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 Iraq's Right to Resist: Outside the Spectacle | M. Junaid Alam

Waging war is a peculiar American pastime: its appeal does not diminish 
as corpses multiply. Quite the contrary - each new round of this 
gruesome spectacle is greeted with the greatest fervor by the elites, 
the loudest applause from the intellectuals, and the proudest swagger of 
the patriots. No effort is spared in hammering into the public 
consciousness two absolute Truths about the contenders in this sordid 
spectacle: America is absolutely good, and the Enemy absolutely evil. 
America, preaches an appropriate (and appropriately paid) representative 
of Capital, is the savior of the world, the benevolent exporter of 
democracy, the deliverer of freedom; The Enemy, whatever small, poor, 
far-away and relatively defenseless nation it may be, is savage, 
senseless, a direct and immediate threat to American interests which 
must be destroyed. (Read full)

Angry Tears from Home and Abroad: Letters from the Military and their 
Families

With all the hoopla going on surrounding the occupation, we thought Left 
Hook readers should see for themselves what many soldiers and their 
families are saying about the occupation of Iraq. Below is a compilation 
of letters, poems, and quotes from members of the military stationed in 
Iraq, retired vets, mothers and girlfriends, and youth who are stationed 
in the US waiting for deployment. (Read full)

"We Must Be Together": Update on the Southern California Grocery Workers 
Strike | Michael Schwartz

For over three months, shoppers and drivers in Southern California have 
seen them holding their picket signs. They are 70,000 supermarket 
workers represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union 
(UFCW) and their picket lines extend hundreds of miles across the 
region. They are on strike against Vons/Pavilions (Safeway) and have 
been locked out by Ralphs (Kroger) and Albertsons. These workers are 
fighting three of the largest supermarket chains in the country; the 
financial statements of these companies show that together they earned 
$8.3 billion dollars in net profit in the last four years alone. (Read full)

Towards a Critical Revolutionary Pedagogy: An Interview with Peter 
McLaren | Mike Pozo

MP-Can you describe your initial steps into critical pedagogy as a 
student and then as a professor?

PM-When I entered graduate school, I was seen as a ‘hands on’ veteran 
inner-city teacher who, having paid his dues, understandably emphasized 
the everyday pedagogical dilemmas and concerns of the classroom 
teaching. The more that I had time to read in the field of critical 
theory, Marxist revolutionary theory, cultural studies, and feminist 
studies, the more that I realized that teachers could benefit from being 
grounded theoretically and politically (that they refracted their 
experiences through both practical/informal/tacit knowledge and normal 
theoretical constructs) —and this meant the difficult work of developing 
a coherent ‘philosophy of praxis.' (Read full)


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