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- Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009
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- Monday, Jul 13, 2009
ZNet Article You could select any topic that subsumes anything that might be called "left activism" -- the environment, war and militarism, labor rights, energy, education, media, electoral politics, food and drink, banking and finance, just to name a few broad topics. -
- Monday, Apr 27, 2009
ZNet Article A presentation for the Albany Park, North Park, Mayfair Neighbors for Peace and Justice Economics, April 25, 2009 -
- Tuesday, Dec 30, 2008
Blog Post A report back of an October 2008 face-to-face meeting between members of CAPES (the Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society) and APPS (the Austin Project for a Participatory Society). -
- Friday, Aug 29, 2008
Blog Post What: A celebration of the publication of "Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century"
When: Monday, September 1st, starting at 2pm.
Where: The Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago (about a block from the Western station on -
- Saturday, Jul 05, 2008
ZNet Article Corporations -- particularly those transnational corporations with limited liability and rights of personhood -- pose a great threat, perhaps the greatest threat, to the environment and to the future of this planet. Examples are legion: Exxon-Mobil and global warming, Georgia-Pacific and rampant clear-cutting, Shell Oil and oil extraction, General Electric and the nuclear industry, and (relevant to St. Louis) Monsanto and GMOs. To be sure, corporations are not the only threat to our shared natural environment, but I think any comprehensive effort to save the planet must include as a plank stopping these corporations, indeed wiping out corporate power altogether, lest we face irreversible catastrophe. -
- Sunday, Apr 27, 2008
ZNet Article On Wednesday, February 18, 2009, all analog over-the-air TV broadcasting in the United States ceases, and will be replaced with an all-digital broadcasting setup. The ostensible reason for this conversion to digital television (DTV) is to improve television. With freed television spectrum resulting from the conversion, public safety communications can be increased and improved, more TV channels can be created, and picture quality can improve. -
- Monday, Mar 24, 2008
Blog Post March 23 – Six members of the anti-war group “Catholic Schoolgirls Against The War” staged a dramatic die-in during the 11AM Easter mass at Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago’s most prominent Catholic parish – and the home of one of the nation’s most conservati -
- Wednesday, Sep 12, 2007
Blog Post A heads-up for a couple of things:
(1) There's an FCC hearing in Chicago scheduled for next Thursday, September 20. Chicagoans and folks in the midwest U.S. are encouraged to attend. More details are here and here. In anticipation of the hearing, I -
- Tuesday, Sep 11, 2007
Blog Post Obviously. Because scintillating commentator and analyst David Brooks said so. On the PBS Newshour (well, it IS an hour long, but is it news?), Brooks was talking about the latest videotape by Osama bin Laden, and Brooks said:
...I mean, on one han -
- Tuesday, Aug 21, 2007
Blog Post Well, this IS new content, and an idea I've been throwing around for a while. And hey, Z does satire every month!
Spider Pig Buys Out Wall Street Journal
Spider Pig, who does whatever a Spider Pig does, stunned the business world Monday by annou -
- Thursday, Aug 16, 2007
Blog Post Lately, it seems like I've been using this blog to promote one or another thing, rather than deliver some semblance of original content. Right you are -- though that might change soon and I might get back to posting up original content. Anyway, here's -
- Wednesday, Jul 04, 2007
Blog Post Just a quick blog post announcement which would interest ZNet readers.
Last month, I interviewed Michael Albert on my weekly radio show in Chicago. We discussed a number of topics raised in his recent book "Remembering Tomorrow".
The full audio o -
- Saturday, Jun 23, 2007
Blog Post I had an idea for a tactic to proceed our economy. Why not just go ahead and start a participatory economy?
