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Dominick: Georgia On My Mind: Hard Thoughts on Closing the SOA
Commentary, November, 22 1999
Brian Dominick
Dominick's ZSpace page
It's been a long time since I last wrote in depth about the US Army's School of the Americas, and the movement to shut it down. But living in Syracuse, a major anti-SOA hotbed, this time of year it's hard not to write or at least think about the t...
Brecher: There's An Alternative
Commentary, November, 20 1999
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
When world leaders meet in Seattle after Thanksgiving for the "pre-millennial" session of the World Trade Organization, many will sincerely believe that there is no alternative to the present direction of globalization. But all over the world, act...
Solomon: The Twain Most Americans Never Meet
Commentary, November, 19 1999
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
With the start of 2000 less than two months away, I've been thinking about a beloved American writer who stuck his neck out the last time people went through a change of centuries.
Cagan: Some Thoughts on Hate Crimes
Commentary, November, 16 1999
Leslie Cagan
Cagan's ZSpace page
The brutal murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming a little more than a year ago focused national attention on a long-standing reality for many lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people: the widespread fear and hatred of people outside the ...
Raptis: The Pnyx
Commentary, November, 07 1999
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
Pnyx is the name of a low (357 feet high) hill about 450 yards to the west of the Acropolis in Athens. The word "Pnyx" means "tightly crowded together." The "crowding" refers to the male citizens (also known and as "demos") of classical Athens, wh...
Marable: The Black Radical Congress: Moving On Up To Congress 2000
Commentary, November, 04 1999
Manning Marable
Marable's ZSpace page
On June 19, 1998, over two thousand African Americans gathered in Chicago to participate in the founding conference of the Black Radical Congress (BRC).
Prashad: I'm Part of Today's Unions, Ask Me Why
Commentary, November, 03 1999
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
I'm Part of Today's Unions, Ask Me Why
Hahnel: Going To Greet The WTO In Seattle
Zmag Article, November, 01 1999
Robin Hahnel
Hahnel's ZSpace page
Going To Greet The WTO In Seattle
Bronski: Wag the Dogma
Zmag Article, November, 01 1999
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
Wag the Dogma
Hartmann: Cracking Open Crack
Commentary, October, 22 1999
Betsy Hartmann
Hartmann's ZSpace page
We don't allow dogs to breed. We spay them. We neuter them. We try to keep them from having unwanted puppies, and yet these women are literally having litters of children..." These are the words of Barbara Harris, founder of the organization CRACK...
Cagan: Two, Three, Many Protests...But All On the Same Night?
Commentary, October, 17 1999
Leslie Cagan
Cagan's ZSpace page
George W. and his new friends in the leadership of the New York State Republican Party gathered at a fund raising dinner in mid-town Manhattan October 5th. They were all there: George W. Bush, George Pataki, Rudolf Giuliani, Al D'Amato and the res...
Shah: Young and Younger
Commentary, October, 06 1999
Sonia Shah
Shah's ZSpace page
As a child, on every birthday morning, I was meant to touch the feet of each of my parents to show my gratitude and respect. This simple and brief act would overwhelm me with its nakedness, its confession of my own powerlessness, its reference to ...
Bronski: Mary Daly vs. Boston College
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
Michael Bronski The message in all of the news and editorial coverage of Mary Daly’s newest battle in her ongoing war with Boston College (BC) to teach all-women classes is clear: The woman may be well intentioned, but wrong. The ...
Chomsky: East Timor Questions & Answers
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Stephen R. Shalom, Noam Chomsky, & Michael Albert This issue of Z was being prepared as the situation worsened in East Timor. The following Q&A is intended to give readers background information on the situation and U.S. interests in the area....
Weisbrot: Growing Concerns Over WTO
Commentary, September, 25 1999
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
In just a couple of months thousands of environmentalists, steel workers, longshoremen, AIDS activists, farmers, and others will descend upon Seattle in a "mobilization against globalization." They will hold marches, protests, teach-ins, and confe...
Marable: The Battle for Ideas
Commentary, September, 18 1999
Manning Marable
Marable's ZSpace page
Political power always expresses itself as a body of ideas. If you can create and popularize the key ideas that define the general perceptions about public issues, you will largely determine what happens politically.
Peters: East Timor Activism in Boston
Commentary, September, 16 1999
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
The Sydney Morning Herald reported on Tuesday, September 14, 1999 that "Piles of bodies were burnt on the streets of Dili at the weekend and tens of thousands of refugees were without food or water as they fled the militias and the Indonesian Army...
Dominick: An Appeal for Continued Anti-War Efforts
Commentary, September, 05 1999
Brian Dominick
Dominick's ZSpace page
Sept. 5, 1999 An Appeal for Continued Anti-War Efforts By Brian Dominick Did I just see what I think I saw? Has a growing anti-war movement suddenly become dormant, for the umpteenth time in the past few decades - in ...
Bronski: Gay Lit and the Pulitzer
Zmag Article, September, 01 1999
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
Gay Lit and the Pulitzer
Bronski: GOP = Gay Old Party
Commentary, August, 27 1999
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
It is no news that the "news" appearing in the mass media is often manufactured. No where was this clearer than a front page story in The New York Times of August 11, 1999 whose headline announced: "Gay Voters Finding G.O.P. Newly Receptive to Sup...
