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Podur: A Way Out for Colombia
Zmag Article, September, 01 2001
Justin Podur
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A Way Out for Colombia
Barsamian: Immigration and Racism
Zmag Article, September, 01 2001
David Barsamian
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Immigration and Racism
Bacon: Britons Organize Against Anti-Immigrant Hysteria
Zmag Article, September, 01 2001
David Bacon
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Britons Organize Against Anti-Immigrant Hysteria
Albert: Responding to the Nation
Commentary, August, 29 2001
Michael Albert
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The NationÕs (Sept 3) unsigned editorial treats PacificaÕs management as if they have ÒworthyÓ aims but indulge in a bit too much coffee each morning. Yet PacificaÕs management has routinely lied, employed pink slips as a bludgeon, hired thugs, is...
Podur: Loincloths, Ski Masks, and Social Movements
Commentary, August, 27 2001
Justin Podur
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ÒCertainly a soldier, myself included, is an absurd and irrational man, because he has the ability to resort to arms in order to convince. In the end, thatÕs what a soldier does when he gives an order: convince by force of arms. ThatÕs why we say ...
Monbiot: Hell's Grannies
Commentary, August, 20 2001
George Monbiot
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Ariel Sharon's decision not to blast the Palestinians out of existence after last week's suicide bombings is, at first sight, mystifying. While jets blew up the Palestinians' police station in Ramallah and Israeli soldiers occupied their East Je...
Brecher: The Road From Genoa
Commentary, August, 18 2001
Jeremy Brecher
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The battle in Genoa was not only the key event in the summer of 2001, but also marked a watershed for the anti-corporate movement. From the outset, the Big Eight summit in Genoa was doomed to become nothing more than a pretext for widespread prote...
Naiman: World Bank Grants Would Reduce Poor Country Debt Without Cost to U.S.
Commentary, August, 17 2001
Robert Naiman
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President Bush proposed in Genoa that up to 50% of the World Bank's lending to the poorest countries be converted to grants focused on education, health care, access to clean water, and sanitation. This would be a step towards addressing the unbea...
Naiman: Reparations Should Include Universal Access to Health Care and Education
Commentary, August, 17 2001
Robert Naiman
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At the end of August in South Africa, the United Nations will convene the "World Conference Against Racism." News reports say that the U.S. and European governments have opposed efforts by African countries to address demands for "reparations" for...
Peters: An S30 Victory Six Weeks in Advance
Commentary, August, 16 2001
Cynthia Peters
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In a joint statement released on August 14, 2001, the IMF/World Bank reported that their annual meeting, originally scheduled to run for two weeks, would be reduced to two days. (The normal two-week meeting had previously been shortened to one wee...
Rebick: The New Politics Initiative: Towards a Living Democracy
Commentary, August, 14 2001
Judy Rebick
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What is participatory democracy? It is government that involves citizens at every level of decision-making. The form of participatory democracy we know best in Canada involves consulting citizens about policy. While experiences like the citizens c...
Pilger: Liberal elites have always disguised their innate conservatism
Commentary, August, 13 2001
John Pilger
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At the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in May, leading members of the media and cultural elite assembled in the fine gardens of a Regency house to await the arrival of the great man. They included broadsheet editors, deputy editors, literary editors,...
Choudry: Bringing It All Back Home
Commentary, August, 03 2001
Aziz Choudry
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"We are faced with a two-fold challenge, to struggle as best we can to deal with the immediate consequences of globalisation. Secondly, and more difficult, to contextualise those problems within the 500-year-and-more history of the culture of colo...
Brecher: The Road from Genoa
Commentary, August, 03 2001
Jeremy Brecher
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In the year-and-a-half from the Battle of Seattle to the Battle of Genoa, the WTO, World Bank, IMF, and G-8 have provided spectacular "targets of opportunity" for the transnational movement challenging top-down globalization. The movement has refr...
Kissenger: Government Targets Mumia for Death: Outrageous New Court Ruling
Commentary, August, 01 2001
Clark Kissenger
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In yet another step in the governmentÕs plan to railroad Mumia Abu-Jamal into the death chamber, a federal court has refused to take testimony from a man named Arnold Beverly, who has come forward to state that he is the person who actually shot P...
Russell: Eroding the Employment-At-Will Doctrine
Commentary, July, 31 2001
Marta Russell
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Opportunities to make revolutionary change sometimes go unrecognized and are missed. When too few people fully grasp the potential of what is before them there is a failure to present a powerful societal force to secure reform. As Vijay Prashad no...
Glick: The Difference a Month Can Make
Commentary, July, 29 2001
Ted Glick
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Think back for a moment to last December and January. There was tremendous outrage over the 5-4 Bush victory in the Supreme Court. Large numbers of people, the largest since the Vietnam War, demonstrated in D.C. on January 20th, inauguration day, ...
Podur: A Way out for Colombia
Commentary, July, 28 2001
Justin Podur
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I didn't go to Colombia looking for understanding, although it was there for me in the form of razor-sharp analysts who do their work under fire. I didn't go looking for hope either, although I found some of that too, in the very same people. What...
Bond: Blue Planet targets PRIVATE commodification of world's water
Commentary, July, 28 2001
Patrick Bond
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The July 5-8 "Blue Planet" conference in Vancouver opened with a call by Maude Barlow to promote "a global water revolution. This is the first of many international civil society meetings to take back control of our water." The host Council of Can...
