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Znet Article Fatah: Sharia Law Controversy

Znet Article, June, 23 2005 Tarek Fatah
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In 1991, as the full impact of a recession hit the NDP government in Ontario, it explored all avenues to cut costs. Budgets were slashed and many promises, such as public auto insurance, fell by the wayside. However, one cost-cutting initiative in...

Znet Article Zinn: Against Discouragement

Znet Article, May, 24 2005 Howard Zinn
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Against Discouragement

Znet Article Galati: Multi-Culturalism or Multi-Segregation?

Znet Article, May, 16 2005 Rocco Galati
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The word "multiculturalism" evokes, in Toronto, images of a sausage-fest on College Street's "Little Italy," or a Souvlaki-fest on the Danforth's "Greek Town," Kebob-fests on Gerrard Street's South Asian Quarter, or any of the other food-fests, da...

Znet Article Jackson: The Catholic Church Steps Backwards

Znet Article, April, 21 2005 Derrick z. Jackson
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With the election of Joseph Ratzinger to be Pope Benedict XVI, the Catholic Church is not joining the 21st century anytime soon. After all the speculation that it was time for a pope from a developing country and after the debate of whether the co...

Znet Article Glick: Ella Baker and the Process of Social Change

Znet Article, April, 11 2005 Ted Glick
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I was immensely privileged as a young activist in my 20's to meet Ella Baker and work together with her in the same organization, the Mass Party Organizing Committee. This was in the late '70s and early '80s. At the time I knew that she was a wide...

Znet Article Ollman: The Philosophy Of Basketball

Znet Article, April, 10 2005 Bertell Ollman
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The rules of basketball have changed often over the years, so I hope no one will object if I offer a few modest revisions to make this truly wonderful game even better: First, I would charge an admission fee not only to watch the game but to pl...

Znet Article Hahnel: Book Interview on Economic Justice

Znet Article, April, 06 2005 Robin Hahnel
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1. Can you tell Znet, please, what your book, Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation (Routledge 2005) is about? What is it trying to communicate? Economic Justice and Democracy argues that progressives need to go back to ...

Znet Article Matrix: On the Road with CWS

Znet Article, March, 26 2005 Dot Matrix
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This article is a critique. Criticism is a topic and a practice that requires a lot more thought and concern than it generally gets. All activists, organizers, all people who are interested in social change, we are all critics. Leftism is a tend...

Znet Article Achcar: MARXISTS AND RELIGION -- YESTERDAY AND TODAY

Znet Article, March, 21 2005 Gilbert Achcar
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MARXISTS AND RELIGION -- YESTERDAY AND TODAY

Znet Article Engler: Hockey Book Interview

Znet Article, March, 10 2005 Gary Engler
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What is The Meaning of Hockey and why was the title changed from Noam Chomsky on Hockey? Can a sports novel also be political? Will a novel about a former star hockey player going through male menopause be of interest to feminists? Is political-sp...

Znet Article Release: Not Dead Yet to Leaflet Oscar Gala: "Million Dollar Baby" Gets

Znet Article, March, 09 2005 Press Release
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Clint Eastwood's latest film, "Million Dollar Baby," has been nominated for seven Academy Awards, including the five leading categories of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actress in a Leading Role, and Best Supporti...

Znet Article Scott et al: A Bottom-up Southern Strategy for Power in the 21st Century

Znet Article, February, 27 2005 Jerome Scott et al
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Jerome Scott, Project South & Walda Katz-Fishman, Project South & Howard University Overview To build today's movement to fight for and to win justice, equality, peace and popular democracy we must understand how the ruling class has historica...

Znet Article Marable: Malcolm X Interview

Znet Article, February, 24 2005 Manning Marable
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AMY GOODMAN: We will be joined by Professor Marable in just a moment, but first we begin with Malcolm X himself in words recorded just a months before he was assassinated. It was January 1965, he gave this speech entitled "Prospects for Freedom." ...

Znet Article Churchill: What Did I Really Say? And Why Did I Say It?

Znet Article, February, 22 2005 Ward Churchill
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Thanks to Clarke Iakovakis for the transcription. Emma Perez: I'm Emma Perez; I'm the new chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies [applause]. I'm very proud to be the chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies; I'm very proud of my colleagues; I...

Znet Article Arreaza: ALBA: Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America and the Caribbean

Znet Article, February, 13 2005 Teresa Arreaza
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The ALBA (Alternativa Bolivariana para las Américas), as its Spanish initials indicate, is a proposed alternative to the U.S.-sponsored Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA, ALCA in its Spanish initials), differing from the latter in that it adv...

Znet Article Dharr: Memo to Muqtedar

Znet Article, January, 29 2005 Abu Dharr
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[This piece caused some debate. Muqtedar Khan's response is published here.] Muqtedar Khan is a character who, despite his relentless efforts to promote himself, has not been taken seriously by Muslim scholars.  The foolishness characterizing man...

Znet Article Smedjeback: Rebuilding a House and Building a Common Future

Znet Article, January, 17 2005 Martin Smedjeback
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Young...

Znet Article Burnham: No Mandate from Women of Color

Znet Article, January, 08 2005 Linda Burnham
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Millions of people worked as hard as they possibly could to turn the country onto a different path and still the village idiot was elected. What to make of such an outcome? What do we know about the participation of women of color at the polls? D...

Znet Article Bidwai: BJP in Dire Straits

Znet Article, November, 18 2004 Praful Bidwai
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Not even the most inveterate critics of the Bharatiya Janata Party could have imagined that the party would prove so incapable of dealing with its recent election defeat that it would find itself in the hopeless and utter disarray that it does tod...

Znet Article Ravishankar: The fall of the Brahminist citadel

Znet Article, November, 17 2004 Ra Ravishankar
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"Am I Veerappan?", Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati asked after he was arrested last Thursday (November 11, 2004) on charges of instigating the murder of his bete noire Sankararaman [1]. Not for nothing has it been said that looks can be d...

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