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Wise: Colorblind Ambition: The Rise of Post Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity
Commentary, July, 05 2010
Tim Wise
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It was summer 2004 when most of us first became familiar with Barack Obama...
Bacon: Another Immigration Policy Is Possible!
Znet Article, July, 04 2010
David Bacon
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Thousands of left-wing activists just spent a week at the US Social Forum in Detroit, gathered again under the banner "Another World is Possible." Among them hundreds added a new subtext: "Another Immigration Policy is Possible!"
Bond: World Cup, ‘resource curse’ and xenophobia threats
Commentary, June, 29 2010
Patrick Bond
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Soccer-loving cynics have long predicted problems now growing worse here in South Africa because of World Cup hosting duties...
Raptis: Israel; It, Finally, Happened!
Commentary, June, 07 2010
Nikos Raptis
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It started quite a few years ago. The more the religious fanatics from New York (or is it the psychopaths "used" by the US elites?) as emigrants to Israel got the upper hand, the more I could detect a rather painful effort in rational and honest p...
Raina: India’s Globalised “Godmen”
Znet Article, June, 05 2010
Badri Raina
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Long before the Washington Consensus, and long before the empire began to write back, Indian globalization was first and truly effected by India’s “godmen.”
Jamail: Arizona's War on Immigrants
Znet Article, May, 18 2010
Dahr Jamail
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Arizona’s new anti-immigrant law (SB1070) granting law enforcement personnel the right to detain people based on the "reasonable suspicion" that they are undocumented immigrants recently elicited strong condemnation from six UN human rights expert...
Wise: Pardon You: Racism, Reparations and the Politics of Blame (as Explained by Henry Louis Gates Jr.)
Commentary, May, 12 2010
Tim Wise
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As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular "hook" upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release. In these moments, it is often best to wait, to hold on to the material you find so compelling, sec...
Bacon: Hundreds of Union Janitors Fired Under Pressure From Feds
Znet Article, May, 11 2010
David Bacon
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Federal immigration authorities have pressured one of San Francisco's major building service companies, ABM, into firing hundreds of its own workers. Some 475 janitors have been told that unless they can show legal immigration status, they will lo...
Parenti: Pedophiles and Popes: Doing the Vatican Shuffle
Commentary, May, 11 2010
Michael Parenti
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When Pope John Paul II was still living in Poland as Cardinal Karol Wojty?a, he claimed that the security police would accuse priests of sexual abuse just to hassle and discredit them.
Zirin: Los Suns Also Rise: Phoenix Suns Win in More Ways Than One
Znet Article, May, 07 2010
Dave Zirin
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Anyone who believes that sports can’t be an effective platform for social justice, needed only to watch last night’s game between Los Suns of Phoenix and the San Antonio Spurs.
Zirin: “This is Racist Stuff”: Baseball Players/Union Speak Out Against Arizona Law
Znet Article, May, 03 2010
Dave Zirin
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In the days following the passage of the racist Arizona anti-immigrant bill, SB 1070, Major League Baseball’s Latino players were conspicuous in their silence.
Davidson: We'll Never Turn Back
Znet Article, April, 26 2010
Carl Davidson
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Firsthand and Comprehensive Account of the SNCC 50th Reunion in Raleigh, North Carolina
Zirin: The South Africa World Cup: Invictus in Reverse
Znet Article, March, 13 2010
Dave Zirin
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The present situation in South Africa could be called "Invictus in reverse." For those who haven't had the pleasure, the film Invictus is about the way Nelson Mandela used sport, particularly the near all-white sport of rugby to unite the country ...
Goodman: Following String of Racist Incidents, UC San Diego Students Occupy Chancellor’s Office
Znet Article, March, 03 2010
Amy Goodman
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We go now to California, where crowds of students stormed and occupied the office of a University of California, San Diego chancellor for six hours Friday after a noose was found hanging from a bookcase in the main library. The incident prompted a...
Zirin: Tiger Woods: Brand Rehabilitation
Znet Article, February, 20 2010
Dave Zirin
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Today's Tiger Woods press conference was an exercise in painful self-abasement that will achieve the opposite of its intended effect. I haven't seen anything this painfully scripted since the Phantom Menace. The same George W. Bush media advisers ...
Zirin: Fruits of the Backlash
Znet Article, February, 19 2010
Dave Zirin
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Many in the media are already apoplectic about the infamous launch of the All-American Basketball Alliance (AABA). For those untainted by the news, the AABA would be a league exclusively for native-born whites. According to its press release, "onl...
Schechter: It Was 20 Years Ago Today
Commentary, February, 12 2010
Danny Schechter
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It was 20 years ago Thursday February 11th when Nelson Mandela's Liberation Band began to play.
Abu-jamal: Howard Zinn, Master Historian
Commentary, February, 04 2010
Mumia Abu-jamal
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It should surprise no one when a man, nearly 90, dies. It is as natural as moonlight, as regular as a rainbow after a summer shower.
Raina: Constructing Shah Rukh Khan
Znet Article, February, 03 2010
Badri Raina
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Shah Rukh Khan is a Delhi boy turned a bouncy Bollywood actor.
Wise: On Santa and Other Harmless Fibs: Childhood, Aging and the Maintenance of Hope
Commentary, January, 04 2010
Tim Wise
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This Christmas Eve, I stood guard, anxiously surveying the narrow border between childhood innocence and the complex wisdom of messy adulthood. Little had I realized before now, how perilously close to one another are these two geographic spaces, ...
