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Commentary Gonsalves: This is not a campaign issue?

Commentary, March, 11 2000 Sean Gonsalves
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Thanks to the state department and our "adversarial" free press, even those who consider themselves well-informed about foreign policy have tremendous gaps in their knowledge when it comes to our policy in Iraq.

Commentary Martinez: Students of Color Fight Racism at Univ. of Mich. with Month-Long Occupation

Commentary, March, 08 2000 Elizabeth Martinez
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Since Feb. 6, the Students of Color Coalition (SCC) has occupied the tower of the University of Michigan Union building to protest ongoing racist practices on a campus that claims to have a longstanding commitment to multiculturalism and diversity...

Commentary Albert: A Program Seeking Dignified Work

Commentary, March, 05 2000 Michael Albert
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We want to dignify work so we seek to equalize the empowerment effects of all jobs. But how?

Commentary Shalom: The Diallo Case

Commentary, March, 04 2000 Stephen1 Shalom
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During the Vietnam War, the court martial trials of Lt. William Calley and other U.S. military personnel who massacred hundreds of unarmed civilians at My Lai was deeply contentious. Conservatives opposed the trials as besmirching the good name of...

Commentary Herman: SAUL LANDAU'S LETTER ON "PACIFICA BASHING"

Commentary, March, 02 2000 Edward Herman
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In mid-February of this year Saul Landau issued an "Appeal to All Progressives: Stop the Pacifica Bashing!" And he got some 40 liberals and leftists to sign on, many associated with The Nation and Institute for Policy Studies.

Zmag Article Weisbrot: Anti-WTO Organizing

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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  The demonstrations against the WTO in Seattle were probably among the most effective protests in modern American history. The sequel—on April 16 in Washington DC, at the IMF/World Bank spring meetings—may have an even great...

Zmag Article Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part IV

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Lydia Sargent
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In Parts I and II of this series I looked at the “scientific” claims made about women in Dianne Hales’s book Just Like A Woman. In Part III I began examining Helen Fisher’s book The First Sex, published by Random House an...

Zmag Article Bronski: The Destiny of Biology

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Michael Bronski
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Anne Fausto-Sterling is one of the leading theorists on science, sexuality, and gender. Trained as a molecular biologist, and a professor of Biology and Women’s Studies at Brown University, her research and writing covers a broad rage o...

Zmag Article Herman: Russia: U.S. Rival, Dependent, Victim

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Edward Herman
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The U.S. establishment’s and media’s treatment of post-Soviet Russia has been confused, sometimes hostile, and more often than not, apologetic. This is because Russia occupies the odd position of being simultaneously a rival and ob...

Commentary Peters: Reproduction and Sexuality 101

Commentary, March, 01 2000 Cynthia Peters
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I live in a progressive diverse neighborhood where pre-schools stock copies of "Heather Has Two Mommies," but even where this love-makes-a-family consciousness has a strong voice, it does not seem to translate into how we talk to our kids about se...

Zmag Article Martinez: The New Youth Movement In California

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Elizabeth Martinez
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Last February, 42 mostly professional adults—lawyers, teachers, civil rights leaders, and older activists—were arrested for shutting down the Oakland jail to demonstrate against a vicious juvenile crime la...

Zmag Article Martinez: Black & Brown Workers Alliance Born In North Carolina

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Elizabeth Martinez
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In recent years, thousands of Latino migrants have come to work in the Southeast and often remained as permanent residents. In North Carolina alone, the number of Latinos rose from about 77,000 in 1990, according to the Census Bureau, to over 300,...

Commentary Rebick: Feminist Origins

Commentary, February, 28 2000 Judy Rebick
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With memories of the Battle of Seattle still dancing in our heads and thoughts of the World March of Women against poverty and violence beginning to take shape, it might be a good time to think about how social movements actually develop.

Commentary Albert: Dignified Work

Commentary, February, 27 2000 Michael Albert
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The issue of Dignified Work has two primary components: (1) what is a just division of tasks for each person; and (2) what division of tasks do we need to adopt in order to have our work foster self-management?

Commentary Bond: Workers of the world, transcend the wedge!

Commentary, February, 24 2000 Patrick Bond
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Divide-and-conquer is an all too familiar gambit of a ruling elite under stress. Thus Seattle demonstrators, together with a growing international movement struggling in the same spirit in many other sites, have found themselves subject to both re...

Commentary Bronski: Saving Our Children, All Over Again

Commentary, February, 22 2000 Michael Bronski
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Quick. What is the worst threat to high school students across the United States today? Interpersonal violence among students? Guns in the hallways? Rampart drug and alcohol use? Shabbily low teaching standards that allow students to graduate bene...

Commentary Albert: A Program Seeking Self Management

Commentary, February, 20 2000 Michael Albert
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Agreeing that self-management, or decision making input in proportion as one is affected, is a core goal for a participatory economic movement, what demands can we fight for today that will help move us toward self-management tomorrow?

Commentary Gonsalves: The Debate Over Institutional Values

Commentary, February, 19 2000 Sean Gonsalves
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A few lingering thoughts on the whole WTO event: WTO supporters, which includes Clinton and his "liberal" media, say they are for freedom. Front-line and armchair protesters - not to be confused with the handful of vandals that destroyed property ...

Commentary Landau: Elian's Miami Family May Be Drunk Drivers And Criminals, But They Love Him And Believe In Freedom

Commentary, February, 18 2000 Saul Landau
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Since last December, Eli‡n Gonzalez, the 6-year-old Cuban refugee boy, has become for those who love gossip about the living what Jon Benet Ramsey was for the morbid Enquirer readers. Who killed Jon Benet remains a police issue.

Commentary Weisbrot: Drug Companies Fight Prescription Benefits for Seniors

Commentary, February, 15 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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What are the limits to corporate greed in the year 2000? We may be about to find out. The pharmaceutical companies, whose rate of profit is more than three times the average of other corporations, have been using their enormous clout to block pres...

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