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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
Albert: Building Solidarity
Commentary, December, 24 1999
Michael Albert
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Social struggle will never be perfectly choreographed but we can at least have broad norms regarding movement process that benefit all involved constituencies.
Albert: Different Strokes for Different Folks!?
Commentary, December, 18 1999
Michael Albert
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How do we evaluate movement tactics and particularly property-damaging or truly aggressive or violent tactics?
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...
Albert: The WTO and Mumia Abu Jamal
Commentary, October, 18 1999
Michael Albert
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The World Trade Organization treats working people in countries throughout the world as assets to manipulate in pursuit of private corporate profit. From Guatemala to South Africa and from Thailand to the South Bronx, this causes impoverishment, i...
Shalom: Political Correctness and the Desert Storm Law
Commentary, October, 13 1999
Stephen1 Shalom
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Conservative pundits and their frequent liberal allies have been complaining for years about "Political Correctness" -- the intrusion of left-wing ideology into the academy, supposedly subverting academic standards.
Albert: Mother Jones, Todd Gitlin, & Kosovo
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Michael Albert
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Michael Albert Many people were concerned during the Kosovo conflict that crimes against the Albanian Kosovars were so horrific that however painful it might be to undertake, NATO intervention was warranted. Such folks felt that genocide ...
Shalom: The State of the World
Commentary, September, 14 1999
Stephen1 Shalom
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This summer, the United Nations Development Programme issued its annual Human Development Report. The document is a stinging indictment of globalization and its horrific impact on the well-being of so many of the world's people.
Shalom: Another Attack on Affirmative Action
Commentary, August, 14 1999
Stephen1 Shalom
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In the present dreary political climate, another court decision against affirmative action might not warrant special comment. But a ruling last month by a Federal District judge in Savannah, Georgia, is worth considering if only because it illustr...
Albert: Prison Policy
Commentary, August, 10 1999
Michael Albert
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About 25 years ago I was at a dinner party with a bunch of leftist economics faculty and grad students, and I posed a hypothetical question to engender some dinner debate. If you had only two choices, I asked, would you open all prison doors and l...
Albert: Pacifica, Pacifica!
Commentary, June, 23 1999
Michael Albert
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The current crisis at Pacifica was unleashed with recent firings of prominent and appreciated employees leading to irate listeners and employees demonstrating their opposition widely and militantly. Any progressive alternative institution has to u...
Shalom: Lessons -- and Hope -- from Kerala
Commentary, June, 21 1999
Stephen1 Shalom
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Are there alternatives to the dominant economic model that consigns increasing numbers of people to lives of misery? One such alternative is offered by the state of Kerala in southern India which has been the site of fascinating social experimenta...
Albert: Lend Me Your Ear
Zmag Article, June, 01 1999
Michael Albert
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Lend Me Your Ear
Shalom: The Milosevic Indictment
Commentary, May, 29 1999
Stephen1 Shalom
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Following World War II, a war crimes tribunal was held in Tokyo to try Japanese political and military leaders. There is no doubt that the defendants were responsible for appalling atrocities, but, as the Indian judge on the tribunal wrote in his ...
Shalom: The Struggle Against Racial Profiling
Commentary, May, 23 1999
Stephen Shalom
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For years, African American motorists have complained of being stopped by the police for the offense of DWB -- "Driving While Black."
Albert: The Kosovo/NATO Conflict
Zmag Article, May, 01 1999
Michael Albert
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The Kosovo/NATO Conflict
Shalom: Thinking About Affirmative Action
Commentary, April, 11 1999
Stephen1 Shalom
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There is a group of people in the United States who are given special preferences because of difficulties they suffered in the past.
Shalom: Terrorists and Madmen
Commentary, March, 27 1999
Stephen1 Shalom
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The official U.S. explanation for the missile strikes on the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant last summer was so transparently bogus that even the NEW YORK TIMES -- after its initial approving editorial -- was forced a few days later to run a skeptic...
Albert: Some Thoughts About the Bombings
Commentary, March, 26 1999
Michael Albert
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Does it ring any bells for anyone else that bombing country A may not have anything to do with country A per se, at least in recent times? Once it begins, bombing almost never yields a sought outcome regarding the place bombed (save, of course, wh...
Shalom: You've Come A Long Way, Brother
Commentary, March, 06 1999
Stephen1 Shalom
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The year 1926 was in the thick of the Jim Crow era. In the American South, racial segregation was the law of the land. Schools, jobs, public accommodations, movie theaters, water fountains and most everything else were segregated.
