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Paskus: A (Desert) Rock By Any Other Name
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Laura Paskus
Paskus's ZSpace page
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...
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...
Thompson: Winter Soldier on the Hill
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Erin Thompson
Thompson's ZSpace page
In an unofficial hearing held in a small chamber of the House of Representatives on May 15, Congressperson Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) listened with sympathy to nine testimonies from Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) describing the indiscriminate...
Leuchtag: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Alice Leuchtag
Leuchtag's ZSpace page
The American civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer was born on October 6, 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi. The youngest of 20 children of Jim and Lou Ella Townsend, Fannie Lou was a year old when she contracted polio, which left her with a l...
Nygaard: 2008 Conference for Media Reform
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Jeff Nygaard
Nygaard's ZSpace page
The 2008 National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR), sponsored by the nonprofit media reform group Free Press, was held in Minneapolis June 6-8. The largest gathering of its kind in the country, the 2008 NCMR revealed many strengths of the Media ...
Petermann: One Leap Backwards for Biodiversity, One Giant Step Forward for Industry
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Anne Petermann
Petermann's ZSpace page
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) emerged, along with its cousin the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), out of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. Its mission is ostensibly to recommend solutions to the escalating biodiversi...
Various submissions: Zaps - June 2008
Zmag Article, June, 02 2008
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Gagnon: StratCom Conference
Zmag Article, June, 02 2008
Bruce k. Gagnon
Gagnon's ZSpace page
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...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Thompson: Winter Soldier Rules of Engagement
Zmag Article, May, 01 2008
Erin Thompson
Thompson's ZSpace page
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...
Bell: Five Years Later, Direct Action Has Changed
Zmag Article, May, 01 2008
Jessica Bell
Bell's ZSpace page
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, ...
Vltchek: Radar, Star Wars, & the Czech Republic
Zmag Article, May, 01 2008
Andre Vltchek
Vltchek's ZSpace page
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...
Various submissions: Zaps - May 2008
Zmag Article, May, 01 2008
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Young: The March of the Dead
Zmag Article, May, 01 2008
Kevin Young
Young's ZSpace page
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 ...
San román: Helter Smelter
Zmag Article, May, 01 2008
Gabriel San román
San román's ZSpace page
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...
Wildchild: Review: Challenging Authority
Zmag Article, April, 02 2008
Edgey Wildchild
Wildchild's ZSpace page
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.
Ovetz111: Review: Subcommander Marcos
Zmag Article, April, 02 2008
Robert111 Ovetz111
Ovetz111's ZSpace page
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.
