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 Vol. 062 Issue 008 (August 1 1998)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Make Way for Fluff
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor's Note Matthew Rothschild Make Way for Fluff I’m worried about journalism. Seems like every day there is more and more fluff— and less and less news. And when good reporters do tackle...
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HONEST LIVING
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Kroninger, Stephen
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HONEST LIVING Stephen...
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LETTTERS
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Letters to the Editor Strong Voices Are Needed Thank you for your comments on the lack of abortion rights in Wisconsin (Melanie Conklin, “Lights Out on Abortion,†July issue). We need strong...
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TOMORROW'S NEWS TONIGHT
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Brodner, Steve
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TOMORROW’S NEWS TONIGHT Steve...
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COMMENT
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Comment Human Rights and Business as Usual ‘Global commerce promotes dialogue and prosperity, which together often foster increased political and personal freedoms.’ —Mobil Corporation, in...
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment Double Standard A wire-service story datelined Pensacola, Florida: “A would-be career officer with a Ph.D. could be dismissed from the Navy for ‘mooning’ a friend while jogging at...
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Moses Supposes Will Durst
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Durst, Will
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OFF THE MAP Will Durst Moses Supposes I loved it how the Republicans added all those amendments to the tobacco bill and then defeated it because there were too many amendments attached. Watching...
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ON THE LINE
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On The Line Neighbors Fight Polluters Los Angeles Joe Perales lost his youngest son to cancer last year. Perales believes that environmental toxins killed his son Alex, who was fourteen years...
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The Massacres of History
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Zinn, Howard
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The Massacres of History By Howard Zinn This spring, I was invited to participate in a symposium in Boston at historic Faneuil Hall (named after a slave trader but the site of many abolitionist...
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Little, too late for the UAW?
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SLAUGHTER, JANE
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Labor on the Line Too little, too late for the UAW? By Jane Slaughter It was billed as a strike to save jobs. When 9,200 autoworkers walked out in early June, they were adamant that their jobs...
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A U.S. Company squashes unions in Mexico City and Irvine
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Bacon, David
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LABOR on the LINE A U.S. company squashes unions in Mexico City and Irvine By David Bacon Ruben Ruiz got a job at a factory on the outskirts of Mexico City in the summer of 1994. Ruiz’s...
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'In Baja, Labor Justice Is a Dead Letter'
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Bacon, David
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‘In Baja, Labor Justice Is a Dead Letter* Since May 22, the red and black flags that symbolize a legal strike in Mexico have hung across the doors of the Han Young plant, which makes truck...
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'A Catastrophe Waiting to Happen'
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Bacon, David
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'A Catastrophe Waiting to Happen' At the height of the Han Young battles last November, the San Diego Support Committee and other groups tiled a complaint under the North American Agreement on...
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Plucking Workers
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Cook, Christopher D.
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Plucking Workers Tyson Foods looks to the welfare rolls for a captive labor force By Christopher D. Cook Government and business officials in Missouri have developed an efficient way to slash the...
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Julian Bond
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Dreifus, Claudia
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The Progressive Interview Julian Bond By Claudia Dreifus There’s a genial detachment to Julian Bond, fifty-eight, the newly elected chairman of the board of the National Association for the...
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Sophistry
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Baker, David
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POEM David Baker Sophistry Today I wish to speak without my art. Terrible things are happening near us, and far away. What I fear most is how easy it is to live here anyway— and yes, how hard...
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Temps on Screen
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McKissack, Fredrick L. Jr.
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Temps on Screen Fredrick L. McKissack Jr. Clockwatchers. ^a summer filled with bone-head bo-anzas about big rocks colliding with the arth and a rubbery uber-lizard terrorizing New York, it is...
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BOOKS
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BOOKS Sweatshops in All Shapes and Sizes No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers edited by Andrew Ross Verso. 313 pages. $19.00. by Ruth Goldman This refreshing...
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Cake for Y'all
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Cake for Y’all By golly, it’s been a workout jusl keeping up with all the bad stuff flying through Congress. And those of little faith thought this would be a...
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