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Martinez: Weaving A Net That Works
Zmag Article, September, 01 1998
Elizabeth Martinez
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It was lunchtime in a dusty barrio near Tijuana, Mexico, where the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (SNEEJ) had come to meet in July 1993. The schedule called for us to march to a transfer station for hazardous waste,...
Herman: The U.S. Jobs Miracle
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Edward Herman
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In both Europe and the United States, the substantial growth in U.S. jobs over the past several decades has been repeatedly cited in support of the view that a “flexible” labor market is the solution to the problem of ...
Chomsky: Hordes of Vigilantes & Popular elements defeat MAI, for now
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky This is a follow-up to my article on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) in the May issue. That went to press a few weeks before the April 27 target date for signing of the MAI by the OECD coun...
Carter: Feminism and Classic Blues
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Sandy Carter
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Because blues is such a heavily male dominated musical genre, it’s often forgotten that the first popular blues recording stars were women. During the 1920s when the emerging recording industry first realized the commercial...
Bronski: Onward, Christian Soldiers?
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Michael Bronski
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Onward, Christian Soldiers?
Brecher: Labor Update: Organizing the New Workforce
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Jeremy Brecher
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Jeremy Brecher Traditionally, the majority of American union members have been blue-collar white males. Over the past quarter-century, this group became a smaller and smaller minority in the workforce, while other groups—somet...
Giroux: none
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Henry a. Giroux
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The assault by corporate America on public education has taken an ominous turn in the last decade. Funded by an array of conservative institutions such as the Heritage Foundation, Hudson Institute, and the Olin Foundation, the c...
Beder: Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Sharon Beder
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Chelsea Green, 288 pp. Review by David Edwards This book deals with the real environmental crisis—the crisis that lies in the fact that the modern mass media system is a corporate system deeply embedded in, and dependent on, th...
Cevoli: The Freeze: A Look Back
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Catherine Cevoli
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It was the summer of 1992, and I was watching the second presidential debate. George Bush was explaining how Reagan’s military build-up ended the Cold War. “The Russians couldn’t keep up and it destroyed them,...
Staff: A Progressive Online Distribution Center?
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Z Staff
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Suppose this Fall three different companies release new “electronic book” products. These are book size “consoles” weighing a pound or two, with a very readable screen meant to replace books (and/or magazines...
Crotty: The Korean Struggle
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
James Crotty
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& Gary Dymski Just a few months after getting a clean bill of economic health from the OECD in mid 1997, South Korea’s economy plunged into a foreign exchange crisis. By December the Korean government had signed a loan agreeme...
Zarate-laun: The War On Drugs From The Supply Side
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Cecilia Zarate-laun
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The War On Drugs From The Supply Side
Administrator: NYU's Chinese Construction Workers
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Site Administrator
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Stinnett At the New York University (NYU) main building in downtown Manhattan—the building where, in 1911, a sweatshop garment factory fire killed 146 young immigrant workers—a handful of immigrant Chinese construct...
Barsamian: Let's Fight the Bastards: Believing in the common good
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
David Barsamian
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Street, by Wall Street and for Wall Street." HIGHTOWER: Bingo. And now it’s not just Wall Street, but the Japanese and the European conglomerates as well, the new global economy. Are we looking here, then, at an El Niñ...
Herman: Pol Pot's Death In The Propaganda System
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
Edward Herman
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The death of Pol Pot on April 15, 1998 unleashed a media barrage of indignation and sanitized history that illustrates well their role as agents in a system of propaganda. While Pol Pot was undoubtedly a mass killer and evil fo...
Cagan: It Should Be Possible, It Has To Be Possible
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
Leslie Cagan
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For over 30 years, Leslie Cagan has been a tireless organizer: from the Vietnam War to racism at home, from nuclear disarmament to lesbian/gay liberation, from fighting sexism to working agai...
Bacon: High-Tech Transportation Workers
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
David Bacon
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High-Tech Transportation Workers
Vosters: The Celling of America
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
Helen Vosters
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and Paul Wright Common Courage Press; 249 pp. Review by Helene Vosters Incarceration is a growth industry—crime pays. Now, from behind the cell doors of America’s modern day dungeons, prisoners speak out exposin...
Sferios: Population, Immigration, & the Environment
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
Emanuel Sferios
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During March and April the national Sierra Club membership voted by a 20 percent margin against a ballot initiative which would have adopted a Club policy calling for a reduction in U.S. immigration. Out of the 78,069 members w...
Grugan: Poor People's Organizing
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
Patrick Grugan
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Poor People's Organizing
