Peter's Recent ZNet-
- Friday, Oct 29, 2010
Commentary A 12-year old girl I know has spent most of her years in parochial or public schools. This year, she’s got a full scholarship to a very expensive all girls’ school in Boston. -
- Thursday, May 20, 2010
Commentary The most important part of going the U.S. Social Forum is how we come home from it. This is true because the Social Forum is only valuable insofar as it helps us build a strong grassroots base at home that is capable of winning demands, gaining, p... -
- Thursday, Sep 24, 2009
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- Tuesday, Jul 14, 2009
ZNet Article Being active in the anti-war movement, supporting eviction blockades in my city, working with youth who are surviving oppressive schools and violence on the streets, I often wonder how I can justify taking the time to imagine what sex, family, gen... -
- Monday, Apr 06, 2009
Commentary At a public bath in Morocco, I watched a young adolescent bathe her grandmother. She picked up each limb, moved her breasts this way and that, and shifted her belly about to reach every crevice. She stood over her, squatted next to her, and sat al... -
- Tuesday, Dec 09, 2008
Audio Stephen Shalom and Cynthia Peters interviewed on Against the Grain radio about their chapter contributions to the book Real Utopia. -
- Friday, Nov 07, 2008
Commentary Writing for Time Magazine on November 5th, Joe Klein called Barack Obama's victory a sign that our country is a "younger, more optimistic, less cynical" place. "It is a country that retains its ability to startle the world -- and in a good way, wi... -
- Thursday, Nov 06, 2008
ZNet Article An interview With Cynthia Peters by Tim Allen
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- Monday, Jul 14, 2008
ZNet Article Dropping out of school. Her perspective. ZNet Article Mom's snapshots of BLA. -
- Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008
Commentary The challenge for activists isn't just that we have legions of crises to face everyday. It's also that we have to operate in a corporate-sponsored culture that constantly barrages us and our communities with the message that individuals are the pr... -
- Wednesday, Feb 27, 2008
ZNet Article Crafting an anti-war movement from inside the belly of the beast is not easy. I'm going to talk today about how the U.S. anti-war movement is gaining momentum, despite the challenges, and I hope to convey to you all the hope that I feel, and that ... -
- Saturday, Dec 22, 2007
Commentary When I was reading Robert Jensen's new book "Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity," I found myself being careful to put the book away with the cover face-down. Why? Because the cover looks, well, vaguely pornographic. It features a ... -
- Friday, Nov 23, 2007
Commentary As a teacher in adult education, I always had to balance facilitating empowered learning in the classroom with delivering a product to funders. -
- Sunday, Nov 11, 2007
Commentary A few years ago, an old friend from Nicaragua started writing to me about his experiences fighting on the side of the Sandinistas during the revolution against a brutal dictator in the late 1970s and then later against the U.S.-supported contras. -
- Friday, Sep 14, 2007
Commentary At a little stand off an uneven road switchbacking its way up and down the Andean mountains, we stopped for a thick, syrupy sweet cafecito. It comes in a tiny, two-swallow sized cup, providing just the right hit of caffeine to keep us alert on the... -
- Wednesday, Aug 22, 2007
Commentary Readers of ZNet know how the "system" works, but who among us has not wanted to take certain individuals by the shoulders and force them to face the consequences of their actions. When I was a kid, we used to have a dog that would occasionally rel... -
- Thursday, Mar 22, 2007
Commentary Part 1: "Snapshots from School" http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-12/12peters.cfm -
- Friday, Feb 09, 2007
Commentary Read Part 1 first if you haven't already: -
- Tuesday, Dec 12, 2006
Commentary "DonÕt go to the Parent-Teacher Council meeting," advised my daughter, who is a 9th-grader at a large urban high school. "They'll only try to scare you." -
- Tuesday, Aug 15, 2006
