JINN MAGAZINE

PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE

Issue No. 2.04

02/11/96 - 02/24/96

Happy Lunar Year of the Rat!

CONTENTS

24 Hours of Democracy:
Celebrating free speech on the Internet!

VOICES: First-Person Essays Linking the Private to the Public

Free Speech Movement of the 90s --
Cyberprotestors Fight Their Own Culture War
(submitted to the 24 Hours of Democracy Project)
By Sandy Close and Nick Montfort

Free Speech Movement of the 90s --
Cyberprotestors Fight Their Own Culture War
By Sandy Close and Nick Montfort

A new generation of cyberprotestors is emerging to protect free speech on the Internet. Like their counterparts in the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, they draw their inspiration from a moral repugnance of governmental authority and a utopian faith in the transformative power of the counter-culture they are building. PNS editor Sandy Close writes on youth issues; Nick Montfort, a former editor of the University of Texas student newspaper, is a freelance reporter and longtime denizen of the Internet.

YOUTH OUTLOOK: The World Through Young People's Eyes

More Psyched by Cyberspace and Inner Space --
Hubble's Revelations a Yawn for X-Generation
By Patrick Macias

In the early 1960s, a generation raised on Sputnik saw the future "in the stars." But many of today's 20-somethings, traumatized by the space Challenger disaster, have found surrogates for outer space in cyberspace and "the person sitting next to you." PNS commentator Pat Macias, is a staff writer for YO! (Youth Outlook), a newspaper by and about Bay Area young people published by Pacific News Service.

When Teasers Go Too Far
By Kiana Davis

Many nights kids lie in bed going over what friends have said to them during the day. Did she mean that or didn't she, and if he said that how come he calls himself my friend? PNS commentator Kiana Davis writes about what it's like to be on the receiving end of teasing. Davis is on the staff of YO! (Youth Outlook), a newspaper by and about Bay Area teens produced by Pacific News Service.

Why I Tease -- A Bully's Own Story
By Charles Jones

Teasing is a weapon of self-defense, honed as sharply as any knife to slice through an opponent's armor. PNS commentator Charles Jones describes the moment at which he went from being teased to being a teaser, and how he discovered he was too good at it to stop. Jones is on the staff of YO! (Youth Outlook), a newspaper by and about young people published by Pacific News Service.

HERESIES: Thinking the Unthinkable About the Future

Search for Scenarios -- World's Elites Peer Anxiously into the Future
By Franz Schurmann

The search by the world's elites for accurate projections of the future grows ever more intense as their stake in the global economy deepens. Fueling their unease is the sense that an American-led global order based on control over world oil may be waning. PNS editor Franz Schurmann, a professor emeritus of history and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, is author, most recently, of "American Soul" (Mercury House, 1995).

Best Hope for Ending Genocide Lies in Decapitating Militias
By Franz Schurmann

Western fears of genocide have triggered an intense debate over the best way to guarantee civil order and prevent a worldwide outbreak of ethnic cleansing. Some insist on Nurnberg-type legal tribunals for war criminals. Others advocate global mediation between warring groups. But neither approach addresses the root problem of militias. PNS editor Franz Schurmann, a professor emeritus of history and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, is author of numerous books on global politics.

VECTORS: A Regular Column on the Ideas and Directions Behind Today's News

Labor Activists Push for Economic Summit with Clinton
By David Bacon

Some labor leaders like Bob Wages, head of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, are no longer willing to play down their differences with the Clinton Administration. Absent an honest debate over the future of American workers, Wages is pushing the AFL-CIO to demand an economic summit with the president. PNS associate editor David Bacon writes on labor and immigration.

THE AMERICAS: The Growing Enmeshment of the U.S. and Latin Worlds

Trial's Forgotten Story --
Accused Drug Kingpin's Tale of Bribery on Both Sides of Border
By Beatriz Johnston Hernandez

When Mexican anti-drug agents turned suspected drug trafficker Juan Garcia Abrego over for trial in the U.S., Mexico's reform-minded elites were furious. They wanted Abrego tried in Mexico to get information on his alleged bribery of Mexican officials. But equally important to his career was his bribery of U.S. federal agents, documented in earlier federal trials but largely ignored on the U.S. side of the border. PNS associate editor Beatriz Johnston Hernandez is West Coast correspondent for Proceso.

MOVEMENTS OF THE DISPOSSESSED: Strategies For Survival, Identity and Direction by People on the Margins

In the Ashes of the Shining Path -- Peruvian Pentecostals Spread Fiery Religion at the Grassroots
By Andres Tapia

Last month's Pentecostal revival meetings in Peru drew over 100,000 faithful, highlighting the rapid growth of evangelical Protestantism in that profoundly Catholic country. The same dark-skinned poor who once comprised the target population of the Maoist Shining Path insurgency are building a new social movement inspired by faith in a higher power than the Shining Power, the state, even the military. PNS associate editor Andres Tapia, who was raised in Peru, covers religion for Christianity Today.

Beyond the Ballot Box -- "Marketplace Christians" Set Sights on Secular Professions
By Andres Tapia

Calling themselves "marketplace Christians," a growing number of evangelicals are seeking to use their secular careers as lawyers, doctors, physicists, models, film makers to "spread the word" to mainstream society. PNS associate editor Andres Tapia writes for Christianity Today on immigration and religion. Susan Brill, a freelance journalist in Minneapolis, contributed to this report.

"Rat" artwork by Charles "Serge" Jones.

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