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Various submissions: Zaps - April 2008
Zmag Article, April, 02 2008
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Mindszenthy: Activists Target War on Housing
Zmag Article, April, 02 2008
Andrew Mindszenthy
Mindszenthy's ZSpace page
Fifteen years ago, Canada’s federal government scrapped its national housing program, turning Canada into the only industrialized country without one.
Grossman: Social Movements Between Woodstock and the Web
Zmag Article, April, 02 2008
Zoltan Grossman
Grossman's ZSpace page
Recently, I’ve gotten some questions about the surge of activism that took place in the 1980s. Students want to know more about Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra scandal. But there is a “black hole” in the public memory after Woodstock and before ...
Holmbäck: Book Reviews
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
Christopher Holmbäck
Holmbäck's ZSpace page
The Sutras of Abu Ghraib by Aiden Delgado, Road from ar Ramadi by Camilo Mejía, and The Deserter's Tale by Joshua Key reviewed.
Parrish: University of Mass Destruction
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
Will Parrish
Parrish's ZSpace page
Since 2005, UC Regents have formed a pair of high-stakes partnerships with the Bechtel Corporation and two other military-industrial firms—BWX Technologies and Washington Group International—in limited-liability corporations (LLC) known as Los Ala...
Bronski: State of the Movement
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
Apparently it’s the time of the year to give talks about the State of the Union, State of the State, and State of whatever. So why not State of the Gay Movement?
Abowd: Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
Paul Abowd
Abowd's ZSpace page
Over a year after Democrats won Congress on a still un-fulfilled anti-war pledge, Chicago-based Voices for Creative Nonviolence (VCNV) was one of the many anti-war groups still calling for a transformation of U.S. foreign policy. Buttressed by mas...
Ten eyck: Freightliner Workers Fight for their Jobs
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
Tiffany Ten eyck
Ten eyck's ZSpace page
Cleveland, North Carolina, a small town with less than 1,000 residents, is an unlikely home for an active autoworkers’ union. Freightliner LLC (now owned by Daimler) opened a truck-manufacturing plant in the town in 1989. The United Auto Workers w...
Various submissions: Zaps - March 2008
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
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Weidman: Zapatista Women's Encuentro
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
Kaya Weidman
Weidman's ZSpace page
Just after midnight on January 1, 2008, the 14th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising began and the caracol of La Garrucha was alive with celebration. We watched from the top of a refurbished school bus as a mass of bodies danced below a sky litt...
Laning: Turning Words Into Actions
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
Jason Laning
Laning's ZSpace page
I spent most of the weekend of January 11, 2008 in jail. It was easily the most important thing I’ve done in my life. As part of the group Witness Against Torture, and in solidarity with numerous groups performing similar acts around the world on ...
Condon: Crunch Time For U.S. War Resisters In Canada
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
Gerry Condon
Condon's ZSpace page
ZMO ONLINE-ONLY ARTICLE: AWOL GIs continue to make the trek north. They can still enter Canada as visitors and then apply for refugee status, which gives them immediate legal status in Canada as long as their refugee claim is pending, possibly a y...
Finamore: Stealth Election at the TWU
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
Carl Finamore
Finamore's ZSpace page
The Transport Workers Union (TWU) was locked in a major fight for union recognition at Continental Airlines in early January 2008. Unfortunately, few noticed.
Steinberg: The Battle To Save New Orleans Public Housing
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
Michael Steinberg
Steinberg's ZSpace page
ZMO ONLINE-ONLY ARTICLE: “They’re using New Orleans as an experiment, to privatize schools, cut back on bus service, and knock down housing projects. That’s what we’re fighting against and that’s why people have come from all over the country to s...
Various submissions: Zaps - February 2008
Zmag Article, February, 01 2008
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Obuszewski: Year 2007: Resistance Against the War Update
Zmag Article, February, 01 2008
Max Obuszewski
Obuszewski's ZSpace page
ZMO ONLINE-ONLY ARTICLE: I am of the opinion that there has never been a movement in U.S. history with the number of arrests which have taken place in opposition to the Iraq War. The following list of appeals, arrests, and legal cases is not all-i...
Bondgraham: Dollar Day for New Orleans
Zmag Article, February, 01 2008
Darwin Bondgraham
Bondgraham's ZSpace page
Thursday, December 20, 2007 should forever be remembered as a dollar day for New Orleans. The water is long gone, but there’s still suffering in the streets.
Stephen: Leonard Weinglass & the Miami Five
Zmag Article, February, 01 2008
Hallmark Stephen
Stephen's ZSpace page
The "Miami Five" were convicted on charges ranging from acting as unregistered agents to conspiracy to commit murder—three of them have life sentences without parole. Their "offense" is to have infiltrated terrorist cells in Miami that in the earl...
Alexander: The Ideological Profiling Act of 2007
Zmag Article, February, 01 2008
Nikki Alexander
Alexander's ZSpace page
ZMO ONLINE-ONLY ARTICLE: The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 would implement an expansion of the 2002 Homeland Security Act with the creation of a National Commission authorized to study and identify individua...
Ziemba: Iraq War Veteran
Zmag Article, February, 01 2008
Ryne Ziemba
Ziemba's ZSpace page
When Eugene Cherry returned from Iraq to his home in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, his world was turned upside down. He had once been a student at the well-respected Southside College Preparatory School and had then taken classes at Harol...
