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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