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A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play by Dave Zirin
Baseball and Billions: A Probing Look Inside the Business of Our National Pastime by Andrew Zimbalist
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times by Howard Zinn
Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses by Stacy Mitchell
Inside Obama's Brain by Sasha Abramsky
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell
It Takes Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street by Nomi Prins
The Death and Life of American Journalism by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters
Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court by Amy Bach
On Thin Ice: The Changing World of the Polar Bear by Richard Ellis
The New Frugality: How to Consume Less, Save More, and Live Better by Chris Farrell
A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America by Peter Richardson
Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? by Steve Fox, Paul Armentano and Mason Tvert
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02.09.10 Have We Learned to Love the Taliban?
Aunohita Mojumdar, AOL News: "London Conference to Focus on Afghan Security"
Aunohita Mojumdar, Hard News: "Welcome to Hotel Silk Road"
Pratap Chatterjee, IPS: "Afghanistan: Iraq Lessons Ignored at Kabul Power Plant"
Guardian: "Kabul Stories"
Mohammed A. Salih, IPS: "Afghanistan: US Night Raids and Secret Prisons Anger Civilians"
Una Moore, Un Dispatch: "CEDAW Committee: Protect Rights and Involve Women in Afghanistan Negotiations"
AFP: "Clinton says no talking to 'really bad guys' in Taliban"
Mustafa Qadri, Guardian: "Empty diplomacy in Afghanistan"
02.08.10 Why aren't Pro Sports Treated like Every Other Business?
A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play by Dave Zirin
Baseball and Billions: A Probing Look Inside the Business of Our National Pastime by Andrew Zimbalist
Dave Zirin, Huffington Post: "It's Time for a Sports Fans Coalition"
Kurt Badenhausen, Forbes: "World's Highest-Paid Athletes 2009"
Ken Belson, NY Times: "Stadium Boom Deepens Municipal Woes"
Nick Harris, Independent: "Elite clubs on Uefa gravy train as Super Bowl knocked off perch"
Scott Thomas, Portfolio: "A Sporting Chance"
CNN: "How to be a billionaire sports team owner"
Sports Fan Coalition
Inside Higher ED: "Sports Subsidies Soar"
02.05.10 Media Roundtable
Olga Pierce, ProPublica: "Explaining Obama's Proposed Budget Freeze."
Christopher Hayes, The Nation: "The Sanctity of Military Spending"
Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com: "Why Does Spending Freeze Exempt Military?"
Richard Adams, Guardian: "Blair's Iraq testimony gets a US yawn"
The Economist: "UK media sprays 'no regrets' Blair"
Al Jazeera: "The Listening Post"
Jodi Jacobson, Reality Check: "What Do You Know About Focus on the Family? Here Are the Facts"
02.04.10 How Do We Use Black History Month to Bridge Racial Divides?
ASALH: The history of black economic empowerment
Public forum, SF Chronicle: Is black history month still necessary?
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic: Black history month. Meh.
Teddy Shibabaw, Socialist Alternative: Black history month--racism is not over
Steve Freiss, AOL News: Reid's black history month column raises questions
Harry Reid: Black history is American history
Sam Whiting, SF Chronicle: Black Student Union at SFSU started it all
James Parks, AFL-CIO Blog: AFT, NEA Offer Black History Month Teaching Tools
NEA introduces Black History Month exhibition
02.03.10 How will You Respond to the School Budget Crisis?
Events:
Feb. 25, 2010: Funding Our Future SF, a town hall meeting about the education budget
March 4, 2010: Statewide day of action in response to the education budget cuts
Resources:
Funding Our Future SF, a town hall meeting by organizers against budget cuts
California Teachers Association: Budget Cut Impacts
Stand Up for Schools
The Education Coalition: Chronicling the Cuts
SF Chronicle: Governor pledges to spare education from cuts
SF Chronicle: Size of budget gap announced
The SF K Files, a parents' blog
Facts:
Last school year, entire art, music, and PE programs were eliminated. More than 16,000 educators were laid off. San Francisco Unified School District is forecasting state budget cuts of 10-20% for the 2010-2011 school year.
02.02.10 How Did Howard Zinn Change the History of the United States?
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times by Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn Website
Bob Herbert, NY Times: A Radical Treasure
BU Today: "Howard Zinn Dies: Historian, author, inspiration of political left succumbs to heart attack"
Daniel Ellsberg, Truthdig: "A Memory of Howard"
Ron Briley, History News Network: "Thank you Howard Zinn"
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, a documentary film about Daniel Ellsberg, from Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith.
