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Zmag Article Pietaro: Utah Phillips, 1935 to 2008

Zmag Article, July, 01 2008 John Pietaro
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Utah Phillips was born Bruce Duncan Phillips in Cleveland, Ohio in 1935. He decided early on that he would dedicate his time to social justice. By the mid-1950s, he was a veteran of the Korean War, damaged from the sights and sounds around him, a ...

Zmag Article Bondgraham: Let Me Stand Alone

Zmag Article, July, 01 2008 Darwin Bondgraham
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The publication of Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie is an inspiring demolition of this ironic separation of our own subjectivity from journalism and political analysis. Corrie’s writings come across as lucid prose of a budding pol...

Zmag Article Allard: The Bolivarian Revolution is a Global Revolution

Zmag Article, July, 01 2008 Jean-guy Allard
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The daughter of a U.S. father and Venezuelan mother, Eva Golinger is a lawyer specializing in international human rights law. Educated in New York, she left that U.S. metropolis to live in Venezuela, a country that she passionately defends.

Zmag Article Rosen: Write On!

Zmag Article, July, 01 2008 David Rosen
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The Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike this winter against TV and movie producers was one of the longest successful white-collar worker strikes in U.S. history. It lasted 14 weeks less then the writers’ 1988 strike, which lasted almost 22 weeks...

Zmag Article Paskus: A (Desert) Rock By Any Other Name

Zmag Article, July, 01 2008 Laura Paskus
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The Desert Rock Energy Company, a subsidiary of Sithe Global Power, and the Navajo Nation’s Diné Power Authority hope to build a 1,500 megawatt coal-fired power plant on a Navajo reservation about 30 miles southwest of Shiprock. While the tribal g...

Zmag Article Abowd: North Carolina Sweatshop Activists Stage 16-Day Sit-In

Zmag Article, July, 01 2008 Paul Abowd
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Finals week was fast approaching when 15 University of North Carolina students occupied the administration building in Chapel Hill on April 17. SAW activists transformed the administration building into a communications center, launching an online...

Zmag Article Various submissions: Zaps - June 2008

Zmag Article, June, 02 2008 Various submissions
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Zmag Article Gagnon: StratCom Conference

Zmag Article, June, 02 2008 Bruce k. Gagnon
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Admittedly, “StratCom: The Most Dangerous Place on the Face of the Earth” sounded a bit over the top for the title of a conference. But by the time the participants caught their flights home from Omaha, Nebraska in April 2008, there wasn’t anybody...

Zmag Article Bacon: Mississippi’s SB 2988

Zmag Article, June, 02 2008 David Bacon
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On March 17 Mississippi Governor Hayley Barbour signed the farthest-reaching employer sanctions law of any on the books in the U.S. The Mississippi bill, SB 2988, requires employers to use an electronic system called E-Verify.

Zmag Article Clemente: The Sean Bell Verdict

Zmag Article, June, 02 2008 Rosa Clemente
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On April 25, in a country where beating and killing a dog gets you a 23-month sentence, Judge Arthur Cooperman ruled that the 3 detectives who fired 50 bullets—4 killed Sean Bell; 19 and 3 hit Guzman and Benefield respectively—at an unarmed Black ...

Zmag Article Peters: War on Communities

Zmag Article, June, 02 2008 Cynthia Peters
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Thanks to the organizing efforts of City Life/Vida Urbana and the courage of community members willing to physically block the eviction and risk arrest, the Meyers family won a temporary reprieve from losing their home.

Zmag Article Brittain: Anti-Uribe Protest

Zmag Article, May, 01 2008 James Brittain
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On Thursday, March 6, Colombians from all walks of life not only protested the illegal incursion of their country’s forces on Ecuador’s territory, but denounced human rights abuses against sectors of the Colombian populace by the Uribe and Santos ...

Zmag Article Thompson: Winter Soldier Rules of Engagement

Zmag Article, May, 01 2008 Erin Thompson
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On March 14 President George W. Bush spoke from the White House to U.S. soldiers during a video conference about their deployment in Afghanistan. “I’m a little envious. If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantas...

Zmag Article Bell: Five Years Later, Direct Action Has Changed

Zmag Article, May, 01 2008 Jessica Bell
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On March 15, 2008, Direct Action To Stop The War (DASW) organized a rally and action at the Chevron Richmond Refinery to kickstart a series of nationwide protests to mark the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq and expose Chevron’s links to war, ...

Zmag Article Vltchek: Radar, Star Wars, & the Czech Republic

Zmag Article, May, 01 2008 Andre Vltchek
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While the cyclone and neo-Nazis were busy on the homefront, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek was meeting George Bush in Washington. The two heads of state were trying to conclude negotiations about the construction of the U.S. radar base in We...

Zmag Article Various submissions: Zaps - May 2008

Zmag Article, May, 01 2008 Various submissions
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Zmag Article Young: The March of the Dead

Zmag Article, May, 01 2008 Kevin Young
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Thirty-four people were arrested on the grounds of the Capitol building on March 19 during a silent march mourning those Iraqis, Afghanis, and U.S. soldiers who have been killed during the U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Dressed in black ...

Zmag Article San román: Helter Smelter

Zmag Article, May, 01 2008 Gabriel San román
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Despite the opposition of community organizations, city officials, residents, and neighboring New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) granted an air permit that allows the copper smelting company A...

Zmag Article Wildchild: Review: Challenging Authority

Zmag Article, April, 02 2008 Edgey Wildchild
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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.

Zmag Article Ovetz111: Review: Subcommander Marcos

Zmag Article, April, 02 2008 Robert111 Ovetz111
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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.

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