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Black: Booming on Borrowed Labor
Zmag Article, December, 01 1997
Jan knippers Black
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After more than five years of graduate study in Great Britain, Asliza was anxious to return to her native Brunei. But the country she returned to was not the same one she had left. She wonders at times how much longer she will ...
Brecher: American Labor on the Eve of the Millennium
Zmag Article, December, 01 1997
Jeremy Brecher
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This is the first in a series of articles on the history of rank-and-file labor struggles over the past 25 years. It is drawn from the new concluding chapter Jeremy Brecher has written for the 25th anniversary edition...
Carter: Off The Beaten Path
Zmag Article, December, 01 1997
Sandy Carter
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Off The Beaten Path
Tokar: Greenhouse Politics
Zmag Article, December, 01 1997
Brian Tokar
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This December, heads of state from some 180 countries will convene in Kyoto, Japan in an attempt to negotiate the first internationally binding treaty to control levels of carbon dioxide and other climate-altering emissions. It is d...
Solomon: Good Grief: When It Reigns, It Pours
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Norman Solomon
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"the suffering was somehow unimpressive." The same media outlets that can go into paroxysms of grief over one celebrity’s demise have shown themselves fully capable of ignoring—or even celebrating—the deaths of ma...
Carter: THE LEGACY OF PHIL OCHS
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Sandy Carter
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THE LEGACY OF PHIL OCHS
Chomsky: Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
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Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality
Herman: Privileged Dependency and Waste: The Military Budget
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Edward Herman
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Privileged Dependency and Waste: The Military Budget
Sargent: Oh, Promise Me
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Lydia Sargent
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Oh, Promise Me
Bacon: The Revolt In The Asbestos
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
David Bacon
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Sergio Ruiz Nuñez is a lonely man. Remembering his wife and daughter left behind in Mexico City a year ago, he cannot speak. To hide the water welling up in the corners of his eyes, he turns away. "You know," he finally says, &q...
Bronski: Monster Morph
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Michael Bronski
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The Andrew Cunanan story— from its beginnings as a nearly unnoticed Minneapolis murder on through the killing of Gianni Versace—ended in a not-very-dramatic suicide that swept the story off page one into news oblivion. But as the s...
Albert: The Cambodia Controversy
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Michael Albert
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The Cambodia Controversy
Smith: Unions From 61 Countries Meet
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Jim Smith
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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
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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
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Dropping The Bomb On CD-ROM.
Grytting: NewsSpeak
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Wayne Grytting
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
