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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
Hartmann: Women's Health Advocates Win a Victory in the Fight Against Chemical Sterilization
Dec 02, 1999
On November 13, the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood of America (PPFA) turned down a motion from its own Medical Committee which have put the organization in the position of supporting unethical human experimentation. The drug in question was quin
Herman: Questioning Henwood on Globalization
Dec 01, 1999
For some reason Doug Henwood feels called upon to play down globalization. Others on the left, some associated with MONTHLY REVIEW, have done the same, warning that any acceptance of the globalization thesis will discourage leftists and breed "defeatism."
Guellec: Things Are Never As They Seem and yet They Are Always As They Seem
Nov 29, 1999
What this title suggests is that we have to look between the lines and live between the lines. Life is almost always terribly complex. Readers of this commentary may feel convinced that the business model does not fit healthcare, so I need not preach to t
Wise: The Trouble With Tolerance
Nov 27, 1999
They came in the mail again, even though I never ordered them: those personal address labels that say "teach tolerance" -sent out by the Southern Poverty Law Center: America's favorite civil rights group. The one run by Morris Dees: America's favorite cru
Henwood: What is Globalization, Anyway
Nov 26, 1999
If there's one thing that analysts and activists across the political spectrum agree on today it's that we live in an era of economic globalization. This is taken by both critics and cheerleaders as self-evident and largely unprecedented. We should think
Zinn: On Rewarding People for Talents and Hard Work
Nov 25, 1999
There are two issues here: First, why should we accept our culture's definition of those two factors? Why should we accept that the "talent" of someone who writes jingles for an Advertising agency advertising dog food and gets $100,000 a year is superior to the talent of an auto mechanic who makes $40,000 a year?
Zinn: On Rewarding People for Talents and Hard WorkÊ
Nov 25, 1999
There are two issues here: First, why should we accept our culture's definition of those two factors? Why should we accept that the "talent" of someone who writes jingles for an Advertising agency advertising dog food and gets $100,000 a year is superior
Administrator: A Short Guide to the WTO
Nov 24, 1999
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is coming to Seattle at the end of November and tens of thousands of labor, environmental, and progressive activists are organizing to give them a hot reception.
Solomon: Nearing Global Summit, WTO On High Media Ground
Nov 23, 1999
When thousands of protesters converge on Seattle at the end of this month to challenge the global summit of the World Trade Organization, they're unlikely to get a fair hearing from America's mass media.
Dominick: Georgia On My Mind: Hard Thoughts on Closing the SOA
Nov 22, 1999
It's been a long time since I last wrote in depth about the US Army's School of the Americas, and the movement to shut it down. But living in Syracuse, a major anti-SOA hotbed, this time of year it's hard not to write or at least think about the training
Shah: Our Deeply Twisted Understanding of the World
Nov 21, 1999
"Do people in India leave their dead in the street?" This was the question posed to my family by a coworker invited for dinner. (She wasn't invited back.)
Shah: Our Deeply Twisted Understanding of the WorldÊ
Nov 21, 1999
"Do people in India leave their dead in the street?" This was the question posed to my family by a coworker invited for dinner. (She wasn't invited back.)
Brecher: There's An Alternative
Nov 20, 1999
When world leaders meet in Seattle after Thanksgiving for the "pre-millennial" session of the World Trade Organization, many will sincerely believe that there is no alternative to the present direction of globalization. But all over the world, activists a
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.