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In These Times
Magazine focusing on movements for social, economic, and environmental justice.
Articles from Vol. 36, No. 8, August
A Dreamer, Deferred
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Most mornings, Oscar Contreras Carrillo takes two trains and a rickety bus, called a "pesero," across Mexico City to manage a food truck. He gets one day off each week. Otherwise, he's working 11- and 13-hour shifts, serving sandwiches, tacos and glaces...
A Haymarket Revisionary
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Timothy Messer-Kruse, who is a professor and chair of the ethnic studies department at Ohio's Bowling Green State University, says he has "always been politically active and very close to progressive causes." But his recent work has raised serious doubts...
A Slip of the Tongue?
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When former President Bill Clinton said Mitt Romney, the co-founder of the private equity firm Bain Capital, "had a sterling business career," folks were flummoxed.What was his agenda? Why was he defending private equity bankers- the people Texas Gov....
Beyond Gay Marriage
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Is the LGBT movement walking down the aisle to nowhere?As LGBT pride month rang in this June, the gay rights movement seemed to have much to celebrate. President Obama's announcement of support for same-sex marriage, though denounced by some as a contrived...
Dancing to the Beat of a Different Drum
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Here's a different report, not from the streets, but a bar. Shortly after I visited Montreal, I met a few activists involved in solidarity work in support of the Quebec protesters. We discussed the situation there and a few recent local actions, like...
Dear ITT Ideologist
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For a geography assignment at Hardscrabble High, I'm comparing Syria and Colombia. Apart from some old statistics on poultry output, I haven't been able to come up with much. That's because, being an urchin and not having access to the Internet, I am...
Evicting the Homeless
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On back-to-back days in June, the Rev. Steve Brigham was arrested at the tent city he runs in Lakewood, N.J. Charged with criminal mischief and witness tampering by Lakewood Township police, Brigham says the arrests are the latest incident in a "pattern...
Feminism. What's Next?
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Sady Doyle and Susan J. Douglas discuss the future with Katha Pollitt, Erin Maison and Jennifer PoznerAs the right-wing anti- feminist backlash escalates, and the battle over women's votes in the upcoming election intensifies, it's time to explore the...
How to Create a Cult
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The new documentary Kumaré is a mystery wrapped in an enigma- largely because its filmmaker, Vikram Gandhi, doesn't know what it is.The film is a record of the ironically named Gandhis experiment in transforming himself into Kumaré, an Indian guru, for...
Letters
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Our real heroesI agree that "the concept of heroism should be open for debate" ("The Meaning of Heroism," July 2012). Lindsay Beyerstein writes, "(T) he armed forces deserve our respect... (a)s long as the troops are following legal orders." But war,...
Making Obama's Kill List
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IN 1995 ALBIE SACHS, THEN A MEMBER OF THE CONstitutional Court of South Africa, helped abolish capital punishment, explaining that his goal was to disable the post-apartheid government from "any temptation in coming years to attempt to solve grave social...
Oprah-Iate of the People
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CULTURE MEDIAIn preparation for this piece, I spent a few days marinating in all things Oprah. It was shameless. I read back issues of O: The Oprah Magazine on the subway, played her YouTube interviews without headphones, and left Oprah's Life Work Tools"...
Red Squares Everywhere
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Will Quebec's maple spring come south?A simple red square of fabric, pinned to a T-shirt or jacket, is the symbol of a movement that has taken over a Canadian province. It comes from the French - "carrément dans le rouge," or "squarely in the red" -...
Reining in the FBI
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blueprintsThe hunt for "domestic terrorists" in the wake of 9/11 has frequently had a chilling effect on First Amendment rights. In September 2010, the FBI raided the homes and offices of 23 anti-war and international solidarity activists who were subpoenaed...
Smashing the Spinning Plates
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How long can the Eurocrats in Brussels keep the dinnerware in motion?The outcome of the June 17 Greek election - a narrow victory for the conservative New Democracy over the leftist Syriza party, and the prompt formation of a "pro-European" coalition...
Syriza Rising
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The radical Left in Greece almost rulesAfter a period of worrying decline, some of Europe's Left parties, formed to contest social democracy from the Left, are on the rebound. The remarkable surge of Syriza in. Greece is the latest indication of this,...
The Bradbury Chronicles
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It would be 61 years in the future, not 53· And the people leaving Southern towns in a new Exodus would be Latino, not black. But otherwise, Ray Bradbury was eerily prophetic. Bradbury, who died June 5 in Los Angeles at the age of 91, was a writer of...
The Patrons of Veracruz
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One day in February 1995, two sisters - Bernarda and Rosa Romero Vázquez - were standing at a train crossing on their way home from buying bread and milk for breakfast in La Patrona, Mexico, waiting for the train to pass.That train, like many passing...
The Scourge of Meritocracy
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Social mobility" has become a rallying cry in the U.K.- and a useful distraction. Nick Clegg, die Liberal Democrat leader and the coalition government's deputy prime minister, says it's the governments "central social preoccupation." They have even imported...
Wrong Union for the Job
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SEIU wants to lead a campaign against the 1%. Critics wonder if it can.For several decades, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has talked- and typically acted - more ambitiously than most American unions, especially about organizing and...
