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Administrator: Executing Justice: An interview with Padre Javier Giraldo

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In 1988 Padre Javier Giraldo, a Jesuit priest, was instrumental in founding a human rights organization, originally Catholic and now ecumenical: the Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz (Inter...

Administrator: Somerville Projectionists Strike

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On August 4, 2003 the newly unionized Somerville Theater projectionists gathered with friends and community supporters to celebrate their victory. After a long and bitter campaign that s...

Administrator: Fear Was the Spoiler in California Election

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Fear was the spoiler in California’s October 7 gubernatorial election. So-called progressives abandoned their ideals and didn’t vote for Green Party candidate Peter Camejo, the most prominent...

Administrator: Weapons of Mass Deception by Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber (Tarcher/Putnam, 2003, 215 pp.)

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A number of opinion surveys have recently reported that for the first time since the beginning of the war in Iraq a solid majority of Americans believe the Bush administration either stretched the trut...

Administrator: The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth by Dianna Ortiz (Marknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2002)

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In Sister Dianna Ortiz’s The Blindfold’s Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth, an Hispanic nun from the U.S. is kidnapped and tortured by Guatemalan army officers with a U.S....

Administrator: Different Name for the Same Old Crap

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Somewhere along the way, I became an associate. Before that, I was a waiter who became a server. Hell, I’ve even been periodically transformed from a barkeep into a mixologist. ...

Administrator: Bolivia's Gas War Protests

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In September and early October, road blockades, protests, and strikes gained momentum across Bolivia as new sectors entered the movement against the exportation of the country’s gas to the U.S.&nb...

Administrator: Blowback and the Sorrows of Empire: Interview with Chalmers Johnson

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Chalmers Johnson is a professor of political science and has taught at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. He founded and is currently president of the Japan Policy Research Institute in Cardiff California. ...

Administrator: The WTO Stalemate: One very big "no"

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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is a paradoxical institution. It was founded on the ostensible notion of “free trade” improving living standards around the world, but its agreements serve ...

Administrator: Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Who’s The Biggest Rogue Of All?

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W hat follows is a record of the U.S. rogue role in the world—its crimes and imperial designs. Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty, 1996. Signed by 164 nations an...

Administrator: Imagine a Country Life in the new millenium

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I magine a country where one out of five children is born into poverty and wealth is being redistributed upward. Since the 1970s, the top 1 percent of households has doubled their share o...

Administrator: In Memory of Rachel Corrie, March 17, 2003

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R ACHEL CORRIE was an incredibly good person. I am very saddened by her murder on Sunday, March 16, 2003. She was run over by an Israeli military bulldoz...

Administrator: 7th Free Trade Summit

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In June, I sat in on a meeting of campesinos—peasant farmers— in Ecuador’s coastal province of Manabí. The topic at hand was the upcoming 7th Summit of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, ...

Administrator: The Manufactured Threat

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The Bush administration has floated several reasons for going to war with Saddam Hussein. The one that seems to have the most currency is that we need to stop Saddam before he strikes us or someone else. ...

Administrator: "Sound Science," Common Sense & Global Warming

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For anyone who still needs “sound science” about global warming, here’s a small sampler: Temperatures are rising. James Hansen and colleagues of New York City’s Goddard Institute observed ...

Administrator: Boom: The Sound of Eviction 2002 (By Whispered Media, 96 mins.)

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The vast domed hall of the old Armory in San Francisco’s Mission District which sat empty and rotting for the last several decades comes t...

Administrator: Victor Toro: Chilean Revolutionary

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Victor Toro’s thumping abrazo is more than just the ritualistic pounding of flesh on flesh. The act resonates symbolically over Villa Grimaldi, the Air Force Academy, places thousands ...

Administrator: Duro Bag Workers

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In June 2000, 400 workers at Duro Bag Company in Rio Bravo Tamaulipas, Mexico went on strike for higher salaries, better working conditions, and the right to form their own union. Duro...

Administrator: World Sustainability Conference

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In August, UN delegates from governments around the world will gather in Johannesburg, South Africa to review the successes and failures of the “sustainable development” agenda launched at ...

Administrator: World Sustainability Conference

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In August, UN delegates from governments around the world will gather in Johannesburg, South Africa to review the successes and failures of the “sustainable development” agenda launched at ...