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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...

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 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 ...

Zmag Article 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. ...

Zmag Article Bacon: Dried Garlic And A Busted Union

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 David Bacon
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David Bacon & Bill Berkowitz King City, California is a tough agricultural town about an hour south of Salinas. In King City, vegetables are king—people mostly work in the fields picking them, or in the huge Basic Vegetable Products p...

Zmag Article Steinberg: Genocide in East Timor

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Michael Steinberg
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Michael Steinberg The U.S. role in the recent catalog of horrors in East Timor is deep and far reaching, the culmination of over three decades of nurturing the Indonesian fascist regime. Just as the U.S. mainstream media has attempted to suppr...

Zmag Article Giroux: Youth Panic and the Politics of Schooling

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Henry a. Giroux
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A. Giroux In the post-Littleton climate, moral panic and fear replace critical understanding and allow the dominant media to proclaim, as seen in a recent issue of Newsweek, that white suburban youth have a dark side and that youth culture in ...

Zmag Article Duncombe: DIY Nike Style

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Stephen Duncombe
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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...

Zmag Article Corr: none

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Anders Corr
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South End Press, Cambridge, MA 1999 Review by Alexander Dwinell There’s a verse of Woody Guthrie’s popular anthem "This Land is Your Land" neglected by most school assemblies. It goes: Was a big high wall there that tr...

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