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Jensen: The Color of the Race Problem Is White
Video, July, 02 2009
Robert Jensen
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In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois suggested that the question white people so often want to ask black people is, How does it feel to be a problem? This program turns the tables and recognizes some simple facts: Race problems have their roo...
Jensen: What does it mean to be a human being? Balancing theological and political insights
Commentary, June, 20 2009
Robert Jensen
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My first venture into political activism was in the feminist movement to end men's violence against women and men's use of women in the sexual-exploitation industries (stripping, pornography, prostitution), grounded in a critique of the underlying...
Jensen: Lingering white supremacy in South Africa sounds much like United States
Commentary, June, 14 2009
Robert Jensen
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"During apartheid the racism of white people was up front, and we knew what we were dealing with. Now white people smile at us, but for most black people the unemployment and grinding poverty and dehumanizing conditions of everyday life haven't ch...
Jensen: Future farming: The call for a 50-year perspective on agriculture
Znet Article, February, 04 2009
Robert Jensen
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As everyone scrambles for a solution to the crises in the nation’s economy, Wes Jackson suggests we look to nature’s economy for some of the answers. With everyone focused on a stimulus package in the short term, he counsels that we pay more a...
Jensen: Beyond grief and rage: Palestine and the politics of resistance
Commentary, January, 13 2009
Robert Jensen
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We need to analyze and strategize about political realities, but let’s begin with an emotional reality: For the past few weeks the scenes from Gaza have been driving many of us mad.
Jensen: Taking Politics Seriously: Looking Beyond the Election and Beyond Elections
Audio, November, 15 2008
Robert Jensen
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Vision, analysis, and strategy for a left/progressive movement in the aftermath of the election.
Jensen: Taking politics seriously: Looking beyond the election and beyond elections
Znet Article, October, 23 2008
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
We shouldn’t make the mistake of thinking that the most important political moment in our lives comes in the voting booth. Instead, people should take politics seriously, which means asking considerably more of ourselves than the typical fixation ...
Jensen: Free speech not safe from attack by Canadian media corporation
Znet Article, September, 22 2008
Robert Jensen
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When the bottom line is threatened, corporations typically show little concern for holding the line on political principles such as freedom of expression. In capitalism, freedom is too often just another word for maximizing profits.
Koenick: Still Riding the Second Wave
Znet Article, September, 18 2008
Ruth anne Koenick
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The term second-wave feminism is used to mark the U.S. women’s movement that emerged in the 1960s, distinct from the women’s suffrage movement -- the first wave -- that won the vote in 1920. In the 1990s, the idea of third-wave feminism became pop...
Jensen: Arrogance, ignorance, and cowardice: Lessons from 9/11
Znet Article, September, 11 2008
Robert Jensen
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Given the disastrous decisions made by U.S. officials in the seven long years since September 11, 2001, it would be easy tonight simply to catalog those many mistakes and condemn the bipartisan depravity of the Republican and Democratic politician...
Jensen: The old future’s gone: Progressive strategy amid cascading crises
Audio, August, 16 2008
Robert Jensen
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We’re in trouble, on all fronts, and the trouble is wider and deeper than most of us have been willing to acknowledge. We should struggle to build a road on which we can walk through those troubles -- if such a road is possible -- but I doubt it’s...
Jensen: The prophetic challenge: “Few are guilty, but all are responsible”
Znet Article, August, 09 2008
Robert Jensen
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One of the common refrains I heard from progressive people in Pakistan and India during my month there this summer was, “We love the American people -- it’s the policies of your government we don’t like.”
Jensen: Universal patterns within cultural diversity: Patriarchy makes men crazy and stupid
Commentary, July, 11 2008
Robert Jensen
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Islamabad, Pakistan - Some lessons learned while spending time in a different culture come from paying attention to the wide diversity in how we humans arrange ourselves socially. Equally crucial lessons come from seeing patterns in how people beh...
Jensen: Fear and hope on the runaway train: A review of Eliza Gilkyson’s “Beautiful World”
Znet Article, June, 25 2008
Robert Jensen
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This really isn’t a music review because I don’t know anything about music. I’m the guy they put in the back row of the choir with instructions to mouth the words as quietly as possible. I learned three guitar chords once; I remember two of them.
Jensen: Diversity and the incoherence of journalism’s ideology
Znet Article, June, 13 2008
Robert Jensen
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The ideology of contemporary corporate commercial journalism is incoherent, and one place to see clearly this confusion is the news media industry’s approach to “diversity.”
Jensen: Masculine, Feminine or Human?
Commentary, June, 11 2008
Robert Jensen
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In a guest lecture about masculinity to a college class, I ask the students to generate two lists that might help clarify the concept.
Jensen: The Sorrows of Race and Gender in the 2008 Presidential Election
Commentary, April, 28 2008
Robert Jensen
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It may seem odd to talk of sorrows around race and gender in politics when we are a few months away from being able to vote for a white woman or a black man for president of the United States. When I was born in 1958, any suggestion that such an e...
Jensen: Raining on the Thanksgiving Day parade: “Redefining” the holiday is a failed project
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Robert Jensen
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After years of being constantly annoyed and often angry about the historical denial built into Thanksgiving Day, I published an essay in November 2005 suggesting we replace the feasting with fasting and create a National Day of Atonement to acknow...
Jensen: The end of Osheroff's dance: Lessons from a life of resistance and love
Commentary, April, 15 2008
Robert Jensen
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As Abe Osheroff's body slowly began to betray him in his 80s and 90s, one of his favorite lines was, "I have one foot in the grave but the other keeps dancing."
Jensen: Beyond Peace
Commentary, March, 20 2008
Robert Jensen
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It has long been a staple of the antiwar movement that there can be no meaningful peace without justice on a global scale...
