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Amy Goodman Launches Weekly Column

Ask your newspaper to carry it!

Amy Goodman has a new nationally syndicated weekly newspaper column which is distributed by King Features. Ask your local newspaper to carry it today! If you’d like to see the column in your paper, call, write a letter, or send an email to the Op-Ed or editorial page editor of your local paper and direct him/her to King Features for more information.

Here’s a sampling of the columns that have appeared in newspapers so far:

Howard Zinn: The People’s Historian

Howard Zinn, legendary historian, author and activist, died last week at the age of 87. His most famous book is “A People’s History of the United States.”

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February 03, 2010  |  Filed under Weekly Column, Howard Zinn

Let the Haitians In

The devastating toll of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti continues to mount. Most efforts to rescue people from the rubble have ended. More than 150,000 people have been buried, some in makeshift graves near the ruins of the homes where they died, but many in unmarked, mass graves at Titanyen, the site of massacres during previous dictatorships and coups.

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January 27, 2010  |  Filed under Weekly Column, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti

Tè Tremblé—The Haitian Earth Trembled

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Tè tremblé is Haitian Creole for “earthquake.” Its literal translation: “The earth trembled.” After the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, the stench of death is everywhere.

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January 20, 2010  |  Filed under Weekly Column, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti

Holding Corporations Accountable for Apartheid Crimes

A landmark class action case is under way in a New York federal court, with victims of apartheid in South Africa suing corporations that they say helped the pre-1994 regime.

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January 13, 2010  |  Filed under Weekly Column

Sick With Terror

The media have been swamped with reports about the attempt to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day. When Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, now dubbed the “underwear bomber,” failed in his alleged attack, close to 300 people were spared what would have been, most likely, a horrible, violent end. Since that airborne incident, the debates about terrorism and how best to protect the American people have been reignited.

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January 06, 2010  |  Filed under Weekly Column

The Poetic Justice of Dennis Brutus

Dennis Brutus broke rocks next to Nelson Mandela when they were imprisoned together on notorious Robben Island. His crime, like Mandela’s, was fighting the injustice of racism, challenging South Africa’s apartheid regime. Brutus’ weapons were his words: soaring, searing, poetic.

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December 31, 2009  |  Filed under Weekly Column

Climate Discord: From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen

The nonbinding, take-it-or-leave-it Copenhagen accord may be a failure, but the whole process has inspired a new generation of activists.

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December 23, 2009  |  Filed under Weekly Column

Copenhagen Climate Summit: The Empire’s New Clothes

As the United Nations’ climate summit, called “COP 15,” enters its final week, with more than 100 world leaders arriving amid growing protests, the notion that a binding agreement will come from this conference looks more and more like a fairy tale.

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December 16, 2009  |  Filed under Weekly Column

Take Me to Your Climate Leader

COPENHAGEN—“Politicians talk, leaders act” read the sign outside the Bella Center in Copenhagen on the opening day of the United Nations climate summit.

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December 09, 2009  |  Filed under Weekly Column

Canada’s Olympic Crackdown

Going to Canada? You may be detained at the border and interrogated. I was, last week. It has serious implications for the freedom of the press in North America.

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December 02, 2009  |  Filed under Weekly Column

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