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Cositore: ALBA
Zmag Article, February, 01 2006
Carolina Cositore
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T here is a shift in the prevailing winds coming from the South, above all in South America and the Caribbean. The transformations in progress can be difficult to understand because they are differ...
Borgström: This Land is Their Land
Zmag Article, February, 01 2006
Daniel Borgström
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L ast spring the privatizers were after Social Security. In the fall they reached for public lands, including areas in national parks. Death Valley and Yellowstone were on the hit list. Tucked away...
Berkowitz: Wal-Marting Philanthropy
Zmag Article, February, 01 2006
Bill Berkowitz
Berkowitz's ZSpace page
B y now, almost everyone knows the story of Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, private employer (it has more than 5,000 stores; 3,400 in the U.S.), and the largest company based on reven...
Bronski: Wedding Bell Blues
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
Michael Bronski
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I t looks like same-sex marriage is here to stay. It’s even beginning to look downright patriotic. This past Fourth of July, Cambridge Massachusetts saw one of its most prominent lesbian coup...
Bacon: Iraqi Labor’s Resistance
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
David Bacon
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O n February 18 Ali Hassan Abd (Abu Fahad), a leader of the al-Daura oil refinery’s union, was walking home from work in Basra, Iraq with his young children when gunmen ran up and shot him.&n...
Ross: British Columbia Teachers' Strike
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
E. Wayne Ross
Ross's ZSpace page
I n British Columbia 42,000 teachers walked out of the classroom and on to the picket line in October, demanding improved working and learning conditions from the government, as well as salary...
Paul: NYU on Strike
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
Ari Paul
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T he graduate students at New York University (NYU) made history in 2001 by successfully negotiating a contract between a teachers’ assistants (TA) union and a private U.S. university. ...
Mandic: Why Didn't You Bring Pinochet?
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
Danilo Mandic
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T o honor the second anniversary of the occupation of Iraq, the Daily Princetonian on March 3, 2005 ran a David Horowitz column warning against Princeton University’s appearance as...
Leopold: Bush, the CIA, and WMDs
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
Jason Leopold
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P resident George W. Bush’s attempts in November to silence critics on Iraq were undercut by congressional testimony from February 2001 by former CIA Director George Tenet (also made public i...
Grossman: The U.S., Iran, & Khuzestan
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
Zoltan Grossman
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A s their forces are bogged down in Iraq, George W. Bush and Tony Blair continue to lay the groundwork for their next military expansion—in Syria or Iran. A confrontation with Iran, in partic...
Greenfield: Disneyland, Doha, and the WTO in Hong Kong
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
Hidayat Greenfield
Greenfield's ZSpace page
I t’s fitting that the Sixth WTO Ministerial arrived in Hong Kong December 13-18 only a couple of months after the September 2005 opening of Hong Kong Disneyland. In both cases reality is aba...
Chew: Why the War Is Sexist
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
Huibin amee Chew
Chew's ZSpace page
R efusing to be silenced as a military parent, Cindy Sheehan’s voice lent new urgency to stopping the war in Iraq. She has been likened to a Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement. Both widely r...
Administrator: Cuba: The Revolution Lives On
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
Site Administrator
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U nderstanding Cuban society objectively is incredibly difficult, given 45 years of unremitting U.S. propaganda against Fidel Castro, the Cuban government, and Cuban society. Even for those ind...
Berlet: Social Movements Need An Infrastructure To Succeed
Zmag Article, September, 01 2005
Chip Berlet
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Social Movements Need An Infrastructure To Succeed
Dahl: Witness Near Dawn
Zmag Article, September, 01 2005
Patricia Dahl
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T he organizers of Colombia’s Second National Encounter of Victims of Crimes Against Humanity and Human Rights Violations predicted 500 delegates would participate. By the end of the third and last day of the con...
Rasmus: The AFL-CIO Split
Zmag Article, September, 01 2005
Jack Rasmus
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T wo events of particular import occurred the last week of July: the AFL-CIO split and CAFTA (the Central American Free Trade Agreement) was passed by Congress. The consequences of the former are yet to be determined. ...
Kavanagh: South Africa’s Freedom Charter at 50
Zmag Article, September, 01 2005
Matthew m. Kavanagh
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J osh Bafana Mhlanga was only 11, but he remembers the excitement and the promises of the new South Africa born after the 1994 fall of apartheid. Now, as he looks around his neighborhood, he is furious with the African...
Head: Social Justice Alliance Connects Globally
Zmag Article, September, 01 2005
Louis Head
Head's ZSpace page
T his past April a group of organizers and leaders representing grassroots organizations, unions, and student groups met in San Antonio, Texas where they formalized a strategic relationship to help advance their effort...
Gupta: New Exit Strategy for Iraq: Civil War
Zmag Article, September, 01 2005
A.k. Gupta
Gupta's ZSpace page
I t’s state-sponsored civil war,” says journalist Dahr Jamail, describing the sectarian conflict engulfing Iraq. From the beginning of the U.S. occupation, most observers argued that while civil war was a d...
Davies: The Bloody Trail From Downing Street to DC
Zmag Article, September, 01 2005
Nicolas j. s. Davies
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I n “The Crime of War: from Nuremberg to Fallujah” ( Z Magazine , February 2005), I described how the war in Iraq constitutes aggression as it is defined under international law. At the time ...
