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Znet Article Hayden: Mexico's Presidential Front-Runner May Roil U.S. Conservatives

Znet Article, June, 28 2006 Tom Hayden
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Though the progressive media and bloggers are paying scant attention, a progressive populist is the front-runner in Mexico's July 2 election, a man who would demand a revision of NAFTA, add a powerful workers' voice to the roiling U.S. debate on i...

Znet Article Raina: India, Nepal, and Left Praxis

Znet Article, June, 24 2006 Badri Raina
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In an earlier piece in the same space  (“India and Nepal”,  Znet, june 10) suggestions were made with respect to the implications of the Nepalese revolutionary upsurge for the idea of the theocratic State. That upsurge also has an...

Znet Article Gibler: The Orphans of July Third

Znet Article, June, 24 2006 John Gibler
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I. When the Zapatistas launched the Other Campaign in San Cristobal de Las Casas on January 1, 2006—exactly twelve years after they took that city by force—they made clear that the stakes would be high. “We are putting e...

Znet Article Podur: In whose interests are the "residents" rallies in Caledonia?

Znet Article, May, 23 2006 Justin Podur
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On May 22, 2006 - after holding a blockade of the Highway 6 at Caldeonia, Ontario (Canada) since February - the indigenous of Six Nations unblocked the highway. The dismantling of the blockade - initially erected by the indigenous to enforce their...

Znet Article Reinhart: Road Map To Nowhere

Znet Article, May, 18 2006 Tanya Reinhart
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This is the final chapter of Road Map to Nowhere – ...

Znet Article Podur: The May 15 Mobilizations in Colombia

Znet Article, May, 17 2006 Justin Podur
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Colombia's peasant, indigenous, and union organizations called for a major mobilization on May 15, 2006. With elections on May 28, 2006, the organizations sought to demonstrate their opposition to the Colombian regime's Free Trade Agreement with t...

Znet Article Arnove: "Out Now"

Znet Article, May, 15 2006 Anthony Arnove
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The following chapter is excerpted from Anthony Arnove's new book Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal (The New Press), which features a foreword and afterword by Howard Zinn. To read more about the book and the End the War Tour, visit http://www.endth...

Znet Article Olson: Commencement 2006

Znet Article, May, 15 2006 Gary Olson
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(Note: Each year, Moravian College's senior class selects a faculty member to give the Commencement address. The following remarks were offered on May 13, 2006). President Rokke, Pam Rokke, honored guests, faculty colleagues, friends, parents, ...

Znet Article Hayden: Who Are You Calling An Immigrant?

Znet Article, May, 04 2006 Tom Hayden
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I wore the multicolored Aymaran flag of Bolivia to the May Day march in Los Angeles, the same day that Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia, nationalized the oil and gas fields. It seemed right to recognize the reappearance of th...

Znet Article Podur: Free Software and ZNet

Znet Article, May, 01 2006 Justin Podur
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For several months ZNet, an activist website, has been exploring the possibility of converting to free software and so joining the 'free software movement', a movement that advocates for certain fundamental freedoms for computer users. Both ZNet a...

Znet Article Roy: A Fury Building Up Across India

Znet Article, April, 29 2006 Arundhati Roy
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In this interview, Arundhati Roy updates her essay on the Narmada issue, The Greater Common Good, published in 1999 in Frontline. It was conducted by Shoma Chaudhuri over a period of several days in person and on email. Chaudhuri: The media has ...

Znet Article Gibler: No Choice for Migrants

Znet Article, April, 29 2006 John Gibler
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No Choice for Migrants

Znet Article Chomsky: Afterword: Failed States

Znet Article, April, 26 2006 Noam Chomsky
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We began by considering four critical issues that should rank high on the agenda of those concerned with the prospects for a decent future. Two of them are literally matters of survival: nuclear war and environmental disaster. The first danger is ...

Znet Article Podur: Six Nations Does Not Stand Alone

Znet Article, April, 24 2006 Justin Podur
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On Thursday April 20, Hazel Hill, one of the Six Nations Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) leaders on the blockade at the Douglas Creek Estates near Caledonia, told me about her beating at the hands of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) hours before. Early t...

Znet Article Street: Iraq Is Not Vietnam

Znet Article, April, 22 2006 Paul Street
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     Making historical analogies is often like eating a thin bowl of soup with a fork: you might catch something nutritious if you're lucky but much of the substance gets lost.            The strong analogy that many commentators and authorities r...

Znet Article Lendman: The US Gulag Prison System

Znet Article, April, 21 2006 Stephen Lendman
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No, not the one you think, outrageous as it is. I'm referring to the US prison system that's with no exaggeration about as shockingly abusive as the gulag abroad. It qualifies for that label by its size alone - more than 2.1 million as of June, 20...

Znet Article Chatterji: Don't Damn Narmada

Znet Article, April, 16 2006 Angana Chatterji
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Dams are not the temples of India, they have become its burial grounds. In dissent to the brutal refusal of state and Central governments to honour the legally-bound commitment to resettlement and rehabilitation of adivasi and other disenfranchise...

Znet Article Fatah: Stop the deportation of Palestinian Peace activist Issam Al Yamani from Canada

Znet Article, April, 16 2006 Tarek Fatah
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April 11, 2006The Right Honourable Stephen HarperPrime Minister of Canada,Office of the Prime Minister,80 Wellington Street,Ottawa, OntarioK1A 0A2 Re: The deportation from Canada of Palestinian peace activist Issam Al Yamani Dear Prime Minister...

Znet Article Lendman: The War On Immigrants

Znet Article, April, 11 2006 Stephen Lendman
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"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore." Once that was true, but no longer. Emma Lazarus’ beautiful and memorable words we’ve all heard many times and...

Znet Article Bennis: Thinking Strategically

Znet Article, April, 06 2006 Phyllis Bennis
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 As a movement we have been extraordinarily successful in achieving our initial goal: we have helped transform public opinion to the now almost 2/3 majority opposition to the war in Iraq. Our task now is to transform that consciousness into empowe...

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