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July 21. 2002
Dave Marsh
Mr. Big Stuff:
Alan Lomax, Great White Fraud
James T. Phillips
"I'll
Tell You No Lies"
The Human Rubble of War
July 20, 2002
Gavin Keeney
The Grave
New Urbanism
World Trade Center Burlesque
Jacob Levich
"I
Was Schooled in Hate"
Confessions of a
Summer Camp Terror Tot
Thomas Croft
Augusta,
GA
Growing Up in the Deep South
Alexander Cockburn
The
Market Hogwallow:
Popgun Populism Isn't Enough
July 19, 2002
Abe Bonowitz / SueZann
Bosler
A Discussion
with Jeb Bush on the Death Penalty
Jonathan Power
No Need
for War Against Iraq
Rick Giombetti
Qwest
Death Watch
Kurt Nimmo
Of Mice,
Bullets & Bombs
M. Shahid Alam
Through
Racist Eyes:
Is Eurocentrism Unique?
July 18, 2002
Mokhiber / Weissman
Business
As Usual
Jerre Skog
I Spy: Now
Let's be Fair,
the USA Ain't East Germany
Ralph Nader
The CEO
Crimewave:
Corporate Socialism
Mahbubul Karim (Sohel)
The Rising Tensions
Between Spain and Morocco
Alexander Cockburn
Drivel
and Squawk:
Can the Times' Jeff Gerth
Save the White House?
July 17, 2002
Philip Farruggio
The
New Role Model:
Remember Jesus, George?
Zara Gelsey
Who's
Reading Over
Your Shoulder?
Behzad Yaghmaian
9/11 and
Fotress Europe:
the Drama of the New
Moslem Diaspora
Mike Ferner
War, Incorporated
Gary Leupp
Bush, Burqas
and the Oppression of Afghan Women
July 16, 2002
Pierre Tristam
Faith--based
Capitalism in
the Ruins of the Market
Kurt Nimmo
How My
35mm Camera Almost Became a Tool of Treason
Robert Fisk
The Kashmir
Distraction
Salam al--Marayati
When
is Terrorism
Not Defined as Terrorism?
Kathleen Christison
The
Image Problem:
Anti--Palestinian Bias
from Wilson to Bush
July 15, 2002
Gavin Keeney
In One
of Safire's Ears,
Out the Other
CounterPunch Wire
Nader in
Cuba
Ralph Nader
The Secret
World of Banking
Dave Marsh
Vincible:
Michael Jackson, Racism and the Music Cartel
Rahul Mahajan
Justice
for Bhopal
Jeffrey St. Clair
Seduced
by a Legend
The Return of Jimmy T99 Nelson
July 14, 2002
Bill Christison
The
DOA (Poem)
David Vest
I'll Never
Get Out of This Band Alive
July 13, 2002
M. Junaid Alam
A Process
of Dehumanization
Gavin Keeney
Go Tell
Karl Rove!
Matt Vidal
Corporate
"Ethics" Red Herrings
Ed Whitfield
Lessons
from Independence Day
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July
22, 2002
The Struggle
of Workers in Palestine
by Gloria Bergen
When thinking of Palestine most people probably
form images of air-raids, razed-to-the-ground buildings, stone-throwing
children, Israeli tanks rolling down emptied streets, frightened
people behind barred windows, and angry Palestinian working class
kids planning suicide bombing missions against Israelis.
If we spoke of the priorities of Palestinian
workers we might guess that their main priority is statehood,
a Palestinian Nation and the protection of their leader, Arafat.
We might believe from the mainstream media that they only demonstrate
against and do battle with Israel soldiers; that they have no
anger against their own ruling class, nor have no other issues
to fight for. The truth is that the priorities of the majority
of Palestinian workers are not killing Jews, nationhood and protecting
the status of Arafat, but jobs and food.
Palestine has a 78% unemployment rate.
At least 120,000 workers lost their jobs due to Israel-Palestine
border closures and the bombing of Palestinian factories and
facilities by the Zionist war machine. Over the past month thousands
of Palestinian workers have held sit-ins and demonstrations over
their country's economic destruction, chronic unemployment and
lack of food.
In early July, 5,000 workers clashed
with riot police in Gaza during a "Starvation March".
It was seen clearly by some as a class issue as some protestors
accused PLO leaders of sending their children to Europe, while
their children die of starvation.
On July 15 approximately 2,000 workers
in Gaza demonstrated in front of the Palestinian Parliament for
jobs, reform and an end to corruption within the Palestine National
Authority. Some held up their work tools and signs that read
"workers are victims of occupation and victims of neglect"
while others banged on empty food containers and held up dried
out pita bread on sticks. Meanwhile, hundreds more marched out
front of the Gaza city U.N. Headquarters and six hundred unemployed
demonstrated in front of the Labor Ministry building in Khan
Younis in the Gaza strip.
With no parliamentary buildings still
fully standing, with no state nor international support, and
no military machine to back the Palestinian Authority, many believe
that there isn't much a power-castrated Arafat can do. Some Palestinians
see it differently, accusing Arafat and the PA of robbing them
and sending millions of dollars out of the country and straight
into their own accounts.
The struggle of workers in Palestine
is the same struggle that all workers of the world share; the
battle against a global neo-liberal agenda that creates war,
destroys jobs, and lets the corporate bums and ruling class get
richer.
Gloria Bergen
lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She can be reached at: bergengloria@hotmail.com.
Today's Features
Dave Marsh
Mr. Big
Stuff:
Alan Lomax, Great White Fraud
James T. Phillips
"I'll
Tell You No Lies"
The Human Rubble of War
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