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The Public Eye, Summer 2012

In the Summer 2012 issue, Rachel Tabachnick exposes the Right's success in diverting public funds to private and often religious schools, Kapya Kaoma profiles the U.S. culture wars' appearance in Zambia, and Kay Whitlock questions the "hate frame."

In this issue

Reconsidering Hate

A Forum on the "Hate" Frame in Policy, Politics and Organizing

This article excerpted from a Political Research Associates discussion paper, available online. In 1998, three White men in Jasper, Texas murdered James W. Byrd, Jr., an African-American man, dragging him for two miles along an asphalt road.

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The Culture Wars Come to Zambia

Intercepting the International Human Rights Agenda

On a visit to Zambia in February 2012, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on African countries to stop treating LGBT people as less than human or as second class citizens. He explicitly asked Zambian lawmakers to stop…

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On Race, Redistribution of Resources Still Divides Liberals, Radicals

Commentary

“Race” as an idea barely existed before the Enlightenment and the onset of modernity in the West. Today, many dismiss the race-concept as an illusion, arguing that “there is no such thing as race;” or in more universalist terms, “there is only one…

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The Right's "School Choice" Scheme

A young boy with glasses in a school, looking at a book.

In June 1995, the economist Milton Friedman wrote an article for the Washington Post promoting the use of public education funds for private schools as a way to transfer the nation’s public school systems to the private sector. “Vouchers,” he wrote…

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