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Meister: A First For Labor, A First For Women
Znet Article, September, 07 2008
Dick Meister
Meister's ZSpace page
Amid the speculation about the possibility of Sarah Palin becoming the first woman to serve as vice president, don't forget the first woman who actually did serve in a president's cabinet -- Frances Perkins, one of the most important leaders, wom...
Prashad: Clemente Interview, Vice Presidential Candidate of the Green Party
Commentary, September, 05 2008
Vijay Prashad
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Rosa Clemente, 35, is the vice presidential candidate for the Green Party of the United States. Clemente, who is Puerto Rican, was born in the South Bronx, New York, and educated at the University of Albany and at Cornell University. A vibrant com...
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.
Mckinney: Green Party Nominates McKinney and Clemente
Zmag Article, September, 01 2008
Cynthia Mckinney
Mckinney's ZSpace page
Excepts from Cynthia McKinney's July 12 Green Party acceptance speech.
Zirin: Women’s Gymnastics: The Big Mac of the Beijing Games
Znet Article, August, 16 2008
Dave Zirin
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The Olympics and I have what you could call a conflicted relationship. There’s the beauty of the games, the enjoyment of sports that don’t normally make it onto the sports landscape. Then there’s that ugly pervasive undercurrent that can leave you...
Podur: The NATO Occupation and Fundamentalism
Znet Article, August, 13 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) is a women's organization that runs underground schools and other projects, educates Afghan girls, runs a periodic journal, and agitates politically for women's rights, human rights,...
Goodman: The New Equality - in Unemployment
Znet Article, August, 03 2008
Ellen Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
Let me begin by raising a glass of champagne to the official closing of the math gap. It turns out that girls do not lack the math gene. Nor are they math- phobic. Nor is there any "intrinsic" difference - thank you, Larry Summers - between the ab...
Wright: Sexual Assault in the Military: A DoD Cover-Up?
Znet Article, August, 03 2008
Ann Wright
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There was quite a struggle in Congress this week. The Department of Defense refused to allow the senior civilian in charge of its Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) to testify in Thursday's hearing on sexual assault in the milit...
Meister: America's Second-Class Workers
Znet Article, August, 02 2008
Dick Meister
Meister's ZSpace page
The ever-weakening economy is driving millions of Americans into the ranks of the country's highly exploited part-time workers...
Ireland: Socialism and Homosex
Znet Article, July, 27 2008
Doug Ireland
Ireland's ZSpace page
Recovering our hidden gay history has been a critically important byproduct of the modern gay movement, and in its current Summer 2008 issue, the 46-year-old independent socialist review New Politics has published a significant discovery that rest...
Billet: Still Stuck in 'Guyville'
Commentary, July, 18 2008
Alexander Billet
Billet's ZSpace page
Listening to Liz Phair's debut Exile in Guyville, recently reissued by ATO Records after years out of print, it's striking how fresh and new the album sounds. It's raw, coarse, cocky and confrontational; it fits right in with the kind of rock albu...
Jensen: Universal patterns within cultural diversity: Patriarchy makes men crazy and stupid
Commentary, July, 11 2008
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
Islamabad, Pakistan - Some lessons learned while spending time in a different culture come from paying attention to the wide diversity in how we humans arrange ourselves socially. Equally crucial lessons come from seeing patterns in how people beh...
Spannos: What is Real Utopia?
Znet Article, July, 04 2008
Chris Spannos
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UTOPIAS HAVE A LONG, mixed history in Left movements. Sometimes they have propelled our imagination toward what better worlds might look like. Other times they have trumpeted heaven on earth, a world for angels rather than mortals, a far fetched l...
Spannos: Real Utopia Interview
Znet Article, July, 02 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
The book is a collective effort to spell out vision and strategy for a feasible and desirable transformation of society’s defining institutions. It explores how to get there along with concrete examples and lessons taken from past and present Left...
Grubacic: Roots of Resistance
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Andrej Grubacic
Grubacic's ZSpace page
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, daughter of a landless farmer and half-Indian mother. During the first two decades of the 20th century, her paternal grandfather, a veterinarian from a Scots- Irish agrarian background, had been a me...
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...
Bronski: How Vietnam Gave us Dude, Where's My Car
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
One of the most amazing cultural responses to the war against Iraq has been the plethora of documentary and feature films produced by independent companies and even Hollywood studios. From In the Valley of Elah, Grace is Gone, and Stop-Loss to Red...
Zirin: The Over Exposure of Danica Patrick
Znet Article, June, 17 2008
Dave Zirin
Zirin's ZSpace page
It has been quite a year for Danica Patrick. She became the first woman to win an Indy Car race, coming in first at the Indy Japan 300 on April 20. She also became the first race care driver to pose for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
Jensen: Diversity and the incoherence of journalism’s ideology
Znet Article, June, 13 2008
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
The ideology of contemporary corporate commercial journalism is incoherent, and one place to see clearly this confusion is the news media industry’s approach to “diversity.”
Jensen: Masculine, Feminine or Human?
Commentary, June, 11 2008
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
In a guest lecture about masculinity to a college class, I ask the students to generate two lists that might help clarify the concept.
