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Bronski: Playing the Media
Commentary, December, 09 1999
Michael Bronski
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The first wave of the attack came swift and strong. Jonah Goldberg, in his column titled "When the Show is on the Other Foot" in the National Review wrote on October 25:
Wagner: WTO to the Rescue
Graphic, December, 07 1999
Pete Wagner
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World Trade Organization, Mexico, Mexican workers, slave labor, labor, unions, workers' rights, sweatshops, exploitation
Dominick: Anarchy, NonViolence, and the Seattle Demonstrations
Commentary, December, 06 1999
Brian Dominick
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One of the most contentious points likely to arise out of the past week's actions is older than the concept of world trade itself: the question of tactics in demonstration and direct action - in particular, violent vs. nonviolent.
Russell: Government Example Setting Not Enough
Commentary, December, 05 1999
Marta Russell
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Despite a growing economy and a 29-year low official unemployment rate, potential workers with disabilities remain chronically unemployed. Nine years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), national employment surveys show ...
Prashad: IMF: Advance Guard of the WTO
Commentary, December, 04 1999
Vijay Prashad
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In 1997, Bangkok's Rafabhat Institute Suan Dusit took a poll of 1,648 Thai children under the age of 15. The survey asked the children to identify the IMF, the International Monetary Fund. A quarter knew what the IMF was. About 30% believed that t...
Solomon: Free Trade's Happy Face Peels Off
Commentary, December, 03 1999
Norman Solomon
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SEATTLE -- After enjoying a free ride in American news media for many years, the World Trade Organization just hit a brick wall. The credit should go to a vast array of civic activists -- represented by tens of thousands of protesters from every c...
Wagner: WTO: Slaveship Earth
Graphic, December, 02 1999
Pete Wagner
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World Trade Organization, NAFTA, IMF, slavery, sweatshops, labor, Third World, slave labor
Hartmann: Women's Health Advocates Win a Victory in the Fight Against Chemical Sterilization
Commentary, December, 02 1999
Betsy Hartmann
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On November 13, the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood of America (PPFA) turned down a motion from its own Medical Committee which have put the organization in the position of supporting unethical human experimentation. The drug in question ...
Albert: On Trashing and Movement Building
Zmag Article, December, 01 1999
Michael Albert
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This is a response to a post-Seattle debate troubling many folks regarding movement tactics. As a preface, it goes without saying, I hope, that we all understand that as far as violence is concerned, the violent parties in Seattle were first and f...
Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part I
Zmag Article, December, 01 1999
Lydia Sargent
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Lydia Sargent What is the significance of my title, 37.7? I got it from Has Feminism Changed Science? by Londa Schiebinger who writes: "A study in 1971 reported that fathers spent an average of only 37.7 seconds each day communicating w...
