
Contact: http://movetoamend. org/.
SOCIAL FORUMS - The 2012 Thematic Social Forum (TSF) is scheduled for January 24-29 in several cities in
Contact: fstematico2012 @gmail.com; http://www.grap. org.br/forum-social-tematico/; http://cupuladospovos.org.br/.
TAHRIR - January 25 is the one-year anniversary of the occupation of
Contact: http://takethe
square.net/; http://www.facebook.com/april6movement.
HEALTH - Health Care Now! will host a National Strategy Conference in
Contact: 800-453-1305; info @healthcare-now.org; http:// www.healthcare-now.org/.
EVOLUTION - February 10-12 will be the sixth annual celebration of Evolution Weekend, intended to demonstrate that religious people from many faiths and locations understand that evolution is sound science and poses no problems for their faith. Af- filiated with the Clergy Letters Project repudiating anti-science fundamentalism.
Contact: http://theclergyletter project.org/
TEACH-IN - The 10th Annual Local to Global Justice Teach-in is scheduled for February 24-26 at
Contact: http://www.localto global.org/.
JUSTICE - The Justice Conference 2012 will be held February 24-25 in
Contact: http://thejusticeconference.com/.
GAMES - Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives, is a new game created by The Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA), a worker-owned cooperative. The board game is aimed to promote solidarity and coincides with the UN’s declaration of 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives.
Contact: http://coopolygame. com/; http://toolboxfored.org/.
Fundraising Campaigns
RADIO - Between the Lines, a weekly radio newsmagazine, is currently fundraising as they celebrate their 20th anniversary. The program provides a platform for individuals and organizations generally ignored or mar- ginalized in corporate media.
Contact:
RACISM - The Catalyst Project is currently fundraising. A project of the
Contact: Catalyst Project,
PEACE/DEMOCRACY - The Campaign for Peace and Democracy is currently fundraising. The group promotes a new, progressive, and non-militaristic
Contact: 2790 Broadway, #12,
HOUSING - Student filmmaker Shane Burley is currently fundraising for a documentary film dealing with housing and the financial crisis in the
Contact: http://www.indie gogo.com/Expect-Resistance-
A-Documentary-About-Eviction-Resistance.
ACTIVISTS - The Activists: War, Peace, and Politics in the Street is a documentary film studying the lives of activists in the anti-war movement. The film investigates the different types of activism and the personal experiences that bring these people together to create a movement. The filmmakers are currently raising funds to complete the movie.
Contact: http://www.kick starter.com/projects/melof ilms/the-activists-war-peace- and-politics-in-the-street.
Books
Contact: AK Press,
FOOD - Food and the City, by Jennifer Cockrall-King, examines alternative food systems in cities around the world that are shortening their food chains, growing food within their city limits, and taking their “food security” into their own hands.
Contact: Prometheus Books,
1968 - Presented in conjunction with the Minnesota Historical Society’s traveling 1968 exhibit, “The 1968 Project: A Nation Coming of Age” explores that important period of time using photography, eyewitness accounts, and artifacts.
Contact:
MILITARY/WAR - In The United States of Fear, Tom Engelhardt explains how successive administrations in
Contact: Haymarket Books,
CLASS - Class Struggle and This Thing Named “The
Contact: http://libcom.org/tags /melancholic-troglodytes.
HUNGER/WAR - Hungry for Peace is a new book about the Food Not Bombs movement, by Keith McHenry. The book makes the case that we should take direct action to end hunger, poverty and war.
Contact: http://www.foodnot bombs.net/.
LABOR/WISCONSIN - Wisconsin: from the front lines of the labor battle is a collection of interviews with, and articles and speeches by, participants in the battle to save Wisconsin‘s public sector unions.
Contact: PSL Publications,
SOCIALISM - Published more than 20 years ago, Stephen Eric Bronner’s recently released second edition of Socialism Unbound, his defense of socialism, remains an important work of political history for scholars and activists.
Contact:
Films
CORRUPTION - The Washington Influence Industry documents a cycle of political corruption that has resulted in the corporate takeover of democracy in
Contact: http://thewashingtoninfluenceindustry.com.
FEMINISM - The Moon Inside You is a documentary about facing menstrual etiquette with doses of humor and self-irony, challenging preconceived ideas of womanhood.
Contact: Cinema Politica,
BUDGET - The 2nd annual If I Had a Trillion Dollars (IHTD) Youth Film Festival is currently accepting submissions for the April 14-16 festival. Submissions are accepted until January 15. Sponsors include the American Friends Service Committee and the National Priorities Project.
Contact: http://afsc.org/category/topic/ihtd.
Music
HIP-HOP - Hip-hop artist Marcel Cartier’s new album, Revolutionary Minded Volume 3, is now available. The album features songs about recent/ current crisis in
Contact: http://www.facebook.com/marcelcartier1.
