September 2007 Volume 31, Issue 09

September 2007

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Viewpoint

Climate Change Refugees Terry J. Allen

How Does Laura Bush Sleep at Night? Susan J. Douglas

The Counterproductive War on Gangs Salim Muwakkil

The Crafting of Obama Laura S. Washington

Gitmo’s Last Honest Man H. Candace Gorman

Blogs Up, Hacks Down Jessica Clark

Feature

A Freegan World Sergio Burns

Scorned on the Bayou Melinda Tuhus

Labor Takes a Seat in the Classroom Adam Doster

Creating the 21st Century Library Aaron Sarver

Extending Tours, Stressing Troops Sarah Olson

The Trial (And Errors) of Hugo Chávez Steve Ellner

Farming the Concrete Jungle Phoebe Connelly and Chelsea Ross

In Condemnation of Opting In Anne Elizabeth Moore

Palestinians in Iraq Face a Second Exile Robert S. Eshelman

Dispatch

Restoring Classroom Justice Lewis Wallace

The Promise of Low Power FM Michelle Chen

Universal Health Care for Wisconsin? David Moberg

No Match? No Mas! Mischa Gaus

Culture

Unveiling Muslim Feminism Erin Wiegand

The Secret Lives of Plutocrats David Moberg

The Kids Aren’t Alright Brian Cook

A Freegan World

Hundreds of urban activists, combining the words "free" and "vegan" have set out to change the way we think and act

Sergio Burns

Scorned on the Bayou

Louisianans fear a new plan to restore costal wetlands could destroy their way of life

Melinda Tuhus

Labor Takes a Seat in the Classroom

Educators are taking steps to bring union history into American schools

Adam Doster

Creating the 21st Century Library

The Prelinger Library eschews the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress systems, and is organized instead by what Megan Shaw Prelinger calls "a map of my brain"

Aaron Sarver

Extending Tours, Stressing Troops

Despite a growing body of medical research, the Pentagon is extending tours of duty to their longest levels since World War II, precipitating the first time in history that active-duty soldiers will spend more time in combat than at home

Sarah Olson

The Trial (And Errors) of Hugo Chávez

Venezuelans are debating whether Chávez is putting the windfall of revenue from oil revenues to good use or squandering it through disorganization, corruption and misplaced priorities

Steve Ellner

Farming the Concrete Jungle

In cities across the country urban farmers are growing communities, greening the landscape and revolutionizing food politics.

Phoebe Connelly and Chelsea Ross

In Condemnation of Opting In

Our voices are being drowned out by our peers in the supposedly independent media, like Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore, who calls Starbucks "the new record store," and music journalists like the Chicago Reader's Miles Raymer, who argued in a piece called "In Praise of Selling Out" that the music industry's decline can be "rescued by corporations that make everything but music"

Anne Elizabeth Moore

Palestinians in Iraq Face a Second Exile

Threatened in Iraq, these refugees have no country to return to.

Robert S. Eshelman

A Dream Deferred

Only sustained community activism will reverse the Supreme Court's most recent betrayal of Brown v. Board of Education

Unveiling Muslim Feminism

Muslim women's bodies are too frequently used to symbolize the state of Islam in Iran, and the degree to which it associates itself with the West

Restoring Classroom Justice

Restorative justice in schools has picked up steam in response to "zero tolerance" policies, which lead to "schoolhouse-to-jailhouse tracking"

Climate Change Refugees

As large areas of the planet become unsuitable for human life, the sad stream of climate refugees will become a torrent

The Secret Lives of Plutocrats

In Richistan, Robert Frank offers a breezy, well-observed peek into this gated community. You too could visit if you graduate from "butler boot camp" and become a $120,000-a-year "household manager"

How Does Laura Bush Sleep at Night?

The worst First Lady in recent memory has had no consistent program or agenda to changes things for the better, while at the same time providing PR cover for her husband

Susan J. Douglas

The Counterproductive War on Gangs

The conclusion of the report, "Gang Wars: The Failure of Enforcement Tactics and the Need for Effective Public Safety Strategies," persuasively argues that punitive policies of policing that specifically target gangs increase rather than decrease gang violence

The Promise of Low Power FM

The voices aired on low-power stations include evangelists, social critics, tomato pickers and indie rockers--all linked by the credo that radio should reflect the heterogeneity of the communities it serves

The Crafting of Obama

When Barack Obama launched his presidential bid, he decided to build a staircase, not merely a platform, thereby differing with most African-American presidential aspirants

Laura S. Washington

Universal Health Care for Wisconsin?

In late June, the Wisconsin state senate ratified "Healthy Wisconsin," a plan that is "the boldest and most comprehensive health care reform from any state," according to the Progressive States Network

No Match? No Mas!

The Department of Homeland Security is trying to force employers to either fire workers whose names and Social Security numbers don't match. Widespread job loss often results when the government dons its immigration-enforcement blinders

Gitmo’s Last Honest Man

Abraham found that "evidence" was generally gathered by inexperienced staff with little legal or intelligence training, and he got no assurance that he was given access to all available evidence on a detainee

H. Candace Gorman

The Kids Aren’t Alright

Daniel Brook's The Trap reminds us that inequality is bad for everyone, rich and poor

Blogs Up, Hacks Down

The appearance of seven Democratic presidential contenders at the YearlyKos convention demonstrated that the Kossacks and fellow A-listers--along with what the Liberal Blog Advertising Network calls their 3 million daily readers--are now ensconced as political players

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