February 2012
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“For a great many poor people in America, particularly poor black men, prison is...”
– Adam Gopnik. 2012. “The Caging of America” in The New Yorker. January 30, pp. 72-77.
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January 2012
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“In her ‘Americas Program’ column on September 3, 2009, entitled...”
– Robert Joe Stout. 2012. “Does the United States and Mexico Really Want the Drug War to Succeed?” in Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine, January 2012, p. 38.
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“People call many of the victims ‘malandros,’ bad guys, riffraff,...”
– Molly Molloy. 2011. “Introduction” in El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin. New York: Nation Books, p. 19.
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“In the realm of the ‘serious’ traditional institutional news media...”
– Mickey Duff. 2011. “Moving Beyond Media Reform for Censored in 2012,” in Censored 2012: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2010-2011. New York: Seven Stories Press, p. 11-12.
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“Since 9/11, the Bush administration’s response to terrorism has primarily...”
– Adam Hodges. 2011. The “War on Terror” Narrative: Discourse and Intertextuality in the Construction and Contestation of Sociopolitical Reality. New York: Oxford University Press, p. 23.
December 2011
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November 2011
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“Nelson Mandela’s sage observation, that ‘there can be no keener...”
– Joel Bakal. Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children (Toronto: Penguin Group Canada, 2011), p. 163.
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“When it comes to the way money shapes American justice, nothing competes with...”
– Glenn Greenwald. With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful. (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2011), pp. 254-255.
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October 2011
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“For many, particularly in the United States, 9/11 was a moment when the world...”
– Derek Gregory. “The everywhere war” in The Geographical Journal, Vol. 177, No. 3, September 2011, p. 238.
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“If the figure of the Muslim is today being used to represent the most potent...”
– Sunera Thobani. Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), p. 246-247.
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“Something kind of magical happened around the time that that guy burned himself...”
– Kalle Lasn in “Adbusters’ Kalle Lasn Talks About OccupyWallStreet,” The Tyee, Oct. 7, 2011.
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“At the risk of drastically over-simplifying the problem, there are two primary ...”
– Scott Uzelman, “Hard at Work in the Bamboo Garden: Media Activists and Social Movements,” in Autonomous Media: Activating Resistance and Dissent, Andrea Langlois & Frederick Dubois ed. (Montreal: Cumulus Press, 2005), p. 19.
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September 2011
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“The rest of the population ought to be deprived of any form of organization,...”
– Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2nd ed, 2002), p. 27.
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This month marked the 40th anniversary of the Attica prison rebellion. On September 9, 1971, prisoners took over much of state prison in Attica, New York, to protest conditions at the maximum security prison.
Then Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered state police to storm the facility on the morning of September 13. Troopers shot indiscriminately more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition, killing 39...
“The Civil Rights movement is now taken for granted and retrospectively backed by...”
– Tariq Ali, The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad (London: Verso, 2010), p. 17.
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“What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic...”
– Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: The New Press, 2010), p. 2.
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