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Nike’s Token Equality: New Campaign Masks the Truth About Workers’ Rights

By Gerald J. Beyer

…, in a powerful essay called “Token Equality,” leading scholar of race and class Adolph Reed Jr. lampooned the efforts of companies such as Nike to “project corporate images that advance, sometimes even provocatively, a multicultural sensibility—as they amass huge profits from the exploitation of nonwhite labor.” The most recent evidence about Nike’s supply chain shows that Reed’s critique remains as relevant as ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch…

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Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…nt symbolic role.  The essay, published shortly after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, reflects many then-current (but also prescient) ideas about how we relate to postmodern, post-industrial, post-Cold War secular life; and the symbolic possibilities for grief and community within this new world order. I want to pick up on Muschamp’s insights about “images of a collective experience,” their “otherwise elusive” nature, and how this provides “s…

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Drop that Candy Bar, Pagan!

By Peter Montgomery

…he calls it, the “festival of the Devil.” Mission America’s Linda Harvey recently argued that the holiday’s satanic origins explain its appeal to “the LGBT world.” Here are a few options religious right leaders would like you to consider. Jesusween. The folks at www.Jesusween.com are hoping to turn Halloween into a “Christian gift-giving festival” and a time for evangelizing. And actually, in spite of the headline on this post, the Jesusween FAQ s…

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Want Marriage Equality? Follow the Money

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…fty-five fundamentalist Christian leaders met at the Glen Eyrie conference center near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The goal, according to author and activist Mel White in his book Religion Gone Bad was “to plan their ‘short-term’ solution for the problem of lesbian and gay Americans.” The group represented about 40 state anti-gay organizations with one goal, according to White: “to prevent homosexuals from ever being recognized as a ‘protected cla…

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How Are the “Nones” Raising Their Children?

By Christel Manning

…studies show that a high level of involvement with organized religion correlates with positive outcomes for youth such as less experimentation with sex, drugs and alcohol, lower juvenile crime rates, etc. But we don’t know if it’s religion that benefits kids, or just being part of an organized community with other caring adults who regularly interact with your child. As the secular movement continues to organize and institutionalize, it is buildi…

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Obama Foes Misrepresent Islam with “Apostate” Tactic

By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im

…ms everywhere, yet defenseless against the most fanciful, even outrageous, claims and charges. It may be helpful to first note that the subject can be confusing if we mix a general discussion of the crime of apostasy under traditional interpretations of Shari`a, or the incidence of prosecutions in some Muslim-majority countries (i.e. where Muslims are the majority of the population) today, with the specific claims Dr. Luttwak made about Senator Ob…

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Phelps’ Vile Words Test First Amendment

By Lauri Lebo

…I had brought along my video camera in order to get some thoughts from the clan on the upcoming case and their thoughts on the First Amendment. Phelps’ daughter Margie Phelps — also the attorney who will be presenting arguments before the Supreme Court — calls Snyder a crybaby. Shirley Phelps-Roper, the primary spokeswoman for the church, explains that God crashed the stock market because of Snyder v. Phelps. She also makes a point about Propositi…

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