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Valente: Argentina's Rebellion in the Neighborhoods
Znet Article, February, 14 2002
Marcela Valente
Valente's ZSpace page
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 13 - Neighborhood assemblies are springing up in cities throughout Argentina, particularly in the capital and surrounding areas, as a groundswell of people seek to change the political landscape amidst the country's social and ec...
Nichols: Class struggle looms in Venezuela
Znet Article, February, 13 2002
Dick Nichols
Nichols's ZSpace page
February 13, 2002. - by CARACAS - Venezuela's wealthy elite is using every resource at its disposal to force President Hugo Chavez Frias to retreat or resign. Their offensive reached its highest point yet on January 23, when their 'March for Freed...
Roy: Shall We Leave It To The Experts
Znet Article, February, 12 2002
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
India lives in several centuries at the same time. Somehow we manage to progress and regress simultaneously. As a nation we age by pushing outward from the middle--adding a few centuries on either end of the extraordinary CV. We greaten like the m...
Glick: 2002: Rising Up Stronger and Broader
Commentary, February, 09 2002
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
Imagine this: a Congressional Democrat running for re-election next November with a leaflet that says, "Vote for me! I supported Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld as they waged war in Afghanistan. I kept my mouth shut as, week after week, civilians died f...
Mahajan: The State of the Union and the New Cold War
Znet Article, February, 09 2002
Rahul Mahajan
Mahajan's ZSpace page
Any who doubted the characterization of the war on terrorism as a new Cold War had only to listen to the State of the Union address, Bush's most depressing speech since he launched his unlimited war with his address to a joint se...
Ainger: Spin on this!
Commentary, February, 07 2002
Katharine Ainger
Ainger's ZSpace page
Spin on this!
Bello: Porto Alegre Social Summit Sets Stage for Counteroffensive against Globalization
Commentary, February, 02 2002
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Porto Alegre is not exactly a Third World city. Located in one of BrazilÕs more prosperous states, Rio Grande do Sul, and populated by people mainly of European stock, this city of 1.2 million people is First World when it comes to infrastructure ...
Berkowitz: Academic Bashing
Zmag Article, February, 01 2002
Bill Berkowitz
Berkowitz's ZSpace page
Academic Bashing
Jayadev: Unions Must Tap Young Workers
Zmag Article, February, 01 2002
Raj Jayadev
Jayadev's ZSpace page
Unions Must Tap Young Workers
Gleason: Democracy and the War on Dissent
Zmag Article, February, 01 2002
Jonathan lawson and susan Gleason
Gleason's ZSpace page
Democracy and the War on Dissent
Leaning: A Long Winter Ahead For American Dissent
Zmag Article, February, 01 2002
Jonathan Leaning
Leaning's ZSpace page
A Long Winter Ahead For American Dissent
Podur: Non-Reformist Reparations for Africa
Zmag Article, February, 01 2002
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Non-Reformist Reparations for Africa
Trigona: Second International Forum Against Globalization
Zmag Article, February, 01 2002
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
November 24 marked the closing of the Second International Forum, "Frente a la Globalización: El Pueblo Es Primero” (Confronting Globalization, The People Come First), with hundreds of indigenous delegates, campesino organizers, grassroots activis...
Bond: Zimbabwe: On the brink of change, or of a coup?
Commentary, February, 01 2002
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
Here comes the most fascinating election of 2002: Robert Mugabe, who led Zimbabwe through guerrilla war to liberation from Rhodesian colonists in 1980, facing a presidential vote in March where the challenger is Morgan Tsvangirai, who led the Zimb...
Author: A Shareholder Pickets Outside the Waldorf
Commentary, January, 29 2002
Guest Author
Author's ZSpace page
I own shares in a few companies that are members of the World Economic Forum. My CEOs will be meeting from Jan. 31 through Feb. 5th at the Waldorf Hotel with CEOs from about a thousand other companies to figure out how to make more money for me. B...
Shiva: Terrorism As Cannibalism
Commentary, January, 25 2002
Vandana2 Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
Year 2001 will be etched in our memory as a year in which the vicious cycle of violence was unleashed worldwide. Of the Taliban bombing the two thousand year old images of peace, the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
Bronski: Gays of Our Lives
Commentary, January, 17 2002
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
There are so many things wrong with this story.
Choudry: All This "civil Society" Talk Takes Us Nowhere
Commentary, January, 15 2002
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
If there's one phrase I could do with hearing less of during 2002, it's "civil society". I'm not alone. Many of my friends, community activists and organisers in a number of countries also cringe at the ritualized, ubiquitous usage of the phrase....
Albert: Democracy Is Coming To Pacifica
Commentary, January, 13 2002
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
PacificaÕs struggle is in a new phase, about to take a big leap forward. Countless activists have pursued diverse strategies and have resisted recriminations and have now finally overcome reactionary obstacles. A majority progressive interim board...
Jensen: September 11 And The Politics Of University Teaching
Commentary, January, 04 2002
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
At various time in my teaching career -- more than ever since Sept. 11 -- I have been advised by faculty colleagues that I should avoid being "too political" in the classroom.
