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Table of Contents - November 2009

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GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY NOTES: New Culture Wars? by Michael Bronski
INSURANCE: Affordable Care? by Roger Bybee
MOTIVATIONS: Liberation Psychology for the U.S. by Bruce E. Levine
INTERVIEW: Dance with A Mission: Thirty-five Years of Dance Brigade by Holly Near
HOTEL SATIRE: Holiday Images by Lydia Sargent
BOOK REVIEW: A Heartbeat and a Guitar by Alexander Billet
FREE LISTINGS: Zaps - November 2009 by Various Contributors

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Commentary

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BUS TOUR: Hanford's B Reactor by Joshua Frank

Inside the most polluted nuclear site in the U.S.

INVESTIGATION: Fiji Water and the Vatukoula Dump by Laura Kiesel

The environmental colonialism of Fiji Water

GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY NOTES: New Culture Wars? by Michael Bronski *

Increasingly rabid right-wing reaction to youth coming out

Activism

LABOR NOTES: Teacher Reformers Battle Over Public Education by Paul Abowd

The fight against a new push for privatized charter schools

CONVENTION REPORT: Backstage at the AFL-CIO Convention by Carl Finamore

A new unity and commitment to diversity within labor

HUNGER STRIKE: Young, Gifted, and Blacklisted by Stefan Simanowitz

Repression and resistance of Saharawi students

CLOSINGS: A Factory Like a City by David Bacon

A photo essay on a California factory slated to close

FIELD NOTES: Outrage at the G-20 Meetings in Pittsburgh by Orin Langelle

A photo essay on recent climate protests

Features

ECONOMIC POLICY: Financial Fragility, One Year Later by Jack Rasmus

Facts disputing claims of a recovery

MOTIVATIONS: Liberation Psychology for the U.S. by Bruce E. Levine *

Remobilizing the demoralized to act for change

INSURANCE: Affordable Care? by Roger Bybee *

Enriched insurers main outcome of Obama health plan

JOURNAL: Until Jesus Comes by Chris Lewis

A college student's take on Detroit during the recession

INTERVIEW: Dance with A Mission: Thirty-five Years of Dance Brigade by Holly Near *

An interview with artist-activist Krissy Keefer

INTERVIEW: Beyond Hutto: "Pushing Back" Against Immigrant Detention Centers by DC Tedrow

Activists interviewed on immigrant detention reforms in Texas

INTERVIEW: Dateline: Middle East by David Barsamian

An interview with Lebanese journalist Rami Khouri

Culture

BOOK REVIEW: A Heartbeat and a Guitar by Alexander Billet *

A new book by Antonino D'Ambrosio on Johnny Cash

BOOK REVIEW: My Confederate Kinfolk by David Barber

A new book by Thulani Davis on a diverse family tree

HOTEL SATIRE: Holiday Images by Lydia Sargent *

Dressing a subspecies for their proper role

Zaps

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GREEN CITIES - Future Cities 2009: Local Democracy in Action for a Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free, Greener World is a conference scheduled for November 5-8 in Madison, Wisconsin, to stimulate municipal efforts to transition to a clean, peace economy.

Contact: www.futurecities2009.org.

CONFERENCE - A Conference on Democracy and Direct Action: Documenting Indigenous Responses to Neo-Colonialism and Globalization is scheduled for November 6-7 at Michigan State University. Keynote speaker is Ward Churchill, music by Rebel Diaz.

Contact: Xicano Development Center, PO 6102, East Lansing, MI 48823; conference@xicanocenter.org; www.xicanocenter.org.

BOOKFAIR - The 8th Annual New Orleans Bookfair is scheduled for Saturday, November 7 at the 500-600 blocks of Frenchmen Street. It will be a celebration of independent publishing and alternative media.

Contact: Robin Stricklin, New Orleans Bookfair, 504-813-6163; nolabookfair@gmail.com; www.nolabookfair.com.

SINGLE-PAYER - The Healthcare-NOW! 2009 National Strategy Conference is scheduled for November 14-15 in St. Louis, Missouri. Activists from around the country are gathering to push for real reform—single-payer universal healthcare such as HR676 instead of the insurance giveaway proposals pushed by corporate media.

Contact: Healthcare-NOW!, 339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012; 800-453-1305; info@healthcare-now.org; www.healthcare-now.org.

DIRECT ACTION - The annual November vigil to protest the School of the Americas (now officially WHINSEC) is scheduled for November 20-22 at Fort Benning, Georgia. This year has greater importance with the ongoing coup in Honduras perpetrated by SOA graduates.

Contact: School of the Americas Watch, PO Box 4566, Washington, DC 20017; 202-234-3440; info@soaw.org; www.soaw.org.

DAY OF MOURNING - The 39th National Day of Mourning demonstration is scheduled for noon on November 26 at Coles Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts, commemorating the slaughter of Native Americans.

Contact: UAINE, 284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130; 617-522-6626; info@uaine.org; www.uaine.org.

CLIMATE ACTION - Mobilization for Climate Justice has called for a worldwide day of mass action on climate issues for November 30 (N30), the 10-year anniversary of the historic WTO protests in Seattle, also in advance of an important UN conference on global warming in December.

Contact: Mobilization for Climate Justice, info@actforclimatejustice.org, www.actforclimatejustice.org; Climate Justice Action, info@climate-justice-action.org, www.climate-justice-action.org.

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