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Simpson: My Chicagoland Black Friday in words and pictures
Blog Post, November, 27 2012
Bob Simpson
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Walmart stocks up on products manufactured under deadly sweatshop conditions. It organizes Black Friday sales knowing they can touch off riots in their stores. Then Walmart sends security guards and police after peaceful demonstrators who only see...
Ramanathan: Unredacted version - Summers of Fear in America's Number one city
Blog Post, November, 26 2012
Karthik Ramanathan
Ramanathan's ZSpace page
This is an unredacted version of an article that I published on the Z Blog last year.
Simpson: Will worker justice take flight at Chicago airports?
Blog Post, November, 26 2012
Bob Simpson
Simpson's ZSpace page
A contract recently negotiated by UNITE-HERE Local 1 and signed by O’Hare concessionaire HMS Host is a godsend for airport workers because of its wage increases and better health insurance.
Campbell: Are fossil fuels halal?
Blog Post, November, 24 2012
Ross Campbell
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Islamic ethics stresses avoiding harm to others, and putting public good before private gain. Since it's now indisputable that burning fossil fuels is causing climate change, and the biggest producers of fossil fuels are majority Muslim countries,...
Campbell: Are fossil fuels halal?
Blog Post, November, 24 2012
Ross Campbell
Campbell's ZSpace page
Islamic ethics stresses avoiding harm to others, and putting public good before private gain. Since it's now indisputable that burning fossil fuels is causing climate change, and the biggest producers of fossil fuels are majority Muslim countries,...
Emersberger: Note to Mehdi Hasan re: Media Lens and Srebrenica
Blog Post, November, 24 2012
Joe Emersberger
Emersberger's ZSpace page
Note to Mehdi Hasan re: Media Lens and Srebrenica
Emersberger: The Guardian offers polite tactical advice to Netanyahu – unreserved condemnation for Assad
Blog Post, November, 22 2012
Joe Emersberger
Emersberger's ZSpace page
The Guardian offers polite tactical advice to Netanyahu – unreserved condemnation for Assad
Podur: Goma falls to Rwanda
Znet Article, November, 22 2012
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Rebels, called the M23, have taken Goma, the main city of North Kivu, one of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s eastern provinces. Their plan is to march to Bukavu, the main city of South Kivu, and from there, they say, across the massive co...
Kellecioglu: Why won’t the Eurozone disintegrate? A tale of political and economic elites
Blog Post, November, 22 2012
Deniz Kellecioglu
Kellecioglu's ZSpace page
This is a contribution I made to the Real-World Economics Review Blog. http://rwer.wordpress.com/2012/11/22/why-wont-the-eurozone-disintegrate/ The blog is published by the recently founded World Economics Association (WEA).
Simpson: The Dark Side, from Seattle to New Zealand
Blog Post, November, 19 2012
Daniel Simpson
Simpson's ZSpace page
I spent early autumn on Greyhound, touring the U.S. to promote my memoir, A Rough Guide to the Dark Side, which recounts why I quit my job at The New York Times. Disillusioned by their pro-war propaganda, I tried to start a Balkan Summer of Love.....
McElhinney: The Army Reserves, patriotism & JK Rowling
Blog Post, November, 17 2012
Phil McElhinney
McElhinney's ZSpace page
British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond considers a "League of Patriotic Employers" for companies who employ army reservists. What is really needed is for companies to display their patriotism by paying their share of taxes as Harry Potter author...
Podur: Haiti's New Dictatorship
Video, November, 16 2012
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The author of Haiti's New Dictatorship discusses Haiti
Miller: The Demise of SuperPacs is Greatly Exaggerated
Blog Post, November, 16 2012
Gary Miller
Miller's ZSpace page
Analysis of the impact of SuperPacs on Election 2012.
Jones: Samos Diary 15
Blog Post, November, 16 2012
Chris Jones
Jones's ZSpace page
A diary covering the week in November when the latest round of austerity measures were passed by parliament in Athens.
Kavanagh: The Long Con: Social Security and Medicare in the “Grand Bargain”
Blog Post, November, 14 2012
Jim Kavanagh
Kavanagh's ZSpace page
“Social Security and Medicare have absolutely nothing to do with the short-term U.S. fiscal problem.” And, no, not “long-term,” either, in any way that requires what’s being proposed. Please, read the article by William Lind, which contains the ch...
Marom: Occupy Sandy, from Relief to Resistance
Znet Article, November, 13 2012
Yotam Marom
Marom's ZSpace page
There is much work to do. But people are doing it — day by day, block by block
Simpson: Don Moore 1942-2012: A lion who roared on behalf of public education
Blog Post, November, 13 2012
Bob Simpson
Simpson's ZSpace page
It’s easy to stereotype public policy wonks as data driven, numbers crunching, analytical geeks with horn-rimmed glasses and bad haircuts who provide the research for the real organizers who go out into the real world andmobilize for social change...
Johnson: A Close Look at the 99%, the 1%, and What the Occupy Movement is Up Against
Blog Post, November, 12 2012
Dale Johnson
Johnson's ZSpace page
A sociological and political analysis of class relations in the United States that bears upon questions of strategy for the Occupy Movement.
Emersberger: George Monbiot's "Abject Apology to Lord McAlpine"
Blog Post, November, 12 2012
Joe Emersberger
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George Monbiot's "Abject Apology to Lord McAlpine"
Kavanagh: Election Choices: What to Do Instead
Blog Post, November, 08 2012
Jim Kavanagh
Kavanagh's ZSpace page
Having made the case against voting for Obama in a previous post, it’s only fair for me to suggest the alternative. I value the right to vote as fundamental. I have seen how people who don’t have that right fight for it, and how people who get ...
