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Staff: Media and Democracy 1997 -- Preview
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Z Staff
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In any event, at the recent LAAMN meeting there was apparently a lively and productive discussion of the upcoming Congress and how it might be most effective. To start, LAAMN proposes panels on the labor movement, environment, ...
Dolgon: Cleaning up the Hamptons
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Corey Dolgon
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Corey Dolgon On April 16, over 100 people gathered to support the Coalition for Justice (CFJ), a group formed by Southampton College (SC) custodians who were recently "contracted out" to a private manage...
Chomsky: Expanding the Floor of the Cage, Part IIl
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
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This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three times a week we will re-post an article that we think is of timeless importance. This one was first published June, 1997.
Kovel: Cuba & South Africa
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Joel Kovel
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Joel Kovel  The linkage between Castro’s Cuba and Mandela’s South Africa runs deep. Cuban slave society was less efficient in demolishing ties to Africa than its North American counterpart, allowing Cuba to retain ...
Churchill: Suppression of Indigenous Sovereignty in 20th Century United States
Zmag Article, May, 01 1997
Ward Churchill
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Ward Churchill As the 20th century prepares to take its rightful place in the dustbin of history, the last vestiges of sovereignty among the more than 300 indigenous nations trapped inside the claimed boundaries o...
Chomsky: The Passion for Free Markets
Zmag Article, May, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
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For more than half a century, the United Nations has been the main forum for the United States to try to create a world in its image, maneuvering with its allies ...
Johnson: Nuclear Politics All MOXed Out
Zmag Article, May, 01 1997
Tom Johnson
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On January 14, 1997, representatives from 171 medical, environmental, and activist organizations in the United States and 18 other countries—including every major ...
Jean: The Gestapo of Welfare Reform
Zmag Article, May, 01 1997
Lucky Jean
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There is a sinister trend emerging in the area of welfare reform that has gone largely unnoticed by non-poor people: the role of CSD (Children’s Services ...
Howe: Nicaragua: Nearly Gone & Almost Forgotten
Zmag Article, May, 01 1997
Genevieve Howe
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Genevieve Howe Henri Lara Gutierrez was born in Esteli, Nicaragua in October 1979, three months after the July 19, 1979 triumph of the Sandinista revolution. This year, Henri, like the revolution, will turn 18 years...
Fleisher: Attention Shoppers
Zmag Article, May, 01 1997
H. kassia Fleisher
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Great news recently from your favorite financial news network: Several U.S. manufacturers have recently announced their intentions to decrease the number of discount ...
Tokar: Questioning Official Environmentalism
Zmag Article, April, 01 1997
Brian Tokar
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Seven years ago in these pages, we launched an in-depth investigation of the mainstream environmental movement. The occasion was the widely publicized 20th anni...
Albert: Natural Capitalism?
Zmag Article, April, 01 1997
Michael Albert
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Michael Albert I remember debating the potential of the environment as a radical focus back when it was first becoming visible. Most early 1970s radicals felt environmentalism would be the next big spur to activism. Be...
Bacon: West Coast Janitors Get Ready to Fight
Zmag Article, April, 01 1997
David Bacon
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On March 17, after seven years of rebuilding their union, Service Employees Local 399, Los Angeles janitors are leaving it. Together with janitors from Silicon ...
Chomsky: Expanding the Floor of the Cage, Part II
Zmag Article, April, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
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As far as I know Clinton and Dole are moderate Republicans, more or less interchangeable representatives of the business community, old-time government insiders. Maybe there were personality differences. They have somewhat different constituencies...
Peterson: A Great Chicago Land Grab
Zmag Article, April, 01 1997
David Peterson
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David Peterson Since the Department of Housing and Urban development engineered a federal takeover of the Chicago Housing Authority in late May 1995, CHA t...
Petras: The Political Economy of Early Debt Payment
Zmag Article, April, 01 1997
James Petras
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On January 15 President Clinton announced that Mexico had repaid all of the $12.5 billion it borrowed from Washington to stave off financial collapse and bail out Wall ...
Bacon: Korean Workers Shut Down the Chaebols
Zmag Article, March, 01 1997
David Bacon
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David Bacon Since January 14, pitched battles have raged in the streets of Seoul. Outside the Myongdong Cathedral, union leaders have been directing the general strike paralyzing South Korea, and phalanxes of poli...
Eisenscher: The Fate of Social Security
Zmag Article, March, 01 1997
Michael Eisenscher
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Donohue It was a slow news day, just before a major holiday—a good time to release politically sensitive or potentially embarrassing news. Buried in the innards...
Buell: The Politics of Family Leave
Zmag Article, March, 01 1997
John Buell
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The Politics of Family Leave
Cook: The Downsizing of Labor Rights
Zmag Article, March, 01 1997
Christopher d. Cook
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Workers were a hot item in 1996. Born-again populists of both parties jostled for votes from the anxious and the downsized. Labor was Big again, elevating ...
