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Urban Guerrilla Art
(on a stop sign near you)
Cover story: Guerrilla Traffic Control: Using public art to stick it to car culture
Also in this issue: Haiti’s political prisoners; how the ethanol craze will suck us dry; the one-state solution for Israel/Palestine; a critical look at the “naturals” industry, and more…
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By Shayna Stock and Dominique Fenton
Briarpatch Magazine
August 2007
Shayna and Dominique have just set out on a cross-Canada trip to seek out intentional communities and learn from their experiences. They’ll be blogging about what they find right here on www.briarpatchmagazine.com.
By Chris Scott
Briarpatch Magazine
August 2007
Who is in jail in today’s Haiti, it seems, has a lot more to do with stifling political dissent than with bringing criminals to justice. And Canada has played a key role.
Members of the Kolektif Fanmi Prisonye Politik (the Association of Family and Friends of Political Prisoners) march in Port-au-Prince against the ongoing detention of hundreds of Lavalas Party activists. (Photo: Wadner Pierre)
Note: Background information, a glossary of key groups, and resources for further reading can be found at the end of this article.
There were no kids present in the long line of relatives waiting outside the prison gates in Port-au-Prince. Haitian regulations bar children from visiting the National Penitentiary, and it is in fact doubtful whether many would have endured the hot and bothered atmosphere that prevailed that day outside the city lock-up. Under the penetrating stares of Jordanian peacekeepers, 200 Haitian women had assembled in the busy street and were waiting stoically to see their imprisoned loved ones. Filing past a UN armoured vehicle, clutching bundles of food and medicine, they advanced in slow intervals toward a barbed-wire checkpoint.
Hassan Husseini interviews Joel Kovel
Briarpatch Magazine
August 2007
A scholar and activist, Joel Kovel studied medicine at Columbia University and psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Kovel practiced psychiatry and psychoanalysis for 24 years, but since 1988, he has been a professor of Social Studies at Bard College, New York. He has published ten books including White Racism: A Psychohistory (1970), History and Spirit (1991), and The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? (2002),. His most recent book, Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine, presents a compelling argument for justice in the Middle-East through the creation of a single democratic state stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River.
Briarpatch: Zionism is often equated with Judaism, and therefore any criticism of it is regarded with suspicion. Can you say a few words about what, specifically, you mean by Zionism, and why you oppose it?