MUSIC & JUSTICE - Carleton University‘s Music and Social Justice Collective will be held February 24-25 at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Bringing together graduate students and academics as well as performers, community activists, and other cultural workers, the symposium will examine music’s capacity to act as an agent for positive social change in a variety of musical, social and cultural contexts.
Contact: contact@musicandsocialjustice.org; http://musicandsocialjustice.org/; http:// www.improvcommunity.ca.
FOLK/ROCK - Folk musician Todd Snider is on tour throughout the
Contact: http://www.todd snider.net.
Z Magazine Archive
Announcements
LABOR - May 1 is May Day. Workers of the world will celebrate the 124th anniversary of International Worker’s Day. Born out of a call for an 8-hour workday in the United States, this day is an opportunity for all workers to show their solidarity with one another, as well as to renew the call for labor rights.FARM CONFERENCE - The Farm Conference on Community and Sustainability will be held May 24-26 in Summertown, TN, in partnership with the Fellowship of Intentional Communities. Tour green homes, see sustainable food production, learn about solar installations, alternative education, midwifery, and more.
Contact: Douglas@thefarmcommunity.com; http://www.thefarmcommunity.com/.
PALESTINE - The Conference of the Palestinian Shatat in North American will be held June 3-5 in Vancouver. The conference will examine the future of the Palestinian liberation movement.
Contact: palestinianconference@gmail.com; http://www.palestinianconference.org/.
LABOR - The Pacific Northwest Labor History Association’s 45th annual conference will be held May 3-5, in Portland, OR. This year’s theme is Labor Under Attack: Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future. A call for presentations, workshops and papers is currently underway.
Contact: PNLHA, 27920 68th Ave. East, Graham, WA 98338; 206-406-2604; PNLHA1@aol.com; http://www3.telus.net.
MARIJUANA - On the first Saturday of May marijuana legalization activists will hold informational and educational events, rallies and marches in over 300 cities around the world.
Contact:http://globalcannabismarch.com/.
ECONOMICS - The Union For Radical Political Economics will hold its 39th annual conference May 9-11 in New York City.
Contact: http://www.ramapo.edu/eea/2013/.
RECLAIM THE DREAM - The 2013 Poor People’s Campaign & March from Baltimore to Washington D.C. will be May 11. Communities, schools and unions interested in participating are encouraged to contact the Baltimore People’s Assembly.
Contact: 410-500-2168; 410-218-4835; BaltimorePeoplesAssembly@gmail.com; Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Baltimore and the Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly, 2011 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218.
MOTHER’S DAY - The 17th Annual Mother’s Day Walk For Peace will be May 12th, in Dorchester, MA. The walk began in 1996 for families who had lost children to violence. The day has become a way for thousands of people to financially support the work of the Louis Brown Peace Institute.
Contact: http://www.ldbpeaceinstitute.org/; http://mothersdaywalk4peace.org/.
NATO 5 - An International Week of Solidarity with the NATO 5 has been called for May 16-21. Supports call on supporters to raise awareness of the NATO 5 and support funds for the defendants on the one-year anniversary of their preemptive arrests.
Contact: nato5solidarity@gmail.com; https://nato5support.wordpress.com.
MOUNTAINTOP - The 2013 Mountain Justice Summer Activist Training Camp will be held May 19-27 in Damascus, VA. It will be a week of workshops, field trips to view Mountain Top Removal coal mines, direct actions, and service project.
Contact: http://rampscampaign.org/.
FEMINIST SCI-FI - The feminist science fiction convention WisCon 37 is scheduled for May 24-27 in Madison, WI.
Contact: WisCon, ? SF3, PO Box 1624, Madison, WI 53701; concom37@wiscon.info; http://www.wiscon.info/.
ANARCHY FEST - A month-long Festival of Anarchy is scheduled for May in Montreal. The festival includes The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 19-20).
Contact: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/; http://www.radicalmontreal.com/.
LABOR - The International Labor Rights Forum will present: Down the Supply Chain, Driving Corporate Accountability, on May 22 in Washington, DC. The Labor Rights Awards Ceremony and Reception will honor pioneers in supply chain worker organizing, working solidarity and international labor rights policy.
Contact: http://laborrights.org/.
MULTICULTURE - The 26th annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) will take place May 28-June 1, in New Orleans.
Contact: SWCHRS, 3200 Marshall Avenue, Suite 290, Norman, OK 73072; 405-325-3694; ncore@ou.edu; www.ncore.ou.edu.
MEDIA - The 2013 Alliance for Community Media Annual Conference will be held May 29-31, in San Francisco, CA. Participants will include educators, community leaders, media professionals, journalists, nonprofit leaders, policymakers and students.
