Articles > July 2010
July 2010
‘A Country for All’: Why Criminalizing Immigrants is the Wrong Answer
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Recycling Plastic Wrap
EarthTalk® From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Where do you recycle plastic stuff like sandwich bags, Saran wrap and plastic grocery store wrappers? Can they just go in with other plastics in the recycling bin? There never seems to be any information available about this.
Book Review: Labor’s Canvas: American Working Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s
Labor’s Canvas: American Working Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s By Laura Hapke Newcastle, UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008 Editor’s note: Originally published in the June 2009 issue of American Communist History.
Not Loving It: McDonald's Under Scrutiny
Original source: Global Times Chinese consumers' concern over the safety of fast food is growing as watchdogs began to inspect McDonald's chicken nuggets, which are reported to contain "two harmful chemical ingredients," with the official conclusion yet to be drawn.
Capitalism is About Profit, Not Saving Fingers
Original source: Diary of a Heartland Radical I have been thinking a whole lot about the virtual destruction of the Gulf of Mexico, the rich animal life that once lived there, and the lost jobs of perhaps millions of those who fish, work in the tourist sector, or somehow depend on the resources of the Gulf Coast for their livelihood.
The Theory of "Structural" Unemployment and the Jobs That Aren't Coming Back
Original source: Black Commentator Is there any hope for the unemployed? Apparently not.
From the Big Screen to Real Life: A Review Essay on Environmentalism in Popular Culture
Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural by Noël Sturgeon Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009 Despite being widely, but unjustifiably panned by critics, M. Knight Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (a remake of the Nickelodeon cartoon series) managed a solid second place in this past weekend's box office sales behind the latest Twilight flick and ahead of Toy Story 3. In what promises to be the first of three films, the story follows the adventures of three young people seeking to restore balance to the earth from the ravages of a renegade nation of militarists and exploiters.
Democracy Charter
Editor's note: The following is available online here.
Why the Politics of Either/or is Superior to Advocating for Reform
Today we live under the painful and oppressive yoke of capitalism's restoration to unchallenged power.
Another Immigration Policy is Possible
Original source: Truthout Report Thousands of leftwing activists just spent a week at the US Social Forum in Detroit, gathered again under the banner "Another World is Possible!" Among them hundreds added a new subtext: "Another Immigration Policy is Possible!" This theme was especially popular among grassroots organizations in immigrant communities.
