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Weisbrot: Verizon Workers Defend the Right to Organize
Commentary, August, 19 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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Workers at Verizon Communications had a lot of reasons to go out on strike against the nation's largest provider of local telephone and wireless services: loss of jobs to non- union sub-contractors, forced overtime, overbearing management. And a...
Weisbrot: Police Abuses Won't Stifle Protests
Commentary, August, 13 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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"When protest becomes effective, governments become repressive." Tom Hayden summed it up in an axiom three decades ago, while describing his own trial on conspiracy charges for organizing protests against the Vietnam War.
Dominick: Zapatismo, Anyone?
Commentary, August, 09 2000
Brian Dominick
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Not since the Zapatista uprising in January, 1994, has my hope for radical social change been so reinvigorated as by the recent uprisings here in the North around the World Trade Organization, the IMF/World Bank, and the Organization of American S...
Mokhiber: Big Ideas on Corporate Accountability and Global Sustainability
Commentary, August, 08 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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Sometimes, it is important to think big.In an era where corporations trample across the globe with minimal restraint, and citizen movements around the world are on their heels, it is natural -- and necessary -- for those trying to check corporate ...
Albert: Anarchism Today
Commentary, August, 07 2000
Michael Albert
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In lieu of attending the North American Anarchist Conference (NAAC), I was asked: Òwhat do you think of anarchism as an existing and potential ideology and movement?Ó Well, I think if anarchism were an ecology, it would be a tropical rain forest--...
Glick: Leftists and Popular Movements
Commentary, August, 04 2000
Ted Glick
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There are a number of reasons why some of those who are left of center in the United States have not yet decided to support the Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke Green Party independent Presidential campaign. Some have the usual "lesser of two evils" argu...
Weisbrot: Venezuelan Elections Offer Hope of Real Reform
Commentary, August, 02 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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The electoral victory of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday, greeted with celebration by the country's poor majority, may have implications beyond Venezuela's borders.
Cagan: Philadelphia: Sunday, July 30
Commentary, August, 01 2000
Leslie Cagan
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As the several thousand delegates to the Republican PartyÕs Nominating Convention were arriving in Philadelphia this weekend, protests were already in full swing. There is too much happening for me to report on it all, but the Independent Media Ce...
Guellec: The dark side of the Canadian Healthcare systemÕs decline
Commentary, July, 19 2000
Dorothy Guellec
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My wise uncle told me that the real meaning of Globalization Òis to make the world safe for the American and other multinational corporations to penetrate and take over as much as the worldÕs economy, country by country, as possibleÓ. He is right,...
Glick: The Nader/Laduke Campaign The Nader/LaDuke Movement
Commentary, July, 08 2000
Ted Glick
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There is no question, absolutely none, that of the four "name recognition" Presidential candidates--Bush, Gore, Nader and Buchanan--Ralph Nader is far and away the most progressive. He will be on the ballot in almost all of the states. As distinct...
Isserman: none
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Maurice Isserman
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New York: Public Affairs, 2000; 449 pp. Review by Jason Schulman The legacy of the late Michael Harrington—known best to the public at large as the author of The Other America (1962), the book credited with sparking the Kennedy-...
Schirmer: President Clinton, A Corporate Offensive, and Okinawan Bases
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Daniel Schirmer
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President Clinton, A Corporate Offensive, and Okinawan Bases
Sapir: Dismembering PACE
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Mark Sapir
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In October 1999 Tom Bodenheimer, a progressive San Francisco community physician published a review article in the New England Journal of Medicine, presenting an historical overview of the Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)...
Many: A Z Compendium for the 'Summer of Convention Convergences
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Authors Many
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alphabetically: Michael Albert, Tariq Ali, Leslie Cagan, Doug Dowd, Dorothy Guellec, Robert Naiman, Cynthia Peters, Lydia Sargent, Danny Schechter, Steve Shalom, Karen Wald, and Tim Wise. Michael Albert Solving Problems For "outward or...
Berkowitz: The Interfaith Council for Environmental Stewardship
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Bill Berkowitz
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A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to this year’s 30th anniversary of Earth Day. A group of Religious Right leaders, scientists, and academics, basking in the dual spotlights of Earth Day and Holy Week, launched the Interfaith Cou...
Rebick: Pitch battle is at doors of Ontario legislature
Commentary, June, 20 2000
Judy Rebick
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The Ontario Coalition against Poverty wanted to be heard. Ever since right-wing Ontario Premier Mike Harris was elected, the organization has tried everything to get the government to pay attention to the desperate straits facing poor and homeles...
Glick: History and Communications
Commentary, June, 13 2000
Ted Glick
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A few weeks ago I received a letter from someone who quoted Karl Marx as having once said, "History moves with the speed of communication." This quote struck me.
Herman: WHAT IS LIBERALISM?
Commentary, June, 12 2000
Edward Herman
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In a May 22 editorial in the liberal The American Prospect (TAP), which he edits along with Paul Starr, Robert Kuttner lauds radicals, for keeping moral demands to the fore and for pioneering on major issues that were central to democratic advance...
Schechter: Newman's Own PR War (On Nuclear War)
Commentary, June, 11 2000
Danny Schechter
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When he took off his sunglasses, you knew it was screen star Paul Newman. Those blue eyes always give him away. One day last week, I found myself staring into them from behind a video camera, as Newman recorded a message beginning with a recollect...
