Volume 26, Number 10
AboutZ
Z Staff
Memorial
Landau
Various Contributors
Commentary
STARTING POINT
Calling the Kettle Black
Zoltan Grossman
COMMENTARY
Can the Children Be Saved
John Raymond
TAKING POWER
A United Syriza
James Elliott
GREEN TIDE
Keystone Pipeline
Andrew Gavin Marshall
Activism
MISINTERPRETING
Mandela
Dimitris Fasfalis
WINNING
Equity takeover
Stephen R. Thornton
Features
FOG WATCH
Language Update
Edward S. Herman
COURT WATCH
Town Prayer
Stephen Bergstein
RESHAPING SOCIETY
A New Society
Cliff Durand
RESOURCE WARS
Militarized Mining
Al Gedicks
HISTORY HANDBOOK
9-11 in Chile
Roger Bybee
Reviews
Book
Various Reviewers
Zaps
Events
Compiled by Joel Chaffee
NOTE: Z Magazine subscribers and sustainers have access to all Z Magazine articles here and in the archive. The latest Z Magazine articles available to everyone are listed in the Free Articles box at the top of the table of contents, and are starred in the list below. Questions? e-mail Z Magazine Online.
Table of Contents - October 2013
This Month's Free Z Magazine Articles
- STARTING POINT: The Pot Calling the Kettle Black by Zoltan Grossman
- Saul Landau, 1936-2013 by Various Contributors
- Taking Power: A United Syriza Moves Closer to Power by James Elliott
- Winning: Hospital Workers Beat Private Equity Takeover by Stephen R. Thornton
- Fog Watch: Orwellian Language Update by Edward S. Herman
- Resource Wars: Militarized Mining in Wisconsin by Al Gedicks
- History Handbook: Four Decades After the First 9-11 in Chile by Roger Bybee
- A Book and a Documentary by Various Reviewers
- Events, Books, Campaigns by Compiled by Joel Chaffee
- About Z by Z Staff
Info
About Z by Z Staff
Information about subscriptions, submissions, etc.
Memorial
Saul Landau, 1936-2013 by Various Contributors
Remembering an activist, teacher, author, and filmmaker
Commentary
STARTING POINT: The Pot Calling the Kettle Black by Zoltan Grossman
A partial chronology of bio-chemical weapons
COMMENTARY: Can the Children of Japan Be Saved? by John Raymond
The health impacts of Chernobyl and Fukushima
TAKING POWER: A United Syriza Moves Closer to Power by James Elliott
Reinventing socialism in Greece
GREEN TIDE: Kings of the Keystone Pipeline by Andrew Gavin Marshall
The TransCanada corporation
Activism
MISINTERPRETING: Mandela Between Fact and Fiction by Dimitris Fasfalis
Mainstreaming revolutionary
WINNING: Hospital Workers Beat Private Equity Takeover by Stephen R. Thornton
A two-year battle in Waterbury,CT
Features
FOG WATCH: Orwellian Language Update by Edward S. Herman
Doublespeak in service of imperialism
COURT WATCH: Supreme Court to Decide Town Prayer Case by Stephen Bergstein
Courts to apply Establishment Clause, or not?
RESHAPING SOCIETY: Laboratory For A New Society by Cliff Durand
Cuba's new co-operative economy
RESOURCE WARS: Militarized Mining in Wisconsin by Al Gedicks
Growing resistance in Wisconsin
HISTORY HANDBOOK: Four Decades After the First 9-11 in Chile by Roger Bybee
Allende's efforts to establish democratic socialism and U.S interve...
Reviews
A Book and a Documentary by Various Reviewers
Reviews of a book on a Cuban revolutionary; a documentary on back-u...
Zaps
Events, Books, Campaigns by Compiled by Joel Chaffee
Items of interest to the left
MID-EAST: The Un-Revolution: Yemen's Mediocre Transition by Ramzy Baroud
Civil war and U.S. intervention
MARKET MANIPULATIONS: JP Morgan: Enron 2.0 by Peter Rugh
Energy market manipulation
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SCHOOLS - The 4th Annual National Week of Action on School Pushout will take place during the week of September 28-October 6, 2013.
Contact: http://www.dignity inschools.org/.
LGBTQ - The 26th annual Out On Film Festival will take place October 3-10, in Atlanta.
Contact: info@outonfilm.org; http://outonfilm.org/.
RAZA - The Third Annual Roberto Felipe Maestas Legacy Award will be awarded by El Centro de la Raza October 5 at the Building the Beloved Community Gala in Seattle, WA.