Some might react by saying "We already have projects like Z Magazine and South End Press which already are starting". I know that, but that\ -
- Thursday, May 24, 2007
Blog Post From the Department of Neato:
This map shows the distribution of the 15.9 million people worldwide who protested against the invasion of Iraq in 2003 by troops from over 25 other territories, including from the United States, the United Kingd -
- Saturday, Apr 14, 2007
Blog Post From an article I posted on Chicago Indymedia:
Freedom-of-speech advocates and political activists are expecting a verdict this week in the case of a Chicago political activist who was arrested at a political rally for openly questioning police order -
- Monday, Feb 26, 2007
Blog Post This is just a quick announcement.
The complete audio of the Feb. 10 Chicago Parecon debate at the offices of In These Times, and hosted by the Open University of the Left, is now online.
The audio has been divided into six MP3 files, each about a -
- Sunday, Feb 18, 2007
Blog Post (Note: The opinions expressed in what's to follow are solely those of its author, Mitchell Szczepanczyk, and do not necessarily reflect those of members of CAPES -- the Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society -- nor of the organization as a whole.)
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- Wednesday, Feb 07, 2007
Blog Post A heads-up for ZNet readers: I'm going to be participating in an event in Chicago this Saturday with David Schweickart. Yes, that David Schweickart.
Details are below. We hope to have the audio (and video?) posted and available sometime after the ev -
- Monday, Jan 22, 2007
Blog Post Until last weekend. Memphis had been the city I most wanted to visit but hadn't yet visited. (I personally credit Marc Cohn.) So, when the 2007 National Conference for Media Reform took place at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis, hot damn!
I -
- Wednesday, Dec 27, 2006
Blog Post The story is breaking with the announcement swallowing U.S. cable television as I type these words: Gerald R. Ford, former U.S. president, has died at the age of 93.
Ford will be buried in a locale about 12 city blocks away from where I type these word -
- Monday, Dec 18, 2006
Blog Post (Please note that this review is about the book The Corporation, the companion to the film of the same name, and not the fiim itself.)
I find myself with mixed feelings about The Corporation: the book by Joel Bakan. On the one hand, I rank the book as -
- Monday, Dec 11, 2006
Blog Post The good news, as the Save The Internet coalition reports:
The gavel has fallen on the 109th Congress marking the demise of entrenched corporate efforts to legislate away our Internet freedoms — and a stunning victory for real people who want to reta -
- Thursday, Nov 16, 2006
Blog Post I was broadcasting my radio show in Chicago this afternoon when I heard that neoliberal economist Milton Friedman died this afternoon at age 94. Indeed, my show airs on the University of Chicago's own radio station, on the very campus where Friedman tau -
- Wednesday, Nov 01, 2006
Blog Post Okay, I feel a little dirty (being an anti-war Chomsky reading parecon supporter and all that) but today I joined Moveon.org's big calling machine and called about twelve numbers, reading a script in support of a democratic candidate I know nothing about -
- Saturday, Oct 28, 2006
Blog Post I thought I was going to blog about Death of a President, a faux documentary about the assassination of George W. Bush -- which I saw tonight, which is set in Chicago, which boasts video footage of protesters I know personally, and with footage recorded -
- Friday, Oct 27, 2006
Blog Post Earlier in 2006, I blogged about the efforts to stop the wretched rewrite of the Telecommunications Act, the main law in America involving the media and the internet, and its likely negative ramifications as to the future of the internet and current commu -
- Sunday, Oct 15, 2006
Blog Post I don't want to spend too much time about the Mark Foley scandal in the United States House of Representatives, involving a resigned representative and his electronic communications of an explicit sexual nature with Congressional male pages. The scanda -
- Saturday, Sep 16, 2006
Blog Post Many ZNet and Z Magazine readers are familiar with The NewStandard, the excellent progressive-minded online journalism website, built on the model of participatory economics, funded without advertising or nonprofit grants, operating on a very frugal but e -
- Tuesday, Aug 29, 2006
Blog Post One year has passed since Hurricane Katrina and a staggering level of follow-up ineptitude rendered the effective destruction of New Orleans.
I can't help but think that the effect of that hurricane and what followed may ultimately be to American hi - All Most Recent Content
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