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JINN MAGAZINE
PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE
Issue No. 1.03
12/02/95 - 12/15/95
HERESIES: Thinking the Unthinkable About the Future
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Laying Groundwork for New Political Morality -- Worldwide Drive to Try Former Leaders for Past Misdeeds
By Rami Khouri
Date: 12-07-95
Around the world a movement is underway to hold former leaders accountable for their past misdeeds. This drive not only has the capacity to make degraded people feel a rejuvenated sense that justice prevails but to lay the foundations for a new global political morality. PNS commentator Rami Khouri, former editor of the Jordan Times, is a noted author and analyst of Mideast affairs.
VECTORS: A Regular Column on the Ideas and Directions Behind Today's News
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French Strikes Signal Major Turning Point in Europe
By Franz Schurmann
Date: 12-11-95
Ever since their awesome revolution in 1789, the French periodically have erupted in rage against their governing elites and signaled historic turning points in the process. But behind the latest eruption of rage is an even deeper fault-line in France and Europe between liberal democratic forces and neo-fascists. No matter who wins in the current French confrontation, those faultlines are bound to widen with the working classes ominously tilting ever more towards the fascists. PNS editor Franz Schurmann, a professor emeritus of history and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, writes on foreign politics. His internet email address is <fschurmann@pacificnews.org>.
CALIFORNIA COLLAGE: California as Trendsetter for the Country and the World
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Death of a Filipino Hero -- Inspired by America as an Idea
By David Bacon
Date: 12-05-95
No street in California carries the name Pete Velasco. But for countless Filipinos and labor activists on the Pacific coast, Velasco is remembered as the man who started the grape strike that gave birth to the United Farm Workers. His inspiration, and that of his generation of fellow immigrants, was America -- not the country but the idea. PNS associate editor David Bacon writes widely on immigrant and labor issues.
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Rapist's Release a PR Bonanza for California Prisoncrats
By Dannie Martin
Date: 12-08-95
As if it had been scripted, the release of a serial rapist on parole by California prison authorities has become a PR bonanza for the state's prisoncrats. PNS commentator Dannie Martin, who served time in California prisons and is the author of "The Dish Washer" (W.W. Norton), points out that such cases represent only a minuscule portion of the prison population.
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The Undocumented Virgen
By Ruben Martinez
Date: 12-14-95
The farther one travels from home, the closer one feels to La Virgen de Guadalupe, say those who gather to celebrate her birthday -- December 12 -- in Los Angeles. She transcends borders, as do her faithful. PNS editor Ruben Martinez, author of "The Other Side," is a writer and performance artist who lives in Los Angeles and Mexico City.
MOVEMENTS OF THE DISPOSSESSED: Strategies For Survival, Identity and Direction by People on the Margins
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French Strike Offers Lessons for American Labor Unions
By David Bacon
Date: 12-13-95
The strength of the French striking workers lies in their ability to identify a larger common cause and stick together. The weakness of American workers, by contrast, lies in their fragmentation and disunity. PNS associate editor David Bacon writes widely on issues of labor and immigration.
CIVIL CONFLICTS: Interpretive Reports on Ethnic, Religious, and Inter-National Conflicts Worldwide
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Budget Reconciliation Act Spells Ruin for Family Farms
By A.V. Krebs
Date: 12-04-95
Lost in the furor over how to control the national debt is the devastating impact the Congressional Budget Reconciliation Act -- now awaiting presidential action -- would have on America's family farms. PNS commentator A.V. Krebs, a veteran analyst of rural America, is author of "The Corporate Reapers: The Book of Agribusiness" (1992).
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LSD Sentencing on Trial in the Supreme Court
By Dennis Bernstein and Thea Kelley
Date: 12-06-95
The inequities of crack-versus-powder-cocaine sentencing have become the focus of intense national debate. Those involving LSD sentencing are only now coming to light, thanks to a case (Neal v. U.S.) now being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. PNS correspondents Dennis Bernstein and Thea Kelley report on the issues raised by the case.
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The Threat From Within -- Saudi Monach Should Sleep with One Eye Open
By Peter Theroux
Date: 12-12-95
Last month's terrorist bombing at the U.S. Military Training Mission in Saudi Arabia, like the proverbial tree in the forest, went largely unheard. Yet it portends a mounting threat to the kingdom's stability coming not from outside enemies or even traditional dissidents but from some of the most privileged sectors of Saudi society. PNS analyst Peter Theroux is a writer and author of "Sandstorms" (W.W. Norton) and a translator of Arabic literature.
YOUTH OUTLOOK: The World Through Young People's Eyes
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How Teens Remember Christmas -- What Counts Most is Family
By Sierra Kazarian
Date: 12-15-95
Christmas, the commercials tell us, is a children's holiday. So how do teenagers remember their childhood Christmases? For all the emphasis placed on gifts, what mattered most, according to these YO! writers, is what parents did -- or didn't do -- at Christmas time. YO! (Youth Outlook) is a publication by and about Bay Area youth produced by Pacific News Service.
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