What if Prince William were gay?
Though Valentine’s Day is celebrated on February 14th, this year perhaps our greatest celebration of love will occur on April 29th when Prince William, son of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, marries...
Category: Human Rights
Israel and Palestine: Talk and Action
"It is a sacred duty for me, as a survivor, to protest against the persecution, the oppression and the imprisonment of so many people in Gaza, including more than 800,000 children," -Reuven...
Stephen Colbert Goes to Washington: Teaching and Learning
I am a former migrant worker. I worked the blueberry fields as a kid, as did most kids in my community. I was a lucky worker--I never had to migrate from state to state to follow work (I just went...
Activism in America: We need a new ideology
It's one of my most deeply held beliefs: nothing has undermined the left more since the fall of the Soviet Union than the inability to coalesce around an ideological structure to help us fight global...
Activism in America: Public spaces online and off
My last article for Global Comment explored how we have lost our common architecture of activism that created and guided mass movements of the past. I argued that the individualistic modern world...
Wikileaks and the Toothless Politics of Exposure
What we didn't know that we knew about Afghanistan In his book Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle, philosopher Slajov Zizek laid out an ad-hoc taxonomy for various kinds of knowledge, via a reference to then...
Apparently No Still Means Yes, For “Girls Gone Wild”
“Girls Gone Wild” goes to various campuses and bars where women are partying and encourages them to reveal their bodies and perform for the cameras. In most of the filmed scenes, these women are...
Birth Tourism: The Newest Red Herring in the Anti-Immigration Arsenal
Earlier this year, The Marmara Manhattan, part of a Turkish hotel chain, began offering a package to expectant mothers. For between $5100 - $15000, visitors got a two-month stay, prenatal...
What New York can teach us about ENDA: laws aren’t enough
As the ongoing fight about a trans-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) bill rages on in the United States, a recent report in New York has raised questions about the effectiveness of...
Chuck Schumer, Helen Thomas, & the Media: A tale of two statements
Last Wednesday, New York State Democratic Senator Charles “Chuck” Schumer addressed the Orthodox Union, one of the United States' largest Orthodox Jewish organizations, saying, “Since the...