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Podur: Instead of Nation States
Commentary, June, 14 2002
Justin Podur
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"It's disturbing to see how neatly nationalism dovetails into fascism. While we must not allow the fascists to define what the nation is, or who it belongs to, it's worth keeping in mind that nationalism, in all its many avatars-socialist, capital...
Podur: Re-colonization Is Still On Schedule
Commentary, April, 16 2002
Justin Podur
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What does the recent coup in Venezuela mean for those struggling for social justice in Latin America? Are there lessons to be learned?
Podur: Nation States?
Commentary, April, 07 2002
Justin Podur
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A state can be defined as a 'coercion-wielding organization that exercises priority over all other organizations in a definite territory', after Charles Tilly. Tilly says that the logic of states is to try to expand their power territorially by ma...
Podur: Cut Through The Lies In Palestine
Commentary, April, 04 2002
Justin Podur
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It's possible that there are more distortions and lies printed about
Podur: Shalom Interviews Podur / Colombia
Commentary, March, 11 2002
Justin Podur
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Steve Shalom. The New York Times ran a story on February 25 by Juan Forero titled "Colombian Rebels Sabotage Peace Hopes." Perhaps you can address some of the questions raised by the article.
Podur: What Are The Rules?
Commentary, January, 20 2002
Justin Podur
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Years ago I interviewed someone who had traveled all over Central and Eastern Europe and Central and South Asia studying states and civil wars and how and why states failed. 'People ask me what's worse, an authoritarian state or no state,' he said...
Podur: Consumption, Complicity, And SUVs
Commentary, December, 29 2001
Justin Podur
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Are people in poor countries suffering because we drive SUVs? Are they starving because we eat too much? Is it our consumption that is the foundation of the exploitative system we live in?
Podur: 'We mean Dead or Dead'
Commentary, October, 30 2001
Justin Podur
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'If Osama bin Laden were hiding in the jungles of Colombia instead of Afghanistan, whose help would we enlist to find him? U.S. Army Special Forces? The Colombian Army? I don't think so.
Podur: Review of ÔThe ActivistÕs HandbookÕ and ÔRules for RadicalsÕ
Commentary, October, 20 2001
Justin Podur
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ÔThe ActivistÕs HandbookÕ by Randy Shaw compares itself to all the self-help and managerial expertise how-to books out there, lamenting the absence of similar books designed to help people win social change.
Podur: Review of ‘The Activist’s Handbook’ and ‘Rules for Radicals’
Commentary, October, 20 2001
Justin Podur
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‘The Activist’s Handbook’ by Randy Shaw compares itself to all the self-help and managerial expertise how-to books out there, lamenting the absence of similar books designed to help people win social change.
Podur: Globalization, Fox-Style
Commentary, October, 09 2001
Justin Podur
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It never ceases to amaze me, how easily fooled I am by the speeches and rhetoric of politicians. I swear to you I've heard speeches by Bill Clinton that have brought me near tears.
Podur: Loincloths, Ski Masks, and Social Movements
Commentary, August, 27 2001
Justin Podur
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ÒCertainly a soldier, myself included, is an absurd and irrational man, because he has the ability to resort to arms in order to convince. In the end, thatÕs what a soldier does when he gives an order: convince by force of arms. ThatÕs why we say ...
Podur: A Way out for Colombia
Commentary, July, 28 2001
Justin Podur
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I didn't go to Colombia looking for understanding, although it was there for me in the form of razor-sharp analysts who do their work under fire. I didn't go looking for hope either, although I found some of that too, in the very same people. What...
Podur: Fumigation and worse in Colombia
Commentary, July, 27 2001
Justin Podur
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"Who in the US benefits from fumigating Colombians?" the man asked me pointedly in the crowded community hall. The community was in a paramilitary-controlled part of Putumayo. Putumayo is a southern department of Colombia where the guerrilla insur...
Podur: Mexico's 'Modern Right'
Commentary, June, 11 2001
Justin Podur
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In March, while they were on the March of Indigenous Dignity, on their way to Mexico City to press for the passage of the law on indigenous rights and culture, the Zapatistas berated the 'hardliners' in the government who called them terrorists an...
Podur: A few more moves ahead
Commentary, May, 25 2001
Justin Podur
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There is too much at stake for social change to be a game. But if it were a game, the side that had the ability to think many moves ahead, anticipate its opponents moves, know what its goal was and move toward it relentlessly, would have huge adva...
Podur: Invisible Struggles in Colombia
Commentary, April, 27 2001
Justin Podur
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If you had the chance to see 'Traffic', you know the War on Drugs is a sham. There's a good chance you know that its domestic effects are to imprison thousands and thousands of non-violent offenders who aren't dangerous, cut them off from their fa...
Podur: Onward to Mexico City
Commentary, February, 28 2001
Justin Podur
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To call it waffling would be an understatement. But whatever you call it, Mexico's President Vicente Fox has been changing his position on the Zapatistas at least every fifteen minutes. Maybe even every five minutes.
Podur: Mexico's New President Vicente Fox and the Zapatistas
Commentary, December, 12 2000
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Mexico's New President Vicente Fox and the Zapatistas
