3.05.06 social transformation

Forestalling Another Rain of Ruin: The Need to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

The ruins of a library at Angkor Wat, Cambodia, June, 2007. PHOTO: TREY RATCLIFF
Authors: Zia Mian

Summary:

Zia Mian reviews books on the current nuclear threat by Joseph Gerson, Joseph Cirincione, and William
Langewiesche.

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Empire's Decline: The US, China, and India

Agricultural Bank of China, Shenzhen, Guangdong province, July, 2005. Photo: Yuan2003 Via Flickr
Authors: Joseph Gerson

Summary:

Joseph Gerson reviews books on contemporary geostrategic shifts by Morris Berman, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Fareed Zakaria.

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Writing About War and Peace: Inside a Veterans' Group

Spiral staircase in the Töölö library, Helsinki, Finland, 2005. PHOTO: © REETTA R.
Authors: Shepherd Bliss

Summary:Shepherd Bliss describes his participation in a writers' group led by Maxine Hong Kinston.

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Imagining a New Global Eco-Economy: A Future US Presidential Blog Post

San Francisco Main Public Library, February 2006. PHOTO: THOMAS HAWK
Authors: Kim Stanley Robinson

Summary:Excerpt from the concluding novel in the Science in the Capital series, Sixty Days and Counting.

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Robust Utopias: A Conversation with Science Fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson

Students at a demonstration in Paris, March 26, 2006. PHOTO: MALIAS VIA FLICKR
Authors: Kim Stanley Robinson Sam Diener

Summary:

A Conversation with Science Fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson By Sam Diener

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A Politics of Inclusion: An Interview with Egyptian Democracy Advocate Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Following a fire in the Qale't el-Kabsh slum of Cairo, residents were promised replacement housing and compensation, but many received nothing. After a prosecutor told residents and the Egyptian Center for Housing Rights that they would not pursue
Authors: Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Summary:

Women got upset and marched to the Royal Palace. The King called me and said, 'Saad, do you see what is happening?' I said, 'Yes, but that is democracy, your Majesty.'

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The Damascus Declaration for Democratic National Change

Authors: A coalition of Syrian democrats

Summary:

The process of change has begun. It is not directed against anyone, but requires everyone's efforts.

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Diversity is the Revolution: The Tharwa Manifesto for Nonviolent Change in the Middle East

Families of Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, and Egyptian men who disappeared into Syrian prisons during the Lebanese civil war staged a sit-in protest in front of the UN House in Beirut for more than a year. photo: E. Zarwan,June 27, 2006
Authors: Ammar Abdulhamid

Summary:

We approach our struggle in the spirit of hope, love, and magnanimity.

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Majora League:An Interview with Majora Carter, Founder of Sustainable South Bronx

Majora Carter
Authors: Majora Carter

Summary:

The debate has to examine how environmental improvements to low-income communities lift up the economy, the safety, and the morale - not just locally, but regionally and nationally.

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Tomato Pickers Organize to Improve Conditions: An Open Letter to Burger King and the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange

Demonstrator in the rain
Authors: Clifton Kirkpatrick

Summary:

Boycott Burger King until it supports a penny per pound increase in wages.

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