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 Vol. 076 Issue 006 (June 1 2012)
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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 Farewell Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich was America’s postwar poet laureate. Not single-handedly (and oh, how she would recoil from such a description, since she took...
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment No Sympathy for Students Representative Virginia Foxx, Republican from North Carolina, is not sympathetic to the growing student loan crisis. Foxx, who chairs the House subcommittee on...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Letters to the Editor Commitment Issues I received the March issue today and was surprised to read “To Wed or Not to Wed,” by Stephanie Fairying-ton. I would have thought that as someone who could...
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COMMENT
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Comment Don’t Bomb Iran An Israeli or U.S. attack on Iran would be devastating. Though the Obama Administration, for now, seems to be holding back from such a move, the threat isn’t over yet. The...
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TAR SANDS CRIME SCENE
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Tar Sands Crime Scene Denver On March 10, activists protested at Suncor Energy’s petroleum refinery. Last November, the refinery leaked benzene into Sand ' i Creek near the South Platte River...
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OCCUPY SPRING
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Occupy! Spring | New York City L Occupy Wall Street protesters \ marched through the Financial ¦ District on April 6 during a “spring training” exercise. ) Organizers are training people...
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TAKING IT TO THE BANK
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Taking It to the Bank A ctivists marked the 160th birthday of Wells Fargo with L\ protests at bank offices around the country. (Some protesters were festooned in party hats and brought birthday...
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WHOSE HOUSE? OUR HOUSE
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Whose House? Our House Occupy activists I icross the country are fighting foreclosures | and evictions this spring. For more information, go to...
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END "STAND YOUR GROUND" LAWS
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End “Stand Your Ground" Laws On April 9, students from the Dream Defenders group organized a demonstration outside Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s Doral office about “Stand Your Ground” laws, in...
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SAVE THE POSTAL SERVICE
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NEWSCOM Save the Postal Service April 12 was a Day of Action by postal workers and their supporters. Senate Bill 1789 would eliminate Saturday delivery and cut other postal services. For more...
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MARCH TO END MADNESS
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March to End Madness Richmond, Virginia The Virginia Alliance for Clean Energy and other activist groups organized a “march to end Dominion’s madness” on March 24. Protesters braved a drenching...
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WHAT'S AT STAKE IN WISCONSIN
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Rothschild, Ruth Conniff And Matthew
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By Ruth Conniff and Matthew Rothschild Illustration by Zina Saunders What’s at Stake in Wisconsin The June 5 recall election of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has huge implications for the...
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THE MOTHER OF MIDWIFERY
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Bader, Eleanor J.
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By Eleanor J. Bader Illustration by Rama Hughes The Mother of Midwifery When Ina May Gaskin was named one of four winners of the 2011 Right Livelihood Award—the “Alternative Nobel Prize”—she...
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SYRIAN REFUGEES SOUND OFF
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Enders, David
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By David Enders Illustration by Jeffrey Alan Love Syrian Refugees Sound Off Daraa, Syria, is a city just over the border from Jordan. Early in the rebellion against the regime of Bashar al-Assad,...
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VICTORY IN THE PIPELINE
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Mark, Jason
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By Jason Mark Illustration by Heath Hinegardner Victory in the Pipeline In Nebraska, college football is something of a civic religion. The University of Nebraska Cornhuskers have had a sellout...
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ADRIENNE RICH TAUGHT ME TO DRIVE
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Fries, Kenny
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FIRST PERSON SINGULAR by Kenny Fries Adrienne Rich Taught Me to Drive When I was in high school, all of my friends took driver’s education. It was 1976, fourteen years before the Americans with...
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POEM
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Bloch, Chana
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Poem Regarding the Pain of Others for Amira Hass and Idith Zertal As Amira’s mother was deported to Bergen-Belsen, the local women passed by with their shopping baskets: “They watched us taken...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW WITH CECILE RICHARDS
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Conniff, Ruth
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW by Ruth Conniff Cecile Richards As the war on women exploded in the national news, Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, was...
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THE GENDER GAMES
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Clinton, Kate
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Unplugged Kate Clinton The Gender Games In a breather from an epic good monster vs. bad monster tickle fight with my four-year-old across-the-hall neighbor, he looked at me and asked, “Are you a...
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MUZZLING OZZIE GUILLEN
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Edge of Sports Dave Zirin Muzzling Ozzie Guillen Howard Cosell once said famously that sports and politics don’t mix. Yet, the more you stare at the world of sports, the more it becomes obvious...
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POSTDATING THE EMPIRE
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Books Postdating the Empire Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power By Rachel Maddow Crown. 275pages. $25. By Matthew Rothschild I like Rachel Maddow. I enjoyed her Air America radio...
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POST OFFICE SABOTEURS
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Hightower, Jim
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Vox Populist Jim Hightower Post Office Saboteurs ^J^cents buy these W~1 days? Not a cup of joe, I a pack of gum, or a newspaper. But you can get a steal of a deal for a fifty-cent piece: a...
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