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Table of Contents - February 2008

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ACTIVISM
| COMMENTARY
| CULTURE
| FEATURES
| ZAPS

Activism

Two Weeks That Shook Olympia by Peter Bohmer

For almost two weeks in November 2007, anti-war activists in Olympi...

Liberia: A Gulag of Misery by Dan Read

Firestone workers on Liberian rubber plantations are given a quota ...

Attack on Peace Community in Colombia by Teo Ballvé

When it was founded in 1997, the Peace Community declared its neutr...

Leonard Weinglass & the Miami Five by Hallmark Stephen

The "Miami Five" were convicted on charges ranging from acting as u...

Dollar Day for New Orleans by Darwin BondGraham

Thursday, December 20, 2007 should forever be remembered as a dolla...

Year 2007: Resistance Against the War Update by Max Obuszewski

ZMO ONLINE-ONLY ARTICLE: I am of the opinion that there has never b...

Commentary

Letters to Z by Readers & writers

Letters to Z on our 20th Birthday & Sargent's January article "The ...

The Greatest Revolution, Part 2 by Lydia Sargent

I’d like to thank readers for their inspiring birthday messages and...

Announcing the PU-litzer Prizes for 2007 by Jeff Cohen

Many journalists qualified for the 16th annual PU-litzer Prizes, bu...

2008: What's New? by Frank Scott

ZMO WEB-ONLY ARTICLE: The Iraq war continues, with official opposit...

Kosovo: Waiting for War, Dreaming of Diplomacy by Diana Johnstone

The United States and its European allies have announced that diplo...

The Ideological Profiling Act of 2007 by Nikki Alexander

ZMO ONLINE-ONLY ARTICLE: The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown T...

Northern Uganda by Bo Chamberlain

In 1996 Museveni’s troops began forcing the northern Acholi people ...

Skanska’s Secrets with Repsol-YPF by Agneta Enström

ZMO ONLINE-ONLY ARTICLE: The Swedish construction company Skanska’s...

Iraq War Veteran by Ryne Ziemba

When Eugene Cherry returned from Iraq to his home in the Englewood ...

Culture

Bob Dylan and Judy Garland: Together Again (Crossdressed) by Michael Bronski

Transvestism—and other forms of gender impersonation—has been a sta...

Charlie Wilson's War by Jeremy Kuzmarov

In his provocative 1993 book, Culture and Imperialism, Edward W. Sa...

Review: Deportation Nation by César cuauhtémoc garcía Hernández

Daniel Kanstroom’s Deportation Nation is an exhaustively detailed y...

Review: On the Global Waterfront by Steve Early

Suzan Erem and E. Paul Durrenberger’s On The Global Waterfront is a...

Cartoonerama by Jen Sorensen

Two cartoons, on branding & spamming.

Features

Election 2008 by Laurence Shoup

With no incumbent president or vice president running this year for...

Climate Change Negotiations by Anne Petermann

The 13th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention o...

The New York Times on the Kosovo Crisis by Edward Herman

All the New York Times’s biases and willingness to suppress evidenc...

Battleground Michigan by Chuck Glossenger

ZMO WEB-ONLY ARTICLE: Kennecott-Rio Tinto arrived in the UP in May ...

Zaps

Zaps - February 2008 by Various submissions

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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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