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The Weather Underground and the American Radical Legacy

Dan Berger August 29, 2006 Dan Berger

From a speech given in Gainesville, Florida, August 5, 2006

Thank you all for coming out today. It’s a real treat to be back in Gainesville talking about the Weather Underground, because this is the place where my book on the group began. This is also the place where my understanding of and involvement in the U.S. radical legacy didn’t start but did take shape. So it is wonderful to be here today with people who were and are my friends and mentors, in and out of the classroom. In particular, I want to thank the Civic Media Center and all connected to it, for providing not just a space but a home for so many wonderful ideas, projects, and people. And I want to thank professor Louise Newman, whose support, encouragement, and brilliance are responsible for a lot of things for a lot of people, not least of which was the initial push for me to write this book. read more

Announcing the Dave Dellinger Essay Contest

Super User August 28, 2006 Super User

Following in the Footsteps of David Dellinger: The Necessity of Creative Nonviolence in Our World Today

The War Resisters League, in conjunction with its First Annual David Dellinger Lecture Series on Nonviolence, announces a student essay contest. Students, aged high school - 22, are asked to write no more than a 1,000-word essay on "Following in the Footsteps of David Dellinger: the Necessity of Creative Nonviolence in Our World Today." The Dellinger lecture, which will feature author and social historian Staughton Lynd, will take place on October 19, 2006 in New York City.

Visit to a Prison within a Prison

Robin Lloyd August 24, 2006 Robin Lloyd

Robin and her son, Jesse

Robin Lloyd, videographer, peace activist and chair of the Toward Freedom board, recently spent three months in prison for 'crossing the line' (committing civil disobedience) at the School of the Americas (renamed WHINSEC - Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) ) at Fort Benning, Georgia. She says "the setting of the Danbury Prison Camp in rural Connecticut is beautiful, the food was OK, and meeting a lot of new people was enlightening, but encountering the prison-industrial complex up close and personal was awesomely upsetting.

Latin America Now: An Interview with Raúl Zibechi

Benjamin Dangl, Translated by GeN Higgs August 23, 2006 Benjamin Dangl, Translated by GeN Higgs

In this interview, Raúl Zibechi discusses the challenges of the Evo Morales administration in Bolivia, the power and role of Bolivian social movements, projects for regional integration such as People's Trade Agreement and the Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America and the region's new situation after the electoral victories of various "progressive" governments.

The Missing 13,000: What Force for Lebanon’s Frontier?

Rene Wadlow August 22, 2006 Rene Wadlow

After five weeks of fighting, starting on July 12, massive destruction and displacement of persons, a cease-fire has been reached on the Israel-Lebanon frontier. The UN Security Council has decided to increase the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unfil) in place since 1978 to 15,000 peacekeepers who will join 15,000 soldiers of the regular Lebanese Army to control the southern frontier area with Israel in order to prevent both Hezballah rocket launches into Israel and Israeli Army attacks into Lebanon. The cease-fire and military deployment is a necessary first step in a renewed conflict resolution process which, for the moment, no one is leading. read more

Clandestine “Summer Reading”

Matt Dineen August 17, 2006 Matt Dineen

"This is nice, light summer reading." I look up, smiling, at the customer who proclaimed this about one of the best-selling new releases at the bookstore where I work. This whole concept of "summer reading" has been on my mind ever since I left this job when the season began to pursue something vaguely resembling a summer vacation. Now I'm back and, with one more hot and sticky month to go, the reading masses are still in search for the perfect summer book-something nice and light.