[Antiracism] Left Turn Magazine: new issue out now; updates; special offer for donations

[Marc Rodrigues]

Friends & fellow travelers,

The Left Turn editorial collective is pleased to announce the release of
issue #19 which you can now pick up at your local independent bookstore or
online at: www.leftturn.org.

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Left Turn Magazine #19
www.leftturn.org

>From One Gulf To Another: We Do Mind Dying
Feb/Mar 2006

With low poll numbers, high-profile indictments, worldwide condemnation
and increasing criticism from within their own party, the Bush
administration seems to finally have lost their air of invulnerability. In
fact, it appears that a new scandal breaks almost every week. From going
on the defensive on torture to admitting that the administration has
illegally been spying on it’s citizens, Bush and co. have stayed on
the run from the media and down in public opinion—the source of this
unrest are the two ongoing disasters of New Orleans and Iraq.

No event has dramatized the warped priorities of the current regime quite
like the continuing Gulf Coast catastrophe. In this issue we bring both
coverage of the politics of race and reconstruction to the ongoing
organizing for a just relief and the long history of cultural resistance
in New Orleans. From New Orleans we move into coverage of environmental
justice issues and the economic crisis. As Zein El-Amine points out in his
editorial, the process of gentrification, privatization and environmental
destruction taking place in New Orleans is an accelerated model of a
similar process of devastation taking place on the communities and schools
in urban areas across the country.

Scenes of mercenary corporations and profiteers like Halliburton and
Blackwater moving in to New Orleans to make a killing off of
people’s misery was an all too familiar sight from post-occupation
Iraq. In this issue we continue our coverage of the Iraqi resistance in a
truly special piece by activist and journalist Ewa Jasiewicz. Though the
Bush administration may hype the recent elections in hopes to regain support
for their disastrous rule in Iraq, it is the grassroots groups working
across sectarian lines who bring real hope of a better future for Iraq,
beyond occupation.

Through the stories of survival and fight backs we hope to bring to you
some of the threads of the resistance to racist policies and endless wars.
People from New Orleans to Iraq are refusing to submit to the attacks on
their cities, communities, cultures and environment they face from the
neoliberal economic policies, corporate profiteering and militarism.

As this issue goes to print we also take hope from several ongoing
victories in Latin America and in Hong Kong. We are inspired by the
creative and militant protests against the World Trade Organization in
Hong Kong, particularly the workers, students and farmers from across Asia
and around the world who outlined a people's economic priorities. In
Bolivia Evo Morales, an indigenous leader in the movement against
neoliberalism seems to have won with a large margin.

In hope,
The editors


Inside issue #19:

Editorials:
Building Our Levees
Torture, Inc.
Global Warming

NEW ORLEANS:
Race and Relief
Battle for the Future of New Orleans
Before the Storm:(Lafitte Projects, Golden Arrows Tribe, Interview with 
Ms. Coochie)
Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children
Manipulating Disaster

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE:
Huaxi Resistance
Prison Labor and Electronic Waste
Reclaim the Future: Oakland

MIDDLE EAST:
Iraq: Beyond Sectarianism
Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Syria in a Box
Kifaya in Egypt

ANTI-WAR:
UFPJ and the Anti-war Movement

ECONOMY:
Recession on the Horizon: Interview with Dean Baker

+ Activist Reportbacks Including:

Rural Organizing Project, Bay Area Leftist Lounge,
Houston Global Awareness Collective

+ Book Reviews including:

We are All Suspects Now, The Abolition of White Democracy, The Chavez
Code, Love and War in Afghanistan, Free the P, You Call This a Democracy?,
Letters from Young Activists

Feature Interview:
Author, activist and professor Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz


As an anti-capitalist publication with no staff and living outside of the
Non Profit Industrial Complex and Foundation world, we depend on
grassroots activists around the country for financial support. Please take
out a subscription if you can or donate whatever you can directly on our
website at: www.leftturn.org

In Solidarity,
The LT Editorial Collective

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