Contact: 2524 16th Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98144; 206-957\-4649; http://www.elcent rode laraza.org/.
SLAVERY - Not For Sale’s 2013 Gala will be held October 5 in San Francisco.
Contact: http://www.notfor salecampaign.org/
BANKS/AUSTERITY - The Moratorium NOW! Coalition has put out a Call for an International People’s Assembly Against the Banks and Against Austerity, October 5-6, in Detroit, MI.
Contact: 5920 Second Ave., Detroit, MI 48202; 313-744-7912; moratorium@moratorium-mi.org; http://moratorium-mi.org/; http://www.international peoplesassembly.org/; http://detroitdebt moratorium.org/.
SPACE MILITARIZATION - October 5-12 is Keep Space for Peace Week, an international week of protest to stop the militarization of space.
Contact: http://space4peace.org/.
VETERANS/ARTS - The first Central New York Veteran’s Art Blast will be held at the 7th annual CNY Veteran’s Expo and Homeless Stand-down, at the SUNYIT Campus Center in Utica, NY, October 9-11. Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) invites the public to see the timeless truth of war through the eyes of veterans’ artwork.
Contact: PO Box 3565, New York, NY 10008-3565; 646- 723-0989; http://www.ivaw.org
HOMELESSNESS - October 10 is World Homeless Day. Events are planned worldwide.
Contact: 206-364-1178; Laura@ socialjusticefilmfestival.org; http:// www.worldhomelessday.org/.
STREET BANDS - The HONK! Festival of activist street bands will take place October 11-13, in Somerville, MA.
Contact: HONK! Festival, 100 Jackson Street, Cambridge, MA 02140; webmaster@honkfest.org; http://honkfest.org/.
FILM FESTIVAL - The Seattle Social Justice Film Festival will be held October 10-13 in Seattle. Revived by the national group Books to Prisoners, the festival’s main theme is around prisoner justice.
Contact: http://www.socialjustice filmfestival.org/.
LABOR - The Saint Louis Labor Conference will be held October 11-13, sponsored by Center for Labor Renewal, Missouri Jobs with Justice, and University of Missouri-St. Louis Labor Studies.
Contact: http://stllaborconference.com/.
SDS - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) will be holding its 7th National Convention, October 11-13, at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN.
Contact: http://www.newsds.org/.
ENVIRONMENT - The APIEL (Appalachian Public Interest Environmental Law) Conference 2013 will be held October 11-13, at the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville. The conference brings together hundred of eco-minded and socially conscious activists, attorneys, students, scientists, and citizens in the interest of social justice.
Contact: PO Box 20363, Knoxville, TN 37920; apiel.info @gmail.com; http://www. apiel.org/.
TEACHERS - The 13th Annual Conference, “Teaching for Social Justice: The Politics of Pedagogy,” will be held October 12 in San Francisco, CA. The free event features workshops, resources, and free childcare.
Contact: 415-676-7844; teachers4socialjustice @yahoo.com; http://www.t4sj.org/.
COLUMBUS - On October 14, Columbus Day, many groups around the country, including the Transform Columbus Day Alliance, will challenge traditional ethnocentric views of Columbus, as well as the celebration of invasion, cruelty, oppression and cultural imperialism.
Contact: http://www.trans- formcolumbusday.org.
WAR RESISTERS - The War Resisters League celebrates its 90th anniversary on October 18, in New York City, with Daniel Ellsberg, Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte, and events.
Contact: 339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012; 212- 228-0450; wrl@warresisters .org; http://www.warresisters.org.
YOUTH - Power Shift 2013 will take place October 18-21 in Pittsburgh, PA. The event will bring over 10,000 youth leaders to build a movement to fight fracking, divest from fossil fuels, and build a clean energy future.
Contact: contact@wearepower shift.org; http://www.wearepower shift.org/.
ENVIRONMENT - The Green Festival, a project of Green America and Global Exchange, will take place in San Francisco, October 19-20; and in Los Angeles, November 9-10.
Contact: http://www.greenfestivals.org/.
PEACE - The Pathmakers To Peace Reception will be held October 20, at the Brooklyn Historical Society. Honorees include playwright Lynn Nottage and Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE).
Contact: bfp@brooklynpeace.org; http://www.brooklynpeace.org/.
POLICE BRUTALITY - October 22 is National Day Against Police Brutality.
Contact: http://www.october22. org/.
DRUGS - The biennial International Drug Policy Reform Conference will be held October 23-26, in Denver, CO. The conference brings together people from around the world committed to finding alternatives to the war on drugs.
Contact: http://www.reform conference.org/.
