Archive for the ‘ISSUES’ Category

Interview with Huffington Post’s Cenk Uygur

Interview with Huffington Post’s Cenk Uygur
By Ayesha Siddiqi In 1908, a progressive movement against the Ottoman monarchy actively swept across the political, intellectual and artistic spheres of the region and successfully set up a constitutional framework for people. This later became known as the Young Turk revolution. Now, a century later,...
November 9th, 2009 | ISSUES | Read More

Picking Winners: Utilities, Think Tanks, & the Futility of It All

Picking Winners: Utilities, Think Tanks, & the Futility of It All
by Alex Naylor There is so much unthinking optimism when it comes to our energy future, especially from the liberal end of the spectrum, that it’s a pleasure to hear something a bit less ebullient. I’m sick of hearing about 100% renewable economies that will create millions of new jobs, rescue our...
November 4th, 2009 | ISSUES | Read More

They’ll let you get away with…

They’ll let you get away with…
by Dahlia Rizk Apparently, there’s a way to get away with rape these days. Now, I’m not trying to give anyone any new ideas—I’m just demonstrating what has already been proven by certain exemplary members of our society recently. You must: 1) be able to take flight almost immediately after...
October 7th, 2009 | ISSUES | Read More

Implementing Solar Power on an Unevenly-Lighted Planet

Implementing Solar Power on an Unevenly-Lighted Planet
A community center in Würrich, Germany with solar panels on its roof (wikimedia commons) We live on a spherical world, tilted slightly askew. And we have weather. Although we do not think of them now, preconditions such as these will have a profound impact on the way solar energy is implemented in this...
September 21st, 2009 | ISSUES | Read More

An Interview with Norman Finkelstein

An Interview with Norman Finkelstein
by Mario Diaz-Perez (from the January 2007 print edition) Norman Finkelstein, professor of political science at DePaul University, is one of the most controversial commentators on the Israel-Palestine conflict. A long-standing critic of the policies of the Israeli government, Finkelstein has often been...
September 9th, 2009 | INTERNATIONAL, ISSUES | Read More

An Action a Day Keeps the Greedy at Bay: Chicago Tenants Rise Up

Image courtesy of STOP by Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle (from the January 2007 print edition) Across the country, land is being snapped up by developers at an alarming rate, pushing poor people and people of color to the suburbs and onto the streets. In Chicago this has meant the demolition of whole communities,...
September 9th, 2009 | ACTIVISM, ISSUES, LOCAL, LOCAL | Read More

Building Solidarity through Struggle: The Experience of STOP

by the Student/Tenant Organizing Project (From the January 2007 print issue; all images courtesy of STOP) “Let us in to see the plans they’re rolling out for our community!” demanded Marie Goodwin, an elderly poet and Woodlawn tenant, as she stood at the entrance to the Palmer House Hilton on a...
September 8th, 2009 | ACTIVISM, ISSUES, LOCAL, LOCAL | Read More

Stopping Stigma, Saving Lives: Mental Health on Campus

By Alison Malmon (from the January 2007 print edition) Brian would walk the streets of New York late at night, giving his money to the homeless people he had befriended and sleeping side by side with them under covered bus stops. Oftentimes during the day, he would just stay in his dorm room and sleep....
September 7th, 2009 | HEALTHCARE, ISSUES, LOCAL | Read More

A More Gay Friendly Supreme Court

A More Gay Friendly Supreme Court
Opposition is already beginning to build around President Obama’s presumed list of Supreme Court nominees, both on the left and right. The idea is that the Obama administration’s desire for diversity on the Court is little more than a quota game, a sop to the African-American, Latino, LGBT, and...
May 5th, 2009 | ISSUES, LGBT | Read More

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