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Znet Article Albert: Organize, Demonstrate!

Znet Article, February, 09 2003 Michael Albert
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I hate apocalyptic politics. I was radicalized by the civil rights movement and Vietnam. People shouted all kinds of furor about the environment imploding, about fascism rising, and about imminent Armageddon. The hollering had provocation. We ...

Znet Article Albert: WSF: Where To Now?

Znet Article, February, 03 2003 Michael Albert
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[This is an essay in progress...modest changes will be incorporated until its final version appears in Z Magazine, in March 2003. Ideas for improvements are welcome -- mail to sysop@zmag.org -- most recent changes 02/05] The worldwide...

Znet Article Administrator: Latin America Strikes Back

Znet Article, January, 20 2003 Site Administrator
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I recently attended the OCLAE conference, a gathering of progressive students in Guadalajara, Mexico, which brought together more than a thousand delegates from across Latin America - and some sympathetic norteamericanos - to discuss and plan stra...

Zmag Article Wilpert: The OAS-mediated negotiations, the strike, and other recent events

Zmag Article, January, 01 2003 Gregory Wilpert
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C ésar Gaviria, the General Secretary of the OAS, has the unenviable job of mediating negotiations between Venezuela's government and its opposition, while the political situation deteriorates...

Znet Article Administrator: Back To Iraq As A Human Shield

Znet Article, December, 29 2002 Site Administrator
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Day by day, the latest headlines tell us that we are moving ever closer to war with Iraq. So many people around the world are ashamed and outraged by this prospect and yet feel powerless to make their voices heard. Large rallies for peace have bee...

Znet Article Wilpert: Coup D'Petrol In Venezuela

Znet Article, December, 17 2002 Gregory Wilpert
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Exactly one year after the opposition’s first “general strike,” on December 10, 2001, which launched the campaign to oust the democratically elected president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, the opposition is engaged in its four...

Znet Article Wilpert: Chavez Hangs On

Znet Article, December, 09 2002 Gregory Wilpert
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The OAS-Mediated Negotiations, the Strike, and other recent events César Gaviria, the General Secretary of the OAS, has the unenviable job of mediating negotiations between Venezuela's government and its opposition, while the political situation...

Zmag Article Administrator: "Sound Science," Common Sense & Global Warming

Zmag Article, December, 01 2002 Site Administrator
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For anyone who still needs “sound science” about global warming, here’s a small sampler: Temperatures are rising. James Hansen and colleagues of New York City’s Goddard Institute observed ...

Zmag Article Administrator: The Manufactured Threat

Zmag Article, December, 01 2002 Site Administrator
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The Bush administration has floated several reasons for going to war with Saddam Hussein. The one that seems to have the most currency is that we need to stop Saddam before he strikes us or someone else. ...

Zmag Article Administrator: 7th Free Trade Summit

Zmag Article, December, 01 2002 Site Administrator
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In June, I sat in on a meeting of campesinos—peasant farmers— in Ecuador’s coastal province of Manabí. The topic at hand was the upcoming 7th Summit of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, ...

Znet Article Administrator: Urgent Request to Blue Fairy: Please Turn These Children Into Stone

Znet Article, November, 08 2002 Site Administrator
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Fairy tales often have a universal appeal and draw children of all nations into their magical world. Pinocchio is no exception where the Blue Fairy rewards moral behavior and grants a puppet flesh-and-blood status.I do doubt, however, that childre...

Zmag Article Albert: Resisting the War

Zmag Article, November, 01 2002 Michael Albert
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In trying to raise consciousness and inspire activist resistance regarding the currently threatened invasion of Iraq, critics repeatedly confront variations on relatively few themes. The ...

Zmag Article Administrator: Duro Bag Workers

Zmag Article, November, 01 2002 Site Administrator
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In June 2000, 400 workers at Duro Bag Company in Rio Bravo Tamaulipas, Mexico went on strike for higher salaries, better working conditions, and the right to form their own union. Duro...

Zmag Article Administrator: Victor Toro: Chilean Revolutionary

Zmag Article, November, 01 2002 Site Administrator
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Victor Toro’s thumping abrazo is more than just the ritualistic pounding of flesh on flesh. The act resonates symbolically over Villa Grimaldi, the Air Force Academy, places thousands ...

Zmag Article Administrator: Boom: The Sound of Eviction 2002 (By Whispered Media, 96 mins.)

Zmag Article, November, 01 2002 Site Administrator
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The vast domed hall of the old Armory in San Francisco’s Mission District which sat empty and rotting for the last several decades comes t...

Znet Article Wilpert: Why Venezuela's Middle Class (for the most part) Opposes Chavez

Znet Article, October, 27 2002 Gregory Wilpert
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"Chavez' greatest error was to screw the middle class," says Carlos Escarrá, a prominent constitutional lawyer and former Venezuelan supreme court judge, who describes himself as being with the "proceso," but not a Chavista. The "proceso" is the ...

Znet Article Albert: Ten Q&A On Antiwar Organizing

Znet Article, October, 24 2002 Michael Albert
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Ten Q&A On Antiwar Organizing

Znet Article Wilpert: Opposition and Government Supporters Rally Their Forces

Znet Article, October, 23 2002 Gregory Wilpert
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Evidence for the passions in and polarization of Venezuelan society was clearly on display on October 10, at the anti-government demonstration, and on October 13, at the pro-government demonstration. Both protests managed to draw crowds that proba...

Znet Article Administrator: 80% Killed During Curfew Are Children

Znet Article, October, 16 2002 Site Administrator
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For the past four months, Israel has imposed a full curfew, unprecedented in scope and length, on hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. This curfew constitutes collective punishment, and as such is in contravention of ...

Znet Article Albert: Interviewing Michael Albert

Znet Article, October, 14 2002 Michael Albert
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Michael Albert is interviewed for The Bookpress by Satya Mohanty and Lourdes Beneria, professors at Cornell and members of the Cornell Forum for Justice and Peace.  Albert will visit Ithaca November 22nd and 23rd to participate in the Ithaca ...

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