ARTS - The 76th Annual Conference For Community Arts will take place October 30-November 2, in Chicago. The conference provides professional development and networking opportunities for staff, faculty, trustees and teaching artists at more than 350 arts education organizations and programs.
Contact: 520 8th Ave., Suite 302, New York, NY 10018; 212- 268-3337; guildinfo@national guildorg; http://community artsed.nationalguildorg/.
MEDIA - The Union for Democratic Communications and Project Censored are sponsoring a joint conference on media democracy, media activism and social justice to be held November 1-3 at the University of San Francisco.
Contact: http://www.demo- craticcommunications.net /conference/udc-2013.
BLACK LEADERSHIP - The Mississippi Black Leadership Summit will be held November 6-8, in Jackson.
Contact: One Voice, Attn: Mississippi Black Leadership Summit, 1072 W. Lynch Street, Suite 7, Jackson, MS 39203; 601- 960-9594; http://uniteonevoice. org/MBLS/.
EDUCATION - The National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) will host its annual conference in Oakland, CA, November 6-10.
Contact: http://nameorg.org.
WOMEN’S STUDIES - The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) will host its annual conference November 7-10, in Cincinatti, OH, under the theme Negotiating Points of Encounter. The keynote speaker is writer and teacher Elizabeth Alexander.
Contact: NWSA, 11 E Mount Royal Ave., Suite 100, Baltimore, MD 21202; 410-528-0355; nwsa office@nwsa.org; http://www. nwsa.org/.
RACE - The 2014 Facing Race national conference will take place November 13-15, in Dallas, TX. The conference is a national, multi-racial gathering of leaders, educators, journalists, artists and activists.
Contact: arc.org/facingrace/.
WOMEN/LAW - The Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN) will host its Women, Law & Legal Advocacy seminar November 14-16, in Washington, DC.
Contact: 1001 Connecticut Avenue NW, #930 Washington, DC 20036; 202-872-1585; plen @plen.org; www.plen.org.
WORKERS - The Vermont Workers Center will celebrate its 15th anniversary, November 9, in Barre, VT.
Contact: 294 N Winooski Avenue, Burlington, VT 05401; 802- 861-4VWC; http://www.workers center.org/.
DRONES - CODEPINK, the Institute for Policy Studies, the Nation Magazine, and National Lawyers Guild (Georgetown Chapter) are hosting a drone summit titled Drones Around the Globe: Proliferation and Resistance, in Washington, DC, November 16-17.
Contact: info@codepink.org; http://www.codepinkalert.org/.
SCHOOL OF AMERICAS - The annual November vigil to protest the School of the Americas is scheduled for November 22-24 at Fort Benning, GA.
Contact: SOA Watch, PO Box 4566, Washington, DC 20017; 202-234-3440; info@soaw.org; http://soaw.org.
CUBA/WOMEN - The Women’s Research Delegation & International Women’s Conference in Havana, Cuba will be held November 22-December 1.
Contact: http://www.womenand cuba.org/.
HONDURAS - The International Action Center, along with Honduras US Resistencia and other national solidarity organizations are organizing a delegation to Honduras in solidarity with the resistance movement. The groups will be eye-witnesses for the presidential election scheduled for Sunday, November 24.
Contact: International Action Center, Solidarity Center, 147 W. 24th St., FL 2, New York, NY 10011; 212-633-6646; iacenter @iacenter.org; www.iacenter.org.
HUMAN RIGHTS - The U.S. Human Rights Network will celebrate its 10th anniversary with the Advancing Human Rights 2013 Conference, December 6-8, in Atlanta, GA.
Contact: 250 Georgia Avenue SE, Suite 330, Atlanta, GA 30312; info@ushrnetwork.org; http://www.ushrnetwork.org/.
AFRICAN/SOCIALIST - The Sixth Congress of the African People’s Socialist Party USA will be held December 7-11, in St. Petersburg, FL.
Contact: 1245 18th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33705; 727-821-6620; info@apspuhuru. org; http://asiuhuru.org/.
MUSIC - The 26th Annual International Folk Alliance Conference will be held February 19-23, in Kansas City, MO, with keynote speaker Graham Nash.
Contact: 509 Delaware St. #101, Kansas City, MO 64105; 816-221-3655; fa@folk.org; http://www.folkalliance.org/.
LABOR - The 2014 Labor Notes Conference will be held April 4-6, in Chicago.
Contact: Labor Notes, 7435 Michigan Ave., Detroit, MI, 48210; 313-842-6262; labornotes@labornotes.org; www.labornotes.org.
