2006

Feingold for President!

Mike Mosher
Sorry Hilary. I'm for Russ, and think he's electable. His political integrity is a big thing; his ethnicity, no big thing.

The Anti-Immigrant Impulse in U.S. Comedy

Evening comedy in the U.S. uses racist depictions of immigrants to gain laughs and ratings while misleading the public about the importance of immigrants to our economy and culture.

Oil Addiction? No kidding…

Zack Furness
In the recent state of the union address the American public was treated to another healthy dose of the Bush administrations’ garbage rhetoric associated with their existing energy initiatives. I hesitate to use the term “policies,” because the word policy almost implicitly entails some form of accountability, which is exactly what prominent Bush cronies have so diligently fought to alleviate over the last six years.

RAZA/RACE: Why Support Immigrants?

The working classes in the U.S. should see anti-immigrant legislation and discourse as a divide-and-conquer strategy of the global elite. They should stand in solidarity with undocmented immigrant workers as a tactic in the struggle against the devastating policies of global capitalism.

South Dakota vs. Women

South Dakota’s restrictive abortion ban prohibits nearly all abortions, even in cases of incest, rape, and endangerment of the mother’s life.

Names Like Mohamed

In the wake of an alleged terrorist plot, what does it mean for Canada's national newspaper to print a racist article on their front page?

RAZA/RACE: Fear of a Non-English Nation

We are at war with terrorism, war with immigrants and war with ourselves. It follows that we are at war with language and languages. Since we also live in a racist society it follows that the languages spoken by darker skinned people would be attacked. And so it is. In the wars against “terrorism” (or more truthfully rendered, war against “Islam and the people of the Middle East”) and undocumented immigration, Arabic, the language of the “terrorists”, and Spanish, the language of the “illegal alien”, are under fire.

Mistranslating the Mexican Election

Susana Vargas
Newspapers in the U.S. and Canada consistently misrepresent the democratic process in Mexico, to the advantage of the right wing establishment.

War Ensemble

Zack Furness
As for the situation in the Middle East, we will continue to watch the news as Israel uses U.S. manufactured weapons to destroy Gaza, the Lebanese infrastructure, and any hope that Lebanon has for creating a strong government that is capable of reining in Hezbollah.

Murray Bookchin 1921-2006

 

Michigan Trembles

Democrats swept university Boards, the Democratic Governor beat back a Republican challenger, the Democratic Senator was re‑elected...but a proposition passed to outlaw affirmative action.

The View From a Few Miles Up The Road

Reflecting on Europeans' and Canadians' comments that they, too, should get a vote in U.S. elections.