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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 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...

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 Wise: "When Anti-Racism Strikes Out"

Commentary, February, 26 2000 Tim Wise
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When it comes to discussions of racism, or any other kind of "ism" for that matter, sometimes we miss the forest for the trees. Such was the case recently when it was reported that Atlanta Braves relief pitcher John Rocker had cut loose with a str...

Commentary Marable: No Rights Whites Must Respect

Commentary, February, 25 2000 Manning Marable
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In the Dred Scott decision of 1857, the Supreme Court turned down a petition for freedom from an enslaved African American. The author of the court's ruling, Chief Justice Roger B. Tawney, declared that blacks could never be granted equal protecti...

Commentary Georgakas: Blacks in Antiquity

Commentary, February, 10 2000 Dan Georgakas
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A few years ago Martin Bernal's Black Athena stimulated considerable commentary about the role of blacks in antiquity. Many leftists applauded Bernal's perceptive analysis of the racism of many nineteenth century German scholars without understand...

Commentary Naiman: A Small Victim of the Embargo

Commentary, February, 08 2000 Robert Naiman
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There's great consternation in Cuba and Florida over the fate of Elian Gonzalez. If he were from any other country, he would already be home with his father. Yet only a handful of the media reports mention the extreme U.S. embargo that led to the ...

Zmag Article Barsamian: Monopolies, NPR, & PBS

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 David Barsamian
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Robert McChesney is Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a leading critic of corporate media. He is the author of Telecommunications, Mass Media and Democracy. His latest book is Rich Media, Po...

Commentary Wise: Springing the "Diversity Trap"

Commentary, January, 11 2000 Tim Wise
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You know you're in trouble when Ronald Reagan starts to sound progressive. And you really know you're in trouble when so-called progressives make him sound that way, thanks to their own pathetic gesticulations on one or another issue.

Commentary Marable: Civil Rights or Silver Rights

Commentary, January, 03 2000 Manning Marable
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More than a century ago, conservative black educator Booker T. Washington proposed a strategy for black advancement within capitalism. The founder of both Tuskegee Institute and the National Negro Business League, Washington cautioned African Amer...

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...

Zmag Article Carter: The Indigo Girls & Rage Against the Machine

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Sandy Carter
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Carter When the Atlanta, Georgia-based duo the Indigo Girls signed on with Epic Records in 1988, the mainstream music market was getting on the bandwagon of a new "folk revival" trend triggered by the surprising breakthroughs of Trac...

Zmag Article 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

Zmag Article Bacon: Will A Social Clause In Trade Agreements Advance International Solidarity?

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 David Bacon
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David Bacon On November 30 the AFL-CIO mobilized thousands of union members to demonstrate in Seattle outside the meeting of trade ministers of the World Trade Organization. The labor federation called for incor...

Zmag Article Berkowitz: Talk Radio's Laura Schlessinger

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Bill Berkowitz
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Berkowitz Over the past several years Dr. Laura Schlessinger has taken talk radio to new heights with her extraordinarily popular and controversial advice program. She has adapted the call-in format to her own special brand of schtick—a n...

Commentary Marable: A Dialogue Between Generations

Commentary, December, 20 1999 Manning Marable
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Several weeks ago I attended and spoke at a conference on race which was organized at Stanford University. After delivering my lecture, I walked down the steps from the stage. Clustered around the steps were several male and female graduate studen...

Commentary Wise: "Springing the Diversity Trap"

Commentary, December, 16 1999 Tim Wise
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You know you're in trouble when Ronald Reagan starts to sound progressive. And you really know you're in trouble when so-callYou know you're in trouble when Ronald Reagan starts to sound progressive. And you really know you're in trouble when so-c...

Commentary Landau: Two from Saul LandauÉChina/Cuba

Commentary, December, 14 1999 Saul Landau
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Some weeks back, President Clinton accomplished a goal that President William McKinley had sought a century ago. Yes, Chinese officials now welcome U S economic penetration.

Commentary Marable: The Politics of Inequality

Commentary, December, 09 1999 Manning Marable
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The fundamental issue that will define U.S. politics in the first decade of the twenty-first century is the spiraling growth of inequality in American life.

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