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Carter: Grammy Awards Follow the Money
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
Sandy Carter
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Every year when the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences celebrates its Grammy Awards, I gag at the notion that any of this music industry pomp honors the best music of the past year. Although all of the big time...
Bacon: The Poor Fight For UNAM
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
David Bacon
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In early February, when Mexico’s Federal government moved to end the strike at the National Autonomous University (UNAM), its action was motivated less by concern over the fate of the institution and its students, and much m...
Petras: Rebellion in Ecuador
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
James Petras
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On January 21 a popular rebellion, led by a coalition of Indians, peasants, and urban workers, supported by junior military officials occupied the Parliament, Judiciary, and surrounded the presidential palace. A three-person junt...
Weisbrot: Anti-WTO Organizing
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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The demonstrations against the WTO in Seattle were probably among the most effective protests in modern American history. The sequel—on April 16 in Washington DC, at the IMF/World Bank spring meetings—may have an even great...
Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part IV
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Lydia Sargent
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In Parts I and II of this series I looked at the “scientific” claims made about women in Dianne Hales’s book Just Like A Woman. In Part III I began examining Helen Fisher’s book The First Sex, published by Random House an...
Herman: Russia: U.S. Rival, Dependent, Victim
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Edward Herman
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The U.S. establishment’s and media’s treatment of post-Soviet Russia has been confused, sometimes hostile, and more often than not, apologetic. This is because Russia occupies the odd position of being simultaneously a rival and ob...
Thomas: Bill Bradley: Progressives' Pal or Wall Street Stooge?
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Martin Thomas
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In the next decade, the most pressing issue likely to face the president will involve disputes over international economics, finance, and trade. It is important we have a president who needs no tutoring,” says David M. Smick, former chi...
Petras: The Rural Landless Workers Movement
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
James Petras
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Over the past 30 years, Brazilian governments—both military and civilian—have proclaimed the need for “agrarian reform” but have resisted implementing an effective policy. INCRA (National Institute of Colonization and Agrar...
Su: xa1 La Huelga Va!
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Carlos Su
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Rocío García is one of the participants of the nine-month student strike at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). The strike was called on April 20, 1999, as a response to a dramatic tuition increase by the universit...
Martinez: The New Youth Movement In California
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Elizabeth Martinez
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Last February, 42 mostly professional adults—lawyers, teachers, civil rights leaders, and older activists—were arrested for shutting down the Oakland jail to demonstrate against a vicious juvenile crime la...
Martinez: Black & Brown Workers Alliance Born In North Carolina
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Elizabeth Martinez
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In recent years, thousands of Latino migrants have come to work in the Southeast and often remained as permanent residents. In North Carolina alone, the number of Latinos rose from about 77,000 in 1990, according to the Census Bureau, to over 300,...
Albert: A Program Seeking Just Rewards
Commentary, February, 06 2000
Michael Albert
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Suppose we agree that people ought to be paid only according to how hard they work and how onerous their work conditions are. To attain these Just Rewards we must reduce and ultimately eliminate reward for property, power, and output; reduce and f...
Street: Capitalism and Democracy "Don't Mix Very Well"
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Paul Street
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Economic globalization enthusiasts like Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright, Tony Blair, New York Times foreign policy columnist Thomas Friedman, and the unelected officials of the World Trade Organization repeat a classic Cold War mistake by cl...
Carter: 1999 In Review
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Sandy Carter
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In the decade I’ve been writing about music and popular culture in the pages of Z, I can’t recall a year when the pop music mainstream seemed more empty of soul and critical thought than in 1999. Commercially speaking, this was a y...
Barsamian: Monopolies, NPR, & PBS
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
David Barsamian
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Robert McChesney is Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a leading critic of corporate media. He is the author of Telecommunications, Mass Media and Democracy. His latest book is Rich Media, Po...
Kelson: Protesting SOA
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Sanford Kelson
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The Columbus, Georgia police estimated that on November 21, 1999 there were nearly 10,000 at the front gate of Fort Benning protesting the School of the Americas which is located on the base. SOA Watch believes the correct number is 12,000. ...
Smith: Politics in Russia
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Jim Smith
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Boris Kagarlitsky is a Moscow-based writer, academic, and democratic socialist political activist. He was a leader of the Party of Labor, which was outlawed by Boris Yeltsin in the aftermath of the 1993 “presidential coup” that res...
Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part II
Zmag Article, January, 01 2000
Lydia Sargent
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Lydia Sargent As I said in Part I, the title 37.7 seconds refers to the average amount of time fathers spent each day communicating with their babies during the first three months of life, according to a 1971 study quoted in Has Feminism Chang...
Hahnel: China & the WTO
Zmag Article, January, 01 2000
Robin Hahnel
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Robin Hahnel After declining to sign a "better deal" last April, the Clinton administration signed off on conditions for permitting China to enter the World Trade Organization (WTO) in November. Even t...
Carter: The Indigo Girls & Rage Against the Machine
Zmag Article, January, 01 2000
Sandy Carter
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Carter When the Atlanta, Georgia-based duo the Indigo Girls signed on with Epic Records in 1988, the mainstream music market was getting on the bandwagon of a new "folk revival" trend triggered by the surprising breakthroughs of Trac...
