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Albert: Resolving the Pacifica Crisis Revisited
Feb 02, 2001
When an institution like Pacifica devolves into dysfunctional infighting involving police interventions, lock outs, firings and protest resignations, rallies and recirminations, many possible causes invite investigation.Ê
Author: WHERE ARE THE WOMEN IN THE ABORTION DEBATE?
Jan 24, 2001
January 22, 2001, marked the 28th anniversary of Roe v. Wade Ð the U.S. Supreme Court decision which transformed abortion from an experience that threatened the lives and health of women into one with the same mortality rate as a tonsillectomy. In the int
Author: Gendered Assaults: The Attack on Immigrant Women
Jan 17, 2001
If you opened a newspaper in Iowa this spring, you might have come across an advertisement stating: ÒHow do you feel about paving over the amber waves of grain, the purple mountain majesties and the fruited plain?Ó If you read the small print, you found n
Albert: Thinking About DU
Jan 16, 2001
The past week has seen a steadily escalating rush of commentary about Depleted Uranium used in the Gulf War and the Balkans bombing. Particularly in England but in much of Europe and the U.S. as well, left journalists are condemning DUÕs use. E-mail notic
Author: CONNECTIONS OF CANF'S TREASURER
Dec 15, 2000
The Cuban American National Foundation is well-represented on the GOP's list of presidential electors from Florida by CANF's treasurer, Feliciano M. Foyo, who happens to be a good friend of Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Foyo has another friend named Luis Posada Carriles, one of the most notorious terrorists among Cuban expatriots. In an autobiography published in Honduras in 1994, Posada names Feliciano Foyo as one of his financial backers. What does it mean to be one of Posada's financiers?
Author: CONNECTIONS OF CANF'S TREASURER
Dec 15, 2000
The Cuban American National Foundation is well-represented on the GOP's list of presidential electors from Florida by CANF's treasurer, Feliciano M. Foyo, who happens to be a good friend of Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Foyo has another friend named Luis Po
Author: Gendered Assaults: The Attack on Immigrant Women
Dec 03, 2000
If you opened a newspaper in Iowa this spring, you might have come across an advertisement stating: ÒHow do you feel about paving over the amber waves of grain, the purple mountain majesties and the fruited plain?Ó If you read the small print, you found n
Author: Women in Gaza
Nov 26, 2000
It wouldn't be fair to repeat the argument which accuses the women's movement of being the sole paralyzed social movement in the current circumstances. If this is a correct observation, it pinpoints the crisis of all social movements in Palestine, from th
Author: Viral Roulette: Malaria, Blood, and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Nov 19, 2000
In a speech in Abuja, Nigeria on August 27th President Clinton came very close to identifying a taboo subject - the medical transmission of HIV. Mr. Clinton noted that both AIDS and malaria are increasing in Nigeria, but his staff failed to advise him on
Author: No matter who wins, the president will be a bastard
Nov 18, 2000
Terry J. Allen The campaign was a minuet performed by robots; the post_election period is a bacchanal. What a relief. It's just too bad one of these mediocre men has to win. But the good news is that the victor will be perceived by much of the population
Albert: Election Issues
Nov 13, 2000
The election fiasco is an unexpected spur to progressive prospects. Lots of people are thinking hard about what good government is. This could yield positive political vision, not just a list of things we donÕt like.The coming assault on the Electoral Co
Administrator: Cato Deploys New Weapon: “Disability Fraudâ€
Oct 31, 2000
I wondered how long it would take a right-wing think tank to cry foul when it got hold of the fact that disabled person may collect Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and pursue an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) employment discrimination claim against their former employer simultaneously. It took about 15 months from the Cleveland v. Policy Management Systems Corp Supreme Court ruling for the Libertarian Cato Institute to come out with the policy analysis “Facilitating Fraud: How SSDI Gives Benefits to the Able Bodied.â€
Author: More Human Than We Are
Oct 28, 2000
London: The location of the boundaries of our humanity is perhaps the key moral question of our age. Whether a test tube baby should be selected so that his cells can be used to save the life of his sister, whether one conjoined twin should die so that an
Author: The Supreme Court of India and the Narmada Valley
Oct 25, 2000
The law follows politics. The decisions made in a Supreme Court are not the disinterested, enlightened application of universal truths enshrined in a country's legal code but the congealment of power relations and interests in that country.
Author: Time to Take a Critical Look at Depo-Provera
Oct 09, 2000
My first experience with Depo-Provera was as a young welfare mother. I had just finished my first post-partum check-up after having had my second child. The doctor pronounced me in great health and then pulled out a syringe and a vial. I am just going to
Albert: The Trajectory Of Change
Oct 01, 2000
I think we have a problem. From Seattle through Prague and San Francisco, we have established an activist style needing some mid-course correction. WhatÕs the problem, you might ask? Thousands of militant, courageous people are turning out in city after
Administrator: BEFORE AND AFTER YUGOSLAV ELECTIONS
Sep 27, 2000
The first round of voting to elect the next President of Yugoslavia Presidential is to be held on September 24. If no candidate wins an absolute majority, there will be a runoff two weeks later. Because of the boycott by Montenegro, this will essentially
Author: Let the Palestinians Go Home
Sep 15, 2000
President Clinton's renewed efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations focussed attention once again on what is conventionally held to be the key sticking point in the talks: the future of Jerusalem.
Author: Violence, Gender and Health
Sep 08, 2000
If one bothered to notice, we would see that most reports about "violence" are really stories about "violent males." That is not to say that females aren't violent. It is just that the male predominance is overwhelming. Yet we speak of these events in gen
Feb 03, 2001
The papers are filled with pictures of happy relatives of the victims of the 1988 bombing of PanAm 103. A Libyan, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, was just found guilty of the bombing by a Scottish court in the Hague, his co-defendant, Al Amin Khalifa Fh