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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 Dodge: The Juvenile Court

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Mara Dodge
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In 1999, 100 years after the establishment of the nation’s first juvenile court in Cook County (Chicago), Illinois, nearly all states have succeeded in passing sweeping legislation to “criminalize” or “adultify” their ...

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 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 Schechter: At the Top of the World

Commentary, February, 09 2000 Danny Schechter
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When demonstrators packed the streets of Seattle last December to scuttle the World Trade Organization meeting and shout about their dissatisfaction with economic globalization, some journalists described them as "politically correct" activists.

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...

Commentary Dominick: Refusing Adulthood: Notes on 'Aging Out'

Commentary, February, 02 2000 Brian Dominick
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Naive as I was in the mid-1990s, for a spell I actually thought there was a good chance that, by the turn of the century, the terms "ageism" and "youth liberation" would be ubiquitous in the Left's vocabulary.

Zmag Article Street: Capitalism and Democracy "Don't Mix Very Well"

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Paul Street
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Economic globalization enthusiasts like Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright, Tony Blair, New York Times foreign policy columnist Thomas Friedman, and the unelected officials of the World Trade Organization repeat a classic Cold War mistake by cl...

Zmag Article Sargent: Reading "feminism" and glimpses into the "female brain"

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Lydia Sargent
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In Parts I and II of this series about reading “feminism” I examined the claims in Just Like A Woman by Dianne Hales. I left off with an introduction to The First Sex by Helen Fisher whose theme is that through deep evolutionary hi...

Zmag Article Carter: 1999 In Review

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Sandy Carter
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In the decade I’ve been writing about music and popular culture in the pages of Z, I can’t recall a year when the pop music mainstream seemed more empty of soul and critical thought than in 1999. Commercially speaking, this was a y...

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 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...

Zmag Article Hill: San Francisco Mayoral Race

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Steven Hill
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In an otherwise off political year, the San Francisco mayoral race in December 1999 commanded national attention. The quintessential “only in San Francisco” story line of the mainstream media set Willie Brown, the powerful, liberal ...

Zmag Article Demers: Living in Delray Beach

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Michael Demers
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The city of Delray Beach, Florida represents a world of two distinct realities for two distinct groups of people: those of upper income and those of middle to low income. The current trends that are shaping the downtown section of this city ...

Commentary Rebick: New Workers' Initiative

Commentary, January, 29 2000 Judy Rebick
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Always on the cutting edge of social change, the Canadian Auto Workers union has just launched an important new initiative. The CAW has set up "A Task Force on Working Class Politics in the 21st Century."

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 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...

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...

Zmag Article Carter: The Indigo Girls & Rage Against the Machine

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Sandy Carter
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Carter When the Atlanta, Georgia-based duo the Indigo Girls signed on with Epic Records in 1988, the mainstream music market was getting on the bandwagon of a new "folk revival" trend triggered by the surprising breakthroughs of Trac...

Zmag Article Bacon: Will A Social Clause In Trade Agreements Advance International Solidarity?

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 David Bacon
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David Bacon On November 30 the AFL-CIO mobilized thousands of union members to demonstrate in Seattle outside the meeting of trade ministers of the World Trade Organization. The labor federation called for incor...

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