02.01.10 Agenda for a New Economy: What will it Take to Boost Small Business?
Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses by Stacy Mitchell
American Small Business League
Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR)
Nathan Olivarez-Giles, LA Times: "Small-business bankruptcies rise 81% in California"
Charlotte Jensen, AOL Small Business, AOL News: "As Business Bankruptcies Rise, Is California in Crisis?"
Dan Dorfman, Huffington Post: "State of Dis-Union"
Kent Hoover, Washington Business Journal: "Obama's small business proposals get mixed reviews"
Center for Economic Policy Research: "U.S. Small Business Sector One of the Smallest Amongst Comparable Countries"
01.29.10 Media Roundtable
Mark Danner, NY Times: "Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature"
Charles Homans, Washington Monthly: "The Party of Obama: What are the president's grass roots good for?"
Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers: "Marines to mark official end of their Anbar mission in Iraq"
Ed Pilkington, Guardian: "Fox most trusted news channel in US, poll shows"
Tikun Olam: "Fair Questions Bronner's Objectivity"
Andrew Grice, Independent: "Taliban to be invited into peace talks if they lay down guns"
Greg Marx, CJR: "Assessing Obama: The press and the pundits evaluate the State of the Union"
01.28.10 What's the State of the Obama Coalition?
Inside Obama's Brain by Sasha Abramsky
Tammy Johnson, CommonDreams: "The State of OUR Union: Tonight, Obama speaks. Right now, it's our turn"
Virgina Organizing Project
SouthWest Organizing Project
Sasha Abramsky, The Nation: "Obama and the Long View"
SF Chronicle: "State of the Obama Presidency: Jobs vs. health reform"
Joe Garofoli, SF Chronicle: "The promises and reality of Obama's presidency"
Robert Scheer, Truthdig: "The Sorry State of the Union"
Politico: "What Obama must do"
01.27.10 How Can We Prevent Veteran Suicide?
Eli Clifton, IPS: US: Suicide rate surged among veterans
AP: Increase in suicide rates of vets
Mary Susan Littlepage, TruthOut: The VA statistics show young veterans committing suicide at an alarming rate
Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle: More Iraq and Afghanistan veterans need more help
Jamie Holmes, Christian Science Monitor: US Military is meeting recruitment goals with video games, but at what cost?
Aaron Glantz, Foreign Policy in Focus: The truth about veteran suicides
Aaron Glantz, The Progressive: On veteran's day: How to prevent veteran suicide?
VA Palo Alto
Swords to Plowshares
01.26.10 What's the True Price of Cheap?
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell
Ellen Ruppel Shell
Jessica A. Knoblauch, E/The Environmental Magazine: The Price of Cheap: The Environmental Costs of Our Disposable, Discount Ways
Ellen Ruppel Shell, The Boston Globe: In Haiti, another disaster needs our help
01.25.10 What Should Banks Do for Us?
It Takes Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street by Nomi Prins
Nomi Prins
Newdeal 2.0: "Current news and analysis of the country's fiscal crisis"
Nomi Prins, AlterNet: "Why Can't We Get Anyone to Ask a Wall St. CEO the Hard Questions?"
Nomi Prins, Mother Jones: "The Big Bank Bailout Payback Bamboozle"
Financial Times: "Obama hammers Wall Street banks"
The Economist: "Glass-Steagall lite: Barack Obama proposes limiting the activities of big banks"
William Black, The Daily Bail: "William K. Black: Attention Congress! Here's How To Solve The Wall Street Bonus Problem"
Eliot Spitzer, William Black, and Frank Partnoy, ND2-0: "Tip of the Iceberg"
Jill Treanor, Guardian: "Angry Obama vows to tax cash-rich Wall Street"
01.22.10 Media Roundtable
The Death and Life of American Journalism by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols
Robert McChesney & John Nichols event in the Bay Area: The authors will be talking about their new book The Death and Life of American Journalism Friday, Jan. 22 at 7 pm at the First Unitarian Universalist Church in San Francisco.
Tina Susman, LA Times: "Haitian quake victims wait in the shadow of international aid"
Inigo Gilmore, Guardian: "The myth of Haiti's lawless streets"
John Nichols & Robert McChesney, The Nation: "How to Save Journalism"
NY Times editorial: "The Massachusetts Election"
Boston Globe: "Political Circuit: Mr. Brown goes to Washington"
01.21.10 Should America be Therapist to the World?
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters
Crazy Like Us
NPR, Talk of the Nation: Is the rest of the world 'Crazy like Us'?
