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Table of Contents - December 2009

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COMMENTARY
| ACTIVISM
| FEATURES
| CULTURE
| ZAPS

Commentary

EDITORIAL: Covering the Year by Z Staff

Staff review of 2009 and preview of 2010

LIMITED TIME: Discounted Gift Subscription Offer by Z Staff

Discounted subscriptions: gifts that keep on radicalizing

SPYING: The CIA, DynCorp, and the Shoot Down in Peru by Greg Guma

Investigations, coverups, and military contractors

NUGGETS FROM THE NUTHOUSE: Our Terrorist as Militant; Stop the Mad Bomber; David Rohde on Uncovering One Bone by Edward Herman

More mainstream media doublespeak

MEDIA MATTERS: How Newsweek Learned to Fudge Facts & Love The Bomb by Robert Miller

Deceitful propaganda justifying U.S. military hedgemony

HEALTH WATCH: Mammography Revisited: Research and Rationalization by Marilyn Kaggen

A writer returns with new research on overscreening

Activism

GLOBAL JUSTICE: Seattle to Pittsburgh by Mac Lojowsky

Global justice organizing 10 years later

LABOR TODAY: San Francisco Readies for a Labor Dispute by Carl Finamore

Hotel workers ready for strike in San Francisco

ANTI-WAR: Hell No, They Won't Go: Israeli Youth Refuse by Lisa Mullenneaux

Israeli Shministim resist the draft and occupation

Features

DISARMAMENT: California's Nuclear Nexus by Darwin BondGraham

A faux disarmament plan and the pro-nuclear lobby

JOURNAL: Underserved and Unprotected by Margaret Adams

A glimpse into migrant worker camps in rural Maryland

ECONOMIC POLICY: Apocalypse Now in the Industrial Midwest by Roger Bybee

A magical misery tour through a land of layoffs

FINANCIAL REPORT: To Save the Capitalist System by Paul Street

Orin Kramer defines Obama's duty to America

DOMESTIC POLICY: The Obama Administration's Immigration Policy by John Steinbach

Fading hopes for positive reform amid increased repression

INTERVIEW: Hong Kong: Women Workers in the Economic Crisis by Samuel Grumiau

An interview with Hong Kong labor leader Cheung Lai-Ha

Culture

BOOK REVIEW: The New Latin American Left & Reclaiming Latin America by Ben Dangl

Two new books on political transformations in the south

BOOK REVIEW: First Do Ho Harm by Al Woodward

A new book by David Gibbs on the destruction of Yugoslavia

BOOK REVIEW: Policing America's Empire by Jeremy Kuzmarov

A book by Alfred McCoy on U.S. repression in the Philippines

Zaps

FREE LISTINGS: Zaps - December 2009 by Various Contributors

Announcements of new events, campaigns, organizations, and media

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Events from Zaps

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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