The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
May 15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 9
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Jason Vest
Anti-corporate global movement gains

EDITORIAL
Challenge the corporations

JIM HIGHTOWER
Bush goes for the green;
Biggest hog in the world;
Philadelphia shreds First Amendment;
Phillips Petroleum kills another man;
Airing Fruit-of-the-Loom's dirty laundry;
The Army gets 'smart'

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Corporations trash research universities

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
No cure for drought but time

FRANK LINGO
Farmland accused of union-busting

FEATURE/David Case
Greenhouse effect is a great opportunity

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Investigating the Farm Bureau

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Spotlight on abducted children

EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON
NAACP misses point with Rebel flag

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Pharmaceutical Pac-Man

JOHN BUELL
Reinventing Ralph Nader

MARTY JEZER
Whose interests are special?

DISPATCHES
Ford takes Greenwash prize

TED RALL
Together and unequal

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
For sale: America's students

UNDERNEWS/Sam Smith
America has changed

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Hurrah for optimism!

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
America joins in the questioning of global leaders

MARK WEISBROT
Protesters 2, multinational monsters 0

MOVING ON/Kenny Bruno
The movement after Washington

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
The real global issues

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
When corporate media cover 'indy' media

JOHN NICHOLS
Protests succeed in shaking up DC

MADE IN USA/Joel D. Joseph
Why you should buy an American car

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Maybe it's just the way we cover news

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Japan beats US to 21st century car

WAYNE O'LEARY
Perfect greed

TED GLICK
The non-violent army

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Volcanos simmer through Americas

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Organizing an industry

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Concerns about globalization grow

JESSE JACKSON
A debate in Mud Creek

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Dodging the IRS

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Internet and campaigning

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Cogs and Gates

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Subverting law to banish a critic

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
An eye on Haiti

MOLLY IVINS
Capitalism gets a really bad name; A mite of indignation can make a difference.

EUGENE J. McCARTHY
Homogenizing holidays


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