Ethan Watters, The New York Times: The Americanization of Mental Illness
KCBS: US counselors cautioned to respect cultural forms of grief in Haiti
Knight Science Journalism Tracker, Paul Raeburn: NY Times Mag: So postmodern -- and so wrong -- about mental illness
David Berreby, Ethiopian Review: The Mickey D's of Mental Health
01.20.10 How did Angel Island Change America?
Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
Christina Talcott, Washington Post: Wall Poetry tells story of Immigration
Terence Chea, USA Today/AP: Angel Island reopens with sad saga of detained immigrants
NPR/Tell Me more: Historic Immigrant Passage Gains New Life
AP Video: US Immigration History Preserved on Angel Island
Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times: On Angel Island, the walls still talk
Carle Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle: Bitter memories of Ellis Island of the west
01.19.10 Why is America's Justice System Failing?
Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court by Amy Bach
01.15.10 Media Roundtable
Aljazeera: "Hashem Ahelbarra Blog"
LA Times: "Michael Rothfeld Columns"
Julie Rovner, NPR: "Deal On Cadillac Tax Marks Beginning Of Endgame For Health Overhaul"
Dexter Filkins, NY Times: "UN: Taliban, other insurgents cause Afghan civilian deaths to soar"
BBC: "Suicide bombing kills 20 in Afghanistan market"
Curtis Brainard, CJR: "Flatlining Despite Healthcare Overhaul: CUNY, Univ. of Minnesota suspend health/medical journalism programs"
Saeed Shah, McClatchy: "Suicide attack reveals threat to Obama's Afghanistan plan"
Pew Research: "Public Stays with Health Care, Media Focuses on Terror"
Scott Hensley, NPR: "C-SPAN Wants All-Access Pass To Health Negotiations"
01.14.10 What's the Power of Graphic Journalism?
Graphic Novel Reporter
George Gene Gustines, New York Times: Graphic Memories of Katrina's Ordeal
David Hadju: Comics for Grown Ups
Elif Batuman, London Review of Books: Into the Eisenshpritz
David Thompson, The Guardian: Eyewitness in Gaza
David Ulin, LA Times: Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
Randy Myers, Contra Costa Times: Sacco strides into brave new world of journalism with "Footnotes"
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Have We Learned to Love the Taliban? [02.09.10]
Why aren't Pro Sports Treated like Every Other Business? [02.08.10]
Media Roundtable [02.05.10]
How Do We Use Black History Month to Bridge Racial Divides? [02.04.10]
How will You Respond to the School Budget Crisis? [02.03.10]
How Did Howard Zinn Change the History of the United States? [02.02.10]
Agenda for a New Economy: What will it Take to Boost Small Business? [02.01.10]
Media Roundtable [01.29.10]
What's the State of the Obama Coalition? [01.28.10]
How Can We Prevent Veteran Suicide? [01.27.10]
What's the True Price of Cheap? (not yet available) [01.26.10]
What Should Banks Do for Us? [01.25.10]
Media Roundtable [01.22.10]
Should America be Therapist to the World? [01.21.10]
How did Angel Island change America? [01.20.10]
Why is America's Justice System Failing? [01.19.10]
Media Roundtable [01.15.10]
What's the Power of Graphic Journalism? [01.14.10]
What Happens When the War on Terror Comes to You? [01.13.10]
What Can Polar Bears Tell Us? [01.12.10]
Should we Save or Spend? [01.11.10]
Media Roundtable [01.08.10]
Why is Ramparts Magazine So Important? [01.07.10]
When is Dissent Hip? [01.06.10]
How Do We Want to Live with Pot? [01.05.10]
Can Economics and Politics Promote the Things We Truly Value? [01.04.10]
How Does America Converse After Newspapers? [12.28.09]
What's Exciting on Stage Right Now? [12.23.09]
Do You Know Your Online Rights? [12.22.09]
What's Left of Health Care Reform? [12.21.09]
Media Roundtable [12.18.09]
Want to Give Nothing for the Holidays? [12.17.09]
Where are You Donating this Year? [12.16.09]
What's the State of the Opposition in Iran? [12.15.09]
Are Food Stamps Enough? [12.14.09]
Media Roundtable [12.11.09]
How does Climate Change Affect Food Security? [12.10.09]
What's your Biggest Worry About Climate Change? [12.09.09]
Has Climate Change Met its Match in California? [12.08.09]
Can We Afford to Stop Global Warming? [12.07.09]
Media Roundtable [12.04.09]
Do you Know Cornel West? [12.03.09]
Did Obama Make his Case? [12.02.09]
Who's Talking About AIDS? [12.01.09]
