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Jensen: The Sorrows of Race and Gender in the 2008 Presidential Election
Commentary, April, 28 2008
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
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...
Russell: Rebirth of a Dream
Blog Post, April, 16 2008
Joshua kahn Russell
Russell's ZSpace page
Reportback from the Dream Reborn conference in Memphis TN.
Marable: African-American Peacemakers - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and the Struggle Against Racism, Inequality and War
Znet Article, April, 13 2008
Manning Marable
Marable's ZSpace page
Obama's immediate challenge is to link the current economic and mortgage crisis being experienced by millions of Americans, with the political economy of the Iraq War.
Pilger: The Struggle Against Apartheid Has Begun Again In South Africa / Honouring the 'Unbreakable Promise'
Commentary, April, 12 2008
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
Almost fourteen years after South Africa's first democratic elections and the fall of racial apartheid, John Pilger describes, in an address at Rhodes University, the dream and reality of the new South Africa and the responsibility of its new elite.
Shiva: Globalisation Pills for Globalisation Ills: Offering the Disease as the Cure for India's Deepening Food and Agrarian Crisis
Commentary, April, 10 2008
Vandana2 Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
Over the last 15 years, India's food and agriculture systems have been severely destabilized as a result of policies of economic globalisation and trade liberalization. Two aspects of this destabilization are the agrarian crisis and the rise in fo...
Zirin: Common Bond for Uncommon Men: Roberto Clemente and Martin Luther King
Znet Article, April, 08 2008
Dave Zirin
Zirin's ZSpace page
As we remember the 40th anniversary of that dark day of April 4th 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned down in Memphis, it's worth recalling the reaction by Pittsburgh Pirates All-Star Roberto Clemente.
Olson: The Emotional Power of Photography
Znet Article, April, 03 2008
Gary Olson
Olson's ZSpace page
In his recent book, The Slave Ship, maritime historian Marcus Rediker documents the role played by emotional and especially visual appeals in ending the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Cronan jr: Irish-American: To be or not to be
Blog Post, April, 03 2008
John Cronan jr
Cronan jr's ZSpace page
The revolutionary potential of being Irish-American.
Podur: Canada's newest political prisoners
Znet Article, March, 30 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The jailing of these leaders offers a window into a whole host of Canada’s irrationalities and cruelties – the callous dispossession of the indigenous, the search for quick profits to be torn out of the ground and turned into money whatever the co...
Albert: Parecon & Cultural Communities
Znet Article, March, 26 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Humans tend to create diverse communities bound by shared cultures that differ from one another in their artistic, linguistic, and spiritual allegiances and preferences. The problem of cultural communities is not this diversity per se, but that cu...
Street: Past and Present in Obama's Race Speech
Blog Post, March, 26 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
There's something really wrong with Obama's instantly hailed March 18th Race/Reverend Wright speech and it isn't getting enough attention. I'm talking about the way-too easy way he got away with discussing the racism that produces black American a...
Street: Obama’s Latest "Beautiful Speech"
Znet Article, March, 21 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
I just read Barack Obama’s Latest Greatest Speech – his celebrated address on race, titled “A More Perfect Union” [1], yesterday (I am writing on the morning of March 19 2008), in Philadelphia.
Pappe: A Mirror on Israel
Znet Article, March, 21 2008
Ilan Pappe
Pappe's ZSpace page
Last summer, the Pappe family packed its belongings, rented out its spacious house in Israel and moved to Britain. Ever since his support of an academic boycott on Israel's universities became public, historian Ilan Pappe, 54, has felt like public...
Marable: Barack Obama's Problem -- And Ours Along the Color Line
Znet Article, March, 13 2008
Manning Marable
Marable's ZSpace page
Several years ago, I was walking home to my Manhattan apartment from Columbia University, just having delivered a lecture on New York State's notorious "Rockefeller Drug Laws." The state's mandatory-minimum sentencing laws had thrown tens of thous...
Majavu: White supremacy as a way of life
Blog Post, March, 10 2008
Mandisi Majavu
Majavu's ZSpace page
According to the Human Sciences and Research Council study, opportunities for whites are abundant, and it is easier for whites to get credit, start a business, find a job and make more money in their lifetime than it is for the average black perso...
Spannos: Real Utopia: Participatory Society For The 21st Century
Blog Post, March, 01 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
After three years of organizing and editing, the book Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century (AK Press) will finally be released in May.
Billet: Barack's Big Hype: Is Obama the candidate of the Hip-Hop Generation?
Commentary, February, 23 2008
Alexander Billet
Billet's ZSpace page
For many, the answer to this question might be an enthusiastic "yes." In recent weeks I have spoken on a radio show on "the hip-hop effect on the Obama campaign." I've talked to politically active MCs who are beyond stoked that Obama is ahead in...
Chatterji: Kandhamal: Hindutva’s terror
Znet Article, February, 07 2008
Angana Chatterji
Chatterji's ZSpace page
December 25, 2007: Seven churches, Catholic, Protestant, Pentecostal, independent... burned in Barakhama village, in west Kandhamal/Phulbani district, central Orissa. December 23: Hindutva-affiliated Adivasi organisations organised a march, suppor...
Street: Clintons-Obama and the "Over" Struggle for Black Equality
Znet Article, January, 19 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Recently the United States ' idiocy-inducing narrow-spectrum political culture scraped the moral and intellectual bottom on race. It started when Hillary Clinton made a curious remark in criticizing the effectiveness of Barack Obama's "soaring rhe...
Podur: Defend the Border
Znet Article, January, 06 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The phrase “defend the border” wasn’t always a metaphor. And it isn’t just a metaphor in many parts of the world, even today: some states do have to worry about overland military invasions.
