Imagine if, in your city, ordinary residents met regularly to decide how government funds were spent on playgrounds, health clinics and adult education. If you lived in the Canadian city of Guelph or in a public housing building in Toronto, you could do more than imagine.
During Argentina's financial meltdown, many unemployed workers occupied their closed factories and forcibly reopened them - under employee control. Four years later, Argentina's economy is well on the road to recovery, and many worker-run factories are seeking permanent legal status. Workers from the Zanon ceramics factory in the Patagonian province of Neuquen held a rally on July 4 to demand the government expropriate their plant and give permanent legal status to FASINPAT (Factory without a boss), their worker cooperative. If there's no action, it will lose its temporary legal status in October.
What are your most vivid memories of what happened on the streets and in the parks of Chicago during the 1968 anti-war protests outside the Democratic National Convention?
DELLINGER: Inevitably, the most vivid memory I have is of busloads of police driving up to where we would be gathered, jumping out, getting into formation and marching into the crowd, goose-stepping as they marched. Slapping their sides with their clubs and shouting: `Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Then they would go in and hit everybody that they could over the head–or jab their clubs into people’s groins.
A fight to keep a motorcycle rally from disturbing a native prayer site is shedding light on a history of spiritual oppression -- and stoking the movement to protect indigenous cultural rights.
Dear TF Readers,
For the next two months, Toward Freedom will be publishing three articles per week instead of four. This isn’t a sign that we’ve ran into trouble, in fact TF is doing better than ever. Our readership is growing and the fund drive was huge success.
This new publishing schedule was set up in part so I (the editor) can focus on another project. I’ve relocated from
Dwight Macdonald would have been 100 this year, 2006. Had he lived, he would have been asked to say a few words about the state of the world, about the editing of political journals, and about the state of American culture. His replies would have been short and satirical. As he wrote "Great ideas can only be expressed in a great style. There is no such thing as a clear message delivered in a confused style." He was a master of the short essay.
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