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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...
Berkowitz: Powerful Right-Wing Alliance Challenges Climate Justice
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
Bill Berkowitz
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What happens when a little-known, but important right-wing think tank combines forces with a long-time anti-environmental organization? You get a powerful and far-reaching anti-environmental publication that at launch-time already has ...
Weisbrot: Anti-WTO Organizing
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
The demonstrations against the WTO in Seattle were probably among the most effective protests in modern American history. The sequel—on April 16 in Washington DC, at the IMF/World Bank spring meetings—may have an even great...
Cromwell: Oil Propaganda Wars
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
In November 1999, the High Court in London ruled that the UK government had failed to uphold the EU Habitats Directive when it awarded offshore oil licenses in British waters of the North Atlantic. Wildlife and ecosystems were being put at r...
Weissman: The Nature of the Machine
Commentary, February, 16 2000
Robert Weissman
Weissman's ZSpace page
Imagine this: you study your entire life to reach the pinnacle of your profession. First, you secure an undergraduate degree in biology from Oregon State University. Then a PhD in developmental biology at Yale University. Then on to Indiana Univer...
Steinberg: Stop McNukes
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Michael Steinberg
Steinberg's ZSpace page
The deregulation of the U.S. electrical industry was supposed to end monopoly control of that commodity. Unfortunately the nuclear component of the industry has tainted this process. Across the nation ratepayers are getting stuck with pay...
Hartmann: What's In A Word?
Commentary, January, 08 2000
Betsy Hartmann
Hartmann's ZSpace page
Conservative anti-immigrant and population control forces are once again threatening to take control of the Sierra Club, one of the nation's most influential environmental organizations. A September 26 resolution by the Board of Directors changed ...
Mokhiber: You Can't Eat Enough of It
Commentary, January, 05 2000
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
At the end of the millennium, W.R. Grace should be considered a candidate as one of the world's most rapacious corporate predators. Of course, if you have seen the movie A Civil Action or read the book by the same title, you are aware of the inju...
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...
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
Bacon: Will A Social Clause In Trade Agreements Advance International Solidarity?
Zmag Article, January, 01 2000
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
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...
Herman: Clinton Is The World's Leading Active War Criminal
Zmag Article, December, 01 1999
Edward Herman
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S. Herman I use war crimes to encompass the commission of all acts declared illegal under international rules of war as enumerated in the various Hague and Geneva agreements and conventions and pronounced in the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals. ...
Duncombe: DIY Nike Style
Zmag Article, December, 01 1999
Stephen Duncombe
Duncombe's ZSpace page
Stephen Duncombe Think! Think! It ain’t illegal, yet!!" reads the first page of U Don’t Stop, a zine I picked up the other day. It’s not an unusual request. Zines (short for fanzines, derived from magazines) are homemade pa...
Landau: More Nuclear Disasters
Commentary, November, 08 1999
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
"We have contained the spread of radiation from last week's nuclear accident," Japanese authorities assured their citizens. They blame the chain reaction on improper handling of materials by low level workers.
Hahnel: Going To Greet The WTO In Seattle
Zmag Article, November, 01 1999
Robin Hahnel
Hahnel's ZSpace page
Going To Greet The WTO In Seattle
Hartmann: Cracking Open Crack
Commentary, October, 22 1999
Betsy Hartmann
Hartmann's ZSpace page
We don't allow dogs to breed. We spay them. We neuter them. We try to keep them from having unwanted puppies, and yet these women are literally having litters of children..." These are the words of Barbara Harris, founder of the organization CRACK...
Hartmann: Cross Dressing Malthus
Commentary, September, 23 1999
Betsy Hartmann
Hartmann's ZSpace page
October 12, 1999 has the dubious distinction of being both Columbus Day and 'Day of 6 Billion,' ostensibly the day world population will pass the six billion people mark.
Shiva: Stopping Biopiracy
Commentary, September, 06 1999
Vandana2 Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
The patents on the anti-diabetic properties of karela, jamun, brinjal once again highlight the problem of Biopiracy - the patenting of indigenous biodiversity related knowledge.
Mokhiber: Biotech Untamed
Commentary, August, 02 1999
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
When Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman wanted to address the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to rave about the biotech industry and its wonders, he called Gene Grabowski.
