Personal Voices

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A Lucky One Comes Home

By Julie Craig, AlterNet. January 5, 2006.
World: As my brother arrives safely home from Iraq, the circle of people who love him are released from the terrible limbo of waiting.

Calling Activists to a Higher Standard

By Gavin Leonard, Adrienne Maree Brown, WireTap. January 4, 2006.
WireTap: Point-Counterpoint: Do today's organizers have what it takes to build a lasting progressive movement? Two young activists debate and disagree.

'They' Destroyed New Orleans

By Kenneth Cooper, AlterNet. December 24, 2005.
Hurricane Katrina: When it comes to explaining why the levees broke, many otherwise reasonable New Orleanians are quick to believe in conspiracy theories.

The Next Generation of News

By Aldrich Tan, Pop and Politics. December 21, 2005.
WireTap: A generation that loves the smell of a freshly printed paper is being replaced by young people who prefer the speed of digital text loading through DSL.

A Prop. 36 Christmas Story

By Tammy Bardwell, AlterNet. December 19, 2005.
DrugReporter: The only reason I'm at home this year instead of in jail -- or worse, dead -- is because California voters said 'treatment not jail.'

Too Many Homes On the Range

By Chris Frasier, AlterNet. December 17, 2005.
A Colorado rancher laments urban sprawl's relentless invasion of rural America.

Your Guess Is as Good as Mine

By Kurt Vonnegut, In These Times. December 16, 2005.
If you are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. The guessers are in charge -- the haters of information.

P.S.: Stay Safe

By Sue Diaz, Christian Science Monitor. December 9, 2005.
World: I've puzzled at times over what newsy news to share with my son in Iraq, wondering under what circumstances he'd read the words I'd write.

Babies Not On Board

By John Freeman, Nerve.com. December 8, 2005.
Sex and Relationships: My dream girlfriend wouldn't give me the one thing I longed for most: fatherhood. But is it worth giving up everything else?

My Problem With Pesticides

By Audrey Schulman, Grist.org. December 7, 2005.
Environment: How can we learn the full effects of these chemicals when the people funding the pesticide-safety studies are the people who are making the pesticides?

Persistent Divide

By Sara Henderson, YO! Youth Outlook. December 5, 2005.
WireTap: A young woman was enthusiastic to volunteer for the Red Cross in the Gulf Region, until she realized that racism within the organization runs deep.

Confessions of a Shopping Addict

By Jean Chen, Pop and Politics. December 1, 2005.
WireTap: This activist wasn't standing in line to vote, volunteer, or watch a political film. She was in line to shop at a chain store and wondering what it all meant.

A History of (Pro-Life) Violence

By Steve Almond, Nerve.com. December 1, 2005.
Rights and Liberties: Not all anti-abortionists kill people. But all share a histrionic view of themselves as heroic rescuers aligned against Godless fornicators.

The Vatican's Gay Purge

By Fr. Gerard Thomas, Beliefnet. November 29, 2005.
Rights and Liberties: A gay priest says the Vatican's new policy is nothing short of an attack on church discussions of sexuality.

Abortion: Trouble in Numbers?

By Jennifer Baumgardner, Nerve.com. November 21, 2005.
Rights and Liberties: Even among pro-choice activists, why does having more than one abortion imply a woman has been 'careless'?

Personal Voices: An Unnatural Disaster

By Emma Dixon, AlterNet. November 19, 2005.
Hurricane Katrina: Persistent institutional racism not only made recovery from Hurricane Katrina more difficult, it created the conditions that allowed the horrors to happen.

Alito: The Wolf At The Door

By Kate Michelman, TomPaine.com. November 4, 2005.
Rights and Liberties: Almost 40 years ago, when I made my decision to have an abortion, pre-Roe, I was alone. Society did not value my dignity or my choice. With the Alito nomination, we risk a return to that time.

Rosa Parks Was Not the Beginning

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor, Berkeley Daily Planet. November 2, 2005.
Rights and Liberties: The civil rights icon resisted her own deification and tried to tell the truth about what really happened in the months leading up to 1955's Montgomery bus boycott.

Personal Voice: Don't Just Organize, Mobilize!

By John Bravo DeMicoli, WireTap. October 31, 2005.
WireTap: This summer I ran for New York City Council in an attempt to prove that democracy isn't dead. Here are five lessons I learned.

That Oh-So-Natural Fruity Feeling

By Patrick Letellier, AlterNet. October 29, 2005.
Right-wingers are frothing over a new study showing that sexual preference among fruit flies (and maybe humans, too) has genetic roots.

