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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.

Commentary Albert: Pacifica, Pacifica!

Commentary, June, 23 1999 Michael Albert
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The current crisis at Pacifica was unleashed with recent firings of prominent and appreciated employees leading to irate listeners and employees demonstrating their opposition widely and militantly. Any progressive alternative institution has to u...

Commentary Cagan: Report from the Front Line: Challenges to Proposed Millennium March for Gay Rights Growing

Commentary, June, 22 1999 Leslie Cagan
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This month marks the 30th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village, NY. ... But what has grown into one of the major civil rights struggles is riddled with serious political problems.

Commentary Shalom: Lessons -- and Hope -- from Kerala

Commentary, June, 21 1999 Stephen1 Shalom
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Are there alternatives to the dominant economic model that consigns increasing numbers of people to lives of misery? One such alternative is offered by the state of Kerala in southern India which has been the site of fascinating social experimenta...

Commentary Wise: The Threat of a Good Example

Commentary, June, 20 1999 Tim Wise
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Occasionally when I'm speaking to college students, attempting to inspire at least a few to commit themselves to social justice as a way of life and perhaps career, I'm asked the question for which there is no easy answer; the one that goes: "What...

Commentary Solomon: Shadow Falling on beacon of Independent Radio

Commentary, June, 19 1999 Norman Solomon
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This summer begins with a large shadow hanging over one of the nation's pioneering radio stations. Half a century after listener-supported KPFA took to the airwaves in the San Francisco area as a unique experiment in media independence, the battle...

Commentary Dominick: Signs of Movement? The State of Anti-War Activism in the U.S.

Commentary, June, 11 1999 Brian Dominick
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It has been a tense several days for those of us paying close attention to the war, as we evaluate both the status of so-called "negotiations" in Europe and that of the anti-war movement here at home.

Zmag Article Albert: Lend Me Your Ear

Zmag Article, June, 01 1999 Michael Albert
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Lend Me Your Ear

Commentary Bohmer: Mumia at Graduation

Commentary, May, 30 1999 Peter Bohmer
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No, Mumia Abu-Jamal is not being released to speak at the Evergreen State College graduation. However, on Friday June 11th, the 1999 graduation at this college will include a unique commencement address - a 13-minute audio-recorded speech taped on...

Commentary Bronski: Liberation by Accumulation

Commentary, May, 27 1999 Michael Bronski
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I hardly ever drink beer, being a cheap red wine and bourbon sort of guy, so I was startled last week when I received more then a dozen e-mail (many from lesbian and gay activists use work I respect) urging me call the Anheuser-Busch company and v...

Commentary Cagan: Can We Keep A Movement Alive

Commentary, May, 20 1999 Leslie Cagan
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If you read my commentary last month you know I recently was in the center of the organizing for a major march and rally against police brutality here in New York City.

Commentary Brecher: Letter to Bernie Sanders

Commentary, May, 17 1999 Jeremy Brecher
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Dear Bernie -- This letter explains the matters of conscience that have led me to resign from your staff.

Commentary Raptis: The Greeks, Kosovo, Etc.

Commentary, May, 12 1999 Nikos Raptis
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As already mentioned, during the night of April 27 to April 28, '99, Greek demonstrators forced a train carrying British troops and tanks to Macedonia to return to the terminus of the port of Salonica and not leave for Macedonia.

Commentary Herman: Hitchens Degraded

Commentary, May, 08 1999 Edward Herman
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It would be hard to imagine better evidence of the sorry state of supposedly left opinion in this country than Christopher Hitchens' "Belgrade Degraded" in the May 17 issue of The Nation.

Commentary Raptis: The Greeks, Kosovo, and the U.S.

Commentary, May, 02 1999 Nikos Raptis
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Following the Chomskyan distinction, in the present text the word Greeks refers to the inhabitants of the geographic region of Greece as distinct from the political and economic elits that "govern" the country. (The use of the quotation marks is e...

Zmag Article Glick: A Progressive Voice in 2000?

Zmag Article, May, 01 1999 Ted Glick
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A Progressive Voice in 2000?

Zmag Article Albert: The Kosovo/NATO Conflict

Zmag Article, May, 01 1999 Michael Albert
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The Kosovo/NATO Conflict

Zmag Article Petras: From Pericles to Samaranch

Zmag Article, May, 01 1999 James Petras
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From Pericles to Samaranch

Commentary Bohmer: Fight the Power

Commentary, April, 30 1999 Peter Bohmer
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Last weekend, my son, Inti, who is 20 and I, who am quite a few years older than that, went to San Francisco to take part in a rally and demonstration in support of political prisoner and death row inmate, Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Commentary Peters: Responding To Sentiment

Commentary, April, 21 1999 Cynthia Peters
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There was a lengthy debate at my dinner table the other night about the situation in Yugoslavia. Most of my relatives defended the NATO bombings as the only moral action to take in the face of crimes being committed against ethnic Albanians. I arg...

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