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Fighting 21st Century Fascism

The Public Eye Magazine
The Public Eye, Summer 2012

Issue
72

In the Summer 2012 issue, Rachel Tabachnick exposes the Right’s success in diverting public funds to private and often religious schools, Kapya Kaoma profiles the U.S. culture wars’ appearance in Zambia, and Kay Whitlock questions the “hate frame.”

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Reconsidering Hate

A Forum on the "Hate" Frame in Policy, Politics and Organizing
If hate is a social problem, and not just a matter of individual psychology, then intensified policing and enhanced punishments cannot create safe and just communities.
Kay Whitlock
Article
Public Eye

The Culture Wars Come to Zambia

Intercepting the International Human Rights Agenda
On a visit to Zambia in February 2012, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on African countries to stop treating LGBT people as less than human or as second class citizens. He explicitly asked Zambian lawmakers to stop discriminating against people on the basis of sexual orientation.
Kapya Kaoma
Article
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Public Eye

On Race, Redistribution of Resources Still Divides Liberals, Radicals

Commentary
“Race” as an idea barely existed before the Enlightenment and the onset of modernity in the West. Today, many dismiss the race-concept as an illusion, arguing that “there is no such thing as race;” or in more universalist terms, “there is only one race: the human race.” Yet race continues to demarcate and stratify all the world’s peoples in striking ways.
Howard Winant
Article
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Public Eye

The Right's "School Choice" Scheme

Right-wing funders support the creation of legislation enacting school vouchers and school choice, both of which take away resources from America’s public schools, furthering a right-wing agenda.
Rachel Tabachnick
Article
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