The Next Cut

By Jamaal Johnson, Pop and Politics. October 26, 2005.
WireTap: Sarmiento is not your normal Filipino American guy. He is a barber in a black-owned barbershop.

Missing the Katrina Moment

By Susan J. Douglas, In These Times. October 26, 2005.
Hurricane Katrina: The Democratic leadership seems somehow unable to grasp the huge gap in outrage between them and their base.

Resisting Hillary

By Cindy Sheehan, AlterNet. October 24, 2005.
World: How can those who want the occupation of Iraq to end support Hillary Clinton's higher political aspirations? They can't.

The Surprises of 2005 (So Far)

By Rebecca Solnit, Tomdispatch.com. October 17, 2005.
Looking back on the big changes of this year -- anti-war protests, hurricanes and more -- one wonders where we'll be a year from now.

A Mountain Tsunami in Kashmir

By Sandip Roy, Pacific News Service. October 12, 2005.
The October 8th earthquake's real punch was in the contested Himalayan territory that remains an emotional minefield for both Indian and Pakistan.

Can a Man Become President?

By Sherman Yellen, Huffington Post. October 11, 2005.
Real men are not towel snapping bullies like President Bush, whose target is the poor and those least able to defend themselves.

Plan B Shouldn't Be the Military

By Christine Senteno, Pacific News Service. October 10, 2005.
A mother with a daughter graduating from boot camp hopes her sons will opt out of military service and choose direct paths toward college.

Personal Voice: Saving Our Troops, Saving Ourselves

By Jamia Wilson, WireTap. October 10, 2005.
WireTap: A young African American woman shares her impressions of the recent anti-war march in Washington D.C.

The Failed Drug War

By Charles Shaw, AlterNet. September 28, 2005.
DrugReporter: An ex-convict says we cannot address poverty and race in America, nor can we talk about needless death and expense, without addressing the drug war.

It Happened in Houston

By Howard Karger, AlterNet. September 24, 2005.
Attempting to flee Hurricane Rita, a Houston resident tells an all-too-familiar tale of gridlock, government incompetence and empty gas pumps.

There Is No 'Noble Cause' For War

By Cindy Sheehan, TruthOut.org. September 20, 2005.
World: Over 200 Iraqis have been killed this week alone. How much more blood are we going to allow them to spill before we demand an end to this war?

Losing My Fear of Religion

By Mubarak Dahir, AlterNet. September 16, 2005.
Rights and Liberties: A gay athiest finds that religion is not the enemy of the gay civil rights movement.

Souvenirs from the Occupation

By Laila El-Haddad, AlterNet. September 15, 2005.
Just weeks after Israel's disengagement from Gaza, remaining Palestinians feel a mixed bag of emotions -- shock, hope and disbelief.

Can Jesus be at the Rally?

By Hector Gonzalez, Silicon Valley De-Bug. September 13, 2005.
WireTap: A Salvadoran native wonders why the American left doesn’t accept progressive Christians in to its circles.

Swimming to New Orleans

By Nick Glassman, Pacific News Service. September 9, 2005.
Hurricane Katrina: A native New Orleanean goes home -- and finds a war zone of floating bodies, angry survivors and threatening policemen.

Soul of the Lost City

By Moira Crone, Beliefnet. September 8, 2005.
Hurricane Katrina: A week ago, if someone had told me what would be true in one week, I would have thought them mad: In seven days, you will have no home, and potentially no possessions.

The One That's Left Behind

By Dorothy Gaines, Pacific News Service. September 7, 2005.
Hurricane Katrina: If your leaders make you responsible for your own evacuation, what do you do when you don't have one dollar to buy gas, or even have a car?

Survival In New Orleans

By Michael Barnett, The Interdictor. September 2, 2005.
Hurricane Katrina: According to one blogger hunkered down in the hurricane-ravaged city, the rule of law has collapsed and anyone on the streets is in danger of being robbed or killed.

Why Gang Intervention Doesn't Work

By Hector Gonzalez, Silicon Valley DeBug. September 2, 2005.
WireTap: A youth gang mentor argues that teens will only leave gangs after they define solutions for their problems by themselves and for themselves.

Mother's Day in Crawford

By Gayle Brandeis, Medea Benjamin, AlterNet. August 31, 2005.
Cindy Sheehan's protest captures the spirit of Mother's Day better than the Hallmark holiday in May.

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