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Znet Article Peters: Five Guidelines for Our Organizing

Znet Article, March, 31 2003 Cynthia Peters
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Five Guidelines for Our Organizing There is a very positive development happening in the anti-war movement. That is, people are actively trying to connect the war abroad with the struggles for power, resources, and freedom right here in our own n...

Znet Article Peters: On Funnels and Pens

Znet Article, February, 16 2003 Cynthia Peters
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As dissent grows and diversifies, the tactics and strategies for containing it must grow and diversify right along with it. Today, in New York City, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators united in a cry of outrage against war in Iraq and their ...

Commentary Peters: Christmas 2002

Commentary, December, 26 2002 Cynthia Peters
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You can get a $12 push-up bra for Christmas.

Commentary Peters: G-Strings for Seven-Year-Olds! What's a Parent to Do?

Commentary, November, 04 2002 Cynthia Peters
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Two major media stories last summer offer small windows into how mainstream culture views children, particularly little girls. Alarming stories about sexy summer fashion choices and alarming stories about innocent girls being abducted by sadistic ...

Commentary Peters: On Being A Vigilant Parent

Commentary, September, 10 2002 Cynthia Peters
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The picture in the Boston Globe shows parents hovering over their children while they play in the pool -- watching their every step, never taking their eyes off their offspring. During the summer of high-profile child abductions, the message to pa...

Commentary Peters: Good Dads are Patriarchs

Commentary, August, 25 2002 Cynthia Peters
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The best dads are old-fashioned patriarchs according to a Globe report of a recent study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family. Good fathering is all about stability, says the study, which seems to result from having a wife, a college di...

Znet Article Peters: Anniversary 9/11

Znet Article, July, 29 2002 Cynthia Peters
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For almost a year now, many of us have been organizing against the "war on terrorism." We see it as nothing of the kind. Rather, the real problem of terrorism is being used by Bush to assert unilateral U.S. power in the world, display military m...

Commentary Peters: Anniversary 9-11

Commentary, July, 28 2002 Cynthia Peters
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For almost a year now, many of us have been organizing against the "war on terrorism." We see it as nothing of the kind.

Znet Article Peters: Antoine Walker and the Trajectory of Change

Znet Article, May, 29 2002 Cynthia Peters
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By What did Antoine Walker say? When did he say it? How did it help bring about the impossible? And why should leftists care? For those of you who are following the NBA playoffs, saw the Celtics/Nets game on Saturday night, and/or read the papers ...

Commentary Peters: East Timor Independence Day: May 20, 2002

Commentary, May, 22 2002 Cynthia Peters
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When is hopelessness a reasonable response to a terrible situation?

Znet Article Peters: East Timor: Independence Day,

Znet Article, May, 20 2002 Cynthia Peters
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When is hopelessness a reasonable response to a terrible situation? Surely, the East Timorese people during the last quarter of the last century might have been forgiven for succumbing to despair. After all, this half-island nation had been invad...

Commentary Peters: Parenting in a Vulgar Age / Happy Mothers Day

Commentary, May, 13 2002 Cynthia Peters
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Anyone who has even briefly perused the childcare shelves at bookstores knows that there are strategies and then refinements to those strategies on how to be the best possible parent to your fetus.

Commentary Peters: On Going to D.C. and On Going Home

Commentary, April, 12 2002 Cynthia Peters
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The long weekend of April 19-22 in Washington, DC represents an historic opportunity for progressive social change movements. The anti-capitalist globalization movement, the newly forming anti-war movement, the growing mobilization against domesti...

Znet Article Peters: On Going To Dc And On Going Home

Znet Article, April, 09 2002 Cynthia Peters
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The long weekend of April 19-22 in Washington, DC represents an historic opportunity for progressive social change movements. The anti-capitalist globalization movement, the newly forming anti-war movement, the growing mobilization against domesti...

Commentary Peters: Using MLK to Keep You in Your Place

Commentary, March, 27 2002 Cynthia Peters
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There are all sorts of rationalizations people will offer for not envisioning a better future. "It's utopian," some will say. "You're dreaming. The best we can do is make small improvements on what we've got."

Commentary Peters: Guys Have All the Fun

Commentary, March, 02 2002 Cynthia Peters
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There's something cutting edge about the 9 warriors that make up the fellowship in Lord of the Rings. They're not one-dimensional macho fighters who employ only brute strength in the war against evil. They're a dream team of qualities, abilities, ...

Znet Article Peters: A Post Mortem On The Peace Movement?

Znet Article, December, 27 2001 Cynthia Peters
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Today a Village Voice reporter called to interview me for a story he is writing. His assignment? To do a post-mortem on the peace movement. ...

Commentary Peters: A Post-Mortem on the Peace Movement?

Commentary, December, 26 2001 Cynthia Peters
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Today a Village Voice reporter called to interview me for a story he is writing. His assignment? To do a post-mortem on the peace movement.

Commentary Peters: Where are the Afghan Women?

Commentary, October, 23 2001 Cynthia Peters
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In my previous commentary, I used Cynthia Enloe's question, "Where are the women?" to explore how gender politics are being used to ignite patriotism on the domestic front. What happens when we apply the same question to the country the U.S. is cu...

Commentary Peters: Women's Patriotic Role

Commentary, October, 11 2001 Cynthia Peters
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Cynthia Enloe, feminist scholar and author of several books and articles about women and the military, suggests that when a country mobilizes for war, it is useful to ask, "Where are the women?"

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