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Zmag Article Mindszenthy: Activists Target War on Housing

Zmag Article, April, 02 2008 Andrew Mindszenthy
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Fifteen years ago, Canada’s federal government scrapped its national housing program, turning Canada into the only industrialized country without one.

Zmag Article Bybee: Free Trade Fundumentalism

Zmag Article, April, 02 2008 Roger Bybee
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NY Times editorialists and leading columnists continue to embrace a fundamentalist faith in the uplifting power of “free trade” and corporate globalization, regardless of evidence to the contrary.

Zmag Article Rasmus: From Financial Crisis to Recession, Part II

Zmag Article, April, 02 2008 Jack Rasmus
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What follows is a description of how the financial crisis has been spreading at a rapid rate in the U.S., from the subprime mortgage to other credit markets, and how that contagion is beginning to penetrate the real (non-financial) economy, causin...

Zmag Article Ten eyck: Freightliner Workers Fight for their Jobs

Zmag Article, March, 01 2008 Tiffany Ten eyck
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Cleveland, North Carolina, a small town with less than 1,000 residents, is an unlikely home for an active autoworkers’ union. Freightliner LLC (now owned by Daimler) opened a truck-manufacturing plant in the town in 1989. The United Auto Workers w...

Zmag Article Ross: Agrarian Apocolypse Looms in Mexico

Zmag Article, March, 01 2008 John Ross
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At the stroke of midnight this past January 1, 100 or so farmers and day laborers from both sides of the border converged on the Cordoba Las Americas bridge that connects El Paso and Ciudad Juarez to mark the demise of Mexican agriculture.

Zmag Article Keilholtz: The Megachurch Juggernaut

Zmag Article, March, 01 2008 Jeff Keilholtz
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The megachurch phenomenon is four decades in the making. Unleashed in the anti-establishment cultural shift of the 1960s, the first modern ritual-less services to gain megachurch traction were harvested in the Crystal Cathedral of Orange County, C...

Zmag Article Rasmus: From Global Financial Crisis to Global Recession, Part I

Zmag Article, March, 01 2008 Jack Rasmus
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Last year we witnessed the emergence of the most serious financial crisis to hit the U.S. and the greater global economy since the 1930s—a crisis that has already begun to precipitate a major recession in the U.S. in 2008 and, in turn, raising the...

Zmag Article Adams: Out of Sight Communities

Zmag Article, March, 01 2008 Margaret Adams
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ZMO ONLINE-ONLY ARTICLE: Maine hires migrant farm workers with H-2B visas in several areas of the state: in Cumberland County to pick strawberries, in the western Hills to pick apples, deep in northern Maine for the broccoli harvests, and in the d...

Zmag Article Early: Review: On the Global Waterfront

Zmag Article, February, 01 2008 Steve Early
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Suzan Erem and E. Paul Durrenberger’s On The Global Waterfront is a detailed study of the fight to save five ILA members from politically-motivated felony charges. The prosecution of the Charleston 5—four blacks and one white accused of rioting—co...

Zmag Article Enström: Skanska’s Secrets with Repsol-YPF

Zmag Article, February, 01 2008 Agneta Enström
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ZMO ONLINE-ONLY ARTICLE: The Swedish construction company Skanska’s oil affairs reveal a corporate identity that is very different from the one conveyed in its home market. Operations in South America are distantly removed from all legal, ethical ...

Zmag Article Street: Largely About Oil

Zmag Article, January, 01 2008 Paul Street
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The White House got it right when they initially gave their immoral incursion the acronym OIL (for Operation Iraqi Liberation). “Oil” is the main reason that a rapid and thorough U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and true Iraqi freedom and independence ar...

Zmag Article Benjamin: Economic Emancipation: Ghana, Africa, the World

Zmag Article, January, 01 2008 Chris Benjamin
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Debt forgiveness, inspired in part by the worldwide campaign of Christians and rock stars, is designed to free Third World countries from heavy debt burdens, their crushing cycle of interest repayment and economic dependency...but is rather a "plo...

Zmag Article Herman: Economics in the Nut House

Zmag Article, December, 01 2007 Edward Herman
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In her August 4 piece in the Huffington Post, “Rove Exits With His Usual M.O.’s: Delusional and Deceptive,” Arianna Huffington offers as a major Rove delusion his notion that “by Bush wielding his veto pen in the upcoming budget fight, the GOP wil...

Zmag Article Asher: Workers Centers

Zmag Article, December, 01 2007 Colin Asher
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With only 8 employees and 1,900 members, the Restaurant Opportunity Center-New York (ROC- NY) is David to the Goliath of the restaurant industry and all of its commensurate associations and legal teams. ROC-NY is a workers center, a non-union orga...

Zmag Article Paul: Organizing Domestic Workers

Zmag Article, December, 01 2007 Ari Paul
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There are many adjectives to describe New York City’s 200,000 nannies, housekeepers, and elderly care workers, but one that comes up a lot among them is “invisible.” Often paid under the table, they exist outside the formal economy. They work in h...

Zmag Article Rasmus: HEALTHCARE SPECIAL: VEBAs in the Auto Industry

Zmag Article, December, 01 2007 Jack Rasmus
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Once partners in pioneering employer-union health benefit plans in the early 1950s, the United Auto Workers Union (UAW) and the big-three auto companies—General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford—now find themselves jointly presiding over the rapid disman...

Zmag Article Ananthanarayanan: India’s Special Economic Zones

Zmag Article, December, 01 2007 Sriram Ananthanarayanan
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No scheme of the Indian government has evoked as much controversy in recent years as the creation of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) for industry aimed at exports.

Zmag Article Sperber: Book Review - The Shock Doctrine By Naomi Klein

Zmag Article, December, 01 2007 Joshua Sperber
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As with much scholarly political writing, Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is characterized by a deep schism divorcing its material from its analysis.

Zmag Article Sullivan: Book Review - Coronary by Stephen Klaidman

Zmag Article, November, 01 2007 Kip Sullivan
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Throughout the 1990s, doctors on the staff of a hospital in Redding, California routinely performed unnecessary angiograms and coronary artery bypass grafts (CABGs) on unsuspecting patients.

Zmag Article Urevich: Communities For a Better Environment

Zmag Article, September, 24 2007 Robin Urevich
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It’s three to five times more likely that a toxic dump site will be found in an African American or Latino community than a white one. In the Southeast Los Angeles communities of color it’s estimated that there are over 200 toxi...

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