Huffington Post November 12, 2008, by Stephen Zunes
Growing up in Mississippi and North Carolina in the late 1950s and early 1960s, I have vivid memories of African-Americans hoping to participate in their first election being turned away at the polls, denied their most basic right to vote. Little did I know that near fifty years later, in 2008, my daughter would similarly be prevented from voting… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-zunes/the-disenfranchisement-of_b_142824.html
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Letter to My Daughter
Foreign Policy In Focus,, March 14, 2008, by Stephen Zunes
It has been five years since you, as a 12-year old 7th grader, joined your classmates in a walk-out at your school in protest of the impending invasion of Iraq. You are now a 17 just months from graduating, and the war is still going on… you are entering adulthood with the United States despised throughout the world and the threat of mega-terrorism from extremist groups…
http://www.fpif.org/articles/letter_to_my_daughter