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Kreider: Hunger Strike At Notre Dame
Zmag Article, April, 01 1999
Aaron Kreider
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On February 3, at the nation's most prominent Catholic university over 100 Notre Dame students organized a 3-day hunger strike in support of including sexual orientation in the non-discrimination clause. The Board of Trustees was to meet on Februa...
Tokar: Resisting Genetic Engineering
Commentary, March, 28 1999
Brian Tokar
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While the biotechnology industry continues to promise miracles-- new ways to feed the world, solutions to intractable medical problems, enhanced "freedom of choice" in human reproduction, and more -- activists worldwide have recently stepped up th...
Dominick: Reinventing Solidarity Activism
Commentary, March, 19 1999
Brian Dominick
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Since the January 1, 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico, EZLN* leaders have been quite forthcoming about what solidarity means to them, be it domestic or international. Their articulation of the revolution they envision is poetic in its cl...
Chomsky: On Staying Informed and Inteelectual Self Defense
Commentary, March, 08 1999
Noam Chomsky
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There's no way to be informed without devoting effort to the task, whether we have in mind what's happening in the world, physics, major league baseball, or anything else.
Herman: How the NYT Solved the New Guatemala Problem
Commentary, March, 05 1999
Edward Herman
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The recent massive report of the UN-sponsored Historical Clarification Commission of Guatemala gives a brutally frank account, with details, of the Guatemalan army's mass killings of the indigenous Mayan Indians on a scale that bordered on genocid...
Tokar: Biotechnology and the Commodification of Life
Commentary, March, 03 1999
Brian Tokar
Tokar's ZSpace page
The U.S.government's aggressive advocacy for the biotechnology industry, and its potentially disastrous agenda of reshaping world agriculture, has finally made international headlines.
Petras: The Philippines Revolution
Zmag Article, March, 01 1999
James Petras
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The Philippines Revolution
Carter: 1998 in Review
Zmag Article, February, 01 1999
Sandy Carter
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1998 in Review
Bohmer: Pres. Clinton's Visit to Central America
Commentary, January, 15 1999
Peter Bohmer
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President Bill Clinton just completed a four day visit to Central America. In Nicaragua and Honduras, he briefly visited areas most devastated by Hurricane Mitch in late October, 1998.
Kotz: Russia and the Crisis of Neoliberalism
Zmag Article, January, 01 1999
David Kotz
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 This past summer Russia suffered a financial crisis so severe that it not only brought down former Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko’s government but also shook financial markets around the world, including on Wall Street. This episode...
Lapointe: Death to the MIA
Zmag Article, December, 01 1998
Julien Lapointe
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that the agreement was not "reformable." According to the French daily Le Monde (October 22), the MAI, as had been originally conceived, is dead.
Herman: Corporate Sovereignty And (Junk) Science
Zmag Article, November, 01 1998
Edward Herman
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One of the great myths and ideological rationales of capitalism is that consumers are sovereign, their demands ultimately ruling the system, with producers only responding to consumer needs and wants. In reality, by virtue of their...
Churchill: Smoke Signals in Context
Zmag Article, November, 01 1998
Ward Churchill
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Cox: Free Speech in the Academy
Zmag Article, November, 01 1998
Phil Cox
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Free Speech in the Academy
Petras: The New Revolutionary Peasantry
Zmag Article, October, 01 1998
James Petras
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Latin America The New Revolutionary Peasantry The growth of peasant-led opposition to neoliberalism By James Petras I was invited to give one of the inaugural speeches at the Second Latin American Congress of Rural O...
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,...
Laforge: Nuclear Disarmament
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
John m. Laforge
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The clamor for nuclear disarmament is being raised by millions the world over not only by established peace and anti-nuclear organizations, but by NGOs, scientific panels, retired generals, eminent military and civilian officials, nuclear...
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...
