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Znet Article Scipes: Three Legs of Needed Social Change: US Empire, US Capitalism, and Global Climate Change

Znet Article, February, 27 2013 Kim Scipes
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Three overlapping issues must be combined into a single approach: an understanding of the US Empire, US capitalism and Global Climate Change

Znet Article Scipes: Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization

Znet Article, August, 07 2012 Kim Scipes
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Review of Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969-1986

Znet Article Scipes: A Look Back in the Mirror at the Wisconsin Uprising

Znet Article, July, 18 2012 Kim Scipes
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The Wisconsin Uprising in February-March 2011 was one of the most exciting events in a long time in this country’s history

Znet Article Scipes: Chicago Spring: NATO and the 1% vs. the 99%

Znet Article, May, 27 2012 Kim Scipes
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What does this mean for Chicago activists and possibly the Occupy Movement across the country?

Znet Article Scipes: Understanding the Occupy Movement

Znet Article, December, 30 2011 Kim Scipes
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It’s our “job” to make this democracy real, through building strong, unified and determined organizations that can work together with people everywhere

Znet Article Scipes: Open Letter to Occupy Wall Street Participants: Taking Advantage of Seasonal 'Down Time' ?

Znet Article, November, 16 2011 Kim Scipes
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The goal is to create sustainable groups that will last over time

Znet Article Scipes: Beware of Labor Leaders Bearing Gifts

Znet Article, October, 12 2011 Kim Scipes
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Union leaders will try to get you to shift your efforts to supporting the Democrats, even though the Democrats have collaborated in creating much of the death and destruction around the world

Znet Article Scipes: Progressive Failure in Debt “Crisis” Debacle: Looking to the Future

Znet Article, August, 10 2011 Kim Scipes
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The debt crisis offered opportunities to progressive forces of which we failed to take advantage

Znet Article Scipes: The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East

Znet Article, June, 09 2011 Kim Scipes
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This book is a major effort to explain developments in the Middle East to a primarily Western audience

Znet Article Scipes: “The Flaw: Markets, Money, Mortgages and the Great American Meltdown”

Znet Article, May, 25 2011 Kim Scipes
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An interesting and provocative film, but one that accepts the shibboleths of mainstream economics

Znet Article Scipes: The Green Zone

Znet Article, December, 26 2009 Kim Scipes
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As a US military veteran—USMC, 1969-73, who turned around while on active duty—I have been incredibly frustrated at the impotence of the anti-war movement in the United States to stop the wars in particularly Iraq, Afghanistan and, increasingl...

Znet Article Scipes: A Sociologist Critically Examines Paul Krugman's Economics

Znet Article, June, 11 2009 Kim Scipes
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Paul Krugman is arguably the most-read economist in the world today. A Princeton University Professor of Economics and International Affairs, a Nobel Prize laureate in Economics, and a twice-weekly New York Times columnist, his reach extends far ...

Znet Article Scipes: Neo-Liberal Economic Policies in the United States:

Znet Article, May, 30 2009 Kim Scipes
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Most contemporary discussions of globalization, and especially of the impact of neo-liberal economic policies, focus on the countries of the Global South (see, for example, Bond, 2005; Ellner and Hellinger, eds., 2003; a number of articles in Harr...

Znet Article Scipes: The Green Party: An Electoral Force to be Reckoned With?

Znet Article, June, 21 2008 Kim Scipes
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Last year, I published a couple of articles on the Greens that appeared on Z Net: “Wo sind de Gruenen?”, asking where are the Greens, and then “The Green Party: Critique, Response and the Illinois Greens October 2007 Membership Meeting”. I want ...

Znet Article Scipes: "Open Letter to the Chicago Tribune on the Future of the Tribune and Mass Media Local Newspapers"

Znet Article, June, 18 2008 Kim Scipes
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As the crisis of US newspapers have intensified over the last few months, I have thought a number of times about writing to the Tribune to share my two cents. Your Friday (6/13) column took to me actually sitting down to write—and although you mi...

Znet Article Scipes: Neo-Liberal Economic Policies in the United States:

Znet Article, February, 02 2007 Kim Scipes
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Although most discussions of the impact of neo-liberal economic policies focus on the countries of the Global South, these policies have been implemented in the Unit...

Znet Article Scipes: Is Cosatu playing with the devil?

