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Zmag Article Hill: San Francisco Mayoral Race

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Steven Hill
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In an otherwise off political year, the San Francisco mayoral race in December 1999 commanded national attention. The quintessential “only in San Francisco” story line of the mainstream media set Willie Brown, the powerful, liberal ...

Zmag Article Leggett: none

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Jeremy Leggett
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Penguin Books, 1999 Review by David Cromwell In January 1991, almost seven years before the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change set an overall target for industrialized countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 5.2 percent, ...

Zmag Article Demers: Living in Delray Beach

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Michael Demers
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The city of Delray Beach, Florida represents a world of two distinct realities for two distinct groups of people: those of upper income and those of middle to low income. The current trends that are shaping the downtown section of this city ...

Zmag Article Steinberg: Stop McNukes

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Michael Steinberg
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The deregulation of the U.S. electrical industry was supposed to end monopoly control of that commodity. Unfortunately the nuclear component of the industry has tainted this process. Across the nation ratepayers are getting stuck with pay...

Zmag Article Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part II

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Lydia Sargent
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Lydia Sargent As I said in Part I, the title 37.7 seconds refers to the average amount of time fathers spent each day communicating with their babies during the first three months of life, according to a 1971 study quoted in Has Feminism Chang...

Zmag Article Gordon: Barak's Economic Program

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Neve Gordon
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Neve Gordon In 1992, it was still unclear that Bill Clinton’s election would mark the advent of a new breed of leaders. Yet a few years later Tony Blair was elected in England and Lionel Jospin in France. When Germany’s Gerha...

Zmag Article Hahnel: China & the WTO

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Robin Hahnel
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Robin Hahnel After declining to sign a "better deal" last April, the Clinton administration signed off on conditions for permitting China to enter the World Trade Organization (WTO) in November. Even t...

Zmag Article Herman: Hitchens on Serbia and East Timor

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Edward Herman
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Edward S. Herman In each U.S. war there are liberals and leftists who lend it support, and even larger numbers who don’t oppose it because the issues and stakes involved seem unclear. Both support and silence are encouraged by the...

Zmag Article Barsamian: Challenging Corporate Power

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 David Barsamian
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Barsamian Richard Grossman is co-director of the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy. He is co-author of Taking Care of Business: Citizenship and the Charter of Incorporation. He lectures widely on issues of corporate power, law, and d...

Zmag Article Bronski: Justice is Blind and Gagged

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Michael Bronski
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Michael Bronski With a final flurry of media attention the trials of Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson for the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard are now over. But in the quiet after such an emotional social and political storm, two t...

Zmag Article Carter: The Indigo Girls & Rage Against the Machine

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Sandy Carter
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Carter When the Atlanta, Georgia-based duo the Indigo Girls signed on with Epic Records in 1988, the mainstream music market was getting on the bandwagon of a new "folk revival" trend triggered by the surprising breakthroughs of Trac...

Zmag Article Albert: A Q & A on the WTO, IMF, World Bank, and Activism

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Michael Albert
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A Q & A on the WTO, IMF, World Bank, and Activism

Zmag Article Bacon: Will A Social Clause In Trade Agreements Advance International Solidarity?

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 David Bacon
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David Bacon On November 30 the AFL-CIO mobilized thousands of union members to demonstrate in Seattle outside the meeting of trade ministers of the World Trade Organization. The labor federation called for incor...

Zmag Article Berkowitz: Talk Radio's Laura Schlessinger

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Bill Berkowitz
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Berkowitz Over the past several years Dr. Laura Schlessinger has taken talk radio to new heights with her extraordinarily popular and controversial advice program. She has adapted the call-in format to her own special brand of schtick—a n...

Zmag Article Scioscia: Keeping My Religion

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Amanda Scioscia
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Amanda Scioscia As I stood face to face with Marta Alanis, regional coordinator of Catholics for A Free Choice in Latin America, we looked at each other with scrutiny. "I thought you’d be older," she said. "I ...

Zmag Article Achieng: Outlook 2000

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Judith Achieng
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Judith Achieng With only limited success in enforcing universal respect for children’s rights so far, UN agencies and rights groups are hoping the next century will see new efforts to achieve the goals of the 1990 World Children S...

Zmag Article Albert: On Trashing and Movement Building

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Michael Albert
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This is a response to a post-Seattle debate troubling many folks regarding movement tactics. As a preface, it goes without saying, I hope, that we all understand that as far as violence is concerned, the violent parties in Seattle were first and f...

Zmag Article Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part I

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Lydia Sargent
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Lydia Sargent What is the significance of my title, 37.7? I got it from Has Feminism Changed Science? by Londa Schiebinger who writes: "A study in 1971 reported that fathers spent an average of only 37.7 seconds each day communicating w...

Zmag Article Solomon: Online Trading

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Norman Solomon
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Norman Solomon If you’re watching much television these days, you’ve probably seen a lot of commercials for online investing. Many large brokerage firms are now urging people to play the stock market via the Internet. So, in routine ...

Zmag Article Carter: Bruce Springsteen's Land Of Hope And Dreams

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Sandy Carter
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Carter As we come to the end of the 20th century, it’s increasingly difficult to believe in the power of rock and roll to change lives. But with the current reunion tour of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, the tradition ...

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