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Weisbrot: Four Dead in Ohio: Thirty Years Later
Commentary, May, 05 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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May 4 will mark thirty years since four students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University were murdered by Ohio National Guardsmen. It is no exaggeration to call it murder, since the students were unarmed and-- given how far they were f...
Solomon: THE POWER AND LIMITS OF PHOTOJOURNALISM
Commentary, May, 04 2000
Norman Solomon
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Despite all the emphasis on new media, photography has never lost the power to move us. Some recent photo essays in major American magazines, focusing on the poor and dispossessed, are efforts to break through abstraction and indifference. They te...
Hightower: WHAT'S MISSING IN CAMPAIGN 2000
Commentary, May, 03 2000
Jim Hightower
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Well, there we have it: Gore-Bush. Dull versus dullard. The political establishments of the two-party duopoly successfully rose up to surround, defend, and shove forward their chosen ones, both girded with tens of millions of dollars from the exac...
Herman: THE LEFT AND ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION
Commentary, May, 02 2000
Edward Herman
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The left always has a problem at election time, and embattled left pens are already trying to demonstrate that we should: (1) forego voting; (2) vote for Ralph Nader; or (3) vote for the lesser evil (Gore). The fact that there is always such vigor...
Herman: The NATO-Media Lie Machine
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Edward Herman
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NATO’s “humanitarian” enterprise in Kosovo was built on a structure of lies, many of them flowing from NATO headquarters and officials of the NATO powers, and uncritically passed along by the mains...
Chomsky: In Retrospect
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The absurdity of the principle of retrospective justification is, surely, recognized at some level. Accordingly, many attempts to justify the NATO bombing take a different tack. One typical version is that “Serbia assaulted ...
Carter: The Second Coming Of Patti Smith
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Sandy Carter
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The Second Coming Of Patti Smith
Bronski: Dr. Laura: Moral Dominatrix
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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It’s the voice that you can’t get out of your head—aggressive, accusatory, and grotesquely “girlish”—it emanates from the radio in a steady stream of unpleasantness: “What did you think you were...
Barsamian: Public Relations: Corporate Spin and Propaganda
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
David Barsamian
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Stuart Ewen is a professor of media studies at Hunter College in New York. He is the author of a number of books on the media and public relations, most notably PR: A Social History of Spin. BARSAMIAN: In the introduct...
Sinyai: Battle of Brooklyn's Domino Sugar
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Clayton Sinyai
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Now well into its eighth month, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) Local 1814’s strike against the Domino Sugar refinery in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is a good example of what workers can expe...
Richards: The Wage Gap
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Jennifer baumgardner and amy Richards
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Around the same time that it was revealed that Naomi Wolf, the feminist and author, was acting as an advisor for Al Gore and being paid $20,000 a month, Oxygen network for women was launching its first ad campaign. “Men,...
Staff: The April Actions
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Z Staff
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It is April 18th, too soon to arrive at conclusions about the anti-WTO/World Bank demonstrations in Washington, DC, but a good time for congratulations. First, issues of IMF and World Bank imposed poverty, powerlessness, and...
Pearson: Dallas Living Wage Coalition holds successful meeting with city council
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Cliff Pearson
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Dallas Living Wage Coalition holds successful meeting with city council
Pearson: Dallas Living Wage Coalition
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Cliff Pearson
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On March 7, approximately 75 members of the Dallas Living Wage Coalition gathered at 9:00 AM at Dallas City Hall in the council briefing room for a special meeting with the Municipal and Minority Affairs Committee. As the m...
Harris: George W. Bush
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Bob Harris
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“Can you name the president of Chechnya?”—Andy Hiller, WHDH- TV Boston, to George W. Bush, 11/4/99 “No, can you?”—George W. Bush You won’t hear about it on CNN, but George W. Bus...
Chimonas: Home Sweet Home?
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Susan Chimonas
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As the 2000 election draws near, we presumably will hear much about the candidates’ “family values.” Republicans and Democrats alike will invariably express their concern for, and noble intentions toward, the famil...
Brown: The Interactive Commercial, Coming Soon to a TV Near You
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Jessica Brown
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The Interactive Commercial, Coming Soon to a TV Near You
Burbach: Pinochet's Trial and Tribulations
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Roger Burbach
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The return of Augusto Pinochet to Chile has sparked a broad movement to bring the former dictator to trial. Ricardo Lagos, the newly installed socialist president, in his first public address from the balcony of the presidential ...
Hartmann: Population Policy: Will Coercion Come Back in Vogue?
Commentary, May, 01 2000
Betsy Hartmann
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In February of this year the Indian government announced a new population policy based on a two-child norm. While social activists have welcomed certain elements of the policy, such as free and compulsory elementary education and improvements in h...
Shah: Social Alienation and the School of Fish Theory of Social Change
Commentary, April, 30 2000
Sonia Shah
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Did you miss me? YouÕve been busy, with world-shaking, front-page social change happenings. In my sleep-deprived fog even I noticed that things were getting exciting, and I missed you. My six-month leave from work to look after my 2 kids, aged 3 a...
