Winter Contents 1998
READERS SPEAK OUT 3 ( Only available in hard copy)
To Congress on Assata Shakur Vote, by Michael Ratner 5
GOVERNMENT/CORPORATIONS/SOCIETY
Letter to the United Nations, by Ramsey Clark 6
The U.S. vs. Saddam Hussein, by Doret Kollerer 7
Media Beat, by Norman Solomon 10
Y2K Update, by Vicky Garcia 12
Class and Virtue, by Michael Parenti 18
Stopping the Presses, by James J. Ives 20
The Best Government Money Can Buy, by Dan Pens 21
This Is Jim Hightower Saying . . . 22
The Ties that Bind, by Carol Strick 24
Citizens Vote To Control Corporations, by Paul Cienfuegos 28
The Expert Witness, by Michael Levine 29
The CIA and Torture, Part 1, by Jon Ellison 30
Mexikayotl, Our Red Road, by Tekpatltzin 36
A Message to the People, by Standing Deer 37
To Russia with Love, by Samuel Naive 37
Then and Now, Prohibition" and the "War on Drugs," by James DiVietri 38
The Drug Corner, by James Gierach 40
CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Children & Women Abused in Correctional Institutions, 34
Plan to Silence Death Row Prisoners, 41
Time To Step Up, by Steven King Ainsworth 41
I Meet a Man on Death Row and Learn to Care, by Jody Cramer 42
Kentucky Racial Justice Act 43
Mumia's Life and All Our Futures, by Refuse and Resist! 44
A Statement from Death Row, by Mumia Abu-Jamal 44
Debriefing Policy Shows Signs of Cracking, by Luis Talamantez 45
North Coast Classifieds 46