Does the State Budget Crisis Move You to Act? [11.30.09]
Media Roundtable [11.27.09]
Read a Good Book Lately? [11.25.09]
Has Your Past Determined Your Present? [11.24.09]
Agenda for a New Economy -- Who Wins the Credit Card Game? [11.23.09]
Media Roundtable [11.20.09]
What's your Wish List for China? [11.19.09]
Does our Economy Need to Crash? [11.18.09]
What Do Young People Say about the Richmond High Rape? [11.17.09]
Can Capitalism Redeem Itself? [11.16.09]
Media Roundtable [11.13.09]
Are Cars Going Extinct? [11.12.09]
Are U.S.-Israel Relations at a Turning Point? [11.11.09]
Can an Official Apology Right an Historic Wrong? [11.10.09]
Where is Health Care Reform in Washington Headed? [11.09.09]
Media Roundtable [11.06.09]
Does Breast Cancer Awareness Month Work? [11.05.09]
Can the U.S. Lead the Climate Conference in Copenhagen? [11.04.09]
What's Obama's Grade in Foreign Policy? [11.03.09]
How Does Unemployment Insurance Work? [11.02.09]
Media Roundtable [10.30.09]
What Makes Women Prisoners Different? [10.29.09]
What's the Best Path to Gay Rights? [10.28.09]
Has Obama Repaired our International Image? [10.27.09]
Manufactured in America? [10.26.09]
Media Roundtable [10.23.09]
Spreading the Atheist Gospel? [10.22.09]
Will Young People Save the Earth? [10.21.09]
What's the State of the Arts in the Arab World? [10.20.09]
Agenda for a New Economy: Does public housing have a future? [10.19.09]
Media Roundtable [10.16.09]
What does our food media say about who we are? [10.15.09]
What's the best way to break the cycle of gang violence? [10.14.09]
What Do You Want to Know About the Swine Flu Vaccine? [10.13.09]
Agenda for a New Economy--Income Gap Widens [10.12.09]
Media Roundtable [10.09.09]
What's a Blue-Dog Democrat anyway? [10.08.09]
The Commons--California's Water Crisis [10.07.09]
What's on the docket for the Supreme Court? [10.06.09]
Is cheaper always better? [10.05.09]
Media Roundtable [10.02.09]
Noam Chomsky [10.01.09]
What are we going to do with Afghanistan? [09.30.09]
What comes next for California's state parks? [09.29.09]
Agenda for a New Economy--Can global regulation create a more sane financial system? [09.28.09]
Media Roundtable [09.25.09]
Can the 30% tuition increases at UC be stopped? [09.24.09]
Is the best health care system in America the VA? [09.23.09]
What's in store for the future of biofuels? [09.22.09]
Is GDP a good method to measure economic progress? [09.21.09]
Why has the religious right remained so strong? [09.18.09]
Can the obesity crisis be solved by changing individual behavior? [09.17.09]
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader [09.17.09]
Why do disasters bring out the best in us? [09.16.09]
What do American fundamentalists want? [09.15.09]
Farm City author Novella Carpenter [09.14.09]
How does the military invade our everyday life? [09.14.09]
What can the world teach us about healthcare? [09.11.09]
Do you know where your money is? [09.10.09]
What's the way out of poverty? [09.09.09]
Does health care define the Democrats? [09.08.09]
Media Roundtable [09.04.09]
Why do some schools thrive? [09.03.09 Rebroadcast from 07.30.09]
How does gay marriage change society? [09.02.09]
What can we learn from the passage of Medicare? [09.01.09]
Hurricane Katrina Four Years Later--What's Changed? [08.31.09]
Media Roundtable [08.28.09]
What's the best response to hate speech in the media? [08.27.09]
Is there a new colonial rush on in Africa? [08.26.09]
How is the insurance industry spinning the health care debate? [08.25.09]
When the recovery comes, where will the jobs be? [08.24.09]
Media Roundtable [08.21.09]
Is the home mortgage crisis over? [08.20.09]
What's the state of student loans? [08.19.09]
What is on your summer reading list? [08.18.09]
What fills the hole where the abandoned Wal-Mart was? [08.17.09]
Media Roundtable [08.14.09]
How are we going to educate our kids? [08.13.09]
Would you vote for the Health Care Reform Bill? [08.12.09]
Can personal change save the planet? [08.11.09]
Agenda for a New Economy: Depression & the Depression [08.10.09]
Media Roundtable [08.07.09]
What does "cooperating" with the Police look like? [08.06.09]
Can a documentary save thousands of dolphins from slaughter? [08.05.09]
How can we best care for the ground beneath our feet? [08.04.09 rebroadcast from 06.11.09]
What role has the Fed played in the financial crisis? [08.03.09]
