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Zmag Article Hahnel: China & the WTO

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Robin Hahnel
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Robin Hahnel After declining to sign a "better deal" last April, the Clinton administration signed off on conditions for permitting China to enter the World Trade Organization (WTO) in November. Even t...

Zmag Article Herman: Hitchens on Serbia and East Timor

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Edward Herman
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Edward S. Herman In each U.S. war there are liberals and leftists who lend it support, and even larger numbers who don’t oppose it because the issues and stakes involved seem unclear. Both support and silence are encouraged by the...

Zmag Article Barsamian: Challenging Corporate Power

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 David Barsamian
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Barsamian Richard Grossman is co-director of the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy. He is co-author of Taking Care of Business: Citizenship and the Charter of Incorporation. He lectures widely on issues of corporate power, law, and d...

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 Administrator: The Road From Seattle

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Site Administrator
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Jeremy Brecher, with Tim Costello & Brendan Smith The Battle of Seattle marks a turning point in the politics of globalization. It represents the emergence of a worldwide movement ...

Commentary Solomon: A PRo-Democracy Movement

Commentary, December, 26 1999 Norman Solomon
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It's a pro-democracy movement. And it's global. The vibrant social forces that converged on Seattle -- and proceeded to deflate the WTO summit -- are complex, diverse and sometimes contradictory. Yet the threads of their demands form a distinct w...

Commentary Guellec: Patient Rights vs. Distributive Justice

Commentary, December, 21 1999 Dorothy Guellec
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The right of the patient to direct his or her medical care and health outcome, known as patient autonomy, and the right of society to control and allocate "limited resources", known as distributive justice will certainly collide. In an ideal world...

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 Schechter: MY GLOBAL(IZED) NEIGHBORHOOD: TODAY SEATTLE,TOMORROW TIMES SQUARE?

Commentary, December, 12 1999 Danny Schechter
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The protesters who traveled from across the country and the world to Seattle were inspired by the rare chance to go mano a mano with a usually remote manifestation of globalization.

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.

Commentary Administrator: Tha Battle for Seattle

Commentary, December, 09 1999 Site Administrator
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-In spite of what you may have read or heard about the anti-WTO protests last week, the people on the streets of Seattle weren't opposed to globalization. Their cause is an example of globalization, with protests in solidarity wit...

Graphic Wagner: WTO to the Rescue

Graphic, December, 07 1999 Pete Wagner
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World Trade Organization, Mexico, Mexican workers, slave labor, labor, unions, workers' rights, sweatshops, exploitation

Commentary Dominick: Anarchy, NonViolence, and the Seattle Demonstrations

Commentary, December, 06 1999 Brian Dominick
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One of the most contentious points likely to arise out of the past week's actions is older than the concept of world trade itself: the question of tactics in demonstration and direct action - in particular, violent vs. nonviolent.

Commentary Prashad: IMF: Advance Guard of the WTO

Commentary, December, 04 1999 Vijay Prashad
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In 1997, Bangkok's Rafabhat Institute Suan Dusit took a poll of 1,648 Thai children under the age of 15. The survey asked the children to identify the IMF, the International Monetary Fund. A quarter knew what the IMF was. About 30% believed that t...

Commentary Solomon: Free Trade's Happy Face Peels Off

Commentary, December, 03 1999 Norman Solomon
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SEATTLE -- After enjoying a free ride in American news media for many years, the World Trade Organization just hit a brick wall. The credit should go to a vast array of civic activists -- represented by tens of thousands of protesters from every c...

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...

Zmag Article Solomon: Online Trading

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Norman Solomon
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Norman Solomon If you’re watching much television these days, you’ve probably seen a lot of commercials for online investing. Many large brokerage firms are now urging people to play the stock market via the Internet. So, in routine ...

Zmag Article Carter: Bruce Springsteen's Land Of Hope And Dreams

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Sandy Carter
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Carter As we come to the end of the 20th century, it’s increasingly difficult to believe in the power of rock and roll to change lives. But with the current reunion tour of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, the tradition ...

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