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Cagan: Toys, the Death Penalty and the Gay Movement
Commentary, August, 24 2000
Leslie Cagan
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In case you missed it, the Week in Review section of the 7/23/00 Sunday New York Times ran a most incredible piece. Instead of summarizing from it, let me just quote a few choice sentences:"Never Say Die, Just Execute.
Albert: Lesser Evil?
Commentary, August, 21 2000
Michael Albert
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The general anti-Nader argument is very simple. To vote/work for Nader means not voting/working for Gore. That's uncontestable. In states with close Gore/Bush ratings, Gore could lose enough votes to Nader for Bush to win the state, and ultimately...
Schechter: Speaking Back to the Media
Commentary, August, 20 2000
Danny Schechter
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There used to be something called equal time and the right to reply to TV editorials and coverage. I am reminded of this by the publication, in a thin booklet called Poems for the Nation, of the text of a previously unpublished television address ...
Weisbrot: Verizon Workers Defend the Right to Organize
Commentary, August, 19 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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Workers at Verizon Communications had a lot of reasons to go out on strike against the nation's largest provider of local telephone and wireless services: loss of jobs to non- union sub-contractors, forced overtime, overbearing management. And a...
Weisbrot: Police Abuses Won't Stifle Protests
Commentary, August, 13 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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"When protest becomes effective, governments become repressive." Tom Hayden summed it up in an axiom three decades ago, while describing his own trial on conspiracy charges for organizing protests against the Vietnam War.
Dominick: Zapatismo, Anyone?
Commentary, August, 09 2000
Brian Dominick
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Not since the Zapatista uprising in January, 1994, has my hope for radical social change been so reinvigorated as by the recent uprisings here in the North around the World Trade Organization, the IMF/World Bank, and the Organization of American S...
Mokhiber: Big Ideas on Corporate Accountability and Global Sustainability
Commentary, August, 08 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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Sometimes, it is important to think big.In an era where corporations trample across the globe with minimal restraint, and citizen movements around the world are on their heels, it is natural -- and necessary -- for those trying to check corporate ...
Albert: Anarchism Today
Commentary, August, 07 2000
Michael Albert
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In lieu of attending the North American Anarchist Conference (NAAC), I was asked: Òwhat do you think of anarchism as an existing and potential ideology and movement?Ó Well, I think if anarchism were an ecology, it would be a tropical rain forest--...
Bronski: Violence and Gays in the Militaryby
Commentary, August, 05 2000
Michael Bronski
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It was, of course, to be expected. On July 17 an Army review concluded that no officers would be held responsible for the death of P.F.C..Barry Winchell who was murdered on July 5, 1999 by a fellow soldier at Fort Campbell, on the Tennessee-Kentuc...
Glick: Leftists and Popular Movements
Commentary, August, 04 2000
Ted Glick
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There are a number of reasons why some of those who are left of center in the United States have not yet decided to support the Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke Green Party independent Presidential campaign. Some have the usual "lesser of two evils" argu...
Weisbrot: Venezuelan Elections Offer Hope of Real Reform
Commentary, August, 02 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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The electoral victory of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday, greeted with celebration by the country's poor majority, may have implications beyond Venezuela's borders.
Cagan: Philadelphia: Sunday, July 30
Commentary, August, 01 2000
Leslie Cagan
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As the several thousand delegates to the Republican PartyÕs Nominating Convention were arriving in Philadelphia this weekend, protests were already in full swing. There is too much happening for me to report on it all, but the Independent Media Ce...
Guellec: The dark side of the Canadian Healthcare systemÕs decline
Commentary, July, 19 2000
Dorothy Guellec
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My wise uncle told me that the real meaning of Globalization Òis to make the world safe for the American and other multinational corporations to penetrate and take over as much as the worldÕs economy, country by country, as possibleÓ. He is right,...
Glick: The Nader/Laduke Campaign The Nader/LaDuke Movement
Commentary, July, 08 2000
Ted Glick
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There is no question, absolutely none, that of the four "name recognition" Presidential candidates--Bush, Gore, Nader and Buchanan--Ralph Nader is far and away the most progressive. He will be on the ballot in almost all of the states. As distinct...
Bronski: The Failure of Privacy
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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To most Americans, the right to privacy is a cornerstone in the grand constitutional structure, a right that guarantees a wide range of freedoms. We invoke it romantically in our self-righteous claims to freedom from social or legal intrusio...
Carter: Hip-Hop Uprising
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Sandy Carter
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Hip-Hop Uprising
Sargent: 37.7 Seconds
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Lydia Sargent
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In Part VI of this series, we looked at Natalie Angier’s Women: An Intimate Geography, an entertaining, very thorough examination/celebration of our bodies. We probed the intimate details of our eggs, our chromosomes, and our vaginas, e...
Isserman: none
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Maurice Isserman
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New York: Public Affairs, 2000; 449 pp. Review by Jason Schulman The legacy of the late Michael Harrington—known best to the public at large as the author of The Other America (1962), the book credited with sparking the Kennedy-...
Schirmer: President Clinton, A Corporate Offensive, and Okinawan Bases
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Daniel Schirmer
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President Clinton, A Corporate Offensive, and Okinawan Bases
