Sharing Power: Participatory Public Health Research with California Teens Michael Schwab describes the work of young people in four pilot projects conducted as part of the planning project. Young people from Richmond, Oakland, and Los Angeles developed strategies to address issues that they selected–for example, violence in their community, a lack of recreation centers, and […]
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Michael Veiluva
Federal Responsibilities and Realities: An Alternative View of the Cleanup of the Nuclear Weapons Complex Opportunities afforded by transcending the public health limitations of a ”NIMBY’ (not in my backyard) organizing strategy and the successes of activist participation in biomedical research are illustrated by case studies. However as Michael Veiluva notes in reference to the […]
Michael Welch
The Immigration Crisis: Detention as an Emerging Mechanism of Social Control Michael Welch discusses the immigration crisis viewing detention as a form of social control. Detaining large numbers of undocumented immigrants is a relatively recent development in Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) policy. Until the 1980s, only those deemed likely to flee and hide or […]
Michelle Téllez
Arizona: A Reflection and Conversation on the Migrant Rights Movement, 2015 Téllez examines recent forms of activism and organizing that women have innovated in Arizona on the front lines of some of the most vicious anti-immigrant discourse and policing practices witnessed in decades. Through testimonios with activists, Téllez chronicles the initial forms of activism that […]
Mick Ryan and Tony Ward
Prison Abolition in the UK: They Dare Not Speak Its Name? This article discusses the history, achievements, and prospects of the movement for prison or penal abolition in the United Kingdom, and in particular the ideas promoted by RAP (Radical Alternatives to Prison) in the 1970s and 1980s. The authors argue that while RAP patently […]
Micol Seigel
Migrant Labor and Contested Public Space, Vol. 35: 4, 2008
Gregory Shank and Adalberto Aguirre, eds. This issue of Social Justice examines the impact of immigrant labor, particularly from Mexico, at the local level. It remains a polarizing issue that the Obama administration may not address during his first term, disappointing Latino leaders and immigration advocates. Meanwhile, lacking a pathway to citizenship and union protections, […]
Milos Nikolic
East-Central Europe: Transition to Market Economy and Democracy The author addresses the relation between theoretical thinking and the events in East-Central Europe during the five years after the events in 1989 and 1990 as a kind of a political revolution, but one without a previous historical model and without a revolutionary theory or a theory […]
Nahzeem Oluwafemi Mimiko
Between Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia: The Abacha Coup, the National Conference, and Prospects for Peace and Democracy in Nigeria Human rights activists around the world have been monitoring the worst repression Nigeria has known since independence from Britain in 1960, including massive arrests, secret tribunals, and the possibility of executing opponents of the military government. Calls […]
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Who’s the Killer? Popular Justice and Human Rights in a South African Squatter Camp Anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes elaborates on her research concerning “everyday violence” in the Chris Hani squatter camp, which is based on exploratory fieldwork on the political transition in Franschhoek, a conservative South African farm community. This provocative article also delves into the […]
Nancy Stein
Affirmative Action and the Persistence of Racism Nancy Stein frames the attack on affirmative action most recently the politically motivated vote by the University of California regents that eliminates affirmative action programs in admissions, hiring, and contracts as the latest in a series of efforts to roll back the rights of people of color. Such […]
Nancy Stein, CrossRoads
Questions and Answers About Affirmative Action Many of the gains won by the Civil Rights Movements of the 1960s were in danger of being overturned and affirmative action was rapidly becoming the most prominent target when an initiative in California to eliminate state-sponsored affirmative action programs made it on the 1996 ballot. The movement to […]
Native Women and State Violence , Vol. 31: 4, 2004
Andrea Smith and Luana Ross, eds. This issue addresses the relationship between gender violence and colonialism. Although violence against women occurs during colonization, the colonial process is itself structured by sexual violence. The violence of colonization takes the obvious historical form such as the massacres of indigenous peoples in the Americas, but is also expressed […]
Neil Websdale
An Ethnographic Assessment of the Policing of Ethnic Violence in Rural Eastern Kentucky Neil Websdale extends to rural communities the body of research on the experiences of battered women and the nature and extent of interpersonal violence against women. It raises questions about the marginalization of rural women, the violence they experience, and the often […]
Neoliberalism, Militarism, and Armed Conflict, Vol. 27: 4, 2000
Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey, eds. This issue makes practical links between US domestic and foreign policy, with articles on most crucial regions of the world and an emphasis on the work of activists. With US military spending already exceeding the military budgets of the next 12 countries combined, communities around the world and in […]
Néstor Rodríguez
The Battle for the Border: Notes on Autonomous Migration, Transnational Communities, and the State Nestor Rodriguez redefines the battle for the border as more than a simple struggle to stem the tide of undocumented migration. The late 20th century has inaugurated a new age of capitalist development; just as capital has developed new resources for […]