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Zinn: Seattle
Dec 22, 1999
In the year 1919, when the city of Seattle was brought to a halt by a general strike - beginning with 35,000 shipyard workers demanding a wage increase - the mayor reflected on its significance:
Guellec: Patient Rights vs. Distributive Justice
Dec 21, 1999
The right of the patient to direct his or her medical care and health outcome, known as patient autonomy, and the right of society to control and allocate "limited resources", known as distributive justice will certainly collide. In an ideal world, or in
Marable: A Dialogue Between Generations
Dec 20, 1999
Several weeks ago I attended and spoke at a conference on race which was organized at Stanford University. After delivering my lecture, I walked down the steps from the stage. Clustered around the steps were several male and female graduate students.
Albert: Different Strokes for Different Folks!?
Dec 18, 1999
How do we evaluate movement tactics and particularly property-damaging or truly aggressive or violent tactics?
Herman: THEY BROUGHT IT ON THEMSELVES
Dec 18, 1999
One of the tricks of imperialism is to pretend that a targeted enemy has been offered a negotiating option, quickly claim that that option has been rejected, and then ruthlessly attack or continue sanctions that may be taking a heavy human toll.
Peters: Neither Heroes Nor Fools
Dec 17, 1999
"They forced us all out of the house and one of them held a gun to my head. `I am going to kill you. You are a child of FALINTIL.' `No,' I told the soldier, `I am a child.'"
Wise: "Springing the Diversity Trap"
Dec 16, 1999
You know you're in trouble when Ronald Reagan starts to sound progressive. And you really know you're in trouble when so-callYou know you're in trouble when Ronald Reagan starts to sound progressive. And you really know you're in trouble when so-called pr
Landau: Two from Saul Landau…China/Cuba
Dec 14, 1999
Some weeks back, President Clinton accomplished a goal that President William McKinley had sought a century ago. Yes, Chinese officials now welcome U S economic penetration.
Landau: Two from Saul LandauÉChina/Cuba
Dec 14, 1999
Some weeks back, President Clinton accomplished a goal that President William McKinley had sought a century ago. Yes, Chinese officials now welcome U S economic penetration.
Rebick: First Mourn, Then Work for Change
Dec 13, 1999
It has been 10 years since that terrible day, December 6, 1989. Ten years since a lone gunman who blamed feminists for his problems walked into Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and systematically slaughtered only women. Fourteen young women who died becaus
Schechter: MY GLOBAL(IZED) NEIGHBORHOOD: TODAY SEATTLE,TOMORROW TIMES SQUARE?
Dec 12, 1999
The protesters who traveled from across the country and the world to Seattle were inspired by the rare chance to go mano a mano with a usually remote manifestation of globalization.
Georgakas: East Timor, Phillips Petroleum, & Norman, Oklahoma
Dec 11, 1999
During the height of the massacres in East Timor, Phillips Petroleum paid the Indonesian government $2.9 million in royalties for oil that had been taken out of East Timor. That scandal was not uncovered by any "investigative" reporter in mass media, but
Marable: The Politics of Inequality
Dec 09, 1999
The fundamental issue that will define U.S. politics in the first decade of the twenty-first century is the spiraling growth of inequality in American life.
Administrator: Tha Battle for Seattle
Dec 09, 1999
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-In spite of what you may have read or heard about the anti-WTO protests last week, the people on the streets of Seattle weren't opposed to globalization. Their cause is an example of globalization, with protests in solidarity with the Se
Bronski: Playing the Media
Dec 09, 1999
The first wave of the attack came swift and strong. Jonah Goldberg, in his column titled "When the Show is on the Other Foot" in the National Review wrote on October 25:
Dominick: Anarchy, NonViolence, and the Seattle Demonstrations
Dec 06, 1999
One of the most contentious points likely to arise out of the past week's actions is older than the concept of world trade itself: the question of tactics in demonstration and direct action - in particular, violent vs. nonviolent.
Russell: Government Example Setting Not Enough
Dec 05, 1999
Despite a growing economy and a 29-year low official unemployment rate, potential workers with disabilities remain chronically unemployed. Nine years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), national employment surveys show no real
Prashad: IMF: Advance Guard of the WTO
Dec 04, 1999
In 1997, Bangkok's Rafabhat Institute Suan Dusit took a poll of 1,648 Thai children under the age of 15. The survey asked the children to identify the IMF, the International Monetary Fund. A quarter knew what the IMF was. About 30% believed that the IMF w
Solomon: Free Trade's Happy Face Peels Off
Dec 03, 1999
SEATTLE -- After enjoying a free ride in American news media for many years, the World Trade Organization just hit a brick wall. The credit should go to a vast array of civic activists -- represented by tens of thousands of protesters from every continent
Dec 23, 1999
A recently released study finds that children from poor families are better off if they spend more time in day care starting at an earlier age. The Abecedarian Project (named for the first four letters of the alphabet), conducted at the University of Nort