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Staff: Editorial: The Personal Is Political?!
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
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political and social setting. They feel personal, and their details are personal, but their broad texture and character, and especially the limits within which these evolve, are largely systemic. In this sense, the contribution of t...
Hart: Deregulation and Nuclear Power
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Kathleen Hart
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Deregulation of the U.S. electricity industry is moving forward quickly, quietly, and with little public debate about its potential dangers—including the increased risk of a nuclear power plant accident. Ca...
Harris: The Scoop
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Bob Harris
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Harris The Gingrich Bailout In accepting $300,000 from Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich claims he took the high ground. If enough folks examine the deal closely, he may have to head on up to the hills. ...
Gibson: In Memory: Paulo Freire
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Rich Gibson
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Gibson Paulo Freire, the radical Brazilian "Vagabond of the Obvious" and the most widely known educator in the world, died on May 2, 1997 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was 75. Freire drew on humanis...
Fairchild: Low-Power Radio
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Charles Fairchild
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Fairchild As part of his arguments submitted to the FCC regarding the possibility of low-power radio in the U.S., Free Radio Berkeley founder Stephen Dunifer suggested that low-power broadcasting in Canada could ...
Archer: Export, Eh?
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Simon Archer
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Archer In January the Canadian Trade Minister, Art Eggleton, came down with competitive advantage flu and mused that the state should not support or protect Canadian culture, but instead "free" it for ex...
Administrator: CrossCurrents: Imagine A Country
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
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Holly Sklar Imagine a country where one out of four children is born into poverty, and wealth is being redistributed upward. Since the 1970s, the top 1 percent of families have doubled their share of the nation...
Solomon: Media Beat
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Norman Solomon
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similar stories many times: A scrappy innovator took on the business establishment and made a fortune. An engineer battled myopic bosses to develop a great new product. A brilliant computer nerd overcame entrenched foes and now ...
Parenti: Rural Prison as Colonial Master
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Christian Parenti
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Christian Parenti In 1964 a tsunami swept over Crescent City, California completely destroying the downtown. Only nine people died, but the town—nestled just below the Oregon border—never recovered. It w...
Sargent: I Dreamed I Was In A Bra Ad in My Maidenform Bra
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Lydia Sargent
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Lydia Sargent Gals, there is a controversy raging here at Hotel Satire. It’s terrible. Mom gals aren’t speaking to daughter gals and vice verse. Gals who have been friends for years now won’t visit ...
Herman: Word Tricks & Propaganda
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Edward Herman
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Edward S. Herman The mainstream media carry out their propaganda service on behalf of the corporate and political establishment in many ways: by choice of topics addressed (government rather than corporate abuses,...
Johnson: Human Rights Watch World Report 1997: Events Of 1996
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Tom Johnson
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In January 1997, the international human rights organization, Human Rights Watch, released its seventh annual report on the worldwide condition of human rights. The report, overall, finds human rights’ cond...
Ziman: Criminalizing the Charitable
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Jenna e. Ziman
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Jenna E. Ziman In cities throughout the world, a silent "war against the poor" is brewing, and control over food distribution is one of its most effective weapons. Food Not Bombs, a non-violent activist ...
James: Haiti: The Roof Is Leaking
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Clara James
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Clara James On April 6, Haiti held elections to fill one-third of the Senate seats and positions on over 500 communal and town councils. The only problem was, most Haitians did not go to the polls. Only about 5 pe...
Macek: New Party Report: Making Work Pay
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Steve Macek
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New Party Report: Making Work Pay
Carpenter: An interview with Cheri Honkala at Temple University, April 14, 1997
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
John potash and laurel Carpenter
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John Potash and Laurel Carpenter Cheri Honkala is a welfare recipient who is co-chair of the National Welfare Rights Union, as well as the leader of Philadelphia’s Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU), a grassroots ...
Staff: Media and Democracy 1997 -- Preview
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
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In any event, at the recent LAAMN meeting there was apparently a lively and productive discussion of the upcoming Congress and how it might be most effective. To start, LAAMN proposes panels on the labor movement, environment, ...
Grytting: Newspeak
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Wayne Grytting
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Wayne Grytting Advertisers Becoming Literate Major advertisers are "changing the rules of magazine publishing," reports the Wall Street Journal, by breaking down the walls separating ads from e...
Harris: Liggett Narcs Joe Camel
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Bob Harris
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Liggett Narcs Joe Camel
Dolgon: Cleaning up the Hamptons
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Corey Dolgon
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Corey Dolgon On April 16, over 100 people gathered to support the Coalition for Justice (CFJ), a group formed by Southampton College (SC) custodians who were recently "contracted out" to a private manage...
