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Table of Contents - December 2007

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ACTIVISM
| COMMENTARY
| CULTURE
| FEATURES
| ZAPS

Activism

Workers Centers by Colin Asher

With only 8 employees and 1,900 members, the Restaurant Opportunity...

Battle for the Block by Michael Gould-Wartofsky

In East Harlem, they have organized building by building to reclaim...

Organizing Domestic Workers by Ari Paul

There are many adjectives to describe New York City’s 200,000 nanni...

Commentary

Downwinders Catch The Drift by Lisa Mullenneaux

They have heard it all before. Residents near the Nevada Test Site,...

The Winter Soldier Campaign by Iraq veterans against the war -- Ivaw

IVAW (Iraq Veterans Against the War) is launching a new “Winter Sol...

Eighty and Still Protesting by James Lamb

Each Friday I stand on a busy street corner in Claremont, Californi...

Economics in the Nut House by Edward Herman

In her August 4 piece in the Huffington Post, “Rove Exits With His ...

Behind the Repression in Burma by Marc Pilisuk

Neither the dissent in Burma nor its repression comes as a surprise...

Gayspeak vs Christianspeak by Michael Bronski

At first the case seemed simple. A student in a high school English...

Nukes Are Back and So Are We by Harvey Wasserman

Time after time the atomic energy industry has gone to the governme...

Culture

Film Review - Ken Burns’s The War by Ron Linville

Ken Burns has produced some remarkable documentaries, my personal f...

Book Review - Getting Off by Robert Jensen by Eleanor j. Bader

My husband tells me that when heterosexual men talk about women in ...

Book Reviews - Dead Man in Paradise & The Art of Political by Vijay Prashad

Call it the curse of Columbus. The conquistadors came to what would...

Book Review - The Shock Doctrine By Naomi Klein by Joshua Sperber

As with much scholarly political writing, Naomi Klein's The Shock D...

Features

Year 501: World Orders Old & New by Noam Chomsky

SINCE ITS LIBERATION from Spanish rule, Latin America has faced man...

Corporate Money on the Democrats by Paul Street

Do you hate and/or fear the authoritarian, regressive, intolerant, ...

HEATHCARE SPECIAL: SCHIP Enriches the Insurance Industry by Kip Sullivan

George Bush justified his October 3 veto of a bill to reauthorize a...

HEALTHCARE SPECIAL: Corporate America and Healthcare Reform by Roger Bybee

For U.S. CEOs who pride themselves on the all-out pursuit of the se...

HEALTHCARE SPECIAL: VEBAs in the Auto Industry by Jack Rasmus

Once partners in pioneering employer-union health benefit plans in ...

With Friends Like These by Sara Abbas

Laura Bush, writing in the Wall Street Journal on October 10, said:...

India’s Special Economic Zones by Sriram Ananthanarayanan

No scheme of the Indian government has evoked as much controversy i...

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ANARCHY FEST - The fourth annual Victoria Festival of Anarchy & Bookfair is planned for September 5-12, with the Bookfair on the last two days; features workshops, presentations, music and more.

FAIR TRADE - The Fair Trade Futures Conference is scheduled for September 10-12 in Boston, with seminars aimed towards promoting an alternative and more just economy.

BOOKFAIR - The Twin Cities Anarchist Bookfair is scheduled for September 10-12 in south Minneapolis, with skillshares, crafts, food, music, and of course authors, publishers and books.

DEMOCRACY SCHOOL - The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund is hosting a democracy School in Seattle September 17-18, to teach organizing for environmental justice and sustainable communities.

PEACE DAY - September 21 is the UN's International Day of Peace, with this year's theme Youth, Peace and Development.

MOBILIZATION - Appalachia Rising events against mountaintop removal mining are scheduled for September 25-27 in Washington, DC. A weekend conference, Appalachia Rising, Voices from the Mountains, is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. On Monday, the Appalachia Rising Day of Action will feature a march and rally.

JOBS - A mass mobilization and march for jobs, One Nation Working Together, is scheduled for Saturday, October 2 in Washington, DC. The event is supported by local peace and economic justice groups around the country, who are organizing rides there.

SPACE FOR PEACE - The annual International Week of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space is scheduled for October 2-9; resources to help plan educational events or demonstrations are available online and by request.

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