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Zmag Article Parenti: Criminal Injustice: Confronting the prison crisis

Zmag Article, April, 01 1997 Christian Parenti
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pages South End Press, 1996; $18.00 Reviewed by Christian Parenti   Incarceration is becoming one of the defining institutions of American s...

Zmag Article Peterson: A Great Chicago Land Grab

Zmag Article, April, 01 1997 David Peterson
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David Peterson   Since the Department of Housing and Urban development engineered a federal takeover of the Chicago Housing Authority in late May 1995, CHA t...

Zmag Article Petras: The Political Economy of Early Debt Payment

Zmag Article, April, 01 1997 James Petras
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  On January 15 President Clinton announced that Mexico had repaid all of the $12.5 billion it borrowed from Washington to stave off financial collapse and bail out Wall ...

Zmag Article Herman: The Inky and Me

Zmag Article, March, 01 1997 Edward Herman
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  The Philadelphia Inquirer (Inky) is widely regarded as a very good newspaper. This reputation derives in part from its great superiority over its predecess...

Zmag Article Bacon: Korean Workers Shut Down the Chaebols

Zmag Article, March, 01 1997 David Bacon
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David Bacon   Since January 14, pitched battles have raged in the streets of Seoul. Outside the Myongdong Cathedral, union leaders have been directing the general strike paralyzing South Korea, and phalanxes of poli...

Zmag Article Eisenscher: The Fate of Social Security

Zmag Article, March, 01 1997 Michael Eisenscher
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Donohue   It was a slow news day, just before a major holiday—a good time to release politically sensitive or potentially embarrassing news. Buried in the innards...

Zmag Article Lier: No Justice, But Peace (For Now)

Zmag Article, March, 01 1997 Piet van Lier
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Piet van Lier   Give me a U. Give me an R. Give me an N. Give me a G. What’s it spell? U-R-N-G! I can’t hear you. U-R-N-G! U-R-N-G! U-R-N-G!" It sounded like a high school basketball game, but several h...

Zmag Article Luna: U.C. Berkeley Students Protest Vote to End Affirmative Action

Zmag Article, March, 01 1997 Jennie marie Luna
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U.C. Berkeley Students Protest Vote to End Affirmative Action

Zmag Article Mccollom: Reincarnating Freud: Rules, Planets, and Hysteria in the 1990s

Zmag Article, March, 01 1997 Susana Mccollom
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Reincarnating Freud: Rules, Planets, and Hysteria in the 1990s

Zmag Article Buell: The Politics of Family Leave

Zmag Article, March, 01 1997 John Buell
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The Politics of Family Leave

Zmag Article Cook: The Downsizing of Labor Rights

Zmag Article, March, 01 1997 Christopher d. Cook
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  Workers were a hot item in 1996. Born-again populists of both parties jostled for votes from the anxious and the downsized. Labor was Big again, elevating ...

Zmag Article Guthrie: Environmental Racism on Montana Reservation

Zmag Article, March, 01 1997 Deirdre Guthrie
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Deirdre Guthrie   In 1994, when I first arrived in Montana to work for Red Thunder Incorporated (RTI), now known as Spirit Mountain Cultural Clan, on the Fort Belknap Native American reservation, environmental racism ...

Zmag Article Harris: Panic on Wall Street

Zmag Article, March, 01 1997 Bob Harris
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footage of excited bald guys in Brooks Brothers suits messing up each others comb-overs. You’re supposed to think happiness on Wall Street is good news for the rest of us. ...

Zmag Article Martinez: The Movie That Makes Magic With Pennies

Zmag Article, March, 01 1997 Elizabeth Martinez
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Falling in love with a movie can happen now and then, but how often does a dazzling film like Follow Me Home come along? A film whose politics make the revolution seem possible after all, whose aesthetics are brilliantly unpredictable and whose ac...

Zmag Article Chomsky: Expanding the Floor of the Cage

Zmag Article, March, 01 1997 Noam Chomsky
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David Barsamian   I know you’ve just been on a month-long trip to Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. I want to tell you about a little trip that I took with Howard Zinn to Florence. Florence, Italy? I wish. Flore...

Zmag Article Hawkins: Green Party: Still Seeking Unity

Zmag Article, March, 01 1997 Howie Hawkins
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Greens ran more than 60 candidates in the 1996 election and the results are encouraging for Greens and for anyone who wants to see an independent progressive political movement in this country. Among the Greens' strongest showings were:

Zmag Article Martinez: It's a Terrorist War on Immigrants

Zmag Article, March, 01 1997 Elizabeth Martinez
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In the spring of 1997, a Latino immigrant who had worked legally in the United States for 40 years committed suicide after receiving a letter saying that under the new welfare law his Supplemental Security Income (SSI) migh...

Zmag Article Herman: Gary Webb and the Media's Rush to the Barricades

Zmag Article, February, 01 1997 Edward Herman
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Gary Webb and the Media's Rush to the Barricades

Zmag Article Sargent: Hotel Satire

Zmag Article, February, 01 1997 Lydia Sargent
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Hotel Satire

Zmag Article Albert: Pacifica

Zmag Article, February, 01 1997 Michael Albert
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Pacifica

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