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Zmag Article Fairchild: Low-Power Radio

Zmag Article, July, 01 1997 Charles Fairchild
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Fairchild   As part of his arguments submitted to the FCC regarding the possibility of low-power radio in the U.S., Free Radio Berkeley founder Stephen Dunifer suggested that low-power broadcasting in Canada could ...

Zmag Article Archer: Export, Eh?

Zmag Article, July, 01 1997 Simon Archer
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Archer   In January the Canadian Trade Minister, Art Eggleton, came down with competitive advantage flu and mused that the state should not support or protect Canadian culture, but instead "free" it for ex...

Zmag Article Administrator: CrossCurrents: Imagine A Country

Zmag Article, July, 01 1997 Site Administrator
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Holly Sklar   Imagine a country where one out of four children is born into poverty, and wealth is being redistributed upward. Since the 1970s, the top 1 percent of families have doubled their share of the nation...

Zmag Article Solomon: Media Beat

Zmag Article, July, 01 1997 Norman Solomon
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similar stories many times: A scrappy innovator took on the business establishment and made a fortune. An engineer battled myopic bosses to develop a great new product. A brilliant computer nerd overcame entrenched foes and now ...

Zmag Article Parenti: Rural Prison as Colonial Master

Zmag Article, June, 01 1997 Christian Parenti
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Christian Parenti   In 1964 a tsunami swept over Crescent City, California completely destroying the downtown. Only nine people died, but the town—nestled just below the Oregon border—never recovered. It w...

Zmag Article Sargent: I Dreamed I Was In A Bra Ad in My Maidenform Bra

Zmag Article, June, 01 1997 Lydia Sargent
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Lydia Sargent   Gals, there is a controversy raging here at Hotel Satire. It’s terrible. Mom gals aren’t speaking to daughter gals and vice verse. Gals who have been friends for years now won’t visit ...

Zmag Article Herman: Word Tricks & Propaganda

Zmag Article, June, 01 1997 Edward Herman
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Edward S. Herman   The mainstream media carry out their propaganda service on behalf of the corporate and political establishment in many ways: by choice of topics addressed (government rather than corporate abuses,...

Zmag Article Johnson: Human Rights Watch World Report 1997: Events Of 1996

Zmag Article, June, 01 1997 Tom Johnson
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  In January 1997, the international human rights organization, Human Rights Watch, released its seventh annual report on the worldwide condition of human rights. The report, overall, finds human rights’ cond...

Zmag Article Ziman: Criminalizing the Charitable

Zmag Article, June, 01 1997 Jenna e. Ziman
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Jenna E. Ziman   In cities throughout the world, a silent "war against the poor" is brewing, and control over food distribution is one of its most effective weapons. Food Not Bombs, a non-violent activist ...

Zmag Article James: Haiti: The Roof Is Leaking

Zmag Article, June, 01 1997 Clara James
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Clara James   On April 6, Haiti held elections to fill one-third of the Senate seats and positions on over 500 communal and town councils. The only problem was, most Haitians did not go to the polls. Only about 5 pe...

Zmag Article Macek: New Party Report: Making Work Pay

Zmag Article, June, 01 1997 Steve Macek
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New Party Report: Making Work Pay

Zmag Article Carpenter: An interview with Cheri Honkala at Temple University, April 14, 1997

Zmag Article, June, 01 1997 John potash and laurel Carpenter
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John Potash and Laurel Carpenter Cheri Honkala is a welfare recipient who is co-chair of the National Welfare Rights Union, as well as the leader of Philadelphia’s Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU), a grassroots ...

Zmag Article Staff: Media and Democracy 1997 -- Preview

Zmag Article, June, 01 1997 Z Staff
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In any event, at the recent LAAMN meeting there was apparently a lively and productive discussion of the upcoming Congress and how it might be most effective. To start, LAAMN proposes panels on the labor movement, environment, ...

Zmag Article Grytting: Newspeak

Zmag Article, June, 01 1997 Wayne Grytting
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Wayne Grytting   Advertisers Becoming Literate Major advertisers are "changing the rules of magazine publishing," reports the Wall Street Journal, by breaking down the walls separating ads from e...

Zmag Article Harris: Liggett Narcs Joe Camel

Zmag Article, June, 01 1997 Bob Harris
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Liggett Narcs Joe Camel

Zmag Article Dolgon: Cleaning up the Hamptons

Zmag Article, June, 01 1997 Corey Dolgon
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Corey Dolgon   On April 16, over 100 people gathered to support the Coalition for Justice (CFJ), a group formed by Southampton College (SC) custodians who were recently "contracted out" to a private manage...

Zmag Article Wright: Mobuto Was Chaos

Zmag Article, June, 01 1997 George Wright
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George Wright   As this article is being written in early May, the 32-year regime of Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko is coming to an end. A guerrilla offensive carried out by the Alliance of Democratic Forces for...

Zmag Article Adelson: Inside Pacifica

Zmag Article, June, 01 1997 David Adelson
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Inside Pacifica

Zmag Article Chomsky: Expanding the Floor of the Cage, Part IIl

Zmag Article, June, 01 1997 Noam Chomsky
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This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three times a week we will re-post an article that we think is of timeless importance. This one was first published June, 1997.

Zmag Article Kovel: Cuba & South Africa

Zmag Article, June, 01 1997 Joel Kovel
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Joel Kovel   The linkage between Castro’s Cuba and Mandela’s South Africa runs deep. Cuban slave society was less efficient in demolishing ties to Africa than its North American counterpart, allowing Cuba to retain ...

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