Media Roundtable [07.31.09]
Why do some schools thrive? [07.30.09]
What's the real impact of illegal immigration? [07.29.09]
Can satire put the powerful on the spot? [07.28.09]
What's the state of the Stimulus in California? [07.27.09]
Media Roundtable [07.24.09]
Are we ready for universal health coverage? [07.23.09]
What is the state of the protest in Iran? [07.22.09]
How transparent is the Obama administration? [07.21.09]
Is California in a depression? [07.20.09]
Media Roundtable [07.17.09]
Can we green the American Dream? [07.16.09]
What have women contributed to American labor? [07.15.09]
Who is Sonia Sotomayor? [07.14.09]
Who are California's newly unemployed? [07.13.09]
Media Roundtable [07.10.09]
Are bicyclists revolutionizing American cities? [07.09.09]
What happened in Honduras? [07.08.09]
Will non-profits survive state budget cuts? [07.07.09]
How do we declare our independence from consumerism? [07.06.09 - rebroadcast from 05.26.09]
Media Roundtable [07.03.09]
What changed in Iraq this week? [07.02.09]
What happens when rural and urban collide? [07.01.09]
How has the LGBT movement changed America? [06.30.09]
What is the best kind of tax? [06.29.09]
Media RoundTable [06.26.09]
What has changed in Iran? [06.25.09]
Can good principles create bad economic policies? [06.24.09]
Who Runs the Health Care Reform Debate? [06.23.09]
Are smaller banks an option? [06.22.09]
Media Roundtable [06.19.09]
Is it time for a California Constitutional Convention? [06.18.09]
What state services can we live without? [06.17.09]
How did California's budget crisis happen? [06.16.09]
How does the world's 7th largest economy actually work? [06.15.09]
Media Roundtable [06.12.09]
How can we best care for the ground beneath our feet? [06.11.09]
Do Arabs and Muslims feel a change under Obama? [06.10.09]
Can we think beyond corporations? [06.09.09]
Can market-based approaches effectively combat global warming? [06.08.09]
Media Roundtable [06.05.09]
Has the Obama Administration learned the lessons of the Bush failures? [06.04.09]
How do we support access to abortion services? [06.03.09]
Looking back, why did we enter Iraq? [06.02.09]
Is it time to go beyond antitrust? [06.01.09]
Media Roundtable [05.29.09]
Has Obama transformed our socio-political landscape? [05.28.09]
Have we given up on peace? [05.27.09]
Is making something or fixing it yourself a radical act? [05.26.09]
How do we keep the Iraq war in the news? [05.25.09]
Media Roundtable [05.22.09]
Where do you go to find wonder? [05.21.09]
Again in Afghanistan? [05.20.09]
Are you voting in the special election? [05.19.09]
Can local currencies transform our economy? [05.18.09]
Media Roundtable [05.15.09]
What do you need for your best birth? [05.14.09]
Can the special election save California? [05.13.09]
Who are the Hindus? [05.12.09]
What's next for the anti-globalization movement? [05.11.09]
Media Roundtable [05.08.09]
How does this Swine Flu outbreak compare to others? [05.07.09]
What gives your job meaning? [05.06.09]
How do we connect with the mentally ill? [05.05.09]
Are foreign workers still an economic asset? [05.04.09]
Media Roundtable [05.01.09]
How healthy are the Monterey and San Francisco bays? [04.30.09]
Why does torture capture the public's imagination? [04.29.09]
How does remote-controlled technology change war? [04.28.09]
How much of the economic crisis is simply about fraud? [04.27.09]
Media Roundtable [04.24.09]
Commons - Where can we find silence in our lives? [04.23.09]
What can mothers tell us about the politics of war and terror? [04.22.09]
How is California funded, and how should it be? [04.21.09]
A New Deal With China? [04.20.09]
Media Roundtable [04.17.09]
Who controls the means of reproduction? [04.16.09]
What's in store for San Francisco schools? [04.15.09]
Commons Series - What do we lose when a language dies? [04.14.09]
How are small businesses coping with the economic crisis? [04.13.09]
Media Roundtable [04.10.09]
What's the legacy of the Exxon-Valdez oil spill? [04.09.09]
Why Do Recessions Bring People Back to Public Libraries? [04.08.09]
How should we understand Hamas? [04.07.09]
What's the status of the SEC? [04.06.09]
Media Roundtable [04.03.09]
What's the state of civil liberties in the U.S.? [04.02.09]
How will America recover its optimism? [04.01.09]
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