Gregory Shank, ed. Twenty-eight contributors offer short memoirs, reflections, or longer critiques that commemorate a quarter century of publishing Social Justice. They candidly assess what has been accomplished (or not) since 1974 in terms of a progressive agenda and suggest future directions. The essays reflect the geographical diversity that has characterized the journal’s contents from […]
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Alejandro Alvarez Béjar
Global Economic Crisis and Social Movements in Mexico and North America Alvarez highlights modalities of social resistance in Mexico at the national and regional levels, taking into consideration the current phase of the global capitalist crisis. The author first identifies the characteristic features of the global crisis of neoliberal capitalism. He then discusses the significance […]
Anthony M. Platt
Mario Savio, The Heart of an Activist Tony Platt’s memories of Berkeley Free Speech Movement leader Mario Savio, who died in November 1996. obituaries, Savio, Mario Citation: Social Justice Vol. 23, No. 4 (1996): 14-15
Emilia Carlevaro and Margaret Randall
Uruguay: A Woman Remembers This conversation between Emilia Carlevaro, a longtime political activist and Uruguayan member of the Latin American Organization of the Families of the Disappeared, and Margaret Randall, a feminist poet, writer, photographer, and social activist is a valuable history with lessons for new generations of activists. It explores the shared experience ofArgentina, […]
Gilbert Elbaz
Beyond Anger: The Activist Construction of the AIDS Crisis Integral to the construction of a less fragmented more inclusive view of ”the public” are efforts that increase citizen participation in scientific and technological decision making affecting public health. A consistent public health theme in the 1990s will be how to balance the often divergent perspectives […]
Gisela Espinosa Damián
The Fruitful and Conflictive Relationship between Feminist Movements and the Mexican Left This article describes the Mexican feminist movement over the last four decades as a multifaceted entity situated on the periphery of a multi-centered patriarchy. Espinosa’s analysis emphasizes the popular and indigenous feminist currents, which are omitted from a historiography of Mexican feminism that […]
J. Jorge Klor de Alva and Cornel West
Black-Brown Relations: Are Alliances Possible? Jorge Klor de Alva and Cornel West explore alliances between and among minority groups through dialogue around the possibilities of ethnic and racial alliances. The possibility of struggling together to overcome hierarchical and colonial constructions is complex, yet not impossible, because dominant ideological constructions permeate all of our institutions and […]
J. Patrice McSherry
The Víctor Jara Case and the Long Struggle against Impunity in Chile The judicial case concerning the 1973 torture and murder of Víctor Jara, beloved Chilean singer-songwriter and pioneer of Chile’s New Song movement, has continued for almost 40 years. Víctor Jara was a celebrated musician, theater director, and composer. His songs spoke stirringly of […]
Jack Hirschman, Mali McGee, Diane Wang, and Sarah Menefee
Poetry in Honor of Ken Saro-Wiwa Poetry honoring Nigerian activist who was killed by the Nigerian government on November 10, 1995. poetry Citation: Social Justice Vol. 23, No. 4 (1996): 9-13
Jaime Osorio
The Latin American Debate: Dependent Capitalism, Superexploitation, and Revolution Latin America occupies a conflictive place within the universal discourse constructed by capitalist modernity. The region and its processes question and deny that universality, something that requires a way of thinking that can explain that negation. With that objective in mind, the author analyzes different moments […]
Jordan T. Camp
The Bombs Explode at Home: Policing, Prisons, and Permanent War In 1967 Dr. Martin Luther King observed: “The bombs in Vietnam explode at home. The security we profess to seek in foreign ventures we will lose in our decaying cities.” His words resonated amidst widespread social protest against Cold War policies designed to contain communism […]
Losing a Generation: Probing the Myths and Reality of Youth and Violence, Vol. 24: 4, 1997
Nancy Stein, Susan Roberta Katz, Esther Madriz, and Shelley Shick, eds. Youth violence is among the most hotly debated and most deeply misunderstood issues today. The “gangsta” has become the new red menace of the 1990s, the target of societal fears in a time of a widening gap between the rich and the poor. Poor […]
Mariana Favela
Redrawing Power: #YoSoy132 and Overflowing Insurgencies Favela reflects on her participation in the phenomenon known as #YoSoy132, a mass insurgency that erupted in the midst of the Mexican presidential electoral campaign of 2012. For her, this was neither a political organization, a structure, nor a movement, but rather a convocatory that gathered and unleashed a […]
Mark Jay & Virginia Leavell
Material Conditions of Detroit’s Great Rebellion This article analyzes the conditions, and political significance, of Detroit’s Great Rebellion in 1967. We first discuss the pre- and postwar political economy in Detroit. Second, we analyze the state of technology and automation at the plants and its relationship to the class struggle. Third, we address the uniquely […]
Roger Hart and Michael Schwab
Children’s Rights and the Building of Democracy: A Dialogue on the International Movement for Children’s Participation Children are engaged in community environmental action and policy work around the world. Schwab and Roger Hart provide a heartening and incisive account of this trend, from the movement of street children in Brazil, which resulted in a plethora […]
Sharon Stephens
Reflections on Environmental Justice: Children as Victims and Actors This article begins with a brief discussion of the history of the environmental justice movement and of the reasons why race, ethnicity, class, and occupation (and, to lesser and problematic extents, geopolitical location and gender) are theorized in the literature, while age is ignored as a […]