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Carter: Best of 2000
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Sandy Carter
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The pop world of 2000 was a dreadful mess, still dominated by boy band bromides, naughty sweet boy toys, rap-metal meatheads, and gangsta nihilism. Against that backdrop rises the sensational Eminem whose critically hailed and mass selling T...
Bacon: Junked Workers Test NAFTA
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
David Bacon
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Plant managers called them the “jonkeados”—the junked ones. They were workers who got so sick, so chronically disabled, that they were given special jobs. But they weren’t put on “light duty,” to tide them over un...
Minnich: COSATU Conference
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Rebecca Minnich
Minnich's ZSpace page
On a brilliantly sunny November afternoon in Cape Town, 12 seasoned labor organizers are gathered in conference at the Western Cape headquarters of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). For weeks COSATU leaders in the Western ...
Urfer: Her Majesty's Tireless Threatens Mediterranean
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
John laforge and bonnie Urfer
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Her Majesty's Tireless Threatens Mediterranean
Zarate-laun: Introduction To Putumayo
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Cecilia Zarate-laun
Zarate-laun's ZSpace page
Introduction To Putumayo
Grossman: Aerospace Executives On Bush Star Wars Team
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Karl Grossman
Grossman's ZSpace page
U.S. preparations to wage war in and from space will be getting a huge boost with the assumption of power of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney. They represent a confluence of corporate and right-wing political power pushing for expanded s...
Gallagher: Upset in San Francisco
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Tom Gallagher
Gallagher's ZSpace page
Mayor Willie Brown recently donated one of his famous fedoras for a time capsule that will show future San Franciscans what their city was like in 2000. The mayor’s generosity may have been prompted by the feeling that he hasn’t su...
Giroux: Zero Tolerance, Part 2
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Henry a. Giroux
Giroux's ZSpace page
Zero Tolerance, Part 2
Mclaughlin-alcock: Black Farmers Asssociation
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Colin Mclaughlin-alcock
Mclaughlin-alcock's ZSpace page
The Reverend Willie J. Burns is a black family farmer. Years ago, increasingly high operating costs in an increasingly unprofitable business forced him to turn to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for financial help. He applied for a...
Berkowitz: John Ashcroft: Attorney General from the Right
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Bill Berkowitz
Berkowitz's ZSpace page
John Ashcroft: Attorney General from the Right
Richards: none
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Jennifer baumgardner and amy Richards
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Ariana Ghasedi & Andy Cornell With Bush poised to create a straight flush Republican government, with female incarceration rates soaring as poverty is increasingly feminized, the time couldn’t be better for activists to asses...
Administrator: Defying the Sanctions
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Site Administrator
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Defying the Sanctions
Administrator: Rebels with a Cause: a documentary on SDS
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Site Administrator
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Get together 28 articulate, socially committed veterans of the largest radical student organization of the 1960s. Get them to talk about their experience in that tumultuous decade’s battles for social justice. Remind people of the bruta...
Kovel: Global Warming And Realo-Fundi Greens
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Joel Kovel
Kovel's ZSpace page
The breakdown last November 25 of the Hague talks on ratifying the 1997 Kyoto protocols on global warming was bad news indeed. But it would have been worse had the U.S. gotten its way. Fortunately, Europe, chiefly France, Scandinavia, and Germany,...
Bello: When Davos Meets Porto Alegre: A Memoir
Commentary, February, 01 2001
Walden Bello
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Porto Alegre, Brazil "Hemingway said that the rich are different from you and me. How can anyone expect the people in Davos to understand the crisis that globalization has visited on the lives of people like those of us here in Porto Alegre?" Tha...
Deutsch: The Right Mirror
Graphic, January, 31 2001
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
media, news, US media,U.S. Media
Dowd: THE NEW ERA OF THE 1920s AND THE NEW ECONOMY OF TODAY: BIRDS OF A FEATHER?
Commentary, January, 31 2001
Douglas Dowd
Dowd's ZSpace page
By Doug DowdThe New Era began poorly, as did our New Economy (dating its take-off as the 1990s). In 1919 there was a short recession, then a sharp inflation and unsteady good times and a very sharp recession, 1921-22; then began the so-called "pro...
Mokhiber: Business Power and Mobility
Commentary, January, 30 2001
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
The election season makes it patently clear how Big Business is able to transform its financial resources into political power via campaign contributions.
Solomon: LETTER FROM PORTO ALEGRE TO ZNET
Commentary, January, 29 2001
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
The World Social Forum here in southern Brazil is being reported around the planet as an oppositional counterpoint to the annual bash in Davos, where corporate leaders have been gathering for three decades at their World Economic Forum retreat. In...
