Democracy in Print : The Best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A History of The Progressive Magazine -- Part 1 Championing Civil Liberties -- Free Speech and the Right of Congress to Declare the Objects of the War -- Theodore Dreiser Denounces Campaign Against Communists -- What Are We Afraid Of? -- Freedom's Most Effective Weapon -- The Manifest Destiny of America -- The Last Best Hope -- On Secrecy -- When Nice People Burn Books -- Lesbian Writer Fights Feminist Censors -- Your Urine, Please -- That Country Wouldn't Be America -- The New McCarthyism -- Treated Like a Criminal: How the INS Stole Three Days of My Life -- Our Job Is Not to Stand Up and Cheer When the President Breaks the Law -- Part 2 Combating Corporate Power -- Punish the Real Offenders -- Borah Tells How Our Wealth Is Divided -- The Progressive Platform -- Lawless Big Business Must Be Controlled to Save Democracy -- The Profit in Highway Slaughter -- Valley of the Shadow of Death -- Tobacco Roads: Delivering Death to the Third World -- They Killed My Son -- Free Market Fraud -- Wake Me When We're Equal -- Part 3 Renouncing Empire -- Why War? -- The Armed Ship Bill Meant War -- Defense or Imperialism? -- Armed Intervention in Nicaragua -- We Have Got to Lick Churchill Too -- Vietnam Whitewash: The Congressional Jury That Convicted Itself -- How It All Began -- Behind the Death Squads -- The Secret Behind the Sanctions -- The Algebra of Infinite Justice -- Heckled in Rockford -- The Scourge of Nationalism -- The Curse of Columbus -- Part 4 Campaigning for Women's Equality -- My Baby Girl -- If Things Were Reversed -- May the Women of the United States Vote in 1920? -- Women's Wages in Government -- Women and the Law: Unjust Discrimination -- The "Patriotic" Prostitute -- Memoirs of a Normal Childhood -- Awesome Women in Sports -- What Shall I Wear?.

An Interview with Katha Pollitt, Columnist for The Nation -- An Interview with Gloria Steinem -- Dulcet Tones -- An Interview with Ani DiFranco, Folksinger -- Part 5 Linking Arms with the Civil Rights Movement -- The Color Line -- Twin Evils of the Literacy Test: Privilege and Race Discrimination Threaten the High Standard of This Country -- Murdering Negroes -- Lynching Punishes the Community -- The Plunder Harvest in Indian Affairs -- Sato: A Letter to a Japanese American -- Revolt Against Jim Crow -- Intruder in the Dust -- The Burning Truth in the South -- "I Will Keep My Soul" -- A Letter to My Nephew -- "Arab": Did You Flinch? -- The New Bigotry -- The Underclass Myth -- My Father's Party -- Part 6 Joining the Cause of Gay Liberation -- I'm Proud to Be a Sissie -- An Interview with Randy Shilts, Author of And the Band Played On -- One Good Mother to Another -- An Interview with Larry Kramer, Playwright and Founder of ACT UP -- An Interview with Urvashi Vaid, Author, Executive Director, and Foundation Leader in the Lesbian and Gay Rights Movement -- An Interview with Harry Hay, Founder of the Mattachine Society, the First Modern Gay-Rights Group -- I Do Weddings -- Part 7 Defending the Environment -- Teddy Roosevelt's Greatest Work -- Have You Ever Seen This Bird? -- The National Pollution Scandal -- Earth Day: A Beginning -- Fake Food Is the Future -- The Clamshell Alliance: Getting It Together -- Earth First! -- An Interview with Wendell Berry, Writer, Farmer, Environmentalist -- An Interview with Winona LaDuke, Native American Environmentalist, Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate with Ralph Nader -- Arctic Heat Wave -- An Interview with Terry Tempest Williams, Writer, Environmentalist -- An Interview with Wangari Maathai, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize -- Part 8 Reforming Criminal Justice -- To the Hangmen's Managers and Sympathizers.

