Writing the Unwritten Handbook: Anti-Fascism and Neighborhood Resistance in Athens Joshua Stephens, Truthout: In this first-hand report, Stephens witnesses how anti-fascists in Greece are resisting austerity and Golden Dawn while supporting their communities. Read the Article "German Autumn" Reveals Similarities Between Postwar Germany and Our World Today Martha Sorren, Truthout: Stig Dagerman wrote about the resigned, mechanical hopelessness of post-World War II Germany back in 1947, but his book German Autumn still manages to resonate with readers more than 60 years later. Read the Review Women's Work: Gender and the Global Food System Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds: Women produce 60 to 80 percent of all food, both as subsistence farmers and as agricultural wage laborers. And yet they have less access to land and the resources necessary to grow on it than their male counterparts. Read the Article CISPA 2.0: Say Goodbye to Our Constitutional Rights Chris Paulus, Occupy.com: Passing CISPA will be a significant step in America's already far-progressed trudge towards a police state and will, more specifically, encourage already-compliant businesses to provide our personal information to our government as if those two enshrined words did not exist: Constitutional rights. Read the Article What Researchers Learned About Gun Violence Before Congress Killed Funding Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica: Research showed not only did having a firearm in your home not protect you, but it hugely increased the risk that someone in your family would die from a firearm homicide. Read the Article Truthout TV With David Bacon on E-Verify and Sexual Harassment Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: Truthout TV host, Ted Asregadoo, talks to David Bacon about his article "In Oakland, Mercado Chain Workers Protest Alleged Sexual Harassment, Firings" -- that was featured on Truthout.org. Watch the Video The Crisis in Climate-Change Coverage Josh Stearns, Free Press: A complex mix of structural and cultural factors has affected climate-change coverage in the US. The forces that shape US media have not been kind to environmental reporting. Read the Article We Must Not Fail WikiLeaks Whistleblower Bradley Manning Kevin Zeese, Occupy2011: It is our job to pick up the materials Bradley has provided and work to create the better world we urgently need and he sought in his own patriotic way. Read the Article How the Media Sanitize Honduras's Brutal Regime Keane Bhatt, North American Congress on Latin America: This is not the first instance in which the Times has glossed over inconvenient facts to laud shock therapy, a doctrine of massive privatization and investor-friendly deregulations developed at the University of Chicago. Read the Article This week in SpeakOut: Lewis R. Gordon discusses Christopher Dorner, our nation's current "Native Son"; David Swanson defends his critiques of Colin Powell's public falsehoods; veteran journalist Greg Palast discusses the destruction of the Voting Rights Act currently happening in Washington today; Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers check in from Occupy Washington DC to declare that it is "time for outrage"; Martha Rosenberg debunks the myth that owning a gun makes you safer; and more. Read the Articles |
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