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Trigona: Argentine Workers Fight For Wages
Aug 23, 2005
Why is it that prices go up but our wages donÕt? ArgentinaÕs working class is certainly concerned over the matter as labor conflicts are heating up. Public health workers have put the dispute over wages back in the national public spotlight.
Trigona: Argentina's Occupied Factories
Oct 06, 2004
On 14 September 2004 a delegation of workers from some of Argentina's roughly 200 re-occupied factories marched in Buenos Aires. They demanded that the government permanently legalize the expropriation of factories and other bankrupt enterprises which wer
Trigona: Brukman Workers
Jun 05, 2003
"What we are asking for is not undignified or illegal, we are asking for something dignified--work, health, education and housing," expresses Elisa one of the 55 workers at Brukman, a suit factory in Buenos Aires
Thrupkaew: A Letter from Cuba, Part II: Cuban Women, Beyond Prostitution
Aug 07, 2001
I recently traveled to Cuba as part of a U.S. women's delegation, sponsored by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Sojourner, a feminist newspaper, and Hermanas, an organization dedicated to building solidarity between U.S. and Caribbe
Thrupkaew: A Letter from Cuba
May 22, 2001
I recently traveled to Cuba as part of a U.S. women's delegation, sponsored by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Sojourner, and Hermanas, an organization dedicated to building solidarity between U.S. and Caribbean women. Away from ou
Thrupkaew: Going Geisha
Apr 14, 2001
After returning from Japan a few years ago, I was surprised to see that the States was in a lather over "geisha chic"-which persists to this day. Chopsticks were stuck in heads fair and dark. Madonna, that fashion chameleon, appeared in a red vinyl kimono
Thrupkaew: The New Face of Tobacco
Feb 14, 2001
While the Marlboro Man surveys the great Eastern frontier from posters, walls, and cigarette stands all over Vietnam, young ÒMarlboro cowgirlsÓ offer free cigarettes to pedestrians and beckon young people into company-sponsored events such as ÒHollywood N
Thrupkaew: Marketing "Woman" to Women Online
Dec 29, 2000
I just couldnÕt do it. I was shuddering at the thought of becoming a member of women.com, one of a rapidly proliferating group of "womenÕs websites," for the purposes of research for this piece. After spending just a few days surfing women.com and iVillag
Tokar: Resisting Genetic Engineering
Mar 28, 1999
While the biotechnology industry continues to promise miracles-- new ways to feed the world, solutions to intractable medical problems, enhanced "freedom of choice" in human reproduction, and more -- activists worldwide have recently stepped up their oppo
Tokar: Biotechnology and the Commodification of Life
Mar 03, 1999
The U.S.government's aggressive advocacy for the biotechnology industry, and its potentially disastrous agenda of reshaping world agriculture, has finally made international headlines.
Sep 28, 2005
"Yes, to win power, whether legally or illegally, one needs to have left by the roadside a large part of one's ideological baggage and to have got rid of all one's moral scruples. And then, once in power, the big problem is how to stay there. One needs to