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Goodman: Following String of Racist Incidents, UC San Diego Students Occupy Chancellor’s Office
Znet Article, March, 03 2010
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
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...
Johnson: Single Black Women Speak For Themselves
Znet Article, February, 25 2010
Tammy Johnson
Johnson's ZSpace page
A book review of Nika Beamon's new book, I Didn't Work This Hard Just to Get Married.
Hirsch: I-5, Golden State Gulag
Znet Article, February, 21 2010
Matthew Hirsch
Hirsch's ZSpace page
In 1962, a literary magazine in the Soviet Union printed One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s debut novel about an ordinary man who'd been swept to the margins of society. Little to that point had been published about S...
Zirin: Tiger Woods: Brand Rehabilitation
Znet Article, February, 20 2010
Dave Zirin
Zirin's ZSpace page
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 ...
Raina: India, Australia
Znet Article, February, 09 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
“Try to look as poor as you can,” he advises Indian immigrants to Australia.
Meister: We Need To Combat Workplace Violence
Znet Article, February, 07 2010
Dick Meister
Meister's ZSpace page
Organized labor and its allies are rightly alarmed over the high incidence of on-the-job accidents that have killed or maimed many thousands of workers. But they haven’t forgotten nor should we forget the on-the-job violence that also afflicts...
Ireland: One Bright, Shining Moment
Znet Article, February, 04 2010
Doug Ireland
Ireland's ZSpace page
Deborah Gould does justice to the courageous struggle waged by ACT UP
Abu-jamal: Howard Zinn, Master Historian
Commentary, February, 04 2010
Mumia Abu-jamal
Abu-jamal's ZSpace page
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.
Meister: Obama's Promise To Women
Znet Article, January, 30 2010
Dick Meister
Meister's ZSpace page
One of the most important promises made by President Obama in his State of the Union address has been largely overlooked his promise to “crack down on violations of equal pay laws, so that women get equal pay for an equal day¹s work.”
Schulte: What Came Before Roe V. Wade
Znet Article, January, 24 2010
Elizabeth Schulte
Schulte's ZSpace page
The period before the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion tells a lot about how we can defend access to abortion today, says Elizabeth Schulte.
Cohn: Keeping Same-Sex Marriage in the Dark
Commentary, January, 16 2010
Marjorie Cohn
Cohn's ZSpace page
On Wednesday, a conservative majority of the Supreme Court overturned a ruling made by a federal trial judge that would have allowed limited television coverage of a trial that will decide the fate of California's Proposition 8. The trial, which i...
Flaherty: Her Crime? Sex Work in New Orleans
Znet Article, January, 14 2010
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
More than half of the people on Louisiana's Sex Offender Registry - which was designed for rapists and child molesters - are indigent women convicted of sex work.
Oxford: Afghanistan's soft-spoken rebel
Znet Article, January, 12 2010
Andrew Oxford
Oxford's ZSpace page
Malalai Joya is only 32, but she has been an exile, a refugee, a teacher of girls in the Taliban's Afghanistan, and now that country's youngest member of parliament. She's still on the run though, and still threatened with assassination
Wolf: Putting Prop 8 on Trial
Znet Article, January, 11 2010
Sherry Wolf
Wolf's ZSpace page
While Ostensibly about the marriage rights of lesbians and gays in California, the Perry v. Schwarzenegger court case that begins January 11, 2010, will likely debate the constitutionality of discrimination against LGBT people nationwide. The tria...
Shymanski: Afghan activist urges foreign troops to leave
Znet Article, January, 10 2010
Jackie Shymanski
Shymanski's ZSpace page
The author of this compelling autobiography has been called one of the bravest women in Afghanistan, by media and politicians the globe over.
Ireland: Republic of Georgia Frames Gay Leader
Znet Article, January, 07 2010
Doug Ireland
Ireland's ZSpace page
Arrest of Paata Sabelashvili, LGBT group founder, chills nascent liberation drive
Wise: On Santa and Other Harmless Fibs: Childhood, Aging and the Maintenance of Hope
Commentary, January, 04 2010
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
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, ...
Weiss: A Voice of Resistance in Afghanistan
Znet Article, January, 04 2010
Suzanne Weiss
Weiss's ZSpace page
A book review of "A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice" by Malalai Joya.
Berlatsky: Leaving Camp
Znet Article, December, 27 2009
Noah Berlatsky
Berlatsky's ZSpace page
According to stereotype, people of idiosyncratic genders and sexualities congregate in cities. Their cabarets and fabulous performance events happen indoors and at night. For a variety of historical and cultural reasons, you probably wouldn't expe...
Penny: Moving Towards Solidarity
Znet Article, December, 23 2009
Laurie Penny
Penny's ZSpace page
For decades, the feminist movement has been split over the status of trans people, and of trans women in particular. High-profile feminists such as Germaine Greer, Jan Raymond and Julie Bindel have spoken out against what Greer terms "people who t...
