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Marable: Escaping From Blackness: Racial Identity and Public Policy
Commentary, September, 11 2000
Manning Marable
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The greatest struggle of any oppressed group in a racist society is the struggle to reclaim collective memory and identity. At the level of culture, racism seeks to deny people of African, American Indian, Asian and Latino descent their own voices...
Landau: Pinochet naked -- at last!
Commentary, September, 09 2000
Saul Landau
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Picture Homer Simpson's boss, naked, a scrawny figure bent with age, covering his genitals with his general's hat. The caption: "You've stripped me, but don't take my hat!" Augusto Pinochet, former President, Generalissimo, King of the world, now ...
Mokhiber: Toast
Commentary, September, 04 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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About six years ago, a friend gave us a toaster. It was a present. The friend bought the toaster from Williams-Sonoma, the San Francisco-based kitchen store, with outlets in upscale malls throughout the United States.
Edwards: THIS SPORTING LIE: THE 'GREEN' OLYMPICS
Commentary, September, 01 2000
David Edwards
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A month before the great 'Green Games' in Sydney were due to open, a group of international scientists arrived at the North Pole to find, not ice, but a stretch of open water at least one mile wide - the first time the North Pole has not been ice-...
Author: Local Energy, Local Democracy
Commentary, August, 15 2000
Guest Author
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In their 1996 book "Who Owns the Sun?", solar energy campaigners Daniel Berman and John O'Connor rightly declared that "democracy is a false promise if it does not include the power to steer the energy economy". It's a crucial point that not even ...
Cunningham: DISCONTENT ON THE MOON
Commentary, July, 02 2000
Philip Cunningham
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The Moon river is the lifeline of Isan, bringing sustenance and irrigation to the poorest and most populous part of Thailand. The World Bank identified the Moon, the greatest of the Mekong's tributaries, as a suitable location for a giant dam, and...
Sapir: Dismembering PACE
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Mark Sapir
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In October 1999 Tom Bodenheimer, a progressive San Francisco community physician published a review article in the New England Journal of Medicine, presenting an historical overview of the Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)...
Many: A Z Compendium for the 'Summer of Convention Convergences
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Authors Many
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alphabetically: Michael Albert, Tariq Ali, Leslie Cagan, Doug Dowd, Dorothy Guellec, Robert Naiman, Cynthia Peters, Lydia Sargent, Danny Schechter, Steve Shalom, Karen Wald, and Tim Wise. Michael Albert Solving Problems For "outward or...
Berkowitz: The Interfaith Council for Environmental Stewardship
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Bill Berkowitz
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A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to this year’s 30th anniversary of Earth Day. A group of Religious Right leaders, scientists, and academics, basking in the dual spotlights of Earth Day and Holy Week, launched the Interfaith Cou...
Tokar: Gathering RAGE
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Brian Tokar
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One important feature of the actions in Seattle and Washington, DC was many activists’ focus on a serious new threat to our food and health: The rise of genetic engineering as the technology-of-choice in countless new areas of co...
Street: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
For nearly three years now, American campuses have been experiencing a resurgence of student activism. This new college activism targets the $2.5 billion collegiate licensing industry, which includes companies like Nike, Champion...
Berkowitz: Revving Up the Christian Movement for Bush
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Bill Berkowitz
Berkowitz's ZSpace page
George W. Bush is out on the campaign trail hotfooting his way to the political center. Almost every day he’s either hawking a new education proposal or health care plan, reassuring Catholics that his Bob Jones University sp...
Edwards: CLIMATE WARS Paying The Ultimate Price For Corporate Control of Society
Commentary, May, 25 2000
David Edwards
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Declared 98% successful in destroying Iraqi Scud missiles during the Gulf War, the Patriot missile system was subsequently found to have achieved a success rate "close to zeroÓ by Professor Ted Postol of MIT. But by then the deception had done it...
Hightower: WHAT'S FOR DINNER?
Commentary, May, 14 2000
Jim Hightower
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Have you heard of the "Butterfly Effect?" Both a scientific concept and an ecological reality, its essence is that the flapping of a million butterfly wings in central Mexico can have consequences in New York City, Rome, or Hong Kong. The notion i...
Staff: The April Actions
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Z Staff
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It is April 18th, too soon to arrive at conclusions about the anti-WTO/World Bank demonstrations in Washington, DC, but a good time for congratulations. First, issues of IMF and World Bank imposed poverty, powerlessness, and...
Hartmann: Population Policy: Will Coercion Come Back in Vogue?
Commentary, May, 01 2000
Betsy Hartmann
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In February of this year the Indian government announced a new population policy based on a two-child norm. While social activists have welcomed certain elements of the policy, such as free and compulsory elementary education and improvements in h...
Cohen: Beware The Violence Initiative Project
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
Mitchel Cohen
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As late as the 1980s, a small but influential coterie of prize-winning scientists were trying to prove that black children were, on average, less intelligent than white children. Intelligence, they said, ran “in the genes” of rac...
Staff: The Reason To Demonstrate
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
Z Staff
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The mid-April Washington demonstratons against the IMF, World Bank, and WTO are imminent. Are you going? If not, will you be discussing the issues with co-workers, relatives, and schoolmates, even though far from Washington? ...
Gateley: Reinventing Government At The NRC
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
Susan peterson Gateley
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As deregulation sweeps across the market place for electric power, public utilities are quickly changing the way they do business. No area of change will have more effect on public health, safety, and the environment than that pe...
