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Znet Article Hepburn: Creating An Ecological, Worker Run Co-operative

Znet Article, February, 16 2006 John Hepburn
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Since 1998, Reverse Garbage Co-op has been diverting re-useable materials away from landfills and making them available at low cost to the local community. It has an annual turnover of around $300,000 per annum, employs 5-6 people, and is financia...

Znet Article Monbiot: Smoke Rings

Znet Article, February, 08 2006 George Monbiot
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Three weeks ago, while looking for something else, I came across one of the most extraordinary documents I have ever read. It relates to an organisation called Arise, which stands for Associates for Research into the Science of Enjoyment. Though l...

Znet Article Leopold: Enron

Znet Article, February, 01 2006 Jason Leopold
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Opening arguments in the long-awaited criminal trial of former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay and company president Jeffrey Skilling is expected to start soon now that a jury has been selected for the case.  For many people familiar with the high-fl...

Znet Article Albert: Anti Capitalist Strategy

Znet Article, January, 26 2006 Michael Albert
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A viable and desirable strategy for transcending capitalism will certainly include leaving capitalism behind. Capitalism is despicable. It will also include, however, attaining something worthwhile in capitalism's place. What we win must be de...

Znet Article Scipes: Labor Rights: If Unions Won't Fight for Them, Then What Good are Unions?

Znet Article, December, 17 2005 Kim Scipes
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On December 10th, International Human Rights Day, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney pointed out that, "For all practical purposes, Americans have lost the freedom to form unions." Accordingly, the AFL-CIO and its allies engaged in a series of protest...

Znet Article Albert: Venezuela's Path

Znet Article, November, 06 2005 Michael Albert
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Going to Venezuela? There are beautiful waterfalls and mountains. There is rich surf, sand, and sun. But nowadays the biggest attraction is revolution. This October I spent a week in Caracas. That's not much information to work with but for what ...

Znet Article Albert: Interview with Michael Albert

Znet Article, October, 10 2005 Michael Albert
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AttacD-AWWO: Can you say something about the process, the discussion that lead to Parecon (participatory economics) and the book that is now also appearing in German translation this fall? Michael Albert: Sure. It was a long process. It started o...

Znet Article Sandronsky: The Hiring Crisis for America's Black Teens

Znet Article, October, 06 2005 Seth Sandronsky
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The Hiring Crisis for America's Black Teens

Znet Article Monbiot: Protesters as Criminals

Znet Article, October, 04 2005 George Monbiot
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"We are trying to fight 21st-century crime - antisocial behaviour, drug-dealing, binge drinking, organised crime - with 19th-century methods as if we still lived in the time of Dickens". Tony Blair, 27th September 2005.(1) "Down poured the wine l...

Znet Article Davis: The Struggle Over The Future Of New Orleans

Znet Article, September, 21 2005 Mike Davis
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THE CATASTROPHE on the Gulf Coast was the most widely anticipated “natural disaster” in U.S. history. Yet the response of the U.S. government was universally condemned as a failure. What happened? HURRICANE KATRINA occurred on the ...

Znet Article Albert: Hannover Talk

Znet Article, September, 12 2005 Michael Albert
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Introduction First, I’d like to thank everyone here and especially the ...

Znet Article Albert: Business As Usual

Znet Article, September, 03 2005 Michael Albert
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The growing outrage over the willful ignoring of warnings and overt cutting of local expenditures that paved the way for New Orleans’ disaster is of course valid. The growing outrage over the unavailability of resources spent on immoral ...

Znet Article Bacon: Unions At War

Znet Article, August, 11 2005 David Bacon
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - In Chicago's cavernous Navy Yard convention center, delegates were lined up at the four microphones scattered across the floor. San Francisco's Nancy Wohlforth stood at mic number 2. She'd been waiting for this moment for two y...

Znet Article Albert: Exploring Parecon

Znet Article, July, 25 2005 Michael Albert
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In a world riddled with suicide bombings, inconclusive conflicts, and terribly selfish politics, it is a relief to see there are people like Michael Albert creatively searching for salves for the ills in our economic system.  With his books "Movin...

Znet Article Fletcher jr.: Labor Needs a Hard Left Turn

Znet Article, July, 23 2005 Bill Fletcher jr.
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Bill Fletcher is president of TransAfrica, a national policy organization in Washington dealing with issues surrounding Africa. After the reform administration of John Sweeney was elected in 1995, Fletcher became the labor federation's director of...

Znet Article Bacon: Stories from the Borderlands

Znet Article, July, 08 2005 David Bacon
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The world of the border turns labor law on its head-old, established legal rights are just so much ink on paper, and even the decision of federal judges to enforce the law are simply ignored. NAFTA's labor and environmental "side- agreements" have...

Znet Article Chomsky: State and Corp.

Znet Article, May, 18 2005 Noam Chomsky
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Q: We want to talk about the two dominant power structures of the modern era: the national state and the transnational corporations. The first question is, could you please talk about the rise of this concept of the national state: Why was it crea...

Znet Article Morduchowicz: Manufacturing militants.

Znet Article, May, 08 2005 Daniel Morduchowicz
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The occupied factory movement in Argentina sprung out of the economic disaster that befell the country during the last decade - brought about by years of neoliberal policies and strict adherence to the dictates of the International financial insti...

Znet Article Weiss: A Comparison of Economic Democracy and Participatory Economics

Znet Article, May, 04 2005 Adam Weiss
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Introduction Many advocates of economic justice have long believed that capitalism needs to be transcended. However, positive programs for a just economy have been lacking compared to the hailstorm of anti-capitalist critiques that the left has p...

Znet Article Hahnel: Winnowing Wheat From Chaff

Znet Article, March, 26 2005 Robin Hahnel
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For the Political Economy Seminar at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on March 8, 2005 Social Democracy: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due I mean it as a great compliment when I say that capitalism functions poorly indeed without soc...

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