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 Vol. 075 Issue 002 (February 1 2011)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 EDITOR'S NOTE
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor's Note Matthew Rothschild Are They Happy Now? I was at my dad's house when I heard the news about the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, along with nineteen others....
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment Outfoxing the Facts Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon told staff to be skeptical when discussing climate change, reports Politico. In an e-mail sent out during the...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Hurray, Phil; Woodman, Thad; Kalyanaraman, C.; Olson, Hjordis; Walker, Dave; Broiles, David
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Letters to the Editor Tea Party Lessons Although many of us progressives were dismayed by the recent election results, they were predictable "Lessons of November," Comment, by Matthew Rothschild...
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COMMENT
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Comment Obama Grabs Repressive Tools Whistleblowers and solidarity activists beware: The Obama Administration may be coming after you. It is using the repressive powers of the state to try to send...
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ON THE LINE
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On the Line The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, representing Mexican, Guatemalan, and Haitian migrant workers, has been campaigning for more than a decade for basic working conditions. In November,...
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THE BOUNTY OF THE SEA
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Williams, Terry Tempest
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Open Space Terry Tempest Williams The Bounty of the Sea I was born just a few miles from the Pacific Ocean. My first memories are of orange blossoms and sea salt conjoined in the air. In 1955,...
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WE'RE NOT ALL ALIKE
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Rodriguez, Luis J.
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Writing to America Luis J. Rodriguez We're Not All Alike During the fall elections, we heard a lot about the Latino vote. But like Latinos themselves, that vote was not monolithic. The Latino...
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THE RULE OF THE RICH
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Moyers, Bill
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By Bill Moyers Illustration by John Hendrix The Rule of the Rich Howard zinn helped us see how big change can start with small acts. He championed grassroots social change and famously...
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GRADING OBAMA'S EDUCATION POLICY
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Apple, Micheal W.
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By Michael W. Apple Illustration by Pep Montserrat Grading Obama's Education Policy For those of us who slogged through the years of No Child Left Behind and its damaging effects on education,...
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EVERYTHING YOU SHOULDN'T NEED TO KNOW IN KINDERGARTEN
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McMohan, Kelly
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Everything You Shouldn't Need to Know in Kindergarten By Kelly McMahon I used to be excited at the first day of kindergarten. When I was five, I couldn't wait to learn about letters, sounds, and...
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TO NEGOTIATE OR NOT?
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Ahmadi, Belquis
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By Belquis Ahmadi Illustration by Barry Bruner To Negotiate or Not? Afghan Women on the Taliban These days there is a lot of talk about negotiating with the Taliban. Afghan women are divided on...
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FIGHTING FIRE WITH WATER
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McCarthy, Colman
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By Colman McCarthy Illustration by Koren Shadmi Fighting Fire with Water SINCE 1982, WHEN I BEGAN teaching courses on pacifism and nonviolence, more than 8,000 students have been in my...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MATT TAIBBI
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Kozlowski, Carl
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW by Carl Kozlowski Matt Taibbi Matt Taibbi has made a huge splash on the American journalism scene. His Rolling Stone dispatches about the scams on Wall Street have...
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POEM
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Espada, Martin
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Poem Walking For Howard Zinn (1922-2010) I go two steps closer, she moves two steps away. I walk ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps ahead. No matter how much I walk, I'll never reach her....
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THE GLEE PARTY
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Clinton, Kate
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Unplugged Kate Clinton The Glee Party ZA fter two years of -iliooking at economic graphs of precipitous, acute-angle lines in black-to-red free fall, it was reassuring to see the kindlier, rounded...
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SOLIDARITY WITH ATHLETES
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Zirin, Dave
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Edge of Sports Dave Zirin Solidarity with Athletes There was a time in this country when 40 percent of all workers were unionized. There was a time when every major newspaper had a reporter for...
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BOOKS
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Conniff, Ruth
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Books Our Bodies, Our Cells The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By Rebecca Skloot Crown. 369 pages. $26. By Ruth Conniff There are a handful of journalists who have such a deep capacity for...
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THE NEW VIETNAM SYNDROME
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Hightower, Jim
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Vox Populist Jim Hightower The New Vietnam Syndrome Several of America's I O top high-tech giants are now breaking with conventional thinking r on the offshoring of tf! their factories and jobs,...
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