by John Feffer, Emily Schwartz Greco | Oct 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
[Daniel Heyman, “They Put me in an Animal Cage,” gouache on nishinoushi paper, 2008.] Daniel Heyman is a visual artist from Philadelphia who has been capturing the images and words of Iraqi victims of torture from U.S. facilities like Abu Ghraib. Here he...
by John Feffer, Kim Fellner | Sep 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
Editor’s Note: The following is a book excerpt from Kim Fellner’s Wrestling With Starbucks (Rutgers University Press, 2008). Tadesse Meskela, general manager of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union in Ethiopia, an organization of 115 cooperatives...
by John Feffer, Naomi Shihab Nye | Sep 8, 2008 | Uncategorized
Aziz My father who was always my father not always my father Refugee not always once a confident schoolboy strolling slow Jerusalem streets He knew the alleyways spoke to stones All his life he would pick up stones pocket them line them in his sunny Texas windowsill...
by John Feffer, E. Ethelbert Miller | Jun 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
In 1954, acclaimed novelist and thinker Richard Wright published Black Power about his visit to the Gold Coast (later Ghana) and his observations concerning the rise of the Pan-African movement. On the 100th anniversary of Wright’s birth, the American University...
by John Feffer, Frankie Sturm | Jun 5, 2008 | Human Rights
Sudanese girls seen in Darfur, Sudan, June 25, 2005. The 12-year-old girl wearing the striped scarf, front, reported how she was separated from her two friends, and raped by soldiers from the Sudanese government. Photo by R. Haviv Brilliant colors are not often...
