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Commentary Marable: The Black Radical Congress: Moving On Up To Congress 2000

Commentary, November, 04 1999 Manning Marable
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On June 19, 1998, over two thousand African Americans gathered in Chicago to participate in the founding conference of the Black Radical Congress (BRC).

Commentary Prashad: I'm Part of Today's Unions, Ask Me Why

Commentary, November, 03 1999 Vijay Prashad
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I'm Part of Today's Unions, Ask Me Why

Zmag Article Hahnel: Going To Greet The WTO In Seattle

Zmag Article, November, 01 1999 Robin Hahnel
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Going To Greet The WTO In Seattle

Commentary Cagan: Two, Three, Many Protests...But All On the Same Night?

Commentary, October, 17 1999 Leslie Cagan
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George W. and his new friends in the leadership of the New York State Republican Party gathered at a fund raising dinner in mid-town Manhattan October 5th. They were all there: George W. Bush, George Pataki, Rudolf Giuliani, Al D'Amato and the res...

Commentary Shah: Young and Younger

Commentary, October, 06 1999 Sonia Shah
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As a child, on every birthday morning, I was meant to touch the feet of each of my parents to show my gratitude and respect. This simple and brief act would overwhelm me with its nakedness, its confession of my own powerlessness, its reference to ...

Zmag Article Chomsky: East Timor Questions & Answers

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Noam Chomsky
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Stephen R. Shalom, Noam Chomsky, & Michael Albert This issue of Z was being prepared as the situation worsened in East Timor. The following Q&A is intended to give readers background information on the situation and U.S. interests in the area....

Commentary Weisbrot: Growing Concerns Over WTO

Commentary, September, 25 1999 Mark Weisbrot
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In just a couple of months thousands of environmentalists, steel workers, longshoremen, AIDS activists, farmers, and others will descend upon Seattle in a "mobilization against globalization." They will hold marches, protests, teach-ins, and confe...

Commentary Marable: The Battle for Ideas

Commentary, September, 18 1999 Manning Marable
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Political power always expresses itself as a body of ideas. If you can create and popularize the key ideas that define the general perceptions about public issues, you will largely determine what happens politically.

Commentary Peters: East Timor Activism in Boston

Commentary, September, 16 1999 Cynthia Peters
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The Sydney Morning Herald reported on Tuesday, September 14, 1999 that "Piles of bodies were burnt on the streets of Dili at the weekend and tens of thousands of refugees were without food or water as they fled the militias and the Indonesian Army...

Commentary Dominick: An Appeal for Continued Anti-War Efforts

Commentary, September, 05 1999 Brian Dominick
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Sept. 5, 1999 An Appeal for Continued Anti-War Efforts By Brian Dominick Did I just see what I think I saw? Has a growing anti-war movement suddenly become dormant, for the umpteenth time in the past few decades - in ...

Commentary Cagan: Thinking About Turkey

Commentary, August, 25 1999 Leslie Cagan
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I sit and watch in horror as the toll continues to rise from the earthquake in Turkey. Today they say over 12,000 dead and with 35 - 40,000 people still missing it's clear this number will grow in the coming days. The Turkish government has alread...

Commentary Dominick: Reflections on Five Years of ZNetting

Commentary, July, 27 1999 Brian Dominick
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Five years ago this month, I installed a tiny telecommunications program in my 386 laptop computer, plugged in a 2400bps modem (yes, I said 24 hundred ), and logged onto ZNet, and that conglomeration of silicon and wires we call the Internet, for ...

Commentary Herman: Resisting Illegitimate Autbority

Commentary, July, 26 1999 Edward Herman
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My feeling that the government in Washington represents illegitimate authority ebbs and flows, but it has gathered strength over the past few years, and even months. One reason is the blatant further dollarization of the electoral process, with Bu...

Commentary Cagan: Some Concerns About the Internet as an Organizing Vehicle

Commentary, July, 21 1999 Leslie Cagan
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For reasons I don't totally understand, I was somewhat late in getting on line. About five years ago the small organization I coordinated - the Cuba Information Project - went on line, but usually the other staff person handled the email communica...

Commentary Solomon: Journalists Inspire Support for Community Radio / Pacifica Continues

Commentary, July, 18 1999 Norman Solomon
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Last Wednesday afternoon, radio journalist Aileen Alfandary stood on the sidewalk in front of the building where she has worked for many years. She looked out of place. The deadline for the KPFA evening news was fast approaching -- but all the doo...

Commentary Zinn: Inspire Please

Commentary, July, 16 1999 Howard Zinn
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The order came from above (I will not reveal the name, unless tortured) ): "Write something inspirational." The exact words were: "Inspire, please."

Commentary Herman: The Importance of a Left Media

Commentary, July, 05 1999 Edward Herman
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A jarring moment in the Philadelphia area propaganda outpouring in support of the bombing of Yugoslavia was a passionately prowar Op Ed column in the Philadelphia Inquirer by long-time local antiwar activist Mark Sacharoff ("NATO did what it had t...

Zmag Article Peterson: How The New York Times Protects Indonesian Terror In East Timor

Zmag Article, July, 01 1999 Edward s. herman and david Peterson
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How The New York Times Protects Indonesian Terror In East Timor

Commentary Halimi: The Left and European Elections

Commentary, June, 27 1999 Serge Halimi
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Now we know for sure that Ç Europe È does not exist. At least not in the hearts and minds of Europeans. Only two days after they concluded a war against Yugoslavia, decided and fought by the United States, the fifteen countries of the European Uni...

Commentary Bohmer: A Graduation Day to Remember

Commentary, June, 26 1999 Peter Bohmer
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Mumia Abu-Jamal gave a memorable speech, recorded from Pennsylvania death row, to 8000 attendees, including more than 1200 graduating students, at the Evergreen State College graduation on June 11, 1999.

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