Issue: 443
Sept 29, 2011
Art
Quote to Ponder: “To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.” -Desmond Tutu
Guest Commentator
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Color of Law
The Death Penalty as Ritualized Mob Violence – The
Executive Editor
The execution of Troy Davis by the state of Georgia has outraged many, placing the gruesome and barbaric practice of capital punishment under the microscope. A black man who at the least was apparently innocent – and at most definitely innocent – was executed despite serious questions about his case. Most of all, there was…
The execution of Troy Davis by the state of Georgia has outraged many, placing the gruesome and barbaric practice of capital punishment under the microscope. A…
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Commentary
What kind of society?
Columnist
When the State of Georgia killed Troy Davis last week, it demonstrated to the world that there are some aspects of American life that never left the state of barbarism. One might be justified in singling out the individual states that have killed the most people over the past few decades, when many states have…
When the State of Georgia killed Troy Davis last week, it demonstrated to the world that there are some aspects of American life that never left…
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Commentary
On the Meaning and Ramifications of the STATE Assassination of Troy Davis
Editorial Board
“Come, then, comrades; it would be as well to decide at once to change our ways…Let us waste no time in sterile litanies and nauseating mimicry. Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their streets, in all…
"Come, then, comrades; it would be as well to decide at once to change our ways...Let us waste no time in sterile litanies and nauseating mimicry.…
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Commentary
The Execution of Troy Davis – It’s Time To Ban The Death Penalty
Columnist
This time last week, the world was in shock that the United States of America had put to death Troy Davis, a man convicted of killing a Georgia cop in 1989. Troy Davis maintained his innocence the entire 22 years he was on death row. America maintains a mentality that once convicted – innocence no…
This time last week, the world was in shock that the United States of America had put to death Troy Davis, a man convicted of killing…
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Commentary
With History of Resistance
Editorial Board
Orwellian revolutions, he knows. Co-opted revolutions, staged and broadcast, as in 1984 when Big Brother announced Oceania’s victories over Euroasia (or was it Eastasia?). The U.S. Empire’s State media proclaims victory over the Taliban, over Al Qaeda, over terrorism, while families bury victims of air raids and drone attacks. Broken, bloody bits of lives invisible…
Orwellian revolutions, he knows. Co-opted revolutions, staged and broadcast, as in 1984 when Big Brother announced Oceania’s victories over Euroasia (or was it Eastasia?). The U.S.…
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Commentary
Flying While Gay
Editorial Board
Southwest Airlines got issues. And those issues, on any given day or flight, appear arbitrary to its customers. For example, little did lead guitarist for the punk rock band “Green Day” Billie Joe Armstrong know that flying while wearing “saggy pants” can evict you off Southwest Airlines. This past Labor Day weekend, on September 1,…
Southwest Airlines got issues. And those issues, on any given day or flight, appear arbitrary to its customers. For example, little did lead guitarist for the…
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Commentary
Call It Change, Call It Revolution – When It Leaves Women of Color Out, Call It Off – Women of Color
Columnist
It is always surprising to find a contemporary “leader” mapping out the goals and visions for a revolution with fine print that retains oppression for others, though it never seems that way to the person who feels their entitlements don’t require the entitlements of others. So when I read commentary which is demeaning or insulting…
It is always surprising to find a contemporary “leader” mapping out the goals and visions for a revolution with fine print that retains oppression for others,…
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