THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST
A MONTHLY JOURNAL FROM THE HEARTLAND
July 1997 -- Volume 3, Number
7
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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EDITORIAL:
Playing the Race Card
Tax Reform: Guess who wins?
Reform Starts at Home
De-militarize the border
JIM HIGHTOWER:
Rebellion against ATMs
Unregulated Experiments on Humans
A Real Jobs Bill
'Percolate-Up' Economics
'Saving' Social Security
Say 'No' to MFN for China
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Anything but Inactive
Indiana Alliance is Active
Molly Miscue?
The Corporate Greed Amendment
Loose Dollar Dumps Budget Deal
Is NAFTA a Real Problem or only a Perceived
Problem?
RURAL ROUTES
Putting the Squeeze on Rural America , by Wes Sims
OBSERVATIONS/Joan Zwagerman
Won't you be my neighbor?
TALES FROM EAST TEXAS/Carol Countryman
It's a Small World, After All
Holy Cow Batman, What's the Beef?
Say it ain't so, Joe
CALAMITY
HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Glickman: Cottoning up to China
Closing a barn door long after the herd has gone
Cargill goes abroad for cheap soybeans
Tyson Foods lobbyist wins new trial
DeCoster lays a $2 million egg
'Cooking' more than pork at Smithfield Foods
Supermarkets continue to milk Southern California consumers
AN AMERICAN'S STORY:
Walking the Talk: A Progressive Populist pastor
By Phillip A. Farruggio
LABOR TALK/Harry
Kelber:
NLRB on fired workers
WORK IN PROGRESS
GRASSROOTS REPORT
Unity in Diversity: The IPPN Model, by Ted Glick
RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT
Clinton's New Democrats dishonor FDR's legacy
THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
The Forbes Family Friendly Workplace Act
JOE CONASON
Barbour shaves truth in funny money deal
COMMENTARY/Delia A. Yeager
Simple Gifts
FEATURE
Workplace diversity programs work best when they expand beyond race
By Pamela Schaeffer
BOOK REVIEW/Patrick Mazza
Bill Greider's Global New Deal
BUSINESS ETHICS/Marjorie Kelly
Who owns employee knowledge?
COVER STORY
Roots of the Rebellion:
Where Restlessness Breeds, by Joel Dyer
CHARLIE WILSON
The Heavener Anti-Militia Militia
Memorial Day
FEATURE
The Welfare Profiteers:
Coming soon to a state near you
By Christopher D. Cook
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
An Overdue Divorce
GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows:
The Real Costs of Growth
FEATURE
One million immigrants create controversial border settlements
by Kent Paterson
PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
Too many actors spoil the plot
MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph:
Toward a Global Minimum Wage
DAVID MORRIS
Will Archer Destroy Home Grown Fuel?
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon:
We're in 'Media Jeopardy'
THE PROGRESSIVE
REVIEW/Sam Smith
The Real OKC Story
LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales
Protecting Our Sacred Waters
TED RALL
Sanity Makes a Comeback:
French voters reject business as usual
NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
How to avoid insurance risks
JESSE JACKSON:
Words and Deeds
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Tobacco plea bargain flawed
FREE LANCE: Brits get a choice
HAL CROWTHER:
Would Joan of Arc make it in boot camp?
CHARLES LEVENDOSKY:
'Ethics Reform' shields swindlers
Death for McVeigh: Wrong for America
MOLLY
IVINS:
Bulldozing into the better-air brouhaha
The McVeigh case against executions
Not many winners in this can of worms
EUGENE J. McCARTHY
Can't find a good spy these days
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