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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?

Commentary Peters: Progressive Causes Provide Marketing Opportunities

Commentary, February, 07 2000 Cynthia Peters
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What happens when corporations take on progressive social and political issues? We've all had the opportunity to roll our eyes at the marketers who co-opt feminist principles in order to sell their products. "Take Control" hair gel and "Stay Free...

Commentary Albert: A Program Seeking Just Rewards

Commentary, February, 06 2000 Michael Albert
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Suppose we agree that people ought to be paid only according to how hard they work and how onerous their work conditions are. To attain these Just Rewards we must reduce and ultimately eliminate reward for property, power, and output; reduce and f...

Zmag Article Barsamian: Monopolies, NPR, & PBS

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 David Barsamian
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Robert McChesney is Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a leading critic of corporate media. He is the author of Telecommunications, Mass Media and Democracy. His latest book is Rich Media, Po...

Zmag Article Bronski: The State of Queer Film

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Michael Bronski
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Nearly a decade ago it looked as though we were about to enter a Renaissance of gay and lesbian filmmaking. Unable to have access to mainstream movie making, independent filmmakers, writers, and producers began turning out a remarkable body ...

Zmag Article Smith: Politics in Russia

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Jim Smith
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Boris Kagarlitsky is a Moscow-based writer, academic, and democratic socialist political activist. He was a leader of the Party of Labor, which was outlawed by Boris Yeltsin in the aftermath of the 1993 “presidential coup” that res...

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 Hartmann: What's In A Word?

Commentary, January, 08 2000 Betsy Hartmann
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Conservative anti-immigrant and population control forces are once again threatening to take control of the Sierra Club, one of the nation's most influential environmental organizations. A September 26 resolution by the Board of Directors changed ...

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...

Commentary Zinn: Notes for a Gathering

Commentary, January, 02 2000 Howard Zinn
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I have been asked to imagine this situation: "The progressive third party movement has captured the White House, 60% of Congress and 30 Governorships. What do we do now?"

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...

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