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Smith: Unions From 61 Countries Meet
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Jim Smith
Smith's ZSpace page
Just as the pivotal UPS strike was getting underway, union activists from 61 countries were assembling in Havana, Cuba, intent on breathing new life into the international labor movement. The International Workers Conference Against Neoli...
Hassan: Justice Too Long Delayed
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Kamal Hassan
Hassan's ZSpace page
On Tuesday June 10, 1997, surrounded by members of his family, former comrades in the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, a crush of "suddenly interested" media personnel, and hundreds of cheering, hugging, and crying supporters,...
Perry: Dropping The Bomb On CD-ROM.
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Joseph m. Perry
Perry's ZSpace page
Dropping The Bomb On CD-ROM.
Grytting: NewsSpeak
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Wayne Grytting
Grytting's ZSpace page
Grytting The New Face of PBS PBS has taken another bold step in expanding our concept of public broadcasting. This past year they introduced a new character for the three- to eight-year-old set who is surpassing even Barn...
Hamilton: Diamonds In The Dirt?
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Lisa Hamilton
Hamilton's ZSpace page
Consumers, growers, and corporations predicted imminent failure when organic agriculture enjoyed an American renaissance in the 1970s. Nobody believed organic food was important enough to carry its high retail price. Despite the misgivings, ...
Mcdowell: Economic Sanctions on Iraq
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Rick Mcdowell
Mcdowell's ZSpace page
Seven years of the most comprehensive sanctions in modern history have reduced Iraq and its people to utter destitution. United Nation Security Council’s economic sanctions, invoked only ten times since the inception of the United Natio...
Cahill: Rough Going
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Sean Cahill
Cahill's ZSpace page
For the first time since 1921, when Michael Collins reluctantly accepted the partition of Ireland by the British, the Irish Republican political party Sinn Fein (Irish for "ourselves alone") held official talks with the British ...
Administrator: none
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Site Administrator
Administrator's ZSpace page
The Hesperian Foundation. Berkeley California. 584 pp. Paperback. Review by Cynthia Peters My dogeared copies of Where There is No Doctor, A Village Health Care Handbook (the Hesperian Foundation) and an early edition of Our Bodies ...
Administrator: Boom Times for Billionaires, Bust for Workers and Children
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Site Administrator
Administrator's ZSpace page
A million bucks is chump change these days to the richest Americans. It took at least $475 million to get on this year’s Forbes 400 roster of the ultra-rich, up from $415 million in 1996. Oprah Winfrey, ranked 343 with $550 million, is ...
Solomon: Worshipping New Media Gods
Zmag Article, October, 01 1997
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
story. Meanwhile, back on the ground, mortals can only imagine what it’s like to move corporate mountains and build digital highways with the flick of a pen. We’re encouraged to look up with awe at the colossal d...
Sargent: Creating Institutions
Zmag Article, October, 01 1997
Lydia Sargent
Sargent's ZSpace page
Lydia Sargent I was going to write an impersonal account of institution-building vis-a-vis describing Z Media Institute. That’s why all the ZMI photos in this article. But my original plan seemed: (a) impossi...
Peterson: The Global Media
Zmag Article, October, 01 1997
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
David Peterson Edward S. Herman and Robert W. McChesney are two of the most important critics of the global media scene. A Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and...
Chomsky: What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
Zmag Article, October, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Noam Chomsky Part of the reason why I write about the media is because I am interested in the whole intellectual culture, and the part of it that is easiest to study is the media. It comes out every day. You can d...
Albert: What Makes Alternative Media Alternative?
Zmag Article, October, 01 1997
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Is the Nation an alternative media institution? What about Dollars and Sense or Mother Jones, or, for that matter, Z Magazine? Do these institutions make decisions in an acceptably alternative manner? Do they treat workers prop...
Goodman: Freeing the Media: The Exception to the Rulers
Zmag Article, October, 01 1997
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
Amy Goodman I wanted to talk about the idea of freeing the media. What happens in covering issues that the consensus defined by Washington and inside the beltway doesn’t agree with or does not want to cover. ...
Ruggiero: On the Growing Free Media Movement
Zmag Article, October, 01 1997
Greg Ruggiero
Ruggiero's ZSpace page
Greg Ruggiero & Kate Duncan From July 26 through August 3 more than 3,000 people gathered in Spain for the Zapatista initiated Second Encuentro for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism. Following up last year...
Grytting: NewSpeak
Zmag Article, October, 01 1997
Wayne Grytting
Grytting's ZSpace page
the Journal to "Teamster Lords." These Lords won because, "Modern media politics isn’t about substance or subtle distinctions. It’s about spin and sound bites..." Pretty shocking. Makes it tough for the...
Staff: Writing for the Mainstream
Zmag Article, October, 01 1997
Z Staff
Staff's ZSpace page
Z Staff Z: Over the years you have written in a lot of venues, ranging from newsletters to national left publications to mainstream periodicals and Time magazine. To what do you attribute this success? EHREN...
Albert: title("Society's Pliers")
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
title("Society's Pliers")
Peters: Parenting
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
Parenting It Takes A Whole Baby Product And Toy Industry To Raise A Child By Cynthia Peters Buy a copy of the Prenatal Classroom and learn how to give your fetus a jumpstart on learning. Have a &quo...
