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Sponsor Magazines Received

Posted July 17, 2008

 

The mission of Our Truths/Nuestras Verdades (5, Summer 2008) is to bring to light the diversity of abortion experiences by inviting each woman to speak her own truth, in her own voice. Pregnancy is the focus of this issue, with such diverse articles as “The Color of Pregnancy,” “Beyond June,” and fiction “Silent Afternoons.” This issue features writers Angela Ogle, Emily Louise Barcklow, Elsa Valmidiano, and more.

 

Against the Current (135, July/August 2008) feature articles include: “Socialists and Barack Obama” by Malik Miah; “On the U.S. Economy: Nomi Prins on Housing and Jack Rasmus on the Crisis”; “Columbia’s Paramilitary Politics” by Lesley Gill; and “Review Essay: Empire, Religion and Liberation” by Jeffrey R. Webber.

 

Conscience (24.2, Spring 2008), “the newsjournal of Catholic opinion” this issue focuses on “Shifting Sands in the Abortion Debate.” Included in the articles: “Abortion: Freedom and Responsibility in the 21^st Century – A roundtable conversation with Dr. LeRoy Carhart, Donna Crane, Ann Furedi, Will Saletan, and Denise Shannon”; “Choices: Theological observations on visiting an abortion clinic”; “Prochoice Catholocism 101”; and a review of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.

 

In These Times (32.7, July 2008) includes: “Man with a Plan: Obamam is mobilizing new voters. Lots of them.”; “Death Squads in Oaxaca”; “Dismantaling the my of McCain”; and more articles analyzing popular movements for social, environmental and economic justice.

 

Other Magazines Received

American Book Review (29.5, July/August 2008)

Lilith (33.2, Summer 2008)

Labor Notes (351, June 2008 and 352, July 2008)

GreenMoney Journal (16.4.68, Summer 2008)

Voices from the Earth (9.2, Summer 2008)

Turning the Tide (21.3, June 2008 and 21.4, July-August 2008)

Whispering Wind (37.5.261, 2008)

Z Magazine (July/August 2008)

RFD (134, Summer 2008)

Rain Taxi (13.2, Summer 2008)

Communities (139, Summer 2008)

fRoots (301, July 2008)

Sierra (July/August 2008)

Corporate Responsibility Officer (May/June 2008)

Science and Society (72.3, July 2008)

Social Policy (38.2, Spring 2008)

Maisonneuve (28, Summer 2008)

Alternatives (33.2, April – June 2008)

 

 

Sponsor Magazines Received

Posted June 4, 2008

 

This issue of Mouth Magazine (106, March/April 2008) takes a look at “Community and its Counterfeits, Part I” in an interview with John McKnight. Nat Hentoff reports from the campaign trail with “Obama V. Schiavo,” Roland Sykes is honored, Keef Knight discusses “Tax Cuts for the Wealthy” and P.S. Mueller observes some possible pitfalls in “Professional Help.”

 

The cover story of In These Times (June 2008) is “Why Democrats Won’t Stop the War” by David Sirota. Also included: Supreme Court OKs Racial Profiling; New Jewish Lobby Counter Neocons; Mexico’s Ghots Towns; The Margaret Cho Show; and David Moberg on Winning the White Working Class. Some articles available full text online.

 

The May/June 2008 issue of Against the Current includes "Women Remember 1968" with works by Meredith Tax, Ann Ferguson, Miriam Ching Young Louie, Kipp Dawson and Wendy Thompson; "Global Crisis" and interview with Mike Davis; "Obama, Reverend Wright and Black Liberation Theology" by Malik Miah; "Works in the 21st Century: American Axles Strike and Airline Mechanic Defeat."

 

Other Magazines Received

Off Our Backs (37.4)

Corporate Responsibility Officer (Mar/Apr 2008)

Free Inquiry (28.4, June/July 2008)

Z Magazine (June 2008)

Shambhala Sun (July 2008)

fRoots (300, June 2008)

White Crane (76, Spring 2008)

Our Times (April/May 2008)

 

 

Posted May 5, 2008

 

"Dissent in the Ranks: What happens when the fastest-growing union grows too fast?" is the cover story for In These Times, May 2008. Also: Bootlegging: Vonnegut in China; Iraqi Refugees in Motown; and David Sirota on the Race Chasm and the Clinton Firewall.

 

May 2008 - Humor Times monthly: "on the scene to help balance out the gloom and doom with hilarious political humor, including the finest in editorial cartoons, humor columns and even 'fake news' better than Fox's!" This month's cover features Eyore as the Taxpayer, Pooh as Bear Stearns, and Tigger as JP Morgan.

 

Other Magazines Received

Labor Notes (May 2008)

Sierra (May/June 2008)

Sing Out! (52.1, Spring 2008)

Space and Culture (11.2, May 2008)

Whispering Wind (37.4, 260, 2008)

Z Magazine (May 2008)

 

 

Posted May 2, 2008

 

Always eclectic, always curious, Maisonneuve (27, Spring 2008) brings readers Scientology’s Holy War: Bruce Livesey on the 30-year vendetta against Gerry Armstrong; Kenya’s Lost Generation: Andia Kisia on her country’s crisis; new fiction by Ibi Kaslik, and a focus on Quebec.

 

This issue of Mother Jones (May+June 2008) takes on the energy crisis with articles like: Congress’ top 10 fossil fools; Poop power! 15 wacky ideas that just might save us; and Give nukes a chance. Also: Where have all the evangelicals gone?; The HIV morning-after pill; and What’s your baby’s carbon footprint?

 

The Fall 2007 Feminist Studies is a bit delayed, but has arrived and features essays on military prostitution in South Korea by Na Young Lee, Rebecca R. Scott on pro-mountaintop removal discourse, a review essay on feminist studies of Asian American literary/cultural studies by Hyun Yi Kang, and Steven Pierce on gendered identity in Northern Nigeria. Also included are numerous creative works and further essays.

 

Other Magazines Received

Lilith (33.1 Spring 2008)

fRoots (289, May 2008)

Guernica (April 2008)