Contact: http://www.allcommunitymedia.org/.
RADIO - The 38th Annual Community Radio Conference is schedule for May 29-June 1, in San Francisco, CA, with discussions and workshops.
Contact: 1101 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20004; 202-756-2268; comments@nfcb.org; http://www.nfcb.org/.
BRADLEY MANNING - On June 1, a rally will be held at Fort Meade in support of Bradley Manning.
Contact: http://www.bradleymanning.org.
BIKES - Bikes Not Bombs is holding its 24th annual Bike-A-Thon and Green Roots Festival in Boston, MA on June 3, with several bike rides scheduled, music, exhibitors and more.
Contact: Bikes Not Bombs, 284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130; 617-522-0222; mail@bikesnotbombs.org; www.bikesnotbombs.org.
LEFT FORUM - The 2013 Left Forum will be held June 7-9, at Pace University in New York City.
Contact: 365 Fifth Avenue, CUNY Graduated Center, ? Sociology Dept., New York, NY 10016; http://www.leftforum.org/.
VEGAN FEST - Mad City Vegan Fest will be held in Madison, WI, June 8. The annual event features food, speakers, and exhibitors.
Contact: 122 State Street, Suite 405 B, Madison, WI 53701; madcityveganfest@gmail.com; http://veganfest.org/.
ADC CONFERENCE - The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) holds its annual conference June 13-16, in Washington, DC, with panel discussions and workshops on civil rights, media and other topics.
Contact: 1990 M Street, Suite 610, Washington, DC, 20036; 202-244-2990; convention@adc.org http://convention.adc.org/.
CUBA/SOCIALISM - A Cuban-North American Dialog on Socialist Renewal and Global Capitalist Crisis will be held in Havana, Cuba, June 16-30. There will be a 5 day Seminar at University of Havana, plus visits to a cooperative, urban garden, community development project, social research centers, and educational & medical institutions.
Contact: cuba@globaljusticecenter.org; http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/.
NETROOTS - The 8th Annual Netroots Nation conference will take place June 20-23 in San Jose, CA. The event features panels, trainings, networking, screenings, and keynotes.
Contact: 164 Robles Way, #276, Vallejo, CA 94591; registration@netrootsnation.org; http://www.netrootsnation.org/.
MEDIA - The 15th annual Allied Media Conference will be held June 20-23, in Detroit.
Contact: 4126 Third Street, Detroit, MI 48201; http://alliedmedia.org/.
GRASSROOTS - The United We Stand Festival will be hosted by Free & Equal, June 22 in Little Rock, Arkansas. The festival aims to reform the electoral process throughout the U.S.
Contact: http://freeandequal.org/.
SOCIALISM - The Socialism 2013 Conference is scheduled for June 27-30 in Chicago, featuring talks and panel discussions.
Contact: info@socialismconference.org; http://www.socialismconference.org.
LITERACY - The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) will hold its conference July 12-13 in Los Angeles under the heading, Intersections: Teaching and Learning Across Media.
Contact: 10 Laurel Hill Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003; http://namle.net/conference/.
IWW - The North American Work People’s College will take place July 12-16 at Mesaba Co-op Park in northern Minnesota. The event will bring together Wobblies from branches across the continent to learn new skills and build One Big Union.
Contact: http://workpeoplescollege.org/.
PEACESTOCK - On July 13th, the 11th Annual Peacestock: A Gathering for Peace, will take place at Windbeam Farm in Hager City, WI. The event is a mixture of music, speakers and community for peace. Sponsored by Veterans for Peace.
Contact: Bill Habedank, 1913 Grandview Ave., Red Wing, MN 55066; 651-388-7733; billhabedank@yahoo.com; http://www.peacestockvfp.org.
CHILDREN’S DEFENSE - July 15-19, join clergy, seminarians, Christian educators, young adult leaders and other faith-based advocates for children at CDF Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee, for five days of spiritual renewal, networking, movement building workshops, and continuing education about the urgent needs of children at the 19th annual Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry.
Contact: cdfinfo@childrensdefense.org; http://www.childrensdefense.org.
ACTIVIST CAMP - Youth Empowered Action (YEA) Camp will have sessions in July and August in Ben Lomond, CA; Portland, OR; Charlton, MA. YEA Camp is designed for activists 12-17 years old who want to make a difference in the world.
Contact: info@yeacamp.org; http://yeacamp.org/.
LA RAZA - The annual National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Conference is scheduled for July 18-19 in New Orleans, with workshops, presentations and panel discussions.
Contact: NCLR Headquarters Office, Raul Yzaguirre Building, 1126 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036; 202-785-1670; www.nclr.org.
