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Yaghmaian: Suspected and Feared
Znet Article, December, 12 2005
Behzad Yaghmaian
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Suspected and Feared
Bouteldja: A ghettoised, post-colonial France is upon us
Znet Article, November, 22 2005
Naima Bouteldja
Bouteldja's ZSpace page
In 1991, after violent riots between youths and police scarred the suburbs of Lyon, French sociologist Alain Tourraine predicted that "it will only be a few years before we face the kind of massive urban explosion of the American experience". The ...
Ireland: France After The Riots
Znet Article, November, 21 2005
Doug Ireland
Ireland's ZSpace page
France After The Riots
Sommers: The Uses of France's Riots
Znet Article, November, 20 2005
Jeff Sommers
Sommers's ZSpace page
The French riots of late October and November were immediately pressed into service for ideological heavy lifting to serve several causes. First, the "Clash of Civilizations" crowd immediately wished to place the riots in the context of a neocons...
Okihiro: Japanese Americans and the Making of U.S. Democracy During World War II
Znet Article, November, 14 2005
Gary y. Okihiro
Okihiro's ZSpace page
[This is an introduction to two Office of War Information propaganda films...
Mouly: Semantic Attacks
Znet Article, November, 14 2005
Françoise Mouly
Mouly's ZSpace page
Although we have seen countless images of cars burning in the poor and segregated suburbs of France, we have not heard much about the war of words that has accompanied them. Yet when you pay attention to the words, you begin to realize that the se...
Levine: Assimilate or Die
Znet Article, November, 14 2005
Mark Levine
Levine's ZSpace page
About 130 years ago, Josiah Strong, celebrated evangelical preacher and a chief ideologue of American empire, offered a stark choice to the "inferior races" the United States would encounter as it fulfilled its "manifest destiny" across the seas. ...
Bouteldja: Explosion in the suburbs
Znet Article, November, 10 2005
Naima Bouteldja
Bouteldja's ZSpace page
In 1991, after violent riots between youths and police scarred the suburbs of Lyon, French sociologist Alain Tourraine predicted that "it will only be a few years before we face the kind of massive urban explosion of the American experience". The ...
Sandronsky: An Interview with Two Anti-Minuteman Project Activists
Znet Article, November, 09 2005
Seth Sandronsky
Sandronsky's ZSpace page
Scott Campbell lives in Oakland, California, and is an organizer with the San Francisco Bay Area Coalition to Fight the Minutemen. He and 600 others protested on October 29 at the state Capitol in Sacramento against the Minuteman Project, which t...
Ireland: WHY IS FRANCE BURNING?
Znet Article, November, 06 2005
Doug Ireland
Ireland's ZSpace page
Saturday night was the 10th day of the spreading youth riots that...
Ramadan: Living Together
Znet Article, August, 31 2005
Tariq Ramadan
Ramadan's ZSpace page
Tariq Ramadan is one Europe's leading progressive Muslim scholars. He talked to Oscar Reyes about integration, multiculturalism and the role of the global justice movement after the London bombings. ---------------------- Q: The British governmen...
Thompson: Life Imitates Poetry
Znet Article, August, 22 2005
Gabriel Thompson
Thompson's ZSpace page
Most of the news, since I became literate at least, has been negative. In recent years it has only gotten worse. Torture, war, repression, abuse-these words have become standard fare for Americans reading the paper or tuning in to the evening broa...
Klein: Racism is the terrorists' greatest recruitment tool
Znet Article, August, 19 2005
Naomi Klein
Klein's ZSpace page
Hussein Osman, one of the men alleged to have participated in London's failed bombings on July 21, recently told Italian investigators that they prepared for the attacks by watching "films on the war in Iraq", La Repubblica reported. "Especially t...
Bogado: Daunting Coalitions
Znet Article, July, 15 2005
Aura Bogado
Bogado's ZSpace page
Is your community becoming a Third World City? That's what Save Our State (SOS), an organization closely linked to the so-called Minutemen, wants to know. According to the organization's website, their "members are committed to educating Californi...
Bacon: Guest Workers
Znet Article, July, 14 2005
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
Who are guest workers? Guest workers are given a visa to enter the US to work on a temporary basis. To obtain a guest worker visa, a worker must have an offer of employment, or a job waiting in the US. This requirement sets up a system of labor r...
Bacon: Stories from the Borderlands
Znet Article, July, 08 2005
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
The world of the border turns labor law on its head-old, established legal rights are just so much ink on paper, and even the decision of federal judges to enforce the law are simply ignored. NAFTA's labor and environmental "side- agreements" have...
Saucedo: They Want To Scapegoat Immigrants
Znet Article, July, 07 2005
Renee Saucedo
Saucedo's ZSpace page
THE ANTI-IMMIGRANT bigots of the Minuteman Project grabbed headlines earlier this year when they organized vigilantes to come to Arizona to “patrol the border.†But this is only the best-known front in the attack on immigrants taki...
Bix: Torture, Racism, & the Sovereign President
Zmag Article, July, 01 2005
Herbert Bix
Bix's ZSpace page
P resident George W. Bush has embedded murder, assassination, torture, and mistreatment of prisoners into the structure of the U.S. system of global domination. Many U.S. citizens, rightly outraged, want to know ...
Bacon: Democracy, But More
Zmag Article, July, 01 2005
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
O ver one million people filled the streets along the historic route of Mexican social protest on May Day, marching from the Angel of Independence to the Zocalo and then filling the enormous square at the city’s ...
Newland: REAL ID: Perpetuating the Myth of Authenticity
Zmag Article, July, 01 2005
Laura Newland
Newland's ZSpace page
A fter college, I moved to Cleveland, Ohio and in the fall of 2003 was asked to get an Ohio driver’s license for insurance purposes at my work. I called the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and asked what...
