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Martinez: The New Youth Movement In California
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Elizabeth Martinez
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Last February, 42 mostly professional adults—lawyers, teachers, civil rights leaders, and older activists—were arrested for shutting down the Oakland jail to demonstrate against a vicious juvenile crime la...
Martinez: Black & Brown Workers Alliance Born In North Carolina
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Elizabeth Martinez
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In recent years, thousands of Latino migrants have come to work in the Southeast and often remained as permanent residents. In North Carolina alone, the number of Latinos rose from about 77,000 in 1990, according to the Census Bureau, to over 300,...
Cunningham: SELF-DECEPTION MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY
Commentary, February, 29 2000
Philip Cunningham
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"The Chinese people must speak up to protest the Japanese government for refusing to acknowledge the historical misdeed of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre." These are the words of an unknown hacker who added a new twist to the seven decade old Sino-Japa...
Rebick: Feminist Origins
Commentary, February, 28 2000
Judy Rebick
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With memories of the Battle of Seattle still dancing in our heads and thoughts of the World March of Women against poverty and violence beginning to take shape, it might be a good time to think about how social movements actually develop.
Albert: Dignified Work
Commentary, February, 27 2000
Michael Albert
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The issue of Dignified Work has two primary components: (1) what is a just division of tasks for each person; and (2) what division of tasks do we need to adopt in order to have our work foster self-management?
Wise: "When Anti-Racism Strikes Out"
Commentary, February, 26 2000
Tim Wise
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When it comes to discussions of racism, or any other kind of "ism" for that matter, sometimes we miss the forest for the trees. Such was the case recently when it was reported that Atlanta Braves relief pitcher John Rocker had cut loose with a str...
Marable: No Rights Whites Must Respect
Commentary, February, 25 2000
Manning Marable
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In the Dred Scott decision of 1857, the Supreme Court turned down a petition for freedom from an enslaved African American. The author of the court's ruling, Chief Justice Roger B. Tawney, declared that blacks could never be granted equal protecti...
Bond: Workers of the world, transcend the wedge!
Commentary, February, 24 2000
Patrick Bond
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Divide-and-conquer is an all too familiar gambit of a ruling elite under stress. Thus Seattle demonstrators, together with a growing international movement struggling in the same spirit in many other sites, have found themselves subject to both re...
Russell: Humanists: Momentarily Dazed and Confused, or What?
Commentary, February, 23 2000
Marta Russell
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Being a veteran of the war for truth during the Kevorkian era of the assisted suicide debates, it astounds me when I see that some companions battling for social justice are still entangled in the Kevorkian-as-humanist illusion web.
Bronski: Saving Our Children, All Over Again
Commentary, February, 22 2000
Michael Bronski
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Quick. What is the worst threat to high school students across the United States today? Interpersonal violence among students? Guns in the hallways? Rampart drug and alcohol use? Shabbily low teaching standards that allow students to graduate bene...
