Issue: 475
June 7, 2012
Cover Story
Everybody, Lean Forward, Now!
Columnist
Like the Civil Rights Movement, most movements start out with the goal of equitable acceptance into the current structure � integration without fundamental change. Often this slides into substituting another group into the subservient role and applying or switching the rationalization or intensifying the rationalization for inequity onto the new subservient group. Because of the…
Like the Civil Rights Movement, most movements start out with the goal of equitable acceptance into the current structure � integration without fundamental change. Often this…
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Commentary
How’s Your “Gaydar”?
Editorial Board
Why is Pop Science of late interested in �gaydar�? And do ovulating women have better �gaydar�? What was once considered a myth or anecdotal knowledge is now being lauded as a scientific fact. Gaydar is real! What is �gaydar�? If you�re reading this in an LGBTQ zine it�s likely you know what �gaydar� is. But…
Why is Pop Science of late interested in �gaydar�? And do ovulating women have better �gaydar�? What was once considered a myth or anecdotal knowledge is…
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Commentary
Message to the Masses: Link the Issues or Perish!
Editorial Board
Thus, as difficult and challenging as it most certainly is, we must link our concerns and issues together. Until we regain our collective humanity, and act upon it, we will remain our own worst enemy. We must pay attention to each other, to everyday people, not to the misleaders and traitors of humanity nationally and…
Thus, as difficult and challenging as it most certainly is, we must link our concerns and issues together. Until we regain our collective humanity, and act…
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Commentary
The Power to Lie
Columnist
Anyone following this nonsense should do so with an air of insult and disdain. A disdain for corporate America and the legacy of American privilege – white privilege in particular. Let�s rewind a few weeks to examine the saga of Yahoo�s Chief Executive, Scott Thompson, who demonstrates the reason why Black activists and conscious Americans…
Anyone following this nonsense should do so with an air of insult and disdain. A disdain for corporate America and the legacy of American privilege -…
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Art
Quote to Ponder: “I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you’re very pessimistic about that society. And it’s only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.” – Carlos Fuentes, Author, Scholar & Diplomat
Guest Commentator
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Commentary
Rosa Luxemburg: “Proletarian Women, the Poorest of the Poor, the Most Disempowered of the Disempowered…Hurry to the Front Lines, into the Trenches!”
Editorial Board
Either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism [democracy], that is, the conscious struggle of the international proletariat against imperialism, against its methods, against war. (�Junius Pamphlet�) [2] The dilemma humanity faces is this �inevitable choice,�…
Either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of…
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