Politics
Art Created From Undocumented Immigrants’ Discarded Objects
By Robert Neustadt, special to Utne Reader
Artist Valarie James repurposes the discarded objects of Latino undocumented immigrants in order to expose the humanitarian disaster in the U.S.-Mexico Border.
Climate Activists, Eco-Terrorism, and the Green Scare
By Adam Federman, from Earth Island Journal
Working directly with energy industry groups and private security firms, the government has broadened the legal definition of terrorism and now targets climate activists.
Armed Lifeboat: Government’s Response to Natural Disaster
By Sam Ross-Brown, Utne Reader
Whether Washington’s response to natural disaster caused by climate change will rely on social solidarity, or on militarized borders and government surveillance, depends on what happens now, says Christian Parenti.
Haiti After the Earthquake: Life in the Ruins
By Amy Wilentz, from The Nation
Sometimes you can’t help but be hit by the behavior of certain international organizations helping Haiti recover from the devastating January 2010 earthquake—hit, that is, by a wave of real physical nausea.
Corporate Recovery: The Dark Side of Hurricane Katrina Aid Efforts
By Vincanne Adams, from Public Culture
Abandoned by corporate recovery efforts like the Road Home Program after Katrina, a Gentilly, New Orleans couple sees the underside of the for-profit affect economy.
Disarming the College Degree Arms Race
By Christopher Glazek, from n+1
Our elaborate, expensive system of higher education is first and foremost a system of stratification, and only secondly—and very dimly—a system for imparting knowledge. It’s time to disarm the college degree arms race.
Who's Afraid of Equality?
by Sam Ross-Brown
Students in England challenge the sexism in their school, illustrating the need for women's studies in public education.
Government Surveillance: Then and Now
By Heidi Boghosian
Does government surveillance really make us safer?
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