Znet Article, December, 24 2006 Kim Scipes
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The US labour centre, the AFL-CIO has a Solidarity Center in South Africa. Few unionists know what it does or stands for. Kim Scipes, in this revealing article, exposes some of its worldwide operations and wonders why Cosatu has a relationship wit...

Znet Article Scipes: Venezuela and South Africa:

Znet Article, September, 28 2006 Kim Scipes
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Traveling to both Venezuela and South Africa this past summer, through my work as an academic sociologist, I was able to observe firsthand two radically different approaches to "third world" development: a "redistributive approach" in Venezuela, a...

Znet Article Scipes: The AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program and the 2002 Coup in Venezuela:

Znet Article, September, 27 2006 Kim Scipes
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In April 2002, following a general strike led by oil company management and collaborating labor union leaders in Venezuela, parts of the Venezuelan military launched a coup to remove democratically-elected President Hugo Chavez Frias from office. ...

Znet Article Scipes: Ten Days in Venezuela

Znet Article, July, 06 2006 Kim Scipes
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Returning to the United States from Venezuela is a strange experience.  Spending time with poor people hopeful about their future and the future of their children is a heady experience-and not one I've shared in a long time in the US. I just spen...

Znet Article Scipes: Worker-to-Worker Solidarity Committee to AFL-CIO:

Znet Article, May, 01 2006 Kim Scipes
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On March 6th, over 50 union members from several unions and activist allies picketed the headquarters of the AFL-CIO in Washington, DC.  This was to demand that the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center immediately break off all ties with the misnamed Natio...

Znet Article Scipes: Workers Rights ARE Human Rights -- Not Just in the USA, but Around the World

Znet Article, January, 31 2006 Kim Scipes
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Standing in the middle of a blizzard in Chicago on December 8, 2005 along with about 250-300 union members and supporters, I stood at the Haym...

Znet Article Scipes: Labor Rights: If Unions Won't Fight for Them, Then What Good are Unions?

Znet Article, December, 17 2005 Kim Scipes
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On December 10th, International Human Rights Day, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney pointed out that, "For all practical purposes, Americans have lost the freedom to form unions." Accordingly, the AFL-CIO and its allies engaged in a series of protest...

Znet Article Scipes: It's the Beginning of the End-For the Empire, Not Just the War

Znet Article, December, 01 2005 Kim Scipes
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This past September, I wanted to write something about the juxtaposition of the extremely successful mobilization against the war in Iraq on September 24th with the failed mobilization the following day in support of the war. A phrase kept running...

Znet Article Scipes: The Incredible Lightness of Vision In the US Labor Movement

Znet Article, November, 02 2005 Kim Scipes
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Whoopee! The Change to Win Coalition has established itself in the labor movement! Happy Days are here again! Andy Stern's going to lead us to the promised land! And the overwhelming response by American workers: yawn. At the time when American ...

Znet Article Scipes: US Labor Leaders: Missing in Action

Znet Article, September, 16 2005 Kim Scipes
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As one considers developments in and around the main currents of the US labor movement -- the recent split in the AFL-CIO, and the reaction of both sides of the split to the ongoing strike by AMFA against Northwest Airlines, most particularly -- i...

Znet Article Scipes: Reinserting 'Details'

Znet Article, August, 22 2005 Kim Scipes
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Tim Shorrock recently published an article titled "Labor's Foreign Policy Heads in a New Direction."  This piece seems to have gotten considerable distribution, especially as so many folks seem to desperately want to hear good news about Labor's f...

Znet Article Scipes: Distilling the 2005 AFL-CIO Convention: Disaster Ahoy!

Znet Article, August, 09 2005 Kim Scipes
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The Convention is over, delegates have returned home, and it's time to make sense of the mess. First of all, the "Change to Win" Coalition's boycott of the convention and split from the AFL-CIO was stupid. Workers are going to suffer for this stu...

Znet Article Scipes: AFL-CIO Foreign Policy:

Znet Article, August, 02 2005 Kim Scipes
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As one who has written a number of articles about the struggle to transform AFL-CIO foreign policy into genuine international labor solidarity and to pass the "Build Unity and Trust Among Workers Worldwide" resolution at the recent AFL-CIO Nationa...

Znet Article Scipes: Freeing Labor from the Empire:

Znet Article, July, 26 2005 Kim Scipes
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In the increasing "heat" of labor reform issues-which is not always the same as "light"-it has been discouraging to see how little attention has been paid to Labor's foreign policy issues.  This is, in my opinion, the 500-pound gorilla that no one...

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