Help Left Turn magazine

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Thursday February 28, 2002 13:04

by Gino - SWP

from Mike Davis, author of Prisoners of the American Dream and Ecology of Fear

Letter requesting financial assistance for Left Turn, an anti-capitalist magazine based in the USA

Forwarded from Left Turn in the States:

Dear Friend,

Left Turn magazine is the fruit of the renewal of activism and critical thought that began with the Seattle protests several years ago. Explicitly committed to the development of a popular anti-capitalist politics, it provides a lively and non-sectarian forum for all viewpoints - socialist, anarchist and green - within the broader global justice movement. It acts as a bridge between the post-Seattle movement and explicitly anti-imperialist perspectives. It's also a unique collaboration between movement activists and veteran writer/scholars.

In addition to street-level coverage of the major anticapitalist protests around the world, Left Turn provides in-depth briefings on such issues as U.S. participation in the dirty war in Colombia, the current global recession, the burgeoning "prison-industrial complex," and the post-9.11 police state.

Most impressively, it has taken bold positions on Palestine, immigrant rights and Bush's "Crusade Against Terrorism." It has been one of the most outspoken magazines on the need to make justice for the Palestinian people a central demand of the anti-globalization movement.

In my opinion, however, what is really exceptional about the magazine is that it is edited by frontline activists, many of them people of color, and thus expresses all the urgency of struggle and the need for unity. Left Turn is a movement-building tool committed, first and above all, to serious resistance and effective solidarity.

Left Turn is produced on a shoestring and lives from crisis to crisis. Please join me in making a generous, sustaining contribution that will allow this gutsy little magazine to continue to fight the power. Checks/money orders can be made out to Left Turn and sent to

Left Turn
1031 Quebec Place, NW
Washington, DC 20010.

You can contact them at left-turn@left-turn.org.

Many thanks.

Mike Davis