Personal Voices

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A Feminist’s Dilemma

By Aviva Ariel, AlterNet. August 31, 2005.
WireTap: Does allowing a man to open a car door or to slide out a chair at a restaurant perpetuate sexism?

Personal Voices: My Ultimate Fight

By Anthony Ramirez, AlterNet. August 26, 2005.
WireTap: A 19-year-old describes coming of age with a father behind bars.

A Soldier Speaks: Kelly Dougherty

By Celina R. De Leon, AlterNet. August 24, 2005.
World: The last in a series of profiles of Iraq combat veterans who have recently returned home.

Personal Voices: The Occupation is Not Over

By Laila El-Haddad, AlterNet. August 23, 2005.
'I do not want my son growing up in another phase of the Gaza occupation. I do not want his childhood hijacked by an occupier he cannot see.'

Why I'm Still 'Thuy' and not 'Jane' or 'Susie'

By Thuy Ngo, Pacific News Service. August 18, 2005.
WireTap: A young Vietnamese American woman tells why she kept her given name, but compromised on its pronunciation.

A Soldier Speaks: Jason Gunn

By Celina R. De Leon, AlterNet. August 18, 2005.
World: The third in a series of profiles of Iraq combat veterans who have recently come home.

'Listen to Cindy'

By Elizabeth Edwards, AlterNet. August 17, 2005.
World: The wife of former vice presidential candidate John Edwards writes an impassioned open letter calling for support on behalf of Cindy Sheehan.

'He Did Not Die For Your Freedom'

By Missy Comley Beattie, AlterNet. August 17, 2005.
World: He loved his family, his country, his classmates, and his life, 'but we don't believe he loved his mission in Iraq.'

'I Need to Know Why'

By Dante Zappala, Celeste Zappala, TomPaine.com. August 17, 2005.
World: "We've come to speak up for a man who is now forever silent. Sgt. Sherwood Baker was killed in Baghdad last year."

The Wait in a Catholic Hospital After Rape

By Nevyn O'Kane, Women's eNews. August 15, 2005.
A long night in a waiting room prompts a husband to reflect on abortion, EC, and Christian crooner John Tesh.

A Soldier Speaks: Joseph R. Newbrough

By Celina R. De Leon, AlterNet. August 10, 2005.
World: The second in a series of profiles of Iraq combat veterans who have recently come home.

Why He Went to War

By Kimi Eisele, AlterNet. August 9, 2005.
WireTap: A teenager's adult mentor recalls trying to convince her young friend not to enlist in the army.

A Young Man Dies in Iraq

By Chris Christensen, Tomdispatch.com. August 6, 2005.
World: 'He didn't know it, but as a small town southerner he was being trained for his death since early childhood.'

A Soldier Speaks: Zechariah

By Celina R. De Leon, AlterNet. August 4, 2005.
WireTap: Iraq combat veteran talks about his motivations for joining the army, the horrors of war and the anguish of returning home.

Feeling Old and Ugly? Look Again

By Margaret M. Gullette, Women's eNews. August 4, 2005.
Over the last few decades, I have overcome the self-hatred that comes of having a young female body in patriarchal, capitalist America. Thank the goddess I'm no longer so young.

Locked Down and Forgotten

By Dwight Abbott, Pacific News Service. August 3, 2005.
Rights and Liberties: The worst they can do to me is kill me. Looking around, that would not be such a horrible thing.

My College Addiction

Campus Progress. July 30, 2005.
There is a new addiction plaguing college campuses -- online gambling.

Rites of Passage

By Ian Elwood, WireTap. July 26, 2005.
WireTap: A young person regrets the absence of meaningful rites of passage that help youth through their tumultuous transition into adulthood.

Learning to Say No to My Immigrant Parents

By Ophelia Young, YO! Youth Outlook. July 25, 2005.
WireTap: A young Burmese American struggles with intense pressure from her immigrant parents over career choices.

Rappers' Delight?

By Aviva Ariel, WireTap. July 21, 2005.
WireTap: A teenage feminist reflects on the misogyny she just can't seem to escape in today’s hip-hop.

What Integrity Looks Like

By Dante Zappala, AlterNet. July 15, 2005.
World: While most of our elected officials sit on their hands, one of the few politicians doing right by our soldiers is a conservative Christian Republican congressman.

London Lives

By Mary Kaldor, openDemocracy.net. July 9, 2005.
The best response to London's terror attacks is to stay calm and keep a steady focus on existing, vital political issues.

