THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST

A MONTHLY JOURNAL FROM THE HEARTLAND
June 1997 -- Volume 3, Number 6

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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EDITORIAL:
Start Your Engines

JIM HIGHTOWER:
Booze Ban Hurts Workers
China Front
Clinton Goes Bananas
Trump Talks Values
Throwing Stones at Glass Houses
Nike 'Sun Dries' Asian Workers

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Fed Offenses
Nice Won't Cut It
Be Pure or Be Gone
Greens for Unity
Greens Believe in Politics

RURAL ROUTES
Small-Town America Struggles to Make Room for Newcomers

By Bennett Davis

IN CONGRESS/Richard A. Gephardt
Budget Deal: We Can Do Better

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Something Bill Gates Might Not Be Able to Afford

FEATURE: Setting the Agenda on 'Civic Renewal,
by Craig McGrath.

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber:
Big Biz Grab on Workfare

WORK IN PROGRESS

COMMENT/Dick J. Reavis
Don't Write Off the Patriots

JOE CONASON
Clinton Talks While Hatch Acts

PROLE PATROL/Fred Gustafson
Rage Against the Machine

FEATURE
Criminalizing the Charitable, by Jenna E. Ziman

FEATURE
In 'Eco-Industrial Parks,' One Company's Waste is Another's Raw Material,

by Darren Waggoner

COVER STORY Green Shell: Clean Power's Dirty Secret, by Jon Entine
Power in the Marketplace, by Hank Kalet
Wind Energy Picks Up Speed in the Midwest, by Darren Waggoner
If You Want a Big Shock, See How this Works, by Molly Ivins.

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows:
Environment Debates

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The Uninsured and the Politics of Transcendence.

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph:
A Middle Road for the Middle Kingdom

JAMES McCARTY YEAGER
Atrocity Roulette

DAVID MORRIS
Diminishing Citizenship

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon:
Media 'Peep Show' Gawks at the Poor

THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Court trashes 300-year-old civil liberty


LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales:
Whitewashing of America

TED RALL: Volunteer This:
Killing Capitalism and Idealism at the Same Time

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting: Advertisers Becoming Literate.

JESSE JACKSON: Suffer the Children

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader:
Watch the Mutual Insurance Grab

HAL CROWTHER: Voyage of the Necronauts

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY:
Line Item Veto: Imperial Lunacy
Religious Worship Should Have Equal Treatment

MOLLY IVINS:
Wasting perfectly good anger
Behavioral crusades and the limits of markets
Congress: Signed, sealed and delivered to Big Money

EUGENE J. McCARTHY
The Mentioners.

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