Author Archives: Jack Stephens

The War Inside

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Terrance blogs about Memorial Day, his father, and the wars being fought now:
One of the earliest rules I remember learning as a child was how to wake dad up from a nap. Don’t touch him or shake him, I was told. He might be dreaming about being back in Vietnam, or the defensive reflex required […] Continue reading →

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Student Activists and Protests

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Michael Connery blogs about the protests over Tony Blair’s speech at Yale:
Normally I’m skeptical of student anti-war protests. While throwing a pie in Tom Friedman’s face might be emotionally satisfying on some level, it accomplishes very little in the way of real change. In recent years, students have achieved far greater success on campus when […] Continue reading →

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Teaching Race/Teaching Whiteness

Posted on May 24, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Ann, from Feminist Law Professors, gives us a link to an article on whiteness and teaching in schools:
This Article argues that whiteness operates as the normative foundation of most discussions of race. Legal educators often overlook the role of whiteness in the law school setting and in law more generally. Identifying and understanding whiteness should […] Continue reading →

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Cry the Beloved Country, Again…

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Ridwan, a South African blogger, blogs on the recent violence against immigrants in his country:
I know all the rationalizations for why gangs of South Africans are attacking migrants of the streets of our country. I know the deplorable conditions that are hardly hidden by the delusional capitalist flash of the ‘new’ era.
But I am not […] Continue reading →

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“OK! Who’s Leaking Super-Duper Top Secret Documents!”

Posted on May 22, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Pam blogs about a document by the Allied Defense Fund that purpots to show the “real” agenda of LGBTQI folk in America:
Someone’s going to get a spanking from the blogmistress! I want to know who has turned over one of our top secret strategy documents to the fundie Alliance Defense Fund. Blender Karen in […] Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Jack Stephens

In honor of this blogs namesake.
Sylvia blogs:
In honor of what would have been Malcolm X’s 83rd birthday, Villager has compiled a phenomenal list of links to some of his famous speeches and interviews, including “Ballot or the Bullet,” “Who Taught You to Hate Yourself?” and “House Negroes vs. Field Negroes.” He’s also leading a […] Continue reading →

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It’s All In the Blood??

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Ding, at Bitch Ph.D. blogs in response to a recent article that Kathleen Parker wrote about how recent immigrants might not “understand” American values due to the fact that they haven’t been here that long:
Pat Buchanan wants me to ‘be grateful.’ He wants me to shut up and be grateful I live in a place […] Continue reading →

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Letter From the Mahalla Detainees

Posted on May 17, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Hossam blogs on the latest of the Mahalla detainees in Egypt. Over the past two years strikes have been cripling the Egyptian regime of Hosni Mubarak; these strikes have been lead by the workers in Mahalla, Egypt, the industrial center for Egypt. Of those strikers and protesters three prominent leaders have been arrested […] Continue reading →

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The Left, Religious Fundamentalists, and Lebanon

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Jack Stephens

As’ad, a professor at CSU Stanislaus and a visiting professor at UC Berkeley, blogs about the radical left and the situation in Lebanon and the dangers in blindly supporting Hizbullah:
I believe that the radical left, or the revolutionary left, should be careful in evaluating the situation. I see that the Lebanese Communist Party has for […] Continue reading →

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23rd Carnival of Socialism

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Jack Stephens

The Red Mantis hosts the 23rd Carnival of Socialism:
The Red Mantis is proud to host the twenty-third edition of the Carnival of Socialism. After a much needed revival led mostly by Jim Jepps of The Daily (Maybe) and John Angliss of the Labor Left Forum, the Carnival has had a strong showing from all of […] Continue reading →

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