Volume 25, Number 1
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
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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Free Listings
Compiled by Joel Chaffee
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
OCCUPY TOGETHER - Occupy Together is the unofficial hub for the various occupations springing up across the country in solidarity with Occupy Wall St. Towns and cities worldwide are participating.
Contact: http://www.occupytogether.org/.
MAY DAY - May 1 is May Day, also International Workers Day, celebrating the successful fight of workers for rights such as the eight-hour workday. A General Strike is called for May Day by many groups, and events are planned worldwide.
Contact: http://maydayunited.org/; http://www.may1.info/; info@maydayunited.org.
LABOR - The 2012 Labor Notes Conference, themed Solidarity for the 99%, will be held May 4-6, in Chicago. Thousands of union members, officers, and grassroots labor activists will attend the event, which features workshops, meetings and organizing opportunities.
Contact: 313-842-6262; http:// labornotes.org/conference.
MARIJUANA MARCH - On the first Saturday of May (this year: May 5) marijuana legalization activists will hold informational and educational events, rallies and marches in over 300 cities around the world.
Contact: http://globalcannabismarch.com; http://cannabis.wikia.com.
AMERICAN MUSLIMS - KinderUSA will celebrate its 10th Anniversary with a Fundraising Banquet Dinner in Los Angeles on May 5. The keynote speaker will be Norman Finkelstein. KinderUSA was founded as a group of concerned humanitarians and physicians, and has become a leading American Muslim charity organization helping families through health development and emergency relief.
Contact: http://www.kinder usa.org/.
SEXUAL VIOLENCE - SWAN (Service Women’s Action Network) will present Truth and Justice: The 2012 Summit on Military Sexual Violence in Washington, D.C. on May 8. The conferences will give survivors the opportunity to share their stories with congressmembers, policy experts and the general public; with key panels by military law and policy experts on major topics involving military sexual violence and survivors’ access to justice.
Contact: http://truthandjustice summit.org/.
MEDIA - The Alliance for Community Media Youth Summit 2012 will be held May 8 at Pierce College in Philadelphia, PA. The summit will consist of four one-day symposia that provide a public forum for discussion about media and news literacy in America. Participants will include educators, community leaders, media professionals, journalists, nonprofit leaders, policymakers and students.
Contact: http://www.allcommunitymedia.org.
MOMS/BOMBS - Moms Against Bombs and the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action will honor the long history of women’s resistance to injustice, war and nuclear weapons on May 12. A full day of activities is planned, including Orientation to the Trident Nuclear Weapons System, Nonviolence Training, Action Planning and Preparation, Mother’s Day Proclamation for Peace, and a Vigil and Nonviolent Direct Action at the Bangor Trident Submarine Base.
Contact: Anne Hall, 206- 545-3562, annehall@familyhealing.com; gznonviolencenews@yahoo.com; www.gzcenter.org.
MOTHER’S DAY/PEACE - The Mother’s Day Walk for Peace began in 1996 for families who had lost their children to violence. On a day that celebrates mothers and children, the Walk became a place for families and friends to feel support and love with thousands of others who pledge their commitment to peace.
The day has also become a way for thousands of people to financially support the work of the Louis Brown Peace Institute. Mother’s Day is May 13.
Contact: http://www.kintera.org/faf/home/; http://www.ldb peaceinstitute.org/.
BRECHT FORUM - The Beginning Is Near: An Evening with Michael Moore & Cornel West, a special benefit for the Brecht Forum, will be held May 18 at Hunter College in New York City.
Contact: https://brechtforum.org.
LABOR - The Pacific Northwest Labor History Association’s 44th annual conference, A Century of Bread and Roses, is scheduled for May 18-20 in Tacoma, WA.
Contact: PNLHA, 2402-6888 Station Hill Drive, Burnaby, BC, V3N 4X5; 604-540-0245; pnlha@shaw.ca; www.pnlha.org.
HOMELESSNESS - PM Press and First Presbyterian Church will host author Summer Brenner at the Conference on Homelessness on May 19 in Palo Alto, CA.
Contact: First Presbyterian Church, 1140 Cowper Street, Palo Alto, VA 94301; http://www.pmpress.org/.
NATO/G8 - The Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda is organizing protests at the NATO and G8 meetings being held in Chicago, May 19-21. A legal, permitted, family-friendly march and rally are planned for May 19. An Occupy Chicago month-long occupation is being planned to begin May 1. The Network for a Nato-Free Future and American Friends Service Committee will also be hosting a Counter-Summit for Peace and Economic Justice May 18-19 at People’s Church in Chicago.
Contact: http://cang8.wordpress.com/about/; http://www.natofreefuture.org/.
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.radical montreal.com/;http://www.anarchist bookfair.ca/.
