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Commentary Rebick: New Workers' Initiative

Commentary, January, 29 2000 Judy Rebick
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Always on the cutting edge of social change, the Canadian Auto Workers union has just launched an important new initiative. The CAW has set up "A Task Force on Working Class Politics in the 21st Century."

Commentary Albert: Movement for a Participatory Economy: An Overview

Commentary, January, 23 2000 Michael Albert
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Besides immediate objectives, great social movements need long-run goals for inspiration and guidance. The abolitionist movement to end slavery and the movement for the eight-hour day both in the nineteenth century, the movement for women's suffra...

Commentary Solomon: AOL / Time Warner: Calling the Faithful to Their Knees

Commentary, January, 21 2000 Norman Solomon
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And so, early in the year 2000, it came to pass that visions of a seamless media web enraptured the keepers of pecuniary faith as never before. A grand new structure, AOL Time Warner, emerged while a few men proclaimed themselves trustees of a hol...

Commentary Herman: The AOL Time Merger

Commentary, January, 16 2000 Edward Herman
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Each great technological advance in communication begins with claims of the dominance of public service aims and probable effects, which is then followed and concluded by a commercial takeover.

Commentary Albert: Internet Commercialism?!

Commentary, January, 15 2000 Michael Albert
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There is an old economic saying that "there is no free lunch." To get something out of an economy you have to put something in. Contrary to rumors, this holds for the Internet as well as for factories. To provide internet content takes labor, tool...

Commentary Peters: Porn Stars, Promise-Keepers, and "Pound Dawgs" A Comment on: Stiffed, by Susan Faludi

Commentary, January, 14 2000 Cynthia Peters
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Male porn stars get paid based on their ability to sustain an erection. Promise Keepers are told to look to God as a Father they can trust, and to stock up on Promise Keeper mugs, t-shirts, and other memorabilia. "Pound Dawgs" - extreme fans of th...

Commentary Herman: Paul Krugman in the NYT

Commentary, January, 07 2000 Edward Herman
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With a column on trade and globalization in the New York Times of January 2 ("Once And Again"), MIT economist Paul Krugman announces his new status as a Times columnist under the heading "Reckonings."

Commentary Mokhiber: You Can't Eat Enough of It

Commentary, January, 05 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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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...

Commentary Russell: WTO Has Power to Override Civil Rights

Commentary, January, 04 2000 Marta Russell
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The short five year history of the World Trade Organization (WTO) shows that the WTO is most interested in building a new global economic order of free trade unfettered by environmental, and labor regulations which protect people over corporate in...

Commentary Marable: Civil Rights or Silver Rights

Commentary, January, 03 2000 Manning Marable
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More than a century ago, conservative black educator Booker T. Washington proposed a strategy for black advancement within capitalism. The founder of both Tuskegee Institute and the National Negro Business League, Washington cautioned African Amer...

Zmag Article Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part II

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Lydia Sargent
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Lydia Sargent As I said in Part I, the title 37.7 seconds refers to the average amount of time fathers spent each day communicating with their babies during the first three months of life, according to a 1971 study quoted in Has Feminism Chang...

Zmag Article Gordon: Barak's Economic Program

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Neve Gordon
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Neve Gordon In 1992, it was still unclear that Bill Clinton’s election would mark the advent of a new breed of leaders. Yet a few years later Tony Blair was elected in England and Lionel Jospin in France. When Germany’s Gerha...

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...

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...

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