Archive of past issues of Critical Moment
Issue 26: February - March 2008
Posted February 26th, 2008 by paIssue 26 February-March 2008
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Mortgate Devastation Grabs World Attention by Kris Hamel
Amig@s del M.A.R by Adele Nieves
U.S Students Get Free Training in Cuba by Bryan G. Pfeifer
Locked Up In Benton Harbor by Fred Vitale
SODaPOP Adds Fizz to Anti-War Movement by Paul Abowd
Students Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality by Molly Shannon and Jason Bates
U of M Still Holds Hands with Coke by Clara Hardie
Photos by Jocelyn Gotlib
Poetry by Tommy Simon
Issue 22
Posted May 29th, 2007 by max
Dumping on Delray by Chris Lee
The Shooting of Chonburi Xiong by Toni Moceri
Not for Sale by Dick Huey
From Katrina to Detroit by Jessica Labumbard and Nicole Trujillo-Pagan
Refusing to Be Effective by Harry Clark
Poisoning our Land, Jeopardizing our Future by Susan J. LaFernier
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence by Max Sussman
Injustice in Benton Harbor Edited By Fred Vitale; Originally Written By BANCO Members Attending The Trial
Dr. Wilkerson Fights Political Repression by Michelle J. Kinnucan
Faith and Change by William DeGenaro
Mayday 2007 by Michelle Glowa
Issue 21: March - April 2007
Posted March 10th, 2007 by MegS- Water Wars Continue: Detroit City Council Votes Down Rate Hike, Offers No Answers On Secret Takeover Plan By rachel parsons
- Saving Our Schools: In Defense of Guyton Elementary By Fred Vitale
- Congratulations, You're Closing! Detroit Chooses to Close Successful Schools By Marianne Yared McGuire
- Ideas to End the War: Local Voices on How to Get Out of Iraq Compiled by Mike Medow
- The Fight Against Food Redlining: Improving Access to Healthy Food in Ypsilanti By Jenna Bacalor, Natasha Wilson, and Michelle Glowa
- Beyond Pro-Choice: Demanding Reproductive Freedom for Detroit Women By Kris Hamel
- Living in the Concrete Jungle By T. Zac Ross
- Run By Cornelius Fortune
- Ypsilanti Community Questions Police In the Wake of Brutal Shooting Death By Mike Yonker
- Listen Gore: Some Inconvenient Truths About the Politics of Environmental Crisis By Mitchel Cohen
Issue 20: January - February 2006
Posted January 13th, 2007 by bc
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Power in the Hands of the Workers by Jessica LaBumbard
We Are the Women the World Requires: Radical Women of Color and Blogging by Susana Adame
Ballot or Bullet by Dumi Eyi di yiye
Where We Stand by R.L. Harris
What Can We Learn from Our Prop 2 Losses? by Dave Dobbie
Prop 2: What Can We Learn? What Can We Do? by Rich Feldman & Shea Howell
Money for Detroit, Not for War: Michigan Election Results... Back to the Streets by Fred Vitale
Not In Our Backyard Either: Southwest Detroiters Struggle Against New Bridge Plans by Elizabeth Wahl
Anger: An Analysis & Song by Willow Fagan
Letters to the editors
Issue 19: November - December 2006
Posted November 12th, 2006 by bc
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Oaxaca Vive: A Call For Solidarity with the People of Oaxaca, Mexico by Fault Lines Collective
Fasting for Justice
Made in (De-Unionized) America by Tiffany Ten Eyck and Mark Brenner
Outsourcing and 'COA's: The Next Wave of Corporate Anti-Unionism interview by Fred David
EMU Students Support Faculty Strike by C. Kulanova
Self-Defense is Not a Crime by Amanda Hooper
Movie review: Half Nelson by Julia Putnam
Cheating Our Kids: The Crisis of Standardized Testing in Public Schools by Nate Walker
Lessons from the Class Struggle: The Detroit Teachers' Strike of 2006 by Rich Gibson
Beloved Communities: Deepening our Activism and Healing our Communities by Michelle Lin
As we go to press, Proposal 2, the ban on affirmative action, has passed. This is a major defeat for racial justice in our state. Michigan is the most segregated state in the union, according to the U.S. census. The loss of affirmative action will further divide us between those who have access to mobility and resources and those who do not have such access.
Issue 18: September - October 2006
Posted September 11th, 2006 by bc
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The Struggle Continues by Abayomi Azikiwe
In Defense of Our Rights by MaxZine Weinstein
From the South End to South Lebanon: An Interview with Ali Harajli by Fred David
U.S.-Israeli War on Lebanon: Why a Ceasefire is Not Enough by Nadine Naber
Lebanon, Memory & Me: Suspended Between War & America by Khaled A. Beydoun
The Islamic Promise & The "New Middle East" by Tarek R. Dika
Young Jews Speak Out for Lebanon & Palestine compiled by Mike Medow
Antiwar Activists Forge Alliance by Fred David
Issue 17: July - August 2006
Posted July 12th, 2006 by bc
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Lost In Translation: The Duke Rape, the Immigration Debate & the American Family by Emma Garrett
Frustrations of an Angry Iraqi by Saja
A Media Conference Finds a Home: The AMC Sharpens Its Vision & Looks to Plant New Roots in Detroit by Mike Medow & Josh Brietbart
All In a Day's Work: A New Generation of Labor Activists Emerges by rachel parsons
We Will Not Stand Idly By: An Interview with Elena Herrada by Fred David
The Evil of Banality: The General, the New York Times, & the Gitmo Suicides by Anthony Alessandrini
The Spirit of Hope: Community Theatre in Detroit by Rich Feldman
A Tribute to Vallory Johnson, Water Rights Activist & Highland Park Resident by Marian Kramer & Maureen Taylor
Issue 16: May - June 2006
Posted May 4th, 2006 by bc
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Bricks and Mortar: Charles Simmons Talks about Rebuilding the Northwest Goldberg Community by Fred David
Money for Jobs, Not for War! by Margaret Guttshall
No Less Courage: Political Prisoners' Resistance from Ireland to Guantánamo Bay by Kate McCabe
Seventy Days, Twenty-Five Years Later: An Interview with Lawerence McKeown by Kate McCabe
What Re-segregation Looks Like: A first person account of why Connerly's "Civil Rights Initiative" was wrong for California, and why it's wrong for Michigan now by Khaled A. Beydoun
No Justice for Eric Williams by Abayomi Azikiwe
Detroiters March for Immigrants' Rights by Elisa Gurulé
Workers' Bodies: Mexicans' and Blacks' Unfulfilled Alliance by Susana Adamé
Diwan: Thoughts and Reflections on the Arab Americans in the Arts Forum by Alma Khasawnih
Centro Obrero: A Place for Immigrant Workers by Elena Herrada
FAME: Finding Alternatives to Military Enlistment by Jennifer Teed
issue 15: March - April 2006
Posted March 2nd, 2006 by bc
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Issue 15 brings in spring with a theme of rebirth and renewal, with stories on community and urban gardening, the future of Detroit in a post-Superbowl light, and organizing to save Detroit's rec centers.
Beyond the Superbowl by Jenny Lee, Ilana Weaver and Ben Chodoroff
Detroit Loves Kronk by rachel parsons
Declaring (incomplete) Victory by Ashwini Hardikar
Sold Down the River by Wade Rosenthal
Confronting Eurocentrism in Art Education by Laura Mullkoff
Let It Shine: Odetta at the Arab-American National Museum by Jhon Clark
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