Fall 2008, Issue 20

Beginning in 2009, Dynamic will move forward with plans to expand and improve our web presence and evolve into a primarily online publication. In the next few months we will be completely redesigning and upgrading the website. We are also planning to release an annual print compilation featuring a collection of each year's best writing along with artwork and photographs. Our aim is to grow bigger and broader than is currently possible with the quarterly print edition.

Like in the U.S. mass movements in the 1960s and 70s, the student and youth movement in El Salvador is considered one of the strongest and most influential forces in the social justice struggle.

Behind all the glitz and glamour that freelancing is wrapped in is a harsher reality that many young workers run into blindly.

Was Britney running around town again without panties? Oh my god! Look she shaved her head! Is Lindsay Lohan gay? Maybe so, but she’s definitely still on drugs! Did you see the new Paris Hilton sex tape? And when do you think Amy Winehouse will finally just die?

“[Religion] is the opium of the people.”
—Karl Marx, 1844

In the 1800s, people, especially philosophers, looked towards the future and saw a world free from religion, where human rationality reigned supreme. But a simple glance at the evening news, more than a century and a half after Marx’s famous statement, shows that religion is alive and well in all parts of the globe, and, moreover, it plays a major role in world events.

With the breakneck pace of today's "horse race"-style elections coverage this summer’s Democratic and Republican National Conventions may as well have taken place years ago. Yet, there are many Americans who watched or attended Barack Obama’s acceptance speech in Denver that can still recall the lines wrapped around the stadium for miles, and the over 80,000 people who were in attendance that day.

At the time, some commentators attempted to portray this closing night of the DNC as a “rock concert” for a narcissistic and shallow “celebrity” candidate.

Some of Obama’s closing remarks addressing these criticisms at Invesco are important to remember now: "What they don't understand is that this election isn’t about me, it's about you...Change doesn't come from Washington. It comes to Washington."