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Goodman: President Obama Can Redeem the White House
Znet Article, November, 13 2008
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
Construction of the White House started in 1792, with sandstone quarried by slaves in Aquia, Va., then transported up the Potomac River and hauled into place by slaves...
Albert: Obama Mania?
Blog Post, November, 06 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Post election thoughts...
Albert: Obama Mania?
Commentary, November, 06 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Post Election Thoughts...
Raina: Notions of the Nation
Znet Article, November, 03 2008
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Within hours, literally, the world will know whether the nation-state in America as decreed by the American Constitution has or has not triumphed finally over the competing, even if subterranean, notion of the nation as race.
Peterson: Wanna Bet about the Next Four Years?
Blog Post, November, 03 2008
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Anyone care to place a wager with me some time between today and Inauguration Day on January 20, 2009, over how incapable -- whether due to philosophical unwillingness,
Hill: On being a black american...
Blog Post, October, 22 2008
Marcus Hill
Hill's ZSpace page
Musings on being a black american in response to a Smokey Robinson piece he performed on Def Poetry Jam.
Zirin: 40 Years Ago Today: Why the Smith and Carlos Legacy Lingers
Znet Article, October, 18 2008
Dave Zirin
Zirin's ZSpace page
It lasted for only as long as it took to play the National Anthem, and yet it’s lasted for four decades. The image of Tommie Smith and John Carlos, their black-gloved fists raised to the heavens on October 16th, 1968 at the Mexico City Olympics, h...
Cook: Israel’s ‘city of coexistence’ shows its true colors
Znet Article, October, 17 2008
Jonathan Cook
Cook's ZSpace page
Israel has been suffering its worst bout of inter-communal violence since the start of the second intifada, with a week of what has been widely presented as “rioting” by Jewish and Arab residents of the northern port city of Acre.
Raina: India’s Failed Secularism
Znet Article, October, 07 2008
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Likewise, how fortuitous for India’s beleaguered Christians that the good Prime Minister had to suffer “embarrassment” while traveling Christian lands recently. Think that in France, the spunky Sarkozy called the Kandhamal mayhem a “massacre” to ...
Abu-jamal: A Time for Union Power!
Blog Post, October, 07 2008
Mumia Abu-jamal
Abu-jamal's ZSpace page
It's been over a year since two members of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU), Local 10, were harassed, beaten and busted while trying to call their union rep on a cell phone.
Fletcher jr.: Growing Black Radicalism: Hubert Harrison and the genesis of a movement
Commentary, October, 05 2008
Bill Fletcher jr.
Fletcher jr.'s ZSpace page
Jeffrey Perry has constructed a masterful examination of the life of the little known, though immensely significant, Black radical Hubert Harrison. In the first volume of what Perry promises to be a two volume work, Perry examines Harrison from b...
Cronan jr: Quick Thoughts on Race and Class
Blog Post, September, 25 2008
John Cronan jr
Cronan jr's ZSpace page
Some quick thoughts on Race and Class
Chatterji: Orissa
Znet Article, September, 15 2008
Angana Chatterji
Chatterji's ZSpace page
Following the murder of Orissa’s Hindu nationalist icon, Lakshmanananda Saraswati, together with four disciples, in Jalespatta in Kandhamal district on August 23, 2008, Gouri Prasad Rath, general secretary, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, VHP-Orissa, ralli...
Wise: This is Your Nation on White Privilege
Commentary, September, 14 2008
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because "every fami...
Bacon: Original Workers Overcome Divisions After Mississippi Raid
Znet Article, September, 09 2008
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
In the recent raid of the Howard Industries electrical plant in Laurel, Mississippi, 481 workers have been detained for almost two weeks in Jena, Louisiana. Neither they nor their attorneys know when they will be formally charged, deported or rele...
Chatterji: Orissa
Znet Article, September, 06 2008
Angana Chatterji
Chatterji's ZSpace page
HINDUTVA'S PRODUCTION of culture and nation is often marked by savagery. On 23 August 2008, Lakshmanananda Saraswati, Orissa's Hindu nationalist icon, was murdered with four disciples in Jalespeta in Kandhamal district. State authorities alleged t...
Fletcher jr.: The World Without BlackCommentator.com?
Znet Article, August, 22 2008
Bill Fletcher jr.
Fletcher jr.'s ZSpace page
Many people who know me know that at some point, in discussing the financial future of movement organizations and institutions I ask: "How do we expect to run this project, on magic?"
Abu-jamal: The Perils of Black Political Power
Commentary, August, 19 2008
Mumia Abu-jamal
Abu-jamal's ZSpace page
As we are on the eve of what may be the most powerful Black achievement in U.S. history, it would be well to examine the history of Black political leadership in this country.
Abu-jamal: "Oooh! -- Sorry About that Slavery Thing!"
Blog Post, August, 16 2008
Mumia Abu-jamal
Abu-jamal's ZSpace page
Several days ago, a majority of the U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution apologizing for slavery. The Senate has not yet moved on such a measure, and probably has no intention to do so.
Cook: The Struggle Against Jerusalem’s Quiet Ethnic Cleansing
Znet Article, August, 01 2008
Jonathan Cook
Cook's ZSpace page
In the first hours of dawn, Nader Elayan was woken by a call from a neighbour warning him to hurry to the house he had almost finished building. By the time he arrived, it was too late: a bulldozer was tearing down the walls. More than 100 Israeli...
