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Administrator: Zapatista Report
Zmag Article, December, 01 1999
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Mercedes Osun, translated by Irlandesa The causes that led to the Zapatista uprising—poverty, hunger, diseases, a lack of services, injustice and racism against the indigenous communities—have not, in any way, been resolved. The econ...
Administrator: A Short Guide to the WTO
Commentary, November, 24 1999
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is coming to Seattle at the end of November and tens of thousands of labor, environmental, and progressive activists are organizing to give them a hot reception.
Albert: The WTO and Mumia Abu Jamal
Commentary, October, 18 1999
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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...
Albert: Mother Jones, Todd Gitlin, & Kosovo
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
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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 ...
Administrator: Nazi Nostalgia in Croatia
Commentary, September, 26 1999
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When I visited Croatia three years ago, the book most prominently displayed in the leading bookstores of the capital city Zagreb was a new edition of the notorious anti-Semitic classic, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
Administrator: International Labor Solidarity Puts Pressure on Indonesia
Commentary, September, 17 1999
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In contrast to organized labor's division over what should be done about the Kosovo crisis, the current mayhem and mass killing in East Timor has galvanized a powerful and unified response from unions internationally. Organized labor, and most esp...
Administrator: Hitler Analogies Betray Past and Present
Commentary, August, 28 1999
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The war was launched to protect an oppressed ethnic minority, to punish a massacre, and to secure a New World Order. Which war was that? Why, Hitler's war of course, which came to be known as World War II.
Albert: Prison Policy
Commentary, August, 10 1999
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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...
Administrator: Labor Law and the Heavy Hand of the State
Commentary, July, 23 1999
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There is one remarkable exception to the deregulatory trend in the United States. While politicians happily hack away at regulation, protective legislation, standards and governmental's ability to action on behalf of the whole community, one organ...
Albert: Pacifica, Pacifica!
Commentary, June, 23 1999
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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...
Administrator: The Right to Organize - A Week of Action
Commentary, June, 06 1999
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For seven days in June, from the 19th to the 25th, unions and their allies all over the US will be organizing hearings and forums, rallies and actions aimed at drawing public attention to the dismal state of labor rights, especially the most funda...
Administrator: REFUGEES
Commentary, June, 03 1999
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Ethnic Albanians are reportedly unique in one respect: they do not run away from bombing. The small province of Kosovo has been turned into a proving ground for advanced U.S. weaponry, but the Albanian inhabitants would not think of taking the kid...
Albert: Lend Me Your Ear
Zmag Article, June, 01 1999
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Lend Me Your Ear
Administrator: The Milosevic Indictment
Commentary, May, 29 1999
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Following World War II, a war crimes tribunal was held in Tokyo to try Japanese political and military leaders.
Administrator: The Restive Allies
Commentary, May, 24 1999
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The florid and reckless war rhetoric of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Foreign Secretary Robin Cook is the stuff British tabloids are made of.
Administrator: Organized Labor and the War in Kosovo
Commentary, May, 14 1999
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It's an alarming signal of the declining influence of organized labor that with the start of the bombing of Yugoslavia and the war in Kosovo, that neither the media nor the public at large demand to know labor's position on the conflict.
Albert: The Kosovo/NATO Conflict
Zmag Article, May, 01 1999
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The Kosovo/NATO Conflict
Administrator: The Growing Wealth Gap
Zmag Article, May, 01 1999
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The Growing Wealth Gap
Administrator: Branislav Canak and the Independent Unions in Yugoslavia
Commentary, April, 04 1999
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With all the bleak news out of Kosovo and Yugoslavia, IÕve been trying to make contact with the independent union federation Nezavisnost.
Administrator: Remember the Alamo Part II
Zmag Article, April, 01 1999
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Remember the Alamo Part II
