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Streets of Latin America Offer US a Roadmap for Social Change
(Image: AK Press) Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America By Ben Dangl AK Press, 2010 The …
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“What Will Happen to Me?“
(Image: Good Books) "What Will Happen to Me?" Howard Zehr and Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz (Good Books, 2010) $14.95US/$14.95CAN, ISBN-10: 9781561486892 In 2004, …
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History of Seventies Activism Debunks “Me Generation” Myth
(Image: Rutgers University Press) The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism Edited by Dan Bergen Rutgers University Press, 2010 Thirty-five years ago, journalist Tom …
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Why Churchill Matters
(Image: Henry Holt and Co.) "Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him And The World He Made" Richard Toye Henry Holt, New York (2010) $32 …
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In the War on Drugs, Success Means Failure
Members of the Costa Rican Coast Guard prepare to board a fishing boat to inspect it for cocaine near Puntarenas, Costa Rica, March 4, 2011. (Photo: Tomas Munita …
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Labor’s Tangled Web: A Review of “Civil Wars in US Labor“
(Image: Haymarket Books) "There are no shortcuts in politics," bellowed a respected, much-older labor veteran as we young militants sat around hoping to pick up a few …
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“Framing the Sixties” Exposes the Scapegoating of an Era
Framing the Sixties: The Use and Abuse of a Decade from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush Bernard von Bothmer University of Massachusetts Press, 2010 …
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Floodlines: Community and Resistance From Katrina to the Jena Six
Parts of the story are familiar. In late August, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. Floodwaters broke the levees in New Orleans and the city was devastated—first by …
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Book Review: “Academically Adrift“
"Academically Adrift" by Arum and Roksa (University of Chicago Press 2011)
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Preface to a Prelude to Peak Oil
(Photo: hrbsir) Many green groups and other science-based analysts criticized President Obama's recent State of the Union speech for failing to mention the imminent catastrophe of climate …