November 2002's Issue
Nowhere is typical of the United States - least of all Washington, Wall Street and Hollywood. This issue of the NI ignores the familiar images and explores an America that’s rarely seen - except by the Americans who actually live there. Most of them face similar prob- lems, and have similar ambitions, to almost everyone else. And, if anything is ever going to be done about the Rogue Superpower, then the American people will have to play a big part in doing it.
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‘golden Glows From The Lamps Of Anuradhapura's Buddhist Worshippers’ Photo © Shyam Tekwani / Drik Picture Library
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The Angola Three
American prisons contain political prisoners who dared to challenge the domestic status quo – and who have been locked away for good to keep them quiet. Anita Roddick met one of them inside Angola prison.
- Anita Roddick
- 1 Nov 2002
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A narrow victory
Africans are desperate to protect hard-won democracy, as Ike Oguine explains.
- Ike Oguine
- 1 Nov 2002
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Shyam Tekwani
A holy Buddhist site in Sri Lanka, photographed by Shyam Tekwani.
- Shyam Tekwani
- 1 Nov 2002
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The Other America _is_ America
Confronted by a growing crisis of democratic legitimacy in their own country, argues David Ransom, dissident Americans have to turn the Washington Consensus on its head – and the world the right way up.
- David Ransom
- 1 Nov 2002
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Time theft
Working for WalMart has few compensations, as Barbara Ehrenreich found out for herself.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- 1 Nov 2002
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Rolling Thunder
Even a dead fish can go with the flow – but not Jim Hightower, Granny D, Tom Hayden, Joel Rogers and a host of others on the Downhome Democracy Tour.
- 1 Nov 2002
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Seeking Hemalatha
Reem Haddad trails exploited Ethiopian and Sri Lankan maids in Beirut.
- Reem Haddad
- 1 Nov 2002
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Asia's eco-guerrillas
Eco-resisters are making a difference from China to Singapore, Thailand to the Philippines. Mike Levin reports.
- Mike Levin
- 1 Nov 2002
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Great American Rebels
True originals Daniel Shays, Geronimo, Emma Goldman, Mae West, Paul Robeson, Rachel Carson, Cesar Chavez, Noam Chomsky and The Simpsons.
- 1 Nov 2002
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Interview with Owens Wiwa
Ogoni campaigner Owens Wiwa – brother of executed writer Ken Saro-Wiwa – explains why he is confronting the Shell corporation in a US court.
- Katharine Ainger
- 1 Nov 2002
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Oh no you don’t
Corporations are trying hard to get their hands on the creaking public education system in New York. Matthew Reiss reports on what parents, teachers and students have been doing to stop them.
- Matthew Reiss
- 1 Nov 2002
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Yes we can!
Labour unions have begun to embrace ‘New Internationalism’. Mark Engler finds out what it means.
- Mark Engler
- 1 Nov 2002
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Freedom dreams
Taught as a child to see life as possibility, Robin Kelley has travelled from black nationalism to the ‘poetry’ of imagining a new society.
- Robin Kelley
- 1 Nov 2002
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The Other America - Tucson or not Tucson
The place may not be what you first think of as typically American, but David Ransom finds plenty of food for second thoughts, and dissent, in a city with two very different sides.
- David Ransom
- 1 Nov 2002
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No turning back: The history of feminism and the future of women
No Turning Back by Estelle B Freedman
- Nikki van der Gaag
- 1 Nov 2002
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The A to Z of Postmodern Life: Essays on Global Culture in the Noughties
The A to Z of Postmodern Life by Ziauddin Sardar
- Peter Whittaker
- 1 Nov 2002
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Innocence behind bars
WEB EXCLUSIVE For decades the US has been jailing more and more of its own citizens. The result, as Bernice Yeung reports, is an increasing number of innocent victims inside, as well as outside, the criminal-justice system – and growing agitation
- Bernice Yeung
- 1 Nov 2002
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a narrow victory
Africans are desperate to protect hard-won democracy, as Ike Oguine explains.
- Ike Oguine and Ike Oguine
- 1 Nov 2002
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