Table of Contents - March 2008

Commentary

Steel: Imperialist Democrats

The three "Election Dissension" articles in the March issue are part of a 2008 Z Magazine series on all things electoral. ... (More)

Nall: Democracy Illusion

As the Democratic Party presidential nomination race progresses, many people are getting an education on the behind-the-scenes business of electing a president and the role played by... (More)

Finamore: Another Parade

Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are setting records for voter turnouts in the Democratic Party primaries. Reports abound that millions are infused with hope and optimism.... (More)

Frank: Neocon Criminals

According to FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, there is a vast black market for nukes and certain U.S. officials have been supplying sensitive nuclear technology information to Turkish and... (More)

Elmendorf: Judicial Irony

In an unusual judicial irony, Dr. Rafil Dhafir, a Syracuse oncologist and U.S. citizen, was convicted two years ago of breaking the Iraqi sanctions by sending aid to starving children. He is... (More)

Dixon: Worst Places To Be Black

In this year of symbolic optimism, when a black man is a leading contender in the presidential race—as well as being a leading recipient of contributions from Wall Street, big insurance,... (More)

Parrish: Mass Destruction U.

Between 1946 and 1958, the United States tested 67 nuclear bombs on the Marshall Islands, a string of coral atolls in the South Pacific. The combined explosive power of these... (More)

Berkowitz: GodMen

Christian music brings in big-time money. Likewise, the release and subsequent box office successes of Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ, and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and... (More)

Activism

Weidman: Womens Encuentro

Just after midnight on January 1, 2008, the 14th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising began and the caracol of La Garrucha was alive with celebration. We watched from the top of a refurbished... (More)

Bronski: The Movement

Apparently it's the time of the year to give talks about the State of the Union, State of the State, and State of whatever. So why not State of the Gay Movement? As someone who has been... (More)

Abowd: Creative Nonviolence

Over a year after Democrats won Congress on a still un-fulfilled anti-war pledge, Chicago-based Voices for Creative Nonviolence (VCNV) was one of the many anti-war groups still calling for a... (More)

Laning: Words/Actions

I spent most of the weekend of January 11, 2008 in jail. It was easily the most important thing I've done in my life. As part of the group Witness Against Torture, and in solidarity with numerous... (More)

Ten Eyck: Freightliner Workers

Cleveland, North Carolina, a small town with less than 1,000 residents, is an unlikely home for an active autoworkers' union. Freightliner LLC (now owned by Daimler) opened a truck-manufacturing... (More)

Condon: War Resisters

Z MAGAZINE ONLINE-ONLY ARTICLE When Private Jeremy Hinzman crossed the border into Canada in January 2004, he became the first AWOL GI to seek refugee status there. The U.S. Army had denied his... (More)

Finamore: Stealth Election

Z MAGAZINE ONLINE-ONLY ARTICLE The Transport Workers Union (TWU) was locked in a major fight for union recognition at Continental Airlines in early January 2008. Unfortunately, few noticed. This... (More)

Adams: Maine Migrants

Z MAGAZINE ONLINE-ONLY ARTICLE Christina Nelson and I pull off the main road into the fisheries trailer park in a small, rural town in coastal Maine. Located within walking distance of the... (More)

Steinberg: N.O. Housing

Z MAGAZINE ONLINE-ONLY ARTICLE At a press conference last December 18 at New Orleans' City Hall, Martin Suber of the Coalition To Stop Demolition explained the purpose of the fight to stop the... (More)

Features

Barsamian: Fatima Bhutto

Fatima Bhutto published her first book, Whispers of the Desert, a collection of poetry, when she was 15. She is a graduate of Columbia and the London School of Oriental and African Studies. Her... (More)

Herman: Nuthouse Nuggets

One of my favorite quotations, from James Madison in 1822, is that "a popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or... (More)

Ross: Agrarian Apocolypse

At the stroke of midnight this past January 1, 100 or so farmers and day laborers from both sides of the border converged on the Cordoba Las Americas bridge that connects El Paso and Ciudad... (More)

Keilholtz: Megachurches

The megachurch phenomenon is four decades in the making. Unleashed in the anti-establishment cultural shift of the 1960s, the first modern ritual-less services to gain megachurch traction were... (More)

Rasmus: Global Recession I

Last year we witnessed the emergence of the most serious financial crisis to hit the U.S. and the greater global economy since the 1930s—a crisis that has already begun to precipitate a major... (More)

Young: Occupation Effects

Z MAGAZINE ONLINE-ONLY ARTICLE A primary stated justification for continuing the U.S.-led military occupation of Iraq is that a withdrawal of Western forces would result in a "bloodbath."... (More)

Culture

Rosen: Sundance

Park City, Utah is "hot" in mid- January, hot every mid-January as the Sundance Film Festival gets started. I've attended the festival, but couldn't make it this year. Friends' reports and... (More)

Holmbäck: Book Reviews

The Sutras of Abu Ghraib Notes from a Conscientious Objector in Iraq  By Aidan Delgado  2007, Boston, Beacon Press, 228 pp.  Road from ar Ramadi The Private Rebellion... (More)

Zaps

Various Submissions: Zaps

Events ACTIVIST CONFERENCE - The 11th Annual National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR) will be held March 7-9, 2008 in Washington, DC. This weekend of learning and discussing local... (More)