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Documentaries speak truth to power
December 5, 2003Toronto Film Festival 2003 – part 3 As mentioned in my last column, the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival provided a wealth of excellent documentaries for progressive film enthusiasts. While this reviewer was unable to see...
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Mentally ill abandoned by the system
December 5, 2003Opinion Fifty years ago half a million of us lived in public mental health hospitals, some voluntary but many against their will. How is it that today, by some estimates, only approximately 80,000 of us are...
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A class approach to pensions
December 5, 2003Opinion One of the proudest achievements of the U.S. labor movement, the retired worker’s monthly pension check, is in deepening trouble. Union-negotiated defined-benefit plans supposedly provide a monthly pension check for life, insured by a federal...
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Protest, police, tear gas then and now
December 5, 2003Opinion Two weeks ago in Miami I got a face full of tear gas or pepper spray in the demonstrations against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The last time I was gassed by...
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Bush administration resurrects J. Edgar Hoover
December 5, 2003Opinion As the right wing in the U.S. is in lock-step in its attempted march back in time, using twisted reasoning for public consumption, a report from The New York Times lets us know that the...
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