Monthly Archives: January 2000

But Is It News?

1/27/2000 – 5:04 pm

If you plugged into the news last weekend, you may have seen that there was something of a revolution in Ecuador. The president, Jamil Mahuad, was ousted and the vice president, Gustavo Noaboa Bejarano, was installed in his place by the military. Didn’t seem like much a of big deal in the U.S. news media, […]

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Free Tibet

1/13/2000 – 5:05 pm

I’m on the road this week, calling from Sebastian, Florida, on the Atlantic coast. I’m here with the Ruckus Society at a training camp for Free Tibet activists. Half of the students at the camp are Tibetan exiles, the other half are college students on break. The students learn to plan direct actions, strategic campaigning, […]

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What Do You Know?

1/6/2000 – 5:09 pm

For the past few months, I’ve been reading stories about German companies making reparation payments to the people they used as slave laborers during World War II. About 10 million people were forced to work in Nazi-era factories, often under deplorable conditions. The list of corporations which used slave labor reads like a German Fortune […]

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