Progressive Populist

TABLE OF CONTENTS
December 1996:

EDITORIALS:
Hogs in the Creek
Social Security Repairs

JIM HIGHTOWER:
FedEx writes its own ticket
Media 'Synergy'
Dopes Ban Hemp
Pentagon Hogs
Clinton's lawyer money
Meter reading granny
Busting high-tech salaries

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Clean up the Mississippi
Private meter readers
Campaign reform--a modest proposal
Ballots remain closed
An abusive marriage indeed

RURAL ROUTES:
Whistleblowers to take ADM's 'pants down', by A.V. Krebs.

REPORT:
Jail and progress for disabled in Atlanta, by J. Quinn Brisben.

FEATURE:
Don't bank on it: Credit unions vs. banks, by Mike Goudreau.

TALES FROM EAST TEXAS/Carol Countryman:
How now, fat cow

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber:
Why did Reich resign?

RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT:
Slouching toward the millenium with the Republicrats.

WORK IN PROGRESS/AFL-CIO:
Working families are back!

FEATURE:
Businesses discover it pays to be green, by Robert Neuwirth.
Also, Supermarket chain finds profit in compost.

REPORT:
Center Does Not Hold

TED RALL:
Mean people suck: Californians vote no on civility.

COMMENT:
Don't use my victory to gut the Voting Rights Act,
by Cynthia A. McKinney.

JAMES K. GALBRAITH: A turn of the screw.

FEATURE:
New system of swapping services brings neighbors and needs together,
by Jane Braxton Little.

REPORT:
Alternative parties face stacked deck, by Mark Spencer.

FEATURE:
Used goods find growing markets, by Marianne Comfort.

COMMENT:
Green Party boasts unsophisticated appeal, by John S. Day.

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith:
Flotsam and Jetsam.

COVER STORY:
Frogs in the wheelbarrow: Alliance tries to focus revolt,
by Jim Cullen.
Also, Hightower: Time for Alliance.

REPORT: Workers suffer in Fed-Apache clash, by Paul Haney.

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows: Not so fast!

JESSE JACKSON:
America needs a new moral center in politics
Stop the civil rights erosion

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader:
A merciful end.

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph:
Involuntary imports: The sad side of happy meals.

EVERLASTING GOP-STOPPER/Sean Allen:
Victory is so sweet.

BUSINESS ETHICS/Marjorie Kelly:
A code of conduct with real teeth.

DAVID MORRIS:
Let's go for full employment.

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon:
Hucksters milk a sacred media cow.

PETER MONTAGUE:
Flunking Political Science.

FEATURE:
Surrogate moms and dads offer cookies after school -- and recreate neighborhood ties,
by Pamela Schaeffer.

FEATURE:
Money for something (the $5 solution),
by Phillip A. Farrugio.

JAMES McCARTY YEAGER:
The Cardinal and the Secretary.

LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales:
A viable alternative to politics as usual.

GLEN STEER:
Cold war intelligence sale.

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting:
Newspeak Awards for 1996.

HAL CROWTHER:
Sea Change: Does anybody remember Ronald Reagan.

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY:
Ups and downs: Clinton's Omnibus Parks Law.
Society as a parent: Much stricter, less forgiving.

MOLLY IVINS:
As the ideas bubble up from below
The Doug Jones Party: Just waiting to happen
Once we deregulate utilities, what next?

EUGENE J. McCARTHY:
Old advice for new members of Congress.

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