Commentary The organizations represented at an anti-war "Unity Meeting," held at the 1199SEIU union hall on July 6, 2006, seemed to capture all the hopefulness, dedication, and hard work that is best about progressive movements today. The meeting was an atte... -
- Thursday, Aug 03, 2006
Commentary When I gave birth to my first daughter, I was in a hospital. Contraction-inducing pitocin was dripping into my veins, and I was hooked up to a monitor, featuring a jagged line graph which represented the force of each contraction. During heavy con... -
- Friday, May 19, 2006
ZNet Article This paper is being prepared for the June 1 - 7 2006 first Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy, held... -
- Friday, May 12, 2006
Commentary Today's Boston Globe (April 22, 2006), reports that Massachusetts is giving $1 million to a faith-based organization to teach abstinence in the schools. -
- Thursday, Apr 20, 2006
Commentary A while ago, I had a chance to learn about how I react in emergencies. -
- Friday, Mar 31, 2006
Commentary "How was your weekend?" I ask my adult education students at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton. "Did you have any time off?" "Off without off," is the usual answer. -
- Thursday, Dec 29, 2005
Commentary There is no such thing as too much detail when it comes to the corporate press directing its readers in how to shop, how to avoid engaging in civic life, and how to celebrate the trivial as the main source of respite from a harsh world. Having jus... -
- Saturday, Aug 20, 2005
Commentary Like any random American, I have consumed mountains of advertising featuring women's cleavages, women's tongues, women's asses, and women's firm and supple flesh -- sometimes draped in a sliver of lemon peel, suggesting that a woman is -- what? --... - All Peter's Recent ZNet
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- Monday, Jun 02, 2008
ZMag Article 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. -
- Friday, Sep 01, 2006
ZMag Article S
ince meeting Steve Meacham six years ago,
I have spoken with him many times about the challenges of seeking
radical change in the course of daily reform work. Meacham is someone
who is in the str... -
- Friday, Apr 01, 2005
ZMag Article K
elly
Dougherty, an MP in the National Guard from Colorado, and Mike Hoffman,
a lance corporal in the Marine Corps from Pennsylvania, are co-founders
of Iraq Veterans Against the War, IVAW (www.ivaw.net). Founded in
J... -
- Sunday, Aug 01, 2004
ZMag Article K
lare
Allen is a mother of four children and a long-time welfare and environmental
justice activist. When welfare moved her and her family into a hotel
after she became homeless, she started organ... -
- Tuesday, Jan 01, 2002
ZMag Article Movement Building Is the Only Match for the Emergency at Hand -
- Saturday, Dec 01, 2001
ZMag Article Feminist Analysis and the Crisis -
- Tuesday, May 01, 2001
ZMag Article On Celibacy, Cigars, and Sales Pitches -
- Thursday, Apr 01, 1999
ZMag Article Marketing to Teens -
- Wednesday, Apr 01, 1998
ZMag Article
Zoe, my six-year-old, was practically vibrating with delight when she opened the big
rectangular box and pulled out her first American Girl doll. It was her birthday. She had
asked for Felicity—the "colonial era"... -
- Sunday, Feb 01, 1998
ZMag Article Media Literacy -
- Thursday, Jan 01, 1998
ZMag Article Peters
Feminists—particularly white liberal feminists—have long
considered quality day care to be a key factor in our ability to balance work and family
life. Now, suddenly, day care is getting some mainstream supp... -
- Monday, Sep 01, 1997
ZMag Article Parenting
It Takes
A Whole Baby Product
And Toy Industry To Raise A Child
By
Cynthia Peters
Buy a copy of the Prenatal Classroom
and learn how to give your fetus a jumpstart on learning.
Have a &quo... -
- Wednesday, Jan 01, 1997
ZMag Article Cynthia Peters
Feminists—particularly white
liberal feminists—have long considered quality day care
to be a key factor in our ability to balance work and family
life. Now, suddenly, day care is getting s... - All Peters ZMag Content
Peters's Blogs-
- Sunday, Apr 01, 2012
Blog Post A video made by a young person for young people to explore what education is for. Is it to control you? Or help you learn? Hear what these young people have to say. - All Peters's Blogs
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