Generation Y's Silent Protest

By Phill Provance, The Baltimore Sun. July 8, 2005.
WireTap: The so-called 'echo boom' is the largest American generation since the baby boomers. So, why, with all these kids, can't we find anyone willing to fight Bush's war?

Dispatch From London

By Sandip Roy, Pacific News Service. July 7, 2005.
Rights and Liberties: Instead of waking up to the hangover of too much Olympic partying, London woke to a daisy chain of bomb blasts and a question: will the attacks scar the image of Muslims in Britain?

Who's Watching the Watch List?

By John Graham, AlterNet. July 7, 2005.
My name is on a list of real and suspected enemies of the state and I can't find out what I'm accused of or why, let alone defend myself.

Saving Social Security

By Ann Medlock, AlterNet. July 6, 2005.
Saving Social Security requires a level of truth-telling we don't often see in elected officials. It means giving up next-election thinking, and attending to the long-term well-being of our people.

Thanks for Nothing

By Marisa Garcia, AlterNet. July 5, 2005.
WireTap: It's time for Rep. Mark Souder to come clean and admit that writing the HEA Drug Provision was a horrible mistake.

What to the Prisoner is the Fourth of July?

By YaVonne Anderson, WireTap. July 4, 2005.
WireTap: Being in prison on the Fourth of July is a painful reminder of how misleading the American story of independence can be.

Confessions of an H&M Addict

By Rachel Neumann, AlterNet. July 1, 2005.
How can H&M clothes be so cute -- yet so cheap? Afraid of the most probable answer, but too guilty to keep shopping, I decided to take a closer look.

One Nation, Under a Groove

By Steven Wishnia, AlterNet. July 1, 2005.
I pledge allegiance to the human race, to everyone from Bangladesh to Uganda who wants to make the world a better place, not to the billionaire thugs demanding blind obeisance to their divine dominion.

My American Size Doesn’t Fit My Asian Clothes

By Thuy Ngo, Silicon Valley De-Bug. June 27, 2005.
WireTap: A young Vietnamese American woman is medium-sized by American standards. But when she walks through the doors of her local Vietnamese store, she balloons to an "extra-large" -- and feels less beautiful, and less Asian.

Republic of the Green Zone

By Riverbend, Baghdad Burning. June 27, 2005.
World: For the typical Iraqi, the Green Zone symbolizes the heart of the occupation. It tells us that while we may be citizens of our own country, portions of Iraq no longer belong to us.

Doing Something About Wal-Mart

By Danny Glover, AlterNet. June 22, 2005.
The renowned actor describes how Wal-Mart puts children around the world at risk -- and tells how we can help hold the megastore accountable.

My Lionhearted Little Cousin

By Alya Shakir, openDemocracy.net. June 21, 2005.
World: The war in Iraq finally hit home when my 3-year-old cousin Ahmed was seriously injured in a car-bomb attack.

Confessions of a Mother-Man

By Osha Neumann, AlterNet. June 18, 2005.
Sex and Relationships: If birth were the central metaphor of our civilization, all men would be unmanned of their false and warlike manliness. Successfully unmanned, we could become fathers.

Silence In the Face of Truth: The Downing Street Memo

By Dante Zappala, TomPaine.com. June 15, 2005.
World: The leaders of our country politicized intelligence to satisfy an ideology. My brother, and more than 1,700 other soldiers, have been killed as a result. Yet a majority of our press and populace resoundingly choose to be silent. Why?

Where Your Mouth Is #1: The Culture of Life

By Jaclyn Friedman, AlterNet. June 14, 2005.
"Where Your Mouth Is" is a podcast about the messy places where our ideas, ideals and day to day life collide. In each episode, host Jaclyn Friedman and a variety of contributors explore (and sometimes explode) a theme based on a political buzzword or phrase.

Turn Off the Spigots

By Julene Bair, Prairie Writers Circle. June 14, 2005.
Environment: Ending irrigation may be the only way to preserve life on the High Plains, even if it destroys the crops that farmers and ranchers depend on.

A Day in Mississippi

By Heather Gray, AlterNet. June 13, 2005.
Forty years after the Civil Rights Bill became law, race relations in Mississippi and throughout the South remain warily tense.

Born on the Fourth of July: The Long Journey Home

By Ron Kovic, AlterNet. June 13, 2005.
World: The author shares the inspiration behind his classic antiwar memoir: 'I wanted people to know what it really meant to be in a war--to be shot and wounded, to be fighting for my life on the intensive care ward--not the myth we had grown up believing.'

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