LABOR - The Eastern Conference For Workplace Democracy: Growing Our Cooperatives, Growing Our Communities, will be held at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, July 26-28.
Contact: info@east.usworker.coop; http://east.usworker.coop/.
WOMEN/LYNNE STEWART- Radical Women is asking for support letters and cards to be sent to Lynne Stewart. Stewart is a civil rights attorney and political prisoner who is currently in jail. She has breast cancer and authorities have denied her request for transfer from her Texas prison to the New York City hospital where she received medical attention during a prior bout of breast cancer. Send messages and cards to: Lynne Stewart 53504-054, Federal Medical Center Carswell, P.O. Box 27137, Fort Worth, TX 76127.
Contact: 747 Polk Street, San Francisco, CA 94109; 415-864-1278; RadicalWomenUS@gmail.com; http://lynnestewart.org/; http://www.radicalwomen.org/.
HAITI/WOMEN - Haiti’s government is considering a legal reform measure that would prohibit and punish all sexual assault, including marital rape. MADRE and the International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict are launching a petition to raise international support for this push to address violence against women in Haiti.
Contact: 121 West 27th Street, #301, New York, NY 10001; 212-627-0444; madre@madre.org; http://www.madre.org.
SYRIA/MIDDLE EAST - The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) is currently seeking funds to assist more than 200,000 refugees fleeing violence in Syria.
Contact: https://www.mecaforpeace.org.
FOLK FESTIVAL - The Falcon Ridge Folk Festival will be held August 2-4, in the Berkshires, NY.
Contact: http://www.falconridgefolk.com/; falcridge@aol.com.
WAR RESISTERS - The War Resisters League will hold its 90th anniversary conference, Revolutionary Nonviolence: Building Bridges Across Generations and Communities, August 1-4, at Georgetown University. The event will focus on the U.S.’ long history of antimilitarism.
Contact: 339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012; 212-228-0450; wrl@warresisters.org; http://www.warresisters.org.
POPULAR ECONOMICS - The Center for Popular Economics is holding its 2013 Summer Institute August 4-9 at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. No background in economics is needed for this intensive training. This year’s theme is, The Care Economy: Building a Just Economy with a Heart.
Contact: Center for Popular Economics, PO Box 785 Amherst, MA 01004; 413-545-0743; programs@populareconomics.org; www.populareconomics.org.
VETERANS - Veterans for Peace is holding the 28th annual convention August 6-11 in Madison, WI. This year’s theme is, Power To The Peaceful.
Contact: http://www.vfpnationalconvention.org/.
DEMOCRACY - The Democracy Convention will take place August 7-11 in Madison, WI. The convention brings together nine conferences including topics such as media, education, defense, race, environment and others.
Contact: https://democracyconvention.org/.
MEN - The 38th National Conference on Men & Masculinity: Forging Justice: Creating Safe, Equal and Accountable Communities, presented in partnership with HAVEN, will be held in Detroit, MI, August 8-10.
Contact: ccardinal@haven-oakland.org; http://www.nomas.org/.
OCCUPY - An Occupy National Gathering will be held in Kalamazoo, MI, August 21-25.
Contact: natgat2013@gmail.com; http://occupynationalgathering.net/.
COMMUNITIES - The Communities Conference is a networking and learning opportunity for co-operative or communal lifestyles, with workshops, events and entertainment; scheduled for August 30-September 2 at the Twin Oaks Community in Louisa, Virginia.
Contact: http://www.communitiesconference.org/.
LABOR DAY - The 29th annual Bread and Roses Festival, a celebration of the ethnic diversity and labor history of Lawrence, MA, will be held September 2, in honor of the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike. There will be music, dance, poetry, drama, ethnic food, historical demonstrations, walking & trolley tours.
Contact: PO Box 1137, Lawrence, MA 01842; 978-794-1655; http://www.breadandrosesheritage.org/.
OCCUPY WALL STREET - September 17 is the two-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Events are planned in New York City and worldwide.
Contact: http://occupywallst.org/.
TEACHERS - The 13th Annual Conference, “Teaching for Social Justice: The Politics of Pedagogy,” will be held October 12 in San Francisco, CA. The free event features workshops, resources, and free childcare.
Contact: 415-676-7844; teachers4socialjustice@yahoo.com; http://www.t4sj.org/.
HAITI - International Action, which brings clean water and chlorinators to Haiti, seeks office space capable of housing up to six people and their office equipment.
Contact: Zach Bremer, Zbrehmer@haitiwater.org; 202-488-0735; http://www.haitiwater.org/.
MEDIA - The Union for Democratic Communications and Project Censored are sponsoring a joint conference on media democracy, media activism and social justice to be held November 1-3 at the University of San Francisco. Proposals for presentations, workshops and panels from activists and critical scholars are invited.