Capital Punishment -- Death Punishment Does Not Deter Crime -- Requiem for the Champ -- An Interview with Sister Helen Prejean, Criminal Justice Activist and Author of Dead Man Walking -- Abu Ghraib, USA -- Part 9 Freeing the Media -- People Demand a Free Press -- "Freedom of the Press" Bares Suppressed Facts Concerning Journalism -- The Media Monopolies -- The Bounds of Thinkable Thought -- Body-Bag Journalism -- Oligopoly: The Big Media Game Has Fewer and Fewer Players -- An Interview with Helen Thomas, White House Correspondent -- An Interview with Amy Goodman, Founder and Host of Democracy Now! -- Part 10 Standing Up for Labor -- The Strike of the Shirtwaist Girls -- Why Wisconsin Gave a Record-Breaking Vote to La Follette -- The Eight-Hour Day Will Come -- Anti-Trust Law and Labor: An Appeal to Congress and the Public -- The War of Organized Capital Against the People -- Human Wreckage: A Plea for Federal Relief -- A Letter to Henry Ford -- The Work Ethic: It Works Best for Those Who Work Least -- An Interview with Dolores Huerta, Cofounder, United Farm Workers -- Part 11 Parading Poetry -- Solidarity -- Sleeping on the Bus -- To the Poet Whose Lover Has Died of AIDS -- Sonnet on the Location of Hell -- Storm -- Poem for an Election Year: The Politics of Bindweed -- Black on a Saturday Night -- The Communist Party -- La Niña Obediente / The Obedient Girl -- Veterans Day -- The Avenue of the Americas -- Not Spoken -- Rue Beaurepaire, I and II -- My Name's Not Rodríguez -- Balance -- Book Burning -- Patriotic Poem -- Sizing Up the Cost of War -- On the Third Anniversary of the Ongoing War in Iraq -- The House Murdered -- No Moon -- Prayer for the New Millennium -- Part 12 Waging Peace -- Take the Profit Out of War -- The Right of the Citizen to Oppose War and the Right of Congress to Shape the War Policy -- Gandhi Opposes Bloodshed.

Who Is It That Wants War? -- We Can Have Peace, If We Want It -- Anniversary -- Not a Just War, Just a War -- Dying for the Government -- An Interview with Cindy Sheehan, "The Peace Mom" -- Part 13 Opposing Nuclear Weapons -- Plunderers in Paradise -- The Doomsday Strategy -- Radiation: Unsafe at Any Level -- Born Secret: The Story Behind the H-Bomb Article We're Not Allowed to Print -- The H-Bomb Secret: To Know How Is to Ask Why -- Why We Seized the Hammer -- An Interview with Sam Day, Peace Activist -- Part 14 Weaving a Safety Net -- The Reaction of Moral Instruction upon Social Reform -- How Shall We Pay for Industrial Accidents? -- Why We Need an Income Tax -- The Need for Health Insurance -- Wagner Urges Unemployment Relief Action -- The Long Plan for Recovery -- The Taxing Power Is Only E¤ective Way to Redistribute Wealth and Break Down Vast Fortunes -- Look at America -- A New Economic Bill of Rights -- Cutting the Lifeline: The Real Welfare Fraud -- To Your Health -- Another Country -- President Bush, Meet Lorraine -- Part 15 Upholding Human Rights -- Human Rights Higher Than Property Rights -- Still Those Who Prize Freedom -- Against Isolationism -- Let Me In on the Kill -- On Justice for the Palestinians -- A Palestinian Versailles -- An Interview with Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Winner -- An Interview with Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Winner -- Where We Went Wrong: A Palestinian's Soul Search -- An Interview with Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize Winner -- An Interview with the Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Prize Winner -- Part 16 Democratizing Democracy -- Restrict Use of Money in Campaigns -- Initiative, Referendum, and Recall -- Election of National Delegates and the Nomination of President by Direct Vote -- The Great Issue -- Elect President by Direct Vote.

The Power and Duty of the Senate: Expenditure of Huge Sums for Seats in Congress Cannot Be Justified -- "Pay As You Enter" Policy Denounced -- What Democracy Means -- The Erosion of Liberty -- Wall Street's Mascots -- Part 17 Providing a Platform for Writers, Musicians, and Performers -- An Interview with Pete Seeger, Folksinger -- An Interview with Frank Zappa, Musician -- An Interview with Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet -- An Interview with Alice Walker, Novelist -- An Interview with Susan Sarandon, Actress -- An Interview with Allen Ginsberg, Poet -- An Interview with Patti Smith, Musician -- An Interview with Harold Pinter, Playwright -- An Interview with George Carlin, Comedian -- An Interview with Janeane Garofalo, Actress -- An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist -- Crack Kills, Pot Giggles -- An Interview with Tom Morello, Musician -- An Interview with Chuck D, Hip-Hop Artist -- Part 18 Envisioning a Better World -- The Basis of the Struggle -- Toward a Manifest New Destiny -- A Flash of the Possible -- History Is a Dance of Life -- Our Story.

Democracy in Print captures many of the most influential voices from a century of United States history who have spoken out on the struggle to make real the promise of democracy for all Americans, railed against abuses of corporate power, renounced American empire, championed environmental causes, opposed war, and waged peace. It chronicles voices of the women's rights movement, the civil rights movement, the labor movement, and the gay rights movement. And on every page, it declares the importance of an independent media, by culling the best of The Progressive magazine over the last one hundred years.

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