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Vol. 054 Issue 011 (November 1 1990)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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IF MY MARINE SON IS KILLED...
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Molnar, Alex
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If My Marine Son Is Killed... By Alex Molnar Milwaukee Dear President Bush: k I kissed my son I goodbye today. He is a I 21-year-old marine. " You have ordered him to Saudi Arabia. The letter...
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MEMO FROM THE EDITOR
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MEMO from the Editor Symposium Last spring, the Heritage Foundation's magazine, Policy Review, published thirty-nine brief essays under the heading, "The Vision Thing: Conservatives Take Aim at...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor Readers Respond to 'Population Patrol* Articles Sadly, your September issue has left The Progressive's readers grossly misled and misinformed. The four feature articles on...
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COMMENT
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Comment The Juggernaut Like a juggernaut rumbling mindlessly toward its target, the buildup of U.S. armed forces in the Middle East continues, accompanied by bellicose chanting and banging of the...
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NO COMMENT
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No COMMENT Foods People Eat News item from The Washington Post: "Lard lovers may now have the best of both possible worlds. Kraft Foods Ingredients Corporation ... has devised a technology that...
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ON THE LINE
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Leon, Mike; Davidon, Ann Morrissett
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ON THE LINE Farmers Fight the Gas Company MADISON, WISCONSIN Two large corporations versus thirty-seven small landowners might seem at first glance to be an uneven match. But the landowners have...
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REFLECTIONS
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Klare, Michael T.
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REFLECTIONS Michael T. Klare The New World War The current crisis in the Persian Gulf may be the opening battle in a new world war—a war that pits the United States and its Western industrial...
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NINETEEN PERSPECTIVES FOR THE LEFT
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Hartman, Chester
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Nineteen Perspectives for the Left BY CHESTER HARTMAN It isn't often that good ideas emerge from the Heritage Foundation, but this one did. Last Spring's issue of Policy Review, the Foundation's...
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OLD PROBLEMS, NEW APPROACHES
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Barnet, Richard J.
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Old Problems, New Approaches BY RICHARD J. BARNET We must take on the traditional concerns of the Left but we need to do so in ways that reflect the new realities of the world economy and the...
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TOWARD A NEW POLITICS OF CITIZENSHIP
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Bookchin, Murray
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Toward a New Politics of Citizenship BY MURRAY BOOKCHIN It would be myopic not to see that our society is so irrational that its most fundamental premises must be challenged. I refer to the...
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SEIZE THE MOMENT
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Booth, Heather
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Seize the Moment BY HEATHER BOOTH Facing a squeeze on housing, health care, child care, wages, and the prospect of new taxes to pay for the party they did not participate in, the great majority of...
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OUR TIME HAS COME
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Borosage, Robert L.
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Our Time Has Come BY ROBERT L. BOROSAGE The civil-rights movement freed the South from apartheid. The women's movement opened new vistas for the majority of the population. The environmental...
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AGAINST ALL FORMS OF DOMINATION
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Bunch, Charlotte
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Against All Forms of Domination BY CHARLOTTE BUNCH We must counter the Right's demand for "traditional values" by offering a re-invigorated vision of a society based on progressive and feminist...
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A MORE COHERENT MOVEMENT
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Cagan, Leslie
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A More Coherent Movement BY LESLIE CAGAN While I understand the desire to identify priorities for our movement, the posing of such a question perpetuates the assumption that it is both possible...
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TIME TO END THE MOVEMENT'S FRAGMENTATION
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GITLIN, TODD
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Time to End the Movement's Fragmentation BY TODD GITLIN The Left's rhetoric may carry a lingering appeal to universals (democracy, justice, equality), but its practical activity is specialized— in...
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SOCIETAL PIE' SLICED WIDER FOR HISPANICS
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Gutierrez, Jose Angel
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'Societal Pie' Sliced Wider for Hispanics BY JOSE ANGEL GUTIERREZ Our historic "backyard"—Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean-must become our front yard. Our national future and...
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RESTORING REWARDS TO WORK
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Hartmann, Heidi; Spalter-Roth, Roberta
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Restoring Rewards to Work BY HEIDI HARTMANN AND ROBERTA SPALTER-ROTH Empowering workers constitutes the first step toward a stronger economy and a stronger citizenry. It is a vital step toward...
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TIME TO GO BACK TO THE GRASS ROOTS
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Hightower, Jim
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Time to Go Back to the Grass Roots BY JIM HIGHTOWER The only way we, as a country, are going to reach the next century with any measure of pride, prosperity, and hope for the future is if we...
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WE NEED POWER, PROGRAM, AND PROGRESS
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Jackson, Jesse L.
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We Need Power, Program, and Progress BY JESSE L. JACKSON In the 1990s, as in the past, there will be conservatives, liberals, and progressives. Conservatives want to maintain the status quo or...
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RETHINKING THE IDEA OF REVOLUTION
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Landau, Saul
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Rethinking the Idea of Revolution BY SAUL LANDAU Is revolution, as denned up to now, viable in the 1990s? Or have changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, as well as those in technology and...
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BREAK THE HABIT OF ISSUING
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Lappe, Frances Moore
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Break the Habit of Issuing Manifestos BY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE Coming up with "our" foreign and domestic policies should not be the priority of progressives. The real priority of the 1990s is...
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A NEW ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS
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Magdoff, Harry
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A New Economic Bill of Rights BY HARRY MAGDOFF Most of us have been sold a bill of goods on what ails the United States. We've been told that reforms for the sake of human needs are impractical,...
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TOWARD NEW STRENGTH FOR WORKERS
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Mazzocchi, Anthony
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Toward New Strength for Workers BY ANTHONY MAZZOCCHI The goal of all our efforts now should be to restore an equitable balance of power between capital and labor—to make it possible for working...
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BUILDING HEMISPHERIC ALLIANCES
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Thrasher, Sue
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Building Hemispheric Alliances BY SUE THRASHER I am deeply afraid, as we enter the last decade of the century, that racial and ethnic divisions will continue to escalate globally, that the move...
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TIME TO TURN OUR ENERGIES INWARD
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Heuvel, Katrina Vanden
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Time to Turn Our Energies Inward BY KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL Since 1985,1 have spent several months a year in Moscow, where citizens and politicians alike are absorbed in intense and sometimes...
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LEADERS TO MEET AN INTELLECTUAL CHALLENGE
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West, Cornel
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Leaders to Meet an Intellectual Challenge BY CORNEL WEST The progressive movement in the United States is in profound disarray. We face an unprecedented crisis of leadership. Never before has the...
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ORGANIZING THE ORGANIZED
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Zinn, Howard
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Organizing the Organized BY HOWARD ZINN The progressive movement in the United States has been unnecessarily thrown for a loop by the recent events in Eastern Europe. That is, we are accepting the...
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JOURNAL ENTRY
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Simms, Kay Lemen
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JOURNAL ENTRY Kay Lemen Simms Among the Grand and the Gross When my husband retired this year, we patched up an ancient camper that had been resting in the backyard since the children were young,...
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BOOKS
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Doder, Dusko; Branson, Louise; Fireside, Harvey
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BOOKS Russia's Roosevelt GORBACHEV: Heretic in the Kremlin by Dusko Doder and Louise Branson Viking Penguin. 352 pp. $22.95. by Harvey Fireside This political biography of Mikhail Sergeyevich...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins These Things Do Happen I have long maintained that the trouble with the Big Scriptwriter in the Sky is that He is just too fond of irony. Take the Middle East (please)....
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