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 Vol. 059 Issue 001 (January 1 1995)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 EDITOR'S NOTE
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Rothschild, Matthew
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EDITOR'S NOTE Matthew Rothschild Peregrinations The outpouring has been overwhelming. Since Erwin Knoll, the Editor of this magazine for the past twenty-one years, died a month ago, we've been...
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MY EYE
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Kroninger, Stephen
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MY EYE* Stephen Kroninger step Right up AMERICA WE GOT THE CURE ALL FOR WHAT AILS...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS to the Editor IN MEMORIAM I was very saddened when I I learned of Erwin's death. With him goes one of the last conspicuous voices speaking out against the sanctimonious chorus of zealots...
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NEEDLEPOINT
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Colescott, Warrington
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NEEDLEPOINT* Warrington Colescott NM"Q M* STRIKE ! CARD FROM...
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COMMENT
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Comment Let Them Eat Values Things can't get much worse than the House Republicans' welfare plan. In the "Personal Responsibility Act," the new House leaders declare that no one—no matter how...
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NO COMMENT
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NoCOMMENT Free at Last An obituary in the Milwaukee Journal: "George F. 'Happy' Edwards, age seventy-two years, of Madison, died on Tuesday, October 3, 1994, at a local hospital after a long...
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR
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Jordan, June
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR June Jordan Where I Live Now Less than a month ago, somebody wrote this on a wall at Fairfield University in Connecticut. "Fuck unity, you minorities. The white race is...
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ON THE LINE
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On The Line Battling Immigrant Bashers Tucson, Arizona Only a week after Californians passed Proposition 187, aimed at denying health care and education to undocumented immigrants, one group...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Douglas, Susan
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PUNDIT WATCH Susan Douglas The Big Swill Ihaven't heard this much swill about American politics since the media translated Reagan's 1980 victory with 50.9 percent of the popular vote into a...
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Homecoming in Vienna
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Knoll, Erwin
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Homecoming in Vienna BY ERWIN KNOLL This is mainly about two very important oranges that I bought at an outdoor fruit-stand in Vienna on January 20, 1973. The oranges were important, of course,...
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Can the Democrats Be Saved
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Garvey, Ed
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Can the Democrats Be Saved! BY ED GARVEY For eleven months prior to the November election, I spent lots of time in Vermont working with rail workers to stop the sale of the Central Vermont...
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New Party Time
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CANTOR, DANIEL
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New Party Time BY DANIEL CANTOR Over the last three years, I've had thousands of conversations with people about the idea of building a new political party in the United States. Many of these...
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Jesse Jackson
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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The progressive interview Jesse Jackson 'What progressives must do is keep focusing on the moral center, not the political center.' BY JOHN NICHOLS When the overwhelming nature of the Republican...
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JOURNAL ENTRY
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Brown, Lloyd L.
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JOURNAL ENTRY Lloyd L. Brown A Closet Negro Comes Out Back when Woodrow Wilson was President and I was in second grade, my elders told me that if any of the white kids at school called me a...
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CULTURE
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Rapping, Elayne
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CULTURE Elayne Rapping Cult TV with a Twist Lately, and much to my own surprise, I have found myself making mental notes to set my VCR each week to tape two TV series which are not my usual sort...
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BOOKS:Our Best Reading of 1994
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Rothschild, Matthew
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BOOKS Our Best Reading of 1994 by Matthew Rothschild Nowhere in our culture is the disjunction greater between the Left and the mainstream than in the world of books. Far from the bestseller...
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BOOKS
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Rocawich, Linda
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BOOKS by Linda Rocawich The last conversation I had with Erwin Knoll, late on Tuesday afternoon, November 1, concerned John Egerton and his new book, Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation...
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BOOKS
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Conniff, Ruth
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BOOKS by Ruth Conniff Sports, sex, and hope were the themes of my reading this year. As both an athlete and a coach of high-school girls, I was particularly excited about two new books on women...
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NEW BOOKS ON THE LEFT
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NEW BOOKS ON THE LEFT ACTIVISM Avrich, Paul: Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America (Princeton University Press) Buhle, Mari Jo, et a]., eds.: The American Radical (Routledge)...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INDEX
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THE PROGRESSIVE INDEX Volume 58,1994 Section I A abortion: defending choice, laura sydeli, feb 15: med students for choice. holly metz, may 16; pro-choice victory, edit., jul 9;...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins An Easy Laugh They called from Madison November 2 to tell me Erwin Knoll had died. That afternoon, when I went out to collect the mail, I found the familiar Progressive...
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