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Meister: MLK Was A Working-Class Hero
Commentary, January, 16 2011
Dick Meister
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"I AM A MAN," the signs proclaimed in large, bold letters. They were held high, proudly and defiantly, by African-American men marching through the streets of Memphis, Tennessee, in the spring of 1968.
Zirin: "I'm a Negro who speak up”: Remembering Football Great Cookie Gilchrist
Znet Article, January, 16 2011
Dave Zirin
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With the passage of time, there are two establishment responses to the great political rebels in sports.
Chen: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Call for Peace as Racial Justice Still Rings
Znet Article, January, 15 2011
Michelle Chen
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When Martin Luther King, Jr. "broke the silence" on the war on Vietnam in 1967, he shattered the establishment rhetoric on America's mission in Southeast Asia.
Hastings: The Invisible King
Znet Article, January, 15 2011
Tom H. Hastings
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You watch. Over the weekend and on Monday, the Hallmarked memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr will be sanitized and blackwashed until he is no more than a sentimental husk hoping that little children of all races will one day be able to play toget...
Marais: South Africa Pushed to the Limit: The Political Economy of Change
Book, January, 13 2011
South Africa Pushed to the Limit shows that although the legacies of apartheid and colonialism weigh heavy, many of the strategic choices made since the early 1990s have compounded those handicaps
Bacon: The Rise and Fall of Employer Sanctions
Znet Article, January, 10 2011
David Bacon
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In this essay, David Bacon and Bill Ong Hing argue that ICE raids-be they of the Bush or the Obama kind-should cease. The basis for these operations-employer sanctions-should be repealed, and true reform that recognizes the rights of all workers s...
Bergstein: Supreme Court & "Cat's Paw" Liability
Zmag Article, January, 01 2011
Stephen Bergstein
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Attempts to undo Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
Diep: An 'Overwhelming Problem' in the Navajo Nation
Znet Article, January, 01 2011
Francie Diep
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The Navajo Nation, the United States' largest Indian reservation, is home to waste products of uranium processing.
Cook: Jesus Recruited For ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ Forest
Znet Article, December, 28 2010
Jonathan Cook
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Half a million trees planted over the past 18 months on the ancestral lands of Bedouin tribes in Israel's Negev region were bought by a controversial Christian evangelical television channel that calls itself God-TV.
Authors: Book Highlights MLK's Labor, Social Justice Work
Znet Article, December, 27 2010
Many Authors
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Martin Luther King Jr. led the American civil rights movement but his deep and active commitment to labor and social justice is often forgotten.
Kagarlitsky: The Return of Fascism
Commentary, December, 25 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky
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There was nothing unexpected about the racially motivated rioting and attacks that took place in Moscow and other cities during the past 10 days.
Swanson: On the 25th Day of Wikileaks, My Government Gave to Me
Commentary, December, 25 2010
David Swanson
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On the first day of Wikileaks, my government gave to me...
Shipp: Restarting the Civil Rights Movement
Znet Article, December, 25 2010
E.R. Shipp
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It was never a powerful monolith but, rather, a wide range of groups with different styles and -- usually -- common goals. Many movement veterans say that approach could work again.
Lusane: Black History of the President’s House
Commentary, December, 22 2010
Clarence Lusane
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On December 15, 2010 the National Park Service inaugurated its new exhibit, “President’s House: Freedom and Slavery in Making a New Nation” at the Liberty Bell Center pavilion in Philadelphia’s Independence Park.
Hass: Even after 170 years
Znet Article, December, 21 2010
Amira Hass
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On Thursday, December 16, President Barack Obama declared, during the second conference of Tribal Nations held at the White House, that the United States had decided to support the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, thus reversi...
Bloice: An Historical View from the "Sanctimonious" Left
Znet Article, December, 20 2010
Carl Bloice
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Smarting from the complaints within his own party about the tax deal he and the Republican leadership had hatched, an increasingly defensive President Obama said," this is the public option debate all over again."
Jayapal: Rising Hate for Migrants Worldwide Starts with Criminalizing Them
Znet Article, December, 17 2010
Pramila Jayapal
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This Saturday marks the 10th anniversary of International Migrants Day and the 20th anniversary of the passage of the U.N. Convention to Protect Migrant Workers.
Cook: Apartheid Israel-Style
Znet Article, December, 16 2010
Jonathan Cook
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The pretty two-storey home with a red-tiled roof built by Adel and Iman Kaadan looks no different from the rows of other houses in Katzir, a small hilltop community in northern Israel close to the West Bank.
Salisbury: Terrorama
Znet Article, December, 15 2010
Stephan Salisbury
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The woman who puzzled over Hispanics in her audience of high-school students and suggested they looked “Asian” was defeated in her run for the Senate in Nevada.
Cook: Israel’s Racist Rabbis
Znet Article, December, 09 2010
Jonathan Cook
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Jews must not rent homes to “gentiles”. That was the religious decree issued this week by at least 50 of Israel’s leading rabbis, many of them employed by the state as municipal religious leaders.
