Hey fellow DUers!
The Sept/Oct issue of Newtopia is now posted. Our theme this issue is "Populism, and we have an incredible collection of features. I hope you enjoy and find much to discuss. This issue is of particular relevance to our current situation.
Charles Shaw
Editor-In-Chief
http://www.newtopiamagazine.net“Broadband Populism”
By Charles Shaw
"Corporate Feudalism & the Culture War"
The conservative agenda today is as it ever was, based around a cheap-labor political and economic theory that is the same basic brand of Social Darwinism Imperialists practiced a hundred years ago.
By Joseph Lyles
"How The Left Can Matter Again"
American liberalism today consists mostly of a set of esoteric idées fixes that disable it from responding in vigorous ways to the destruction of constitutional freedoms and the hijacking of political discourse by a committed band of reactionaries.
By Anis Shivani
Green Democracy
The basic tenets of the Green Party follow those that used to be fought for by the Democratic Party. But since the advent of the "New Democrats", created and proliferated in the 1990's by Bill Clinton and his Democratic Leadership Council, many of the more "liberal" concerns of traditional Democrats have been forsaken in favor of a shift towards the Center.
By Charles Shaw
''Liberia: Balancing The Scales Of Blood''
The Atavistic sagas on The Slave-Freedom-Refugee Coast were flagged off by hostilities between the indigenous African tribes and the new Americo-Liberian settlers. Black did not see Black in Black.
By Akin Olatidoye
"The Future of Work in The Creative Age"
With the globalization of media and markets in full bloom, America is beginning to see the outlines of yet another out-migration of American jobs. Unlike the earlier shift of manufacturing jobs to Taiwan and less developed East Asian countries, the latest round of losses will have dramatic, some say devastating, impacts on America's economic wealth and well-being.
By John M. Eger
"Flash Mobs & Blackouts"
Populist Street Theatre in NYC, Chicago, and Toronto. Reports from three who were there.
By Debbie Staab, Charles Shaw, and Tara Hunt
"California Revolt"
A Populist Uprising Shakes the State.
by Stephen Wiley
"America: Christian Nation or Land of the Free?"
What does it mean when a President or other leader declares that America is a "Christian Nation?" Do they mean that we are a nation of Christians (as a demographic), a nation based on Christian values, or do they mean that Christianity is the religion of the state?
by Normal Council
"Populism: A Metabolic Process"
Human beings are the sum total of their cells. And when we group together around unifying ideas and causes, such as populist ideas, we are the cells that total up to a larger body - the body of the ideological movement.
By James Bath
"The Progressive Case for Dean"
Why, of the establishment candidates, should progressives choose Dean? His web-focused campaign has the potential to revolutionize the way American politics operates, and progressives ought to be taking note.
By Nico Pitney
"Quite Simply, Jesse!"
An accolade to Jesse Owens, the legendary Olympian — American first; black, next — on his 90th Birth Anniversary: September 12.
By Rajgopal Nidamboor
"Multicultural Populism"
The new paradigm is what White America fears most: multicultural populism in the 21st century and beyond. Power to the red, white, blue, and now the black, brown and yellow too.
By Nancy T. Robinson
"Race: One Hundred Years After DuBois' The Soul of Black Folk"
The Thorny Issue of Race in Post-Modern America.
By Brian Clardy
"Dispatch From a Culture Warrior"
An interview with Danny Goldberg, Author, Activist, and former Chief of Atlantic Records.
by Tamra Spivey
"The Fruity Union" - Bush and Gay Marriage
A close-minded, intolerant view of the world is a fanaticism not any less destructive than that which drove Al Qaeda to crash two jet planes into the World Trade Center towers.
By R. D. Kushner
"Phishin for Populism"
William Jennings Bryan and the Heart of Populism
By Bryan Brickner
"I Am My Own Religion"
The streamline view of American Protestantism has led to countless sproutings of new forms of protestantism, and even new religions. One common and shared theme in this religious tendency is to focus on putting one's religious decisions into their own hands.
by Jaime Wright
"Revolutionizing the Revolution"
Meetup.com and the Next Step in Digital Community Building.
By Alex Obercian
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