THiS WEEK: Wal-Mart mistreats women and gets over $1 billion
in government subsidies; Why the rightwing wins the framing war; the economics
of global food trafficking; How to forget a nuclear meltdown in just 25
years; The predictable contours of today's white populism; why non-violent
resistance will not work in Palestine; Monsanto loses for once; Co-ops
continue to thrive in a bad economy, but why?; and This American Life
goes inside the Republican machine and unearths no simple descriptions
of what it finds. There's humor, too, but you'll have to read on to find
it.
This Week's Picks: |
- The Women
of Wal-Mart
Rights and Liberties: A gender discrimination lawsuit offers a glimpse
inside the nation's largest private employer and its treatment of women.
It ain't pretty.
Geri L. Dreiling
| Alternet
http://www.alternet.org/rights/19901/
- Framing the Debate: It's All GOP
How do Republicans continually frustrate Democrats, keeping them on
the defensive? It's not just their media control (Fox News, Clear Channel,
etc.), it's not just the $2 billion they've put into think tanks over
the past 30 years, and it's not just lies and dirty tricks. It's their
skill at "framing." George
Lakoff | commondreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0912-20.htm
- Yes Another Prozac Scandal
Research done on Prozac that was originally used as 'positive evidence'
to market it for children and adolescents has now been brought up again
to point out a disturbing flaw: the data showed a higher incidence of
harmful behavior and suicide among teens taking Prozac than those taking
a placebo or receiving therapy.
Fred Gardner | Counterpunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/gardner09112004.html
- The True Cost of Food
New Zealand is 7,500 miles from the Okanagan valley of British Columbia,
Canada. So why are BC grocery stores flush with New Zealand apples when
perfectly good ones are grown in the Okanagan? In 2002, BC apple exports
totalled 77 million pounds, while apple imports from New Zealand and
elsewhere ran to 111 million pounds. British Columbians need more apples
than they produce, but wouldn't it make sense to eat the apples their
neighbors grow before bringing them in from the other side of the Pacific?
Adbusters
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/55/articles/truecostoffood.html
- Fruits
of the Sea
The following items were among those found in the last two years during
California¹s Coastal Cleanup Day, an annual event in which volunteers
remove debris from the state¹s shorelines. Since the program began
in 1985, 8.5 million pounds of garbage have been collected.
Harper's
http://www.harpers.org/FruitsOfTheSea.html
- Three
Mile Island: Healthy Study Meltwon
The most notorious nuclear accident in the United States resulted in
a partial core meltdown. Yet 25 years later, few questions about how
the meltdown affected public health have been asked.
Joseph Mangano |
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2004/so04/so04mangano.html
- Popularity,
Privilege, and the White Populists for Populate the Airwaves
The history of white populism is a story of overlapping goals and class
politics; however, it is equally a story of sustained racism, of pimping
people of color in the name of working class power and thereby erasing
the privilege and power bestowed upon white workers because of their
skin color.
David Leonard | ColorLines
http://www.arc.org/C_Lines/CLArchive/story7_3_03.html
- Paying
for Congestion
London's "red" mayor, Ken Livingston, was widely believed
to have gone "too far" a year ago when he announced a plan
to hit commuters with a special congestion charge every time they entered
the central city.
Jim Motavalli | E Magazine
http://www.emagazine.com/view/?2056
- The Myth
of Gandhi and Palestinian Reality
The recent visit of Mohandas K. Gandhi's grandson, Arun Gandhi, to Palestine
has sparked new discussion about the role of nonviolence in the Palestinian
struggle for freedom. Ali Abunimah sorts the genuine efforts to energize
the struggle with non-violent tactics from the spurious ones resigned
to shift the blame from the occupier to the occupied.
Ali Abunimah | Electronic
Intifada
http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article3066.shtml
- Black
Muslims and the Sudan
It has taken a genocide in Darfur, where hundreds of thousands have
been killed in a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and countless
Salim Muwakkil |
In These Times
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1071/
- Grim Day
for Monsanto
Bowing to a worldwide pressure campaign, the Monsanto Company announced
in May that it would abandon plans to place genetically engineered wheat
on the market.
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Wal-Mart's
Subsidy Shopping
Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has benefited
from more than $1
billion in economic development subsidies from state and local governments
across the United States, according to a new study by Good Jobs First,
a Washington, D.C.-based research group.
http://multinationalmonitor.org/mm2004/05012004/may-june04front.html
- Co-ops:
Tales of the Unexpected
For all their faults, co-ops are more widespread and active than you
might imagine. If economic democracy has anything to do with it, argues
David Ransom, there will even more of them in future.
The New Internationalist
http://www.newint.org/issue368/keynote.htm
- AUDIO | This American
Life: Big Tent
Republicans are on the march at every level of state, local and federal
government. Yes, they're just barely the majority in the Senate and
in the last Presidential race and in state legislatures around the country,
where they hold just one percent more seats than Democrats nationwide.
But Republican numbers are increasing. It's the Republicans who are
on the rise. On this program, we leave behind the official Republican
talking points ... and ask them to speak instead about what they actually
believe, and what they want for their party and for the country. The
answers turn out to be way more complicated than you might think.
This American Life
http://www.thisamericanlife.com/ra/272.ram
- Media Picks compiled and edited by Erin
Wiegand and Brian Awehali
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