The Progressive Magazine: September 2011
Volume 75, Number 9
In This Issue
Editor's Note
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Letters
Comment The Hazards of Muslim-Bashing
On the Line
Columns
Tim DeChristopher's Message
When he was taken away in handcuffs, so was any sense of justice in the United States of America.
slams the Right’s attack on special ed.
Cover
Walker Rolls Back Civil Rights
| “Jim Crow, move over, the Wisconsin Republicans have taken your place,” says a Democratic state senator.
Feature
In the Shadow of San Diego Kari Lydersen
An immigrant neighborhood fights against environmental pollution.
Caution: Women at Work Susan Eisenberg
I stopped feeling safe on jobsites after a death threat for my activism.
1st Person Singular
Transgender at the Reunion Jacqueline White
Everyone looked at me as the presumed alumna of the women’s college, not my husband.
Poem Dennis Trudell
Interview
Charles Ferguson
| “There was undoubtedly a great deal of criminality at high levels in the financial sector,” says the Oscar-winning filmmaker.
Sculpting Strength Eleanor J. Bader
Artist Linda Stein wants to construct a new kind of female hero.
Kate Clinton wonders how men get away with playing victims.
Dave Zirin remembers John Mackey.
Books
Elizabeth DiNovella reviews Bossypants, by Tina Fey, and Girls to the Front, by Sara Marcus.
Jim Hightower examines the sordid practices of Massey Energy.
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Spying on Occupy Activists
How local law enforcement and Homeland Security help Wall Street.
The Commerce of Violence
Wendell Berry | The cheapening of life is surely the dominant theme of our time, from Guantánamo to the Boston Marathon.
Jason Collins, Meet Brittney Griner
Dave Zirin says Jason Collins and Brittney Griner can teach the guys in the huddle a lot.
Preserving Our Home on Earth
We’ve released our second eBook from a new “Hidden History“
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Preserving Our Home on Earth: 100 Years of Environmental Writing from the Archives of The Progressive Magazine. is now available from Amazon and Barnes&Noble.
"Since we only have one planet to call our own, it might be worth reading this book." —Bill McKibben
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