In his Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity Dan Berger takes older readers on a trip down memory lane and introduces younger readers to the world of '60s, '70s and early '80s aboveground and underground white New Left activism.
Linear or one-dimensional thinking considers the object thought of from only one narrow perspective, thus failing to discern its essence because most things, like coins, can be looked and understood from at least two, usually more, dimensions.
Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, has been forced from his comfortable exile in Nigeria by growing international pressures and cooperation between Liberia's new president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo. Taylor has now been arrested for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including sexual slavery, mutilation and sending children into combat. Taylor
Threatened by an environment of increasing violence, harassment and intense political pressure from Maoists rebels and government security forces, thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes in rural Nepal, creating a staggering number of internally displaced people (IDPs).
On January 21, on a hill outside of La Paz, a traditional ceremony marked both a major shift in Bolivian politics and a milestone for the growing New Left in Latin America. At Tiwanaku, a site of pre-Incan ruins significant to the country's indigenous populations, Evo Morales, barefoot and dressed in a red tunic, received a silver and gold staff from leaders of the Aymara people.Photo: J. Bigwood
Houzan Mahmoud is a co-founder of the Iraqi Freedom Congress (IFC), a new initiative to build a democratic, secular and progressive alternative to both the US occupation and political Islam in Iraq.
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