2010

Articles

• 2 October 2010, by Michael Ryan Wiseman

  The F Word

  Now that I have your attention, a quick rant on fascism and its growing popularity in the realm of name-calling and political point-scoring. We seem to be throwing the term around a lot these (...)
• 1 October 2010, by Refaat SABBAH

  The World Education Forum

  Whenever Palestinians have the chance to meet people from outside, and they realize there are still people in the world who fight for justice and fight for the rights of the other, it gives them (...)
• 1 October 2010, by Sana Saaed

  Restricted Free Agency

  I never thought that my body could serve as potentially the next front of the ever-erroneous but still somehow existent ‘clash of civilizations.’ Yet with the way things seem to be going these (...)
• 1 October 2010, by Ezra Winton

  ART THREAT !!!

  A NYC poster campaign that invites people to voice their opinions on Park51 aka Ground Zero Mosque aka Cordoba Center in writing; Hamdulillah, a stunning new music video from hip hop artist The (...)
• 1 October 2010, by Steve Sharra

  Reflections on the International Day of Peace

  As I was beginning a seven-month period in 2004 studying prospects for peace education in Malawian classrooms, a friend of mine seemed very surprised at the topic of my study. Why peace (...)
• 1 October 2010, by Salima Punjani

  Teach a Man to Fish

  At first I was skeptical about why we had a 3-week training program, I was nervous about the reintroduction of development buzzwords into my life, I was dreading being a part of conversations (...)
• 1 October 2010, by David Heap and Dylan Penner

  On Course

  The Canadian Boat to Gaza has been the target of slurs and misinformation— some facts (as opposed to rhetoric) about our campaign may interest open-minded readers. The Palestinians of Gaza are (...)
• 1 October 2010, by Michael Bramadat-Willcock

  The Second Line

  "We went through the same routine at the El Salvador border, and since there were a few other buses travelling the same route I met a tourist from Iceland who was on a volunteer mission. He ran (...)
• 1 October 2010, by Ronald Cameron

  Now the People

  In the midst of the crisis, everything seemed possible for the workers of the world: from the bonfire of established orthodoxies a new consensus was forming... Two years later, we observe the (...)
• 2 September 2010, by Michael Ryan Wiseman

  Realitopia

  "... It speaks to the very heart of the dilemma amongst us utopians— how do you move a pile of excrement without getting any on you? At the very least, you are bound to smell of it..." Greetings (...)
• 2 September 2010, by Cy Gonick

  Ecosocialism as Holistic Earth Care

  Legendary lefty Cy Gonick speaks to ecosocialism founder Joel Kovel about creating global resistance movements; ecosocialist activism that moves beyond pressing for direct caps on polluters; and (...)
• 2 September 2010, by Mireille Fanon-Mendès France

  The Sunrise of the Damned

  Franz Fanon only got to see the first fires that were the false dawn of African independence. Sickness took him before the hope forged through liberation struggles dissolved into the neocolonial (...)
• 2 September 2010, by Tapan Bose

  Kashmir Burning

  From the ramparts of the Red Fort, celebrating the 64th anniversary of India’s Independence, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, offered to hold dialogue with the agitating youth of Kashmir if they (...)
• 2 September 2010, by Michael Bramadat-Willcock

  In the Shadow of Sandino

  “The election looms in the coming days; it is an amazing scene of lies and manipulations. If Ortega wins there may be a civil war here. It is quite tense,” my father warned me before my last visit (...)
• 2 September 2010, by Phyllis Bennis

  Mosque Hysteria

  At its core, the controversy surrounding the proposed Islamic community center in downtown Manhattan is not about religion. It’s about war. For some years now the fear factor that followed the (...)

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