TRUTHDIG - Truthdig.com will be gathering May 20-25 in New Mexico with other concerned people to assess current prospects for progressive change. Speakers include Dennis Kucinich and Chris Hedges.
Contact: http://www.truthdig.com/event/santafe.
FEMINIST SCI-FI - The feminist science fiction convention WisCon 36 is scheduled for May 25-28 in Madison, Wisconsin, featuring discussion and debate of sci-fi/fantasy ideas relating to feminism, gender, race and class.
Contact: WisCon, c/o SF3, PO Box 1624, Madison, WI 53701; concom35@wiscon.info; www.wiscon.info.
MULTICULTURE - The 25th Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) holds its annual conference May 29 -June 2 in New York City.
Contact: Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies, 3200 Marshall Avenue, Suite 290, Norman, OK 73072; 405- 325-3694; www.ncore.ou.edu.
BIKING - 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.
RADIO - The 37th Annual Community Radio Conference is scheduled for June 13-16 in Houston, TX with discussions and workshops.
Contact: National Federation of Community Broadcasters, 1970 Broadway, Suite 1000, Oakland, CA 94612; 510-451 -8200; conference@nfcb.org; www.nfcb.org.
PEOPLE’S SUMMIT - The People’s Summit for Social and Environmental Justice during Rio+20 is an event by global civil society that will take place between the 15 and the 23 of June at Flamengo, in Rio de Janeiro—alongside the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), Rio+20.
Contact: contato@rio2012. org.br; http://cupuladospovos.org.br/en/.
ADC CONFERENCE - The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ACD) holds its annual conference June 21-24 in Washington, DC, with panel discussions and workshops on civil rights, media, the Mideast, etc.
Contact: ADC, 1732 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Washington DC, 20007; 202-244-2990; convention@adc.org; www.adc.org/convention.
MEDIA - The 14th annual Allied Media Conference will be held June 28-July 1 at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. Participatory workshops and skillshares will emphasize DIY alternative media to advance visions of a just and creative world.
Contact: Allied Media Projects, 4126 Third St., Detroit, MI 48201; www.alliedmediacon ference.org.
LA RAZA - The annual National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Conference is scheduled for July 7-10 in Las Vegas, 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.
PEACESTOCK - On July 14 the 10th Annual Peace- stock: A Gathering for Peace will take place at Windbeam Farm in Hager City, WI. Peacestock (formerly “Pigstock”) is a mixture of music, speakers, and community for peace. The event is sponsored by Veterans for Peace, Chapter 115 and has a peace-themed agenda.
Contact: Bill Habedank, 1913 Grandview Ave., Red Wing, MN 55066; 651-388-7733; billhabedank@yahoo.com; http://www.peacestockvfp.org.
POPULAR ECONOMICS - The Center for Popular Economics is holding its 2012 Summer Institute July 23-27 at Columbia University in New York City. No background in economics is needed for this intensive training. This year’s theme is Economics for the 99%.
Contact: Center for Popular Economics, PO Box 785 Amherst, MA 01004; 413-545-0743; programs@populareconomics.org; www.populareconomics.org.
CUBA/PASTORS - The 23rd annual Pastors for Peace Friendship Caravan to Cuba is scheduled for
July1-July 31. Volunteers will travel across the U.S and Canada collecting aid and educating about the unjust blockade against Cuba, before an orientation in Texas July 15-18, followed by an education program in Cuba July 21-29, and finally a return back to the U.S. People can participate by attending or hosting local events, donating materials, or sponsoring a traveler.
Contact: IFCO/Pastors for Peace, 418 W. 145th St., New York, NY 10031; 212-926- 5757; cucaravan@igc.org; www.pastorsforpeace.org.
COMMUNITY MEDIA - The Alliance for Community Media 2012 National Conference is scheduled for July 31-August 2 in Chicago. Hands-on workshops and skillshares will be offered by this grassroots coalition of community media groups. This year’s theme is Collaborate!
Contact: ACM, 1760 Old Meadow Road, Suite 500, McLean, VA 22102; www.alliancecm.org.
VETERANS - Veterans for Peace is holding the 27th annual convention August 8-12 in Miami, FL. This year’s theme is, Liberating the Americas: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Contact: Veterans For Peace, 216 S. Meramec Ave., St. Louis, MO 63105; 314-725-6005; www.vfpnationalconvention.org
COMMUNITIES - The Communities Conference is a networking and learning opportunity for co-operative or communal lifestyles, with workshops, events and entertainment; scheduled for August 31-September 3 at the Twin Oaks Community in Louisa, Virginia.
Contact: Twin Oaks Communities Conference, 138 Twin Oaks Road, Louisa, VA 23093; 540-894-5126; conference@ twinoaks.org; www.communitiesconference.org.
