Progressive Populist
TABLE OF CONTENTS
November 1996:
EDITORIALS:
The next campaign
JIM HIGHTOWER:
XXX-ported Jobs;
The Pentagon's MOB Boondoggle;
Phone Company Scams;
GE Wants You in Debt;
Foreign Favors;
Clinton/Dole Trade Advisors;
Recycling Works
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Thanks to our friends
RURAL ROUTES: Agribusiness's Happy Thanksgiving Meal,
by A.V. Krebs.
REPORT: 'Greed, Simple Greed': Supermarket to the world pleads guilty to
price fixing,
by A.V. Krebs.
FEATURE: Striking Back: Teamsters enlist
consumers in their protracted fight,
by Hank Kalet.
Also Teamsters battle over trusteeships.
LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber: German Workers and Us
FEATURE: A River Comes Clean,
by William Bole.
OBSERVATIONS: Suiting up: The silly furor over school uniforms, by Joan
Zwagerman.
REPORT: Perot takes the low road, reaches 8.5%,
by Mark Spencer.
Also, Who owns the Reform Party?
WORK IN PROGRESS/AFL-CIO: Sweet victory.
WASHINGTON REPORT/UAW: Unions warn Wall Street.
TED RALL: Radical Surgery: A Case for Socialized Medicine.
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas: Thresholds of Pain.
FEATURE: Michael Moore: Working class clown,
by Bill Leuders.
KEVIN CLARKE: Where have all the burgers gone?
DONELLA MEADOWS: What the American people really want.
COVER STORY: Progressives: Quit whining, start
organizing,
by Jim Cullen.
JIM WALLIS: A Great National Sin
FREE LANCE: NAFTA loses support
RANDOLPH HOLHUT: Michael Tomasky's Remedies for Reviving the Left.
JESSE JACKSON: The Arc of History.
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader: Corporate Hypocrisy.
EULOGY/James Flansburg: Harold Hughes had a true faith in democracy.
MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph: Stuffed Shirt: A Justice's Misplaced Loyalties
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon: Big win for 'Centrists'
PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith: Global Scorecard.
BUSINESS ETHICS/Marjorie Kelly:
Employees surrender all rights at the company door.
FEATURE: Burgeoning home health care industry, small worker-owned firms
show the way, by Linda R. Prout. Also, Home health company helps women move
from welfare to work.
DAVID MORRIS: Who Controls the Air Waves?
FEATURE: Public apathy toward elections mounting, by Christine Stavem.
PETER MONTAGUE: The invisible government.
BOOK REVIEW/David Hoelscher: Sounds like a good theory,
review of 'They Only Look Dead," by E.J. Dionne Jr.
LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales: Putting a Hole
in the Constitution.
HAL CROWTHER: Legend of Maiden Rock.
CHARLES LEVENDOSKY: Immigration Politics Deports the Heart of America.
J PAUL LEIGH: The Balkanization of America.
MOLLY IVINS:
Suggestions for the bipartisans;
If only we had more John Bryants;
A few questions we might ask ourselves.
EUGENE J. McCARTHY: Musings on post-modern politics.
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