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Dynamic Magazine
Back Issues
2003 - November
During the week of November 17-21st tens of thousands of workers, unions, environmental groups, youth and student organizations, global justice groups and civil and human rights organizations throughout North and South America and the Caribbean will be participating in a week of educational activities, protests, marches, speak-outs and forums focused on defeating the ratification and implementation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA; ALCA in Spanish) agreement...
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The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreement has many hidden negative effects on the lives of people throughout the Western Hemisphere. One of the most malicious of these is the agreement’s assault on public education...
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Matthew Hall 1984-2003
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At 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 24, someone shot young activist and poet Matthew Hall in the back. The bullet hit vital internal organs, leaving Matthew lying on the corner of 125th Street and Lenox Avenue in New York City. He was rushed to Harlem Hospital for treatment, but at 4:30 the next morning, in spite of doctors’ efforts and the hope of family and friends, our dear comrade Matthew Hall was pronounced dead.
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Matthew Hall lived like most
Revolutionaries I know, smiling,
He was a true Revolutionary,
romantically in love with his people.
Only Revolutionaries approach
war & chaos,
death & destruction
with laughter & hope
for possibilities of resistance.
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Members of the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) and other groups, carrying a banner reading: "no to FTAA," protest against the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) in front of the U.S. Embassy, in Brasilia, Sept. 17, 2002. Representatives of various labor and political organizations protested to demand Congress call a plebescite on whether Brazil should join the FTAA.
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No recent world event better exemplifies Latin America’s situation today than the stand-off at the World Trade Organization rounds in Cancun, México. Led by Brazil, twenty-two large developing nations united to face economic hegemony imposed by bourgeoisies of the United States and Europe...
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Oct. 17, 2003 - U.S.-led coalition forces try to resuscitate a soldier, left, as another has a head wound treated, right, after an attack on a Humvee on the main road about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad. The U.S.-led occupation army faces harassing attacks from a shadowy array of Iraqi and possibly foreign foes – die-hard Sunni Muslim loyalists of the toppled Baathist government, other Iraqi nationalists who want the Americans out, terror bombers who may be driven by Islamic fanaticism. In Shiite Muslim areas, the Americans have an uneasy, sometimes bloody coexistence with the armed militias of clerical factions.
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"My husband is in the army national guard and has been deployed since Feb. 13th. We have two beautiful children, a 16 month old and a four month old. He missed our sons first steps and our daughters birth. He has seen her only through pictures, and why? Because our governing officials are a bunch of liars..."
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Judge Baer Jr.
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On 7 May 2003, Harold Baer, Jr., Federal District Judge for the Southern District of New York, handed down a decision awarding damages against Iraq for the deaths of two men in the 9/11 attacks. While the judge admitted the plaintiffs presented “few actual facts of any material support that Iraq actually provided,� he commanded Iraq to pay up to $64 million...
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Mahmoud Darwish
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Mahmoud Darwish is one of the most important poets of the Palestinian resistance to occupation and war. As a poet, activist and commentator, Darwish has become an international symbol of the Palestinian cause and represents the status of a people without a state, exiled from their homes and histories...
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President Bush listens to a reporter's question during a joint news conference with Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki in the East Room of the White House Monday, Oct. 6, 2003 in Washington.
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In the 1920s, Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci formulated a political strategy that, a decade later, gave birth to the concept of the Popular Front most famously articulated by Georgi Dimitrov, head of the Communist international. This strategy, which was based on the experience of communists resisting fascism in Italy, Spain and elsewhere, proposed an alliance of all anti-fascist forces, across class and even political divides, in order to first weather fascism and ultimately to destroy it...
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Following our trip to Cuba as part of the 3rd US/Cuba Youth Exchange, I traveled with my mother to Mexico to relax, explore and see first hand the struggles of the Mexican people. At first our travel agenda had been to travel south a little bit, see some Mayan ruins, and hang out on the beautiful beaches, but I had additional plans...
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Paul Robeson Stamp
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Paul Leroy Robeson was the U.S. working class’ greatest voice. One critic described his baritone as “the finest musical instrument wrought by Nature in our time.� His outspoken activism against racism and imperialism made him one of the most beloved heroes of the international working class...
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Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
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Atlanta-based duo OutKast has delivered another black experience in their latest and most innovative album yet, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. Big Boi and Andre 3000 each took one half of the double-album to develop their own material for what is their fifth album...
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"Salt of the Earth" Movie Poster
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The whole history of the American continent is full of heroic figures that resisted racism, colonialism and exploitation. Those who struggled during the McCarthy era are among the most brave and valiant of all time. In the face of segregation, violence, red baiting and political repression, many stood up for what was right against all odds...
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Every night is an opportunity to
break night
to vanquish sleep...
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