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 Vol. 072 Issue 012 (December 1 2008)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Open to Astonishment
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor’s Note Matthew Rothschild Open to Astonishment About a month before the election, a subscriber named George called me from West Allis, Wisconsin. He wanted to know where he could get an...
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Letters
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Letters to the Editor Great Reporting The November issue is the best one I have received since subscribing. The reportage by the interpreter involved in illegal immigrant cases was especially...
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The Meaning of Obama's Victory
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Comment The Meaning of Obama’s Victory On November 4, I got to my polling place at 6:30 in the morning, just as the sun was coming up. I was number sixteen in line, even though the polls didn’t...
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No Comment
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No Comment Flight of the Dead Since its heyday in the 1950s, Detroit has lost half its population, and every year the city hemorrhages an estimated 5,000 people more. But now the city is losing...
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Beyond Cynicism
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Conniff, Ruth
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Political Eye Ruth Conniff Beyond Cynicism We took our seven- and five-year-old daughters to the polls on the morning of Election Day. Both proudly wore their “I voted” stickers to school. There...
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Post-Racial? Not Yet
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McKissack, Fred Jr.
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In the Mix Fred McKissack Jr. Post-Racial? Not Yet Moments after CNN declared Barack Obama the next President of the United States, I called my parents. I could tell my father was beaming. Through...
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Hopes and Fears
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Galeano, Eduardo
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The Upside-Down World Eduardo Galeano Hopes and Fears Once in office, will Obama prove that his bellicose threats against Iran and Pakistan were just words spoken to lure in a certain category of...
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Minor League Paulsons
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Zirin, Dave
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Edge of Sports Dave Zirin Minor League Paulsons Wa re now live under a cloud of crisis where debt is socialized and profit is privatized. It’s like Marxism brought to you by the House of Morgan....
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A Well of Strength
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Rodríguez, Luis J.
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Writing to America Luis J. Rodriguez A Well of Strength I’m a spiritual progressive, and I know many of you are not. But in this holiday season, I’d like to explain where I’m coming from. Our...
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On the Line
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On the Line Food Fight For more information, see article on Page 24, or go to www.ciw-online.org. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers embarked on the “Chipocrisy Tour” to pressure fast food chain...
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Organizing the Fields
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Nielsen, Kirk
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By Kirk Nielsen Illustration by Nikki McClure Organizing the Fields He wasn’t exactly hoeing, but it was a very tough row. One day in 1993, not long after he migrated from southern Mexico to...
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Richard Price, American Realist
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D'Ambrosio, Antonino
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By Antonino D’Ambrosio Illustration by Andrea Wicklund Richard Price, American Realist Spanning a career now into its fourth decade, Richard Price has set himself apart as a rare writer by...
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The Tailor of Al Hamdaniyah
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Wilson, Eliot Khalil
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Poem The Tailor of Al Hamdaniyah Because he wore a suit and seemed of high-value and would name no terrorists, knowing none, they stripped and hooded the old man, the village tailor, and hung him...
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And They're Off
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Durst, Will
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Off the Map Will Durst And They’re Off As the curtain mercifully fell on the Most Important Election of Your Lifetime, the nation breathed a collective sigh of relief. Or did it? Sure, there were...
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Maude Barlow
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Barsamian, David
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW by David Barsamian Maude Barlow Maude Barlow loves to quote a line of poetry from Gerard Manley Hopkins, “There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.” Born in...
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Our Favorite Books of 2008
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Our Favorite Books of 2008 By Kate Clinton 2008 was a year when “the right to comfort” seemed to achieve constitutional status. It was practically a felony to discomfort anyone with the actual...
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Hold Obama to Boldness
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Hightower, Jim
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The Lowdown Jim Hightower Hold Obama to Boldness Now is our time! I don’t mean a time to gloat about Barack Obama’s sweeping electoral triumph, nor a time to savor the demise of the Bush...
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