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Commentary Zinn: Notes for a Gathering

Commentary, January, 02 2000 Howard Zinn
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I have been asked to imagine this situation: "The progressive third party movement has captured the White House, 60% of Congress and 30 Governorships. What do we do now?"

Zmag Article Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part II

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Lydia Sargent
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Lydia Sargent As I said in Part I, the title 37.7 seconds refers to the average amount of time fathers spent each day communicating with their babies during the first three months of life, according to a 1971 study quoted in Has Feminism Chang...

Commentary Peters: It Is Not As Easy As ABC

Commentary, December, 23 1999 Cynthia Peters
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A recently released study finds that children from poor families are better off if they spend more time in day care starting at an earlier age. The Abecedarian Project (named for the first four letters of the alphabet), conducted at the University...

Commentary Zinn: Seattle

Commentary, December, 22 1999 Howard Zinn
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In the year 1919, when the city of Seattle was brought to a halt by a general strike - beginning with 35,000 shipyard workers demanding a wage increase - the mayor reflected on its significance:

Commentary Peters: Neither Heroes Nor Fools

Commentary, December, 17 1999 Cynthia Peters
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"They forced us all out of the house and one of them held a gun to my head. `I am going to kill you. You are a child of FALINTIL.' `No,' I told the soldier, `I am a child.'"

Zmag Article Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part I

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Lydia Sargent
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Lydia Sargent What is the significance of my title, 37.7? I got it from Has Feminism Changed Science? by Londa Schiebinger who writes: "A study in 1971 reported that fathers spent an average of only 37.7 seconds each day communicating w...

Commentary Zinn: On Rewarding People for Talents and Hard WorkÊ

Commentary, November, 25 1999 Howard Zinn
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There are two issues here: First, why should we accept our culture's definition of those two factors? Why should we accept that the "talent" of someone who writes jingles for an Advertising agency advertising dog food and gets $100,000 a year is s...

Commentary Zinn: On Rewarding People for Talents and Hard Work 

Commentary, November, 25 1999 Howard Zinn
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There are two issues here: First, why should we accept our culture's definition of those two factors? Why should we accept that the "talent" of someone who writes jingles for an Advertising agency advertising dog food and gets $100,000 a year is s...

Commentary Peters: East Timor: Reparations and Responsibility

Commentary, November, 17 1999 Cynthia Peters
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The New York Times reported on October 25 the claim that the United States had "poured billions" into East Timor. The next day the Times ran a "correction," saying that in fact "Washington's foreign aid" to East Timor "has not amounted to billions."

Commentary Peters: East Timor: Reparations and Responsibility

Commentary, November, 17 1999 Cynthia Peters
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The New York Times reported on October 25 the claim that the United States had "poured billions" into East Timor. The next day the Times ran a "correction," saying that in fact "Washington's foreign aid" to East Timor "has not amounted to billions."

Commentary Cagan: Some Thoughts on Hate Crimes

Commentary, November, 16 1999 Leslie Cagan
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The brutal murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming a little more than a year ago focused national attention on a long-standing reality for many lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people: the widespread fear and hatred of people outside the ...

Commentary Chomsky: East Timor Is Not Yesterday's Story

Commentary, October, 23 1999 Noam Chomsky
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According to recent reports, the UN mission in East Timor has been able to account for just over 150,000 people out of an estimated population of 850,000. It reports that 260,000 "are now languishing in squalid refugee camps in West Timor under...

Commentary Peters: Class Politics in America: A Fashionable Consumer Item

Commentary, October, 19 1999 Cynthia Peters
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I spent $44.00 recently to see Dario Fo's farce about hunger, free-market injustice, sexism, and class injustice at the American Repertory Theater in Harvard Square. Dario Fo, "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and...

Commentary Cagan: Two, Three, Many Protests...But All On the Same Night?

Commentary, October, 17 1999 Leslie Cagan
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George W. and his new friends in the leadership of the New York State Republican Party gathered at a fund raising dinner in mid-town Manhattan October 5th. They were all there: George W. Bush, George Pataki, Rudolf Giuliani, Al D'Amato and the res...

Commentary 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.

Commentary Zinn: A Larger Consciousness

Commentary, October, 10 1999 Howard Zinn
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Some years ago, when I was teaching at Boston University, I was asked by a Jewish group to give a talk on the Holocaust. I spoke that evening, but not about the Holocaust of World War II, not about the genocide of six million Jews.

Commentary Chomsky: East Timor

Commentary, October, 04 1999 Noam Chomsky
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The events of the past weeks in East Timor should elicit shame as well as horror. The crimes could easily have been stopped.

Zmag Article Sargent: Battery Powered Bras

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Lydia Sargent
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Lydia Sargent Welcome to Hotel Satire where men are people and gals are their bra size. Yes, Gals, it’s important that we focus constantly on our breasts— when we’re not obsessing about our looks/weight/ crotches. To this end, ...

Zmag Article Chomsky: World Order and its Rules

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Noam Chomsky
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Chomsky Despite the desperate efforts of ideologues to prove that circles are square, there is no serious doubt that the NATO bombings further undermine what remains of the fragile structure of international law. The U.S. made that clear in th...

Zmag Article Chomsky: East Timor Questions & Answers

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Noam Chomsky
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Stephen R. Shalom, Noam Chomsky, & Michael Albert This issue of Z was being prepared as the situation worsened in East Timor. The following Q&A is intended to give readers background information on the situation and U.S. interests in the area....

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