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Zmag Article Street: Race, Place, and the Perils of Prisonomics

Zmag Article, July, 01 2005 Paul Street
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I t’s the silences that speak the loudest in dominant media’s coverage of current events. Consider, for example, a Detroit News story that appeared in mid -uly 2001 under the curious title...

Zmag Article Herman: Kofi Annan and the Art of Puppetry

Zmag Article, July, 01 2005 Edward Herman
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I t may sound absurd to suggest any element of puppetry in the role of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. After all, hasn’t he been assailed over the past year for corruption and for suggesting that the invasion of...

Zmag Article Bacon: Democracy, But More

Zmag Article, July, 01 2005 David Bacon
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O ver one million people filled the streets along the historic route of Mexican social protest on May Day, marching from the Angel of Independence to the Zocalo and then filling the enormous square at the city’s ...

Zmag Article Rasmus: CAFTA and the Legacy of Free Trade

Zmag Article, July, 01 2005 Jack Rasmus
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T his past April debate began in Congress on the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). CAFTA represents the Bush administration’s effort to resurrect its stalled plans for a “free trade” ...

Zmag Article Panjabi: Health for the Poor

Zmag Article, July, 01 2005 Raj Panjabi
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D r. Joia Mukherjee is Medical Director of Partners in Health (PIH), an organization committed to providing a preferential option for the poor in health care. For over two decades, PIH has worked with sister organizati...

Zmag Article Nygaard: Sex, Drugs, and Teens

Zmag Article, July, 01 2005 Jeff Nygaard
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P ublic policies relating to things like sex, drugs, crime, and death are often lumped together under the term “morality politics.” To enter the realm of morality politics, an issue must touch on controvers...

Zmag Article Siu hin: Labor’s China Syndrome

Zmag Article, July, 01 2005 Lee Siu hin
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A t the upcoming AFL-CIO convention in Chicago in July 2005, thousands of labor activists will stand up to question their president John Sweeney’s failed labor leadership and his policy of accepting money f...

Zmag Article Crane: Class Matters

Zmag Article, July, 01 2005 Carolyn Crane
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B etsy Leondar-Wright is Communications Director for United for a Fair Economy. Her book is Class Matters: Cross Class Alliance Building for Middle Class Activists. Leondar-Wright is based in Massachusetts....

Zmag Article Chu: Another World Is Under Construction

Zmag Article, July, 01 2005 Hope Chu
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O n April 16, 2000 protests at the spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) began five years of major demonstrations against these institutions in the United States. Five years later, on ...

Zmag Article Baroud: France: No To Neo-Liberalism

Zmag Article, July, 01 2005 Ramzy Baroud
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F rance’s recent repudiation of the proposed European Union constitution is a resounding reminder that the populace still possesses the power to defy political elitism with all of its economic dogmas; neo-liberalism ...

Zmag Article Administrator: Good Things Happening in Venezuela

Zmag Article, July, 01 2005 Site Administrator
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E ven before I arrived in Venezuela for a recent visit, I encountered the great class divide in that country. On my connecting flight from Miami to Caracas, I found myself seated next to an exquisitely dressed Venezuel...

Zmag Article Dunn: Bankruptcy Bill Fallout

Zmag Article, June, 01 2005 Andy Dunn
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O n April 20, more than 15 years of lobbying by the credit card industry paid off when George W. Bush signed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005. The bill will bring in billions mo...

Zmag Article Albert: Science In A Better World

Zmag Article, June, 01 2005 Michael Albert
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S cience refers to an accumulated body of information about the components of the cosmos and to testable claims or theories about how those components interact, as well as to the processes by which we add to our in...

Zmag Article Quinney: Britain’s 2005 General Election

Zmag Article, June, 01 2005 James Quinney
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T he British general election of May 2005 generated much discussion, with sentiments of despair in some quarters and jubilation in others. In a flurry of hype, journalists have employed many over-inflated adjectives re...

Zmag Article Kutalik: Finding Workplace Power

Zmag Article, June, 01 2005 Chris Kutalik
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T he recent AFL-CIO debates have generated much smoke and thunder. What’s lacking is a short- to medium-term strategy that gets at how workers and unions can tap the strength they find on the job. Unions and work...

Zmag Article Borgstrom: Honk For Peace At Lake Merritt

Zmag Article, June, 01 2005 Daniel Borgstrom
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T here’s a lake near the edge of downtown Oakland and for over three years it’s been the centerpiece of a weekly antiwar peace walk. Every Sunday afternoon a small group gathers at the lake, then sets out o...

Zmag Article Mychalejko: World Bank Mining Project in Guatemala

Zmag Article, June, 01 2005 Cyril Mychalejko
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O n January 11, Guatemalan President Oscar Berger spoke to a group of reporters in Guatemala City about ongoing protests against a World Bank mining project in the northern part of the country. He said that his g...

Zmag Article Street: The Sorrows of Liberal Imperialism

Zmag Article, May, 01 2005 Paul Street
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T here’s nothing quite as revolting as “left-liberal” Democrats struggling to identify themselves with United States imperialism. Take a look, for example, at the March 2005 issue of the avowedly pr...

Zmag Article Herman: Chavez, Lebanon, & Iraq

Zmag Article, May, 01 2005 Edward Herman
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N ews reports indicate an official U.S. concern over Venezuelan President Chavez’s purchase of new weapons and the threat that this might set off a local arms race, help him support terrorists, and point to...

Zmag Article Bronski: Not So GLAAD Anymore

Zmag Article, May, 01 2005 Michael Bronski
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O n January 23, 2005 Joan Garry, the executive director of Gay and Lesbian Advocates Against Defamation (GLAAD), announced that she will be leaving her post after an eight year tenure. Garry—who came to GLAAD aft...

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