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Marable: Racism, Prisons and the Future of Black America
Commentary, August, 31 2000
Manning Marable
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There are today over two million Americans incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails throughout the United States. More than one-half, or one million, are black men and women. The devastating human costs of the mass incarceration o...
Anderson: Colombia's allowance money
Graphic, August, 30 2000
Kirk Anderson
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colombia
Prashad: The Affirmative Action Election
Commentary, August, 30 2000
Vijay Prashad
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As we approach the calendar end of the Christian millennium, we, as progressives, are posed with an electoral choice that has begun to startle me. So much commentary seems to go by these days on what appears to be the only election worth anything,...
Anderson: US's Pinochet files
Graphic, August, 29 2000
Kirk Anderson
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pinochet, cia, chile
Wise: Gore-Vey!: Joe Lieberman, Jewish Mobility, and the Politics of Race in America
Commentary, August, 29 2000
Tim Wise
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I am a Jew. And according to what others of my faith tradition tell me, I should be beaming with pride at the fact that Al Gore--a Southern Baptist whose denominational leaders once said God didn't answer the prayers of folks like me--has picked a...
Glick: Respecting Your Elders?
Commentary, August, 28 2000
Ted Glick
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Respect for elders is a tradition deeply rooted within most cultures in this world. This is as it should be; older people, generally speaking, have accumulated the wisdom gained from years of experience. Does the progressive movement have any uniq...
Pond-mcpherson: Back to School
Graphic, August, 27 2000
Scott Pond-mcpherson
Pond-mcpherson's ZSpace page
school, education, media, advertising, youth
Guellec: Investing in Death Benefits – Exploiting AIDS patients
Commentary, August, 27 2000
Dorothy Guellec
Guellec's ZSpace page
Once the domain of the terminally ill, viatical settlements or arrangements – the reassignment of a life insurance policy to a third party in return for a cash settlement – are set to explode in the next decade as the market evolve...
Guellec: Investing in Death Benefits Ð Exploiting AIDS patients
Commentary, August, 27 2000
Dorothy Guellec
Guellec's ZSpace page
Once the domain of the terminally ill, viatical settlements or arrangements Ð the reassignment of a life insurance policy to a third party in return for a cash settlement Ð are set to explode in the next decade as the market evolves to include hea...
Peters: Same-Sex Domestic Partnership Benefits Represent a Limited Gain
Commentary, August, 25 2000
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
Since when did we imagine that the countryÕs top automakers, Disney Corporation, AT&T, Nike, and the Gap had the interests of gays and lesbians in mind?
