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Glick: Democrats for IRV?
Jul 21, 2002
One and a half years after the five not-so-Supremes selected George Jr. to be President, there are still echoes of the bitterness expressed by some Democrats over Ralph NaderÕs Green Party Presidential campaign.
Glass: A Palestinian Mandela?
Jul 18, 2002
One place to look for the "new and different Palestinian leadership" that President George Bush demanded last Monday, is Petach Tikva Prison near Tel Aviv. In the solitary confinement of his cell, Marwan Barghouthi has been charged with terrorist offences
Gonsalves: On Becoming a Wal-mart Greeter
Jun 24, 2002
Charles Leach describes himself as a 62-year-old, silver-haired, overweight, wing tip shoe-wearing president of a small company that manufactures textile screen printing inks - "not exactly the 'neo-hippie anarchist' the media picks out as the typical WTO
Gonsalves: Open-toe sandals, closed minds
Jun 21, 2002
One columnist called them kids with "open toe sandals and closed minds."
Glass: Kashmir
Jun 12, 2002
Kashmir
Glick: ÒThe Least of TheseÓ
Jun 10, 2002
Why do people become activists and organizers for positive social change? Even more importantly, why do they continue to live lives of activism even after they experience the difficulties of this line of work?
Glick: “The Least of Theseâ€
Jun 10, 2002
Why do people become activists and organizers for positive social change? Even more importantly, why do they continue to live lives of activism even after they experience the difficulties of this line of work?
Gonsalves: Who cares about Africa?
Jun 04, 2002
Who cares about Africa? Me for one. And the Bush administration apparently does, too. ThatÕs what BushÕs $10 billion aid proposal for Africa and the Bono and OÕNeill 10-day tour of sub-Sahara Africa was all about. WasnÕt it?
Gonsalves: The Social Safety Problem
May 04, 2002
Yeah, yeah, criminals "deserve" this and they "deserve" that. But if we can
Glick: Practicing What You Preach
Mar 22, 2002
In four of my last five Future Hope columns I have written about the importance of independent, peace and justice electoral campaigns, particularly now as we face, in Dick CheneyÕs words, a war that Òmay never end, at least, not in our lifetimes.Ó Faced w
Gluckman: The Scapegoating of America’s Youth: Past and Present (Mis)Conceptions
Mar 20, 2002
In December 1995 John DiIulio, former head of Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, published a series of apocalyptic reports predicting a new breed of violent juvenile delinquents, the “teenage superpredators.†Most famous among these reports was the widely read “The Coming of the Super-Predators.â€
Gonsalves: Why Black History Month?
Feb 21, 2002
The idea was first envisioned by a man recognized as ÒThe Father of Negro HistoryÓ Ð Carter G. Woodson.
Glass: I know what Camp X-Ray feels like
Feb 17, 2002
The first thing they do is cover your eyes. They make you strip to make sure you're not carrying anything. They replace your clothes with uniforms that are not clothes at all. They chain you by hand and foot. They drag you away and leave you on your own.
Glick: 2002: Rising Up Stronger and Broader
Feb 09, 2002
Imagine this: a Congressional Democrat running for re-election next November with a leaflet that says, "Vote for me! I supported Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld as they waged war in Afghanistan. I kept my mouth shut as, week after week, civilians died from erra
Glick: ÒThe Least of TheseÓ
Jan 04, 2002
Why do people become activists and organizers for positive social change? Even more importantly, why do they continue to live lives of activism even after they experience the difficulties of this line of work?
Glick: “The Least of Theseâ€
Jan 04, 2002
Why do people become activists and organizers for positive social change? Even more importantly, why do they continue to live lives of activism even after they experience the difficulties of this line of work?
Glass: The Scene Is Set For Another Lebanon
Dec 16, 2001
Another Palestinian has killed himself in Jerusalem. He was walking towards the David Citadel Hotel in King David Street, where two Israeli ministers were staying. The minister of public security, Uzi Landau, and the religious affairs minister, Asher Ohan
Glick: The Democrats in Wartime
Dec 10, 2001
As I write it's now seven weeks since the U.S. began it's near-unilateral war against Al Qaeda, the Taliban and, in the words of President Bush on November 21st, "other terrorists who threaten America and our friends," as well as "other nations who sponso
Guellec: If You Can't Pay For Chemotherapy - You'll Die!!
Oct 24, 2001
It is a shame that we all can't, or won't, see what is going on! Taxol, a drug discovered by the government and used for many of the 100 or so different kinds of cancers has gone generic.
Aug 31, 2002
As a kid who grew up on the Jetsons and sci-fi space movies, I was disappointed when Òthe futureÓ arrived at the stroke of midnight, Dec. 31, 1999.