[Peace-discuss] Fwd: AltPress E-Newsletter No. 4, July, 2005

[Alfred Kagan]

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> From: altpress at charm.net
> Date: June 22, 2005 9:50:21 PM CDT
> To: "APC-Newsletter" <apc-newsletter at lists.altpress.org>
> Subject: AltPress E-Newsletter No. 4, July, 2005
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> AltPress E-Newsletter No. 4, July, 2005
> The Alternative Press Center's "Radical Picks of the Month!"
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Article 1. "The People’s Business: Controlling Corporations and 
> Restoring
> Democracy"
> by Lee Drutman and Charlie Cray
>
> At a time when our democracy appears to be so thoroughly under the 
> sway of
> large corporations, it is tempting to give up on politics. We must 
> resist
> this temptation. Democracy offers the best solution to challenging
> corporate power. We must engage as citizens, not just as consumers or
> investors angling for a share of President Bush’s "ownership society."
>
> In These Times (February 18, 2005)
> http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1971/
> .........
>
>
> Article 2. "Raising Funds"
> by Shannon Staples
>
> The author discusses local economic models in Canada, such as the Salt
> Spring Dollars alternative currency that operates within the existing
> economic system.  Shannon Staples runs through the history of the
> various LETS (Local Economic Trading System), how they were started by
> community members, the nuts and bolts of implementation, and the 
> current
> state of the various programs.  For example, plans for an interest-free
> loan to start up a local radio station is in the works in Calgary, and
> sustainable, affordable housing projects have already been launched
> through the community funds.
>
> Alternatives Journal (Jan/Feb 2005)
> http://www.alternativesjournal.ca/issues/311/staples.asp
>
> .........
>
> Article 3 "Labor Movements: Is There Hope?"
> by Fernando Gapasin & Michael Yates
>
> Gapasin and Yates report that class struggle has been a one-sided 
> affair
> the past 30 years. Capital has delivered a severe beating to labor 
> around
> the globe. Economic stagnation struck most of the advanced capitalist
> economies, beginning in the mid-1970s. Then, capital went on the
> offensive. Governments and global lending agencies--World Bank and
> International Monetary Fund--began to implement policies that weakened
> workers power. The authors survey the situation and end with a 
> discussion
> of labor's need to move to the left if it is to survive. Gapasin and 
> Yates
> suggest that keeping higher goals in mind is a prerequisite for being 
> able
> to win some power. The crisis workers face should lead the labor 
> movement
> not to narrow its vision of what needs to be fought for, but to 
> broaden it.
>
> Monthly Review (June 2005)
> http://www.monthlyreview.org/0605gapasinyates.htm
>
> .........
>
> Article 4. "The Supreme Court and 'Enemy Combatants'"
> by Marc Norton
>
> Although risking being repetitive, this article outlines the most 
> recent
> developments in the civil liberties cases dealing with "enemy 
> combatants" and
> prisoners in a time of war.  While covering the basic wordplay the 
> courts and
> Ashcroft engage in, it also details the opinions written by the 
> justices
> in the
> Hamdi and Padilla cases.  The online version also has numerous 
> photographs
> which add to the meaning of the words in the article.  This article 
> has a
> good bit of
> background on the cases and the politics surrounding the ways they have
> played
> out in the courts and in the press.
>
> Covert Action Quarterly Spring 2005
> http://www.marcnorton.us/13001/51314.html#top
>
> .........
>
> Article 5. "Back to Court: the Federal Role in Metropolitan Housing
> Segregation"
> by Philip Tegeler
>
> The big fair housing news of 2005 is a new federal court ruling in
> Thompson v. HUD, the Baltimore public housing desegregation class
> action filed by the Maryland ACLU in 1994, partially settled in 1996
> and finally brought to trial in December of 2003. Judge Garbis's
> 322-page January 6 opinion places the full weight of responsibility on
> the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for its failure
> to actively promote regional housing opportunities for the Baltimore
> region's low-income families living in federally assisted housing.
> The real question – and a clue to the importance of Thompson – is, if
> the pattern of HUD liability seems so familiar, why haven't there been
> more cases like it? The answer lies partly in the continuing
> difficulty in funding large scale public interest litigation, but more
> importantly, it traces to a decision in the early 1990s by President
> Clinton's first HUD Secretary, Henry Cisneros, to settle all of the
> then-pending public housing desegregation cases rather than continuing
> to litigate indefinitely.
>
> Shelterforce (March/April 2005)
> http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/140/court.html
>
> .........
>
> Article 6. "After the Vote on the EU Treaty: Why France Said Non"
> by Anne-Cécile Robert
>
> By rejecting the constitutional treaty, a majority of French and Dutch
> voters called for far-reaching changes at home and across Europe.
> Anne-Cecile Robert offers some preliminary pointers for the debate to
> come. Europe, Robert concludes, "must find a way to rebuild a 
> specifically
> European social model. It should emphasise the central importance of
> public services, since they express values of social and territorial
> solidarity and are essential to the fight against inequality and
> insecurity."
>
> Le Monde Diplomatique (June 2005)
> http://mondediplo.com/2005/06/02frenchno
>
> .........
>
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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois Library
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