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Dangl: Nowtopia
Zmag Article, October, 01 2008
Ben Dangl
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Ben Dangl reviews a new book about informal non-capitalist alternatives in the U.S. today.
Redington: A People's History of Sports in the United States
Zmag Article, October, 01 2008
Pete Redington
Redington's ZSpace page
Pete Redington reviews Dave Zirin's new book on sports history from a leftist perspective.
Gelderloos: Teaching Rebellion
Zmag Article, September, 01 2008
Peter Gelderloos
Gelderloos's ZSpace page
Peter Gelderloos on a book about the 2006 rebellion in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Amico: Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage
Zmag Article, September, 01 2008
Michael Amico
Amico's ZSpace page
Michael Amico a book and movement for family equality.
Bader: That's Revolting
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Eleanor Bader
Bader's ZSpace page
Understanding how the Gay Liberation movement fragmented into something less revolutionary than activists originally intended is not easily understood and the 32 essays in That’s Revolting attempt to deconstruct what happened to the notion of radi...
Kuzmarov: Soldiers of Reason
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Kuzmarov's ZSpace page
In his 1956 book, The Power Elite, Sociologist C. Wright Mills warned about the cancerous growth of the military-industrial complex, and the increased secrecy of the American government, which was controlled by a narrow group with intimate ties to...
Bacon: Hollywood Comes to Blows with Upton Sinclair
Zmag Article, May, 01 2008
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
Writing us out of a movie made from "Oil!" expropriated one of the most important works of our history.
Wildchild: Review: Challenging Authority
Zmag Article, April, 02 2008
Edgey Wildchild
Wildchild's ZSpace page
Frances Fox Piven’s book "Challenging Authority" is about how social movements are the pivotal force of social, economic, and political change in the U.S.
Ovetz111: Review: Subcommander Marcos
Zmag Article, April, 02 2008
Robert111 Ovetz111
Ovetz111's ZSpace page
Henck’s book is a case study of the emergence and evolution of a new political model in which a marginalized top down political organization is reformulated by those it aspires to lead to being led by them.
Holmbäck: Book Reviews
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
Christopher Holmbäck
Holmbäck's ZSpace page
The Sutras of Abu Ghraib by Aiden Delgado, Road from ar Ramadi by Camilo Mejía, and The Deserter's Tale by Joshua Key reviewed.
Kuzmarov: Charlie Wilson's War
Zmag Article, February, 01 2008
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Kuzmarov's ZSpace page
In his provocative 1993 book, Culture and Imperialism, Edward W. Said examines how cultural representations in the West have historically helped to stereotype Third World peoples as being passively reliant on foreign aid for their social and polit...
Early: Review: On the Global Waterfront
Zmag Article, February, 01 2008
Steve Early
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Suzan Erem and E. Paul Durrenberger’s On The Global Waterfront is a detailed study of the fight to save five ILA members from politically-motivated felony charges. The prosecution of the Charleston 5—four blacks and one white accused of rioting—co...
Hernández: Review: Deportation Nation
Zmag Article, February, 01 2008
César cuauhtémoc garcía Hernández
Hernández's ZSpace page
Daniel Kanstroom’s Deportation Nation is an exhaustively detailed yet readable historical analysis of deportation law. Kanstroom, a law professor and immigration lawyer, explores the entire history of U.S. immigration law to find the threads that ...
Seckington: Review: "Poetry as Insurgent Art"
Zmag Article, January, 01 2008
James Seckington
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In the age of iPods, text messages, and YouTube, it is difficult to imagine poetry as a serious cultural and political force. In Poetry as Insurgent Art, long time rabble rouser, publisher, and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti throws out a challenge to ...
Mosson: Review: "Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth"
Zmag Article, January, 01 2008
Gregg Mosson
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Adrienne Rich’s book Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth is the latest dispatch from a great American poet who struggles to write moving human speech and penetrating thought in a dehumanizing market- dominated era.
