Thinking About Activism, Pt. 1

Adbusters (Culture Jammer Activism)

“Banished Ala. Marker to Crisscross the Country: Ten Commandments Monument Opens Tour at Site of Scopes Trial.” Baltimore Sun (August 1, 2004)

Beckerman, Gal. “Indymedia: Between Passion and Pragmatism.” Alternet (September 17, 2003: originally published by Columbia Journalism Review)

Birnbaum, Robert. “Howard Zinn: An Interview.” Identity Theory (2001)

Blackford, Linda B. “A Very Long Wait to Be Served: 1960s Saturday Sit-Ins at the Phoenix Hotel.” Lexington Herald-Leader (August 15, 2004)

Blanding, Michael. “Greetings From Lockdown City.” Alternet (July 27, 2004)

Blyer, Jennifer. “An Anarchist in the Hudson Valley in conversation: Peter Lamborn Wilson” The Brooklyn Rail (July, 2004)

BushGreenWatch. “Scientific Fraud Condemns Panther.” Alternet (August 5, 2004)

Cleaver, Harry. “The Chiapas Uprising and the Future of Class Struggle in the New World Order.” (originally published in 1994-1995 in the Italian journal Riff-Raff, in Japanese in Impaction, in Spanish in Africa Americana Latina, and in English in Common Sense, Canadian Dimension, and Studies in Political Economy)

---. “The Zapatistas and the Electronic Fable of Struggle.” (originally published in John Holloway and Eloína Peláez (eds.), Zapatista! Reinventing Revolution in Mexico, London:Pluto Press, 1998)

“Cornel West on Bush vs. Kerry, Nader's Bid for the Presidency and the "Niggerization" of America.” Democracy Now (July 27, 2004)

Coyne, Brendan. “Anti Biotech Artist Indicted Possessing ‘Harmless’ Bacteria: FBI Confiscates Artwork Critical of Biotechnology.” The New Standard (July 6, 2004)

Critical Art Ensemble. “The Mythology of Terrorism on the Net.” (Address to Ars Electronica Conference, Summer 1995)

“Critical Arts Ensemble: Defense Fund.” (Website site devoted to supporting artistic collective protesting biotechnology from FBI harassment—supplies history of recent arrests and persecutions)

Engler, Mark. “Go Ahead, Mr. Wendell: At 70, Wendell Berry Remains a Champion of Agrarian Ideals.” Grist (August 5, 2004)

“The Forgotten Ones: A Look at the Life and Work of Photographer Milton Rogovin.” Democracy Now (August 28, 2003)

Gil, Geneve. “Zapatista Women/Mujeres Zapatistas.” (Online Exhibition/Archive)

Heller, Matthew. “Flora’s War.” L.A. Times (August 1, 2004): online at

“Howard Zinn and Arundhati Roy: A Conversation Between Two Leading Social Critics.” Democracy Now (May 28, 2003)

Hukill, Traci. “Will Middle America Board the Peace Train?” Alternet (March 24, 2003)

“Independence Day Special: A Dramatic Reading of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States with James Earl Jones, Alfre Woodard, Kurt Vonnegut, Danny Glover, Harris Yulin and others.” Democracy Now (July 4, 2003)

Johnson, Julie. “Activists and Entrepreneurs: The California Advocate.” NCM (August 6, 2004)

Jones, Dena. “Crimes Unseen: The Dark Story of America’s Big Slaughterhouses, and the Effort to Make Their Grim Work More Humane.” Orion (July/August 2004)

Khimm, Suzy. “Avalanche Against Prop 54.” Alternet (October 17, 2003)

“The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela.” Frontline (PBS, 1999)

Lyman, Francesca. “Finding Hope Up a Creek.” Alternet (August 10, 2004)

McKelvey, Tara. “Onward and Forward.” American Prospect (August 1, 2004)

“Michael Franti: On Government Surveillance and the Role of Artists in a Time of War.” Democracy Now (May 16, 2003)

Miller, Kenneth. “An Idyll Interrupted.” L.A. Times (August 1, 2004)

Neumann, Rachel. “The New Radicalism.” Alternet (July 22, 2004)

“Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self.” International Center of Photography (Online photographic exhibition: 2004)

Parkins, Keith. “A Sense of the Masses—A Manifesto for the New Revolution.” (last revised October 2003)

---. “Zapatistas.” (last revised September 2003)

Roberts, Roxanne. “Do Me a Favor, Keep a Lid On Your Double Latte.” Washington Post (August 11, 2004)

Roddick, Anita. “Unbrand the Planet.” (Lecture given at the Global Brand Forum in Singapore: December 1, 2004)

Roylance, Frank. “Activists search the city to enlist new voters in areas with low turnout:
Groups are hoping to boost voter numbers before the election.” Baltimore Sun (August 1, 2004)

Scherer, Michael. “Meatpacking Maverick.” Mother Jones (November/December 2003)

Sohigian, Jason. “Armenians Must Raise Their Voices For Truth and Justice in Sudan.” NCM (August 15, 2004)

Taguma, Kenji G. “Japanese American Activist Remembered as Man of Principle.” NCM (August 14, 2004)

“Untold Stories: Lexington and the Civil Rights Movement.” Lexington Herald-Leader (2004 series seeking to recognize and address the newspapers conscious censorship of civil rights stories during the 1960s, includes present-day reflections from the community)

We Are Everywhere: The Rise of Global Anti-Capitalism

White, Scott. “Lexington Erasing Black Heritage.” Lexington Herald-Leader (August 15, 2004)

Wilson, Peter Lamborn. “Avant-Gardening.” Autonomedia (1999)

---. “Tombeau for L.” Dreamtime Village (February 2004)

“Zapatistas in Cyberspace: A Guide to Analysis and Resources.” (An online archive of materials about the Mexican resistance group, last updated July/August 2003)

Zinn, Howard. “An Occupied Country.” The Progressive (October 2003)

---. “Artists of Resistance.” The Progressive (July 2001)

---. “Dissent at the War Memorial.” The Progressive (August 2004)