Notes

Chapter One: Disarm

  1. 1. Quoted in Walter L. Hixson, The Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and U.S. Foreign Policy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008), 131.
  2. 2. Umberto Eco, “Not Such Wicked Leaks,” voxeurop, December 2, 2010, www.voxeurop.eu/en/content/article/414871-not-such-wicked-leaks.
  3. 3. Smedley D. Butler, War Is a Racket (New York: Round Table Press, 1935).
  4. 4.Dwight D. Eisenhower, Public Papers of the Presidents (1960), 1035–1040, http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html.


Chapter Three: Shoulders to the Wheel

  1. 1. E. M. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered (New York: HarperCollins, 2010).
  2. 2. James K. Galbraith, “Actually, the Retirement Age Is Too High,” Common Dreams (originally published in Foreign Policy, January 19, 2011), www.commondreams.org/views/2011/01/19/actually-retirement-age-too-high.

 

Chapter Four: Jubilee

  1. 1. Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (New York: Modern Library, 1994).
  2. 2. Dave Zirin, “How Sports Attack Public Education,” Edge of Sports, n.d., www.edgeofsports.com/2010-03-04-507/index.html.


Chapter Five: Stop the Cops

  1. 1. Quoted in “A Staggering Moment for Chicago,” Chicago Tribune, editorial, November 24, 2015, www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-laquan-video-edit-1125-20151124-story.html.
  2. 2. Jamie Kalven, “Sixteen Shots,” Slate, February 10, 2015, www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/02/laquan_mcdonald_shooting_a_recently_obtained_autopsy_report_on_the_dead.html.
  3. 3.“Chicago’s Call for Peace over Laquan McDonald Video Does Not Extend to Police Department,” Charlene Carruthers interview by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, November 24, 2015, www.truth-out.org/news/item/33780-chicago-s-call-for-peace-over-laquan-mcdonald-video-does-not-extend-to-police-department.
  4. 4.Andrew Schroedter, “Chicago Police Misconduct—A Rising Financial Toll,” Public Eye, Newsletter of Better Government Association, January 31, 2016, www.bettergov.org/news/chicago-police-misconduct-%E2%80%93-a-rising-financial-toll; Citizens Police Data Project [data set], Invisible Institute, n.d., https://cpdb.co/data/D8ygpL/citizens-police-data-project; Andrew Schroedter, “Fatal Shootings by Chicago Police: Tops among Biggest U.S. Cities,” July 26, 2015, Better Government Association, www.bettergov.org/news/fatal-shootings-by-chicago-police-tops-among-biggest-us-cities.
  5. 5. Bertolt Brecht, The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays, Eric Bentley, trans. (New York: Grove Press, 1994).
  6. 6. Ryan J. Reilly, “FBI Director James Comey Still Unsure If White Supremacist’s Attack in Charleston Was Terrorism,” Huffington Post, July 10, 2015, www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/09/james-comey-charleston-terrorism-_n_7764614.html.
  7. 7. Michael S. Schmidt and Matt Apuzoo, “F.B.I. Chief Links Scrutiny of Police with Rise in Violent Crime,” New York Times, October 23, 2015, www.nytimes.com/2015/10/24/us/politics/fbi-chief-links-scrutiny-of-police-with-rise-in-violent-crime.html.
  8. 8. “The Counted,” Guardian, www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/counted-us-police-killings.


Chapter Six: Health Care for All

  1. 1. Katherine Eban, “OxyContin: Purdue Pharma’s Painful Medicine,” Fortune, November 9, 2011, http://fortune.com/2011/11/09/oxycontin-purdue-pharmas-painful-medicine/.
  2. 2. “More U.S. Children Being Diagnosed with Youthful Tendency Disorder,” Onion, September 27, 2000, www.theonion.com
    /article/more-us-children-being-diagnosed-with-youthful-ten-248.
  3. 3. Poverty & Race, 14, no. 5 (2005): 3.
  4. 4. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., March 25, 1966, 2nd National Convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, quoted on “Health Disparities” page of the Washington State Commission of African American Affairs website, www.caa.wa.gov/priorities/health/HealthDisparities.shtml.
  5. 5. Alex Morris, “The War on Planned Parenthood,” Rolling Stone, April 21, 2016, 60.
  6. 6. Julie Creswell, “Race Is On to Profit from Rise of Urgent Care,” New York Times, July 9, 2014, www.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/business/race-is-on-to-profit-from-rise-of-urgent-care.html.
  7. 7. Ibid.
  8. 8. Elisabeth Rosenthal, “The Price of Prevention: Vaccine Costs Are Soaring,” New York Times, July 2, 2014, www.nytimes.com/2014/07/03/health/Vaccine-Costs-Soaring-Paying-Till-It-Hurts.html.
  9. 9. See “Tea Party Debate, Part 1,” YouTube video, posted by DakotaVoice, September 12, 2011, www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu0HTlxWjHI.


Chapter Seven: Teach Freedom

  1. 1. Charles Cobb, “Prospectus for a Freedom School Program (1963),” in Radical Teacher 40 (1991): 36.
  2. 2. Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York: Continuum, 1985), 67.
  3. 3. See “Nice White Lady,” MAD-TV, YouTube video, posted by Klaustrophobic, July 12, 2007, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVF-nirSq5s.
  4. 4. Quoted in Cheryl Clark, “After Mecca”: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004), 28.


Chapter Eight: Love the Earth

  1. 1. Rebecca Solnit, “Power in Paris,” Harper’s Magazine, December 2015, http://harpers.org/archive/2015/12/power-in-paris.


Beginning Again

  1. 1. Quoted in Micha Zeko, “The Myth of the Indispensable Nation,” Foreign Policy, November 6, 2016, http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/11/06/the-myth-of-the-indispensable-nation/.
  2. 2. Quoted in Michael Eric Dyson, “No Small Dreams,” special to Britannica.com, January 17, 2000, www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/288.html.
  3. 3. Quoted in Kenan Heise, “Why in Chicago?,” Chicago Daily Defender, July 9, 2008.
  4. 4. Quoted in Garrison Keillor, “The Writer’s Almanac,” National Public Radio, July 4, 2011.