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Albert: A Program Seeking Dignified Work
Commentary, March, 05 2000
Michael Albert
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We want to dignify work so we seek to equalize the empowerment effects of all jobs. But how?
Weisbrot: Anti-WTO Organizing
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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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...
Prashad: An Afro-Dalit Story
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Vijay Prashad
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On January 30, 1998, I went on air with Ron Daniels for his two-hour radio program on the National Urban Radio Network. The theme for the show was Gandhi and Dr. King, since it was the 50th anniversary of Gandhi’s assassination. After a...
Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part IV
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Lydia Sargent
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In Parts I and II of this series I looked at the “scientific” claims made about women in Dianne Hales’s book Just Like A Woman. In Part III I began examining Helen Fisher’s book The First Sex, published by Random House an...
Cromwell: Oil Propaganda Wars
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
David Cromwell
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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...
Herman: Russia: U.S. Rival, Dependent, Victim
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Edward Herman
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The U.S. establishment’s and media’s treatment of post-Soviet Russia has been confused, sometimes hostile, and more often than not, apologetic. This is because Russia occupies the odd position of being simultaneously a rival and ob...
Ross: The Spectacle of Standards & Summits
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
E. Wayne Ross
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In 1989, President Bush called the nation’s governors together for the first national education summit. They set goals and tried to develop ways to measure progress, but were stymied by resistance to federal interference in local school deci...
Thomas: Bill Bradley: Progressives' Pal or Wall Street Stooge?
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Martin Thomas
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In the next decade, the most pressing issue likely to face the president will involve disputes over international economics, finance, and trade. It is important we have a president who needs no tutoring,” says David M. Smick, former chi...
Rodgers: World Hunger: Twelve Myths
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
John h. Rodgers
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New York: Grove Press, 1998, 270 pp, paperback, second edition Review by John H. Rodgers In the wake of one crisis after another in the world financial system, there is growing space for the reconsideration of ...
Petras: The Rural Landless Workers Movement
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
James Petras
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Over the past 30 years, Brazilian governments—both military and civilian—have proclaimed the need for “agrarian reform” but have resisted implementing an effective policy. INCRA (National Institute of Colonization and Agrar...
Dodge: The Juvenile Court
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Mara Dodge
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In 1999, 100 years after the establishment of the nation’s first juvenile court in Cook County (Chicago), Illinois, nearly all states have succeeded in passing sweeping legislation to “criminalize” or “adultify” their ...
Boutros-ghali: none
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Boutros Boutros-ghali
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Random House, NY, 1999, 352 pp, Review by Tom Gallagher Some will remember that before serving as spokesperson for the victims of erectile dysfunction, Senator Robert Dole was the 1996 Republican nominee for the United States preside...
Su: xa1 La Huelga Va!
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Carlos Su
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Rocío García is one of the participants of the nine-month student strike at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). The strike was called on April 20, 1999, as a response to a dramatic tuition increase by the universit...
Martinez: The New Youth Movement In California
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Elizabeth Martinez
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Last February, 42 mostly professional adults—lawyers, teachers, civil rights leaders, and older activists—were arrested for shutting down the Oakland jail to demonstrate against a vicious juvenile crime la...
Albert: Dignified Work
Commentary, February, 27 2000
Michael Albert
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The issue of Dignified Work has two primary components: (1) what is a just division of tasks for each person; and (2) what division of tasks do we need to adopt in order to have our work foster self-management?
Bond: Workers of the world, transcend the wedge!
Commentary, February, 24 2000
Patrick Bond
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Divide-and-conquer is an all too familiar gambit of a ruling elite under stress. Thus Seattle demonstrators, together with a growing international movement struggling in the same spirit in many other sites, have found themselves subject to both re...
Albert: A Program Seeking Self Management
Commentary, February, 20 2000
Michael Albert
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Agreeing that self-management, or decision making input in proportion as one is affected, is a core goal for a participatory economic movement, what demands can we fight for today that will help move us toward self-management tomorrow?
Gonsalves: The Debate Over Institutional Values
Commentary, February, 19 2000
Sean Gonsalves
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A few lingering thoughts on the whole WTO event: WTO supporters, which includes Clinton and his "liberal" media, say they are for freedom. Front-line and armchair protesters - not to be confused with the handful of vandals that destroyed property ...
Weissman: The Nature of the Machine
Commentary, February, 16 2000
Robert Weissman
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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...
Weisbrot: Drug Companies Fight Prescription Benefits for Seniors
Commentary, February, 15 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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What are the limits to corporate greed in the year 2000? We may be about to find out. The pharmaceutical companies, whose rate of profit is more than three times the average of other corporations, have been using their enormous clout to block pres...
