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Commentary Russell: Handicapitalism Makes its Debut

Commentary, April, 20 2000 Marta Russell
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While a backlash is in full gear against the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) across the nation, the Wall Street Journal (Dec. 15, 1999) recently tagged disabled people as the ÒNext Consumer Niche.Ó Another icon of AmericaÕs ruling class, For...

Commentary Glick: The Non-Violent Army

Commentary, April, 19 2000 Ted Glick
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For those of us who believe that fundamental change is needed in the United States and the world, there is a new development that we all need to welcome, understand, support and work with: the non-violent army.

Commentary Peters: The DC Demos

Commentary, April, 18 2000 Cynthia Peters
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Note: I attended the protests on Sunday and Monday as an individual Òon the fly.Ó The impressions offered here are just that. They are based on my personal viewpoint during the events, and do not include extensive background information. Notes on ...

Commentary Bello: MELTZER REPORT ON BRETTON WOODS TWINS BUILDS CASE FOR ABOLITION BUT HESITATESBy

Commentary, April, 16 2000 Walden Bello
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During the heated debate on whether or not to raise the US quota in the IMF in 1998, the US Congress voted for the quota increase but attached several conditions, including the creation of an independent body to look at the missions and performanc...

Commentary Albert: Participatory Economic Program

Commentary, April, 16 2000 Michael Albert
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Participatory economics is a set of institutions for accomplishing production, consumption, and allocation while meeting peopleÕs needs and furthering their development; is a set of institutions designed to propel equity, solidarity, diversity, an...

Commentary Naiman: A16: Sweeney Crosses the Rubicon, and a New Movement Takes Its First Steps

Commentary, April, 12 2000 Robert Naiman
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As a participant in the planning for the April 16-17 mobilizations against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, I have this to say about all the hype around the April demonstrations and the "new movement for global economic and soci...

Commentary Dominick: Action Not Division: Some Thoughts on Tactics for A16

Commentary, April, 11 2000 Brian Dominick
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It's unfortunate that so little progress has been made, in the wake of last fall's Seattle/WTO actions, on the front of bridging a perceived chasm between practicing "pure nonviolence" and "property destruction" as appropriate tactics for massive ...

Commentary Glick: Martin Luther King, Jr. and "The Personal is Political"

Commentary, April, 10 2000 Ted Glick
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April 4th is the 32nd anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee. This is an important date for the country and for me personally. It was quite literally the killing of King which jolted me into the life ...

Commentary Hahnel: Let's Review

Commentary, April, 08 2000 Robin Hahnel
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For almost 20 years an accelerating process many of us now call corporate sponsored globalization has been changing the way the international economy operates. Under the title “neoliberalism” multinational corporations have succeed...

Commentary Bond: Run on the Bank

Commentary, April, 05 2000 Patrick Bond
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"We can't REALLY aim to shut down the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, you know, Patrick. What would we do without them? What would take their place?"

Commentary Albert: Economics and the Rest Of Society

Commentary, April, 02 2000 Michael Albert
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A Participatory Economy produces, consumes, and allocates to meet peopleÕs needs and develop their capacities. It also promotes equity, solidarity, diversity, and self-management. Its central features are workersÕ and consumersÕ councils, remunera...

Zmag Article Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part V

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 Lydia Sargent
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I began this series by saying that there was a time when “reading feminism” was a joyful, liberating journey. That was pre-1980. Then it became a depressing experience, a subject for satire or/and outrage as inanities, ...

Zmag Article Cohen: Beware The Violence Initiative Project

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 Mitchel Cohen
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As late as the 1980s, a small but influential coterie of prize-winning scientists were trying to prove that black children were, on average, less intelligent than white children. Intelligence, they said, ran “in the genes” of rac...

Zmag Article Bronski: The Subversive Ms. Highsmith and The Talented Mr. Ripley

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 Michael Bronski
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Isn’t that the cute Matt Damon playing a beguiling, decidedly dangerous, homosexual in Anthony Minghella’s film The Talented Mr. Ripley? Damon acts to perfection the role of Tom Ripley, the accomplished young American h...

Zmag Article Pettifer: Mi General

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 Ann Pettifer
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Early this year, the British Home Secretary, Jack Straw, announced that he was “minded” to send General Augusto Pinochet back to Chile. Pinochet has been detained in Britain for 18 months awaiting extradition to Spain, ...

Zmag Article 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? ...

Zmag Article Petras: Rebellion in Ecuador

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 James Petras
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On January 21 a popular rebellion, led by a coalition of Indians, peasants, and urban workers, supported by junior military officials occupied the Parliament, Judiciary, and surrounded the presidential palace. A three-person junt...

Zmag Article 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 ...

Commentary Albert: A Program Seeking Participatory Allocation

Commentary, March, 26 2000 Michael Albert
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Participatory planning is the allocation component of participatory economics. Producers and consumers organized in councils cooperatively negotiate labor, resource, and output allocations. The procedure organizes economic choices and simultaneous...

Commentary Prashad: Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO): All Power to the People

Commentary, March, 25 2000 Vijay Prashad
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On Friday, January 28th at 1:41am, Cornell Young Jr. was shot to death in Providence, Rhode Island. This 30-year-old African American was a police officer and the son of the Providence Police DepartmentÕs first Black officer to become a Major.

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