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Commentary Weisbrot: Spring Protests in Washington, D.C: Another Seattle?

Commentary, March, 24 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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The Clinton administration claims to have learned something from the outpouring of protest against the World Trade Organization (WTO) last December. "Those who heard a wake-up call in Seattle got the right message," said President Clinton. Maybe s...

Commentary Albert: Vision Matters

Commentary, March, 19 2000 Michael Albert
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So far I have sent out an economic vision and strategy commentary each of the past eight Sundays. I assumed we would quickly agree that we don't have but that we do very much need a shared economic vision, and that to get one we need to collective...

Commentary Albert: Participatory Allocation

Commentary, March, 12 2000 Michael Albert
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An economy needs some procedure for coordinating different workers' activities with one another and with the desires of consumers. The procedure, called economic allocation, determines how much of each input and output is used or produced, and whe...

Commentary Zinn: Sender Garlin

Commentary, March, 09 2000 Howard Zinn
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As the twentieth century came to an end last December, an extraordinary man, whose life spanned the century, died at the age of ninety-seven. His name was Sender Garlin.

Commentary Martinez: Students of Color Fight Racism at Univ. of Mich. with Month-Long Occupation

Commentary, March, 08 2000 Elizabeth Martinez
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Since Feb. 6, the Students of Color Coalition (SCC) has occupied the tower of the University of Michigan Union building to protest ongoing racist practices on a campus that claims to have a longstanding commitment to multiculturalism and diversity...

Commentary 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?

Commentary Herman: SAUL LANDAU'S LETTER ON "PACIFICA BASHING"

Commentary, March, 02 2000 Edward Herman
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In mid-February of this year Saul Landau issued an "Appeal to All Progressives: Stop the Pacifica Bashing!" And he got some 40 liberals and leftists to sign on, many associated with The Nation and Institute for Policy Studies.

Zmag Article 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...

Zmag Article 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...

Zmag Article 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...

Zmag Article Bronski: The Destiny of Biology

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Michael Bronski
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Anne Fausto-Sterling is one of the leading theorists on science, sexuality, and gender. Trained as a molecular biologist, and a professor of Biology and Women’s Studies at Brown University, her research and writing covers a broad rage o...

Zmag Article 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...

Zmag Article 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...

Commentary Peters: Reproduction and Sexuality 101

Commentary, March, 01 2000 Cynthia Peters
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I live in a progressive diverse neighborhood where pre-schools stock copies of "Heather Has Two Mommies," but even where this love-makes-a-family consciousness has a strong voice, it does not seem to translate into how we talk to our kids about se...

Zmag Article 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...

Commentary Rebick: Feminist Origins

Commentary, February, 28 2000 Judy Rebick
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With memories of the Battle of Seattle still dancing in our heads and thoughts of the World March of Women against poverty and violence beginning to take shape, it might be a good time to think about how social movements actually develop.

Commentary 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?

Commentary 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...

Commentary Bronski: Saving Our Children, All Over Again

Commentary, February, 22 2000 Michael Bronski
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Quick. What is the worst threat to high school students across the United States today? Interpersonal violence among students? Guns in the hallways? Rampart drug and alcohol use? Shabbily low teaching standards that allow students to graduate bene...

Commentary 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?

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