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 Vol. 077 Issue 008 (August 1 2013)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 EDITOR'S NOTE
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Editor’s Note Matthew Rothschild Tears of Victory For fifteen years or so, I’ve had a poster of Nelson Mandela hanging in my office. He is smiling broadly and is surrounded by jubilant South...
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment Prove You’re a Woman Nakia Grimes, thirty-seven, wanted to renew her driver’s license. The Georgia Department of Driver Services required her to get a copy of her birth...
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COMMENT A STATE OF SURVEILLANCE
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Comment A State of Surveillance You can’t say we weren’t warned. When the NSA spying scandal broke, one of the first things I did was to go back and reread Senator Russ Feingold’s speech when...
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ON THE LINE
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On the Line Sweet Victory for Marriage Equality Euphoria erupted around the country on June 26 when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act. Free Bradley Manning Fort...
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PUBLIC SCHOOL SHAKEDOWN
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Conniff, Ruth
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To the Point Bill Fletcher Jr. How to Fight Walmart It is unlikely that the workers at Walmart will be able to successfully organize for economic justice unless their campaign becomes the...
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WISCONSIN'S VOUCHER VULTURES
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Kemble, Rebecca
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By Rebecca Kemble Illustration by Red Nose Studio Wisconsin’s Voucher Vultures SCOTT JENSEN BEGAN HIS career shilling for corporations at the Wisconsin state capitol as a lobbyist for...
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ALEC'S SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
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Fischer, Brendan
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By Brendan Fischer Illustration by Red Nose Studio ALEC’s Schoolhouse Rock Indiana Schools Superintendent Tony Bennett was the darling of the education reform movement. In the 2011-2012...
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GREEK TRAGEDY, 2013
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Politaki, Alexandra
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By Alexandra Politaki Illustration by Aleks Sennwald Greek Tragedy, 2013 I’D LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOUTO Athina K., whom I met at a soup kitchen set up by a parish church in the center of Athens....
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MEET A. R. RAHMAN, MUSICAL MESSENGER
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Pal, Amitabh
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By Amitabh Pal Illustration by Caitlin Kuhwald Meet A. R. Rahman, Musical Messenger AR. RAHMAN IS BEST KNOWN to Americans—if he is known at all—for his Slumdog Millionaire score. But he is a...
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REBECCA SOLNIT
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Tonino, Leath
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THE PROGRE S S IVE INTERVI EW by Leath Tonino Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit is a roving intellect. She writes about anything and everything: rape, maps, metaphor, global warming, mining,...
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YOUR FRIENDS AT THE NSA
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Durst, Will
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Off the Map Will Durst Your Friends at the NSA Dear U.S. Citizen, Please accept our most egregiously sincere apologies for any anxiety or aggravation the secret monitoring of your phone...
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POEM
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Poem Meadowlark Days (For my father, Walter, who fought mesothelioma long and hard.) As my father’s highway shortened, after the biopsy, he and I sat in shade of blackjack oaks, hardly...
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BOOKS
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Ervin, Mike
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Books Stories from an Institution Good Kings Bad Kings By Susan Nussbaum Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 336 pages. $23.95. By Mike Ervin From September of 1969 until June of 1974, I...
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DON'T BE AN IDIOT
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Hightower, Jim
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Vox Populist Jim Hightower Don’t Be an Idiot OK, I admit it. I was one of the June blowhards. Yep, I was a commencement speaker. I was assigned the role of chief speechifier for some...
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