The September Issue of el participante is now being distributed. This issue features several issues relating to the emerging controversy over the presence of the ROTC on Columbia's campus, as well as articles dealing with activism and politics in general. The alternative Core Curriculum for radicals goes back to the origins of American radicalism in the writings of Thomas Skidmore, a critic of inequality during the era of the Workingmen's parties in the 1830s.
Volume 1, Issue 4 features:
Yadira Alvarez
Summer Experience: National Mobilization Against Sweatshops
Paco Martin Del Campo
Black Panther, Brown Beret Speak at Panel
Iliana Feliz and Johanna Ocaña
Lucha: Committed to Struggle
Wyatt Ford
Th e Myth of the G.I. Bill
Olivia Rosane
9/11, Service and the War
Rudi Batzell
Responses to the ROTC
Malena Arnaud
Th e Poverty of Micro-credit
Thomas Skidmore
Core: The Rights of Man to Property
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Volume 1, Issue 4
Saturday, March 8, 2008
el participante, volume 1 issue 3
Malena Arnaud Participantes, Not Spectators
Paco Martin Del Campo The Wire
Thai Jones Yanqui, Go Home
Neha Nimmagudda Post-Apartheid African Politics
the core Huey P. Newton, 10 Point Program of the Black Panther Party
DANIELA GARCÍA is the treasurer of Lucha. She is a first-year at Columbia College considering majoring in philosophy and political science.
DAVID JUDD is a member of the International Socialist Organization and Columbia Coalition Against the War. He studies computer science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
THAI JONES is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department. His research focuses on early twentieth-century radical movements. Thai is the author of A Radical Line: From the Labor
Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family’s Century of Conscience.
NEHA NIMMAGUDDA studies Sociology and Political Science at Columbia College. She is currently in South Africa studying the politics of recognition, resistance, and representation.
PACO MARTIN DEL CAMPO is the campus liason for Lucha, and political chair of the Chicano Caucus. He is a first-year at Columbia College and considering majoring in history and anthropology.
Read more!
Monday, January 28, 2008
New Issue Just Released!
Here it is! The second issue of el participante. We've already made huge strides since the last issue.
We have:
Karina Garcia, "We Have our Name for a Reason" - a reflection on the formation and mission of Lucha from Lucha's former chair
Johanna Ocana, "A New Year For Lucha" - Lucha's new chair setting forth her vision
Rudi Batzell, "Problems in Discourse" - offers a critique of the way the idea of "community" has come to function as a euphemism for race and racism.
Wyatt Ford, "Democracy and the University" - examines just what campus "democracy" means in the age of corporate universities
Jake Matilsky - "Building the Anti-War Movement," - reflects on the current malaise, and the lines which continue to divide us
Tina Musa, "Starving Gaza" - examines how the actions of Israel since Hamas was elected have collectively punished the Palestinian people
Also - we have the "Core Curriculum" with an excerpt from Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, and a pretty exciting calendar of events.
Please download, read, print, and distribute!
