Voices | Heresies | Vectors | Pacific Pulse | The Americas | California | Movements | Civil Conflicts | YO!
JINN MAGAZINE
PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE
Issue No. 5.04
02/15/99 - 02/28/99
VOICES: First-Person Essays Linking the Private to the Public
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Killing of Amadou Dillou -- One Mother Hears Another Mother's Cry of Pain
By Mae Jackson
Date: 02-17-99
Accounts of the death of Amadou Dillou, an immigrant from Guinea, killed by four police officers in New York City, have focused on the extraordinary fact that 41 bullets were fired at an unarmed man standing in a door way. For PNS commentator Mae Jackson, the only possible response is rage, a rage she must try to put aside long enough to write about it and not go crazy. Jackson is a poet and community activist who lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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There's No Fair Trial For Any Kurd in Turkey
By Vera Saeedpour
Date: 02-19-99
The real story about Kurdish leader Ocalan's hand-over to Turkey is not the intrigues behind his capture. Rather it is the anger erupting from thousands of mostly poor Kurds in dozens of different countries. Theirs is the longest struggle for freedom in the world. And once again they have been betrayed by the powers that be. PNS commentator Vera Saeedpour, who has written widely on Kurdish issues, is director of the New York-based Kurdish Library.
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A World of Minorities-- Rising Above the Confusion of Not Belonging
By Russell Morse
Date: 02-25-99
The term "minority" is being redefined, especially in California, in contentious ways. But however the lines are drawn, for an individual, minority status can be a source of pain, confusion, and self-doubt. PNS commentator Russell Morse, 18, a student and a writer, has contributed to YO! (Youth Outlook), a newspaper by and about young people produced by Pacific News Service.
VECTORS: A Regular Column on the Ideas and Directions Behind Today's News
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No Longer Just a Two-Way Street-- Migrants Moving in All Directions -- And Changing The World
By Walter Truett Anderson
Date: 02-22-99
Changes in the way people move -- changes in the number, routes, and reasons for moving -- are transforming our world in sometimes unexpected ways. PNS commentator Walter Truett Anderson looks at some of these new trends and what they might portend on several fronts. Anderson, author of "Evolution Isn't What It Used To Be" (W.H. Freeman), is a political scientist who writes widely on technology and global governance.
PACIFIC PULSE: The Pacific Century and Its Impact on the Americas
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30 Years Later -- Cambodian Americans Ask What Justice Means for Cambodia
By Joshua Phillips
Date: 02-26-99
As the international community attempts to bring Western concepts of justice to bear to Cambodia's "killing fields," many Cambodian Americans find themselves torn over just what the idea of justice means. PNS associate editor Joshua Phillips talked with Cambodians living in California, where half of some 300,000 Cambodian Americans now live.
THE AMERICAS: The Growing Enmeshment of the U.S. and Latin Worlds
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Failure of Drug War Has Deep and Intricate Roots
By Jesus Martinez
Date: 02-16-99
Announcements of the imminent end of drug trafficking are nothing new to citizens of Mexico, and are usually greeted with healthy skepticism at the least, and as cause for concern. A consideration of recent history and the current situation in the United States explain this reaction. PNS commentator Jesus Martinez is an immigrant researcher and activist who was formerly a member of the Political Science Department at Santa Clara University.
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See No Evil -- Clinton's Visit to Mexico an Exercise in Looking the Other Way
By Andrew Reding
Date: 02-16-99
President Clinton's trip to Mexico ended with cordial announcements of a bi-national effort to stop the flow of drugs. This may serve domestic goals for both presidents, but it requires willfully overlooking much of recent history. Pacific News Service associate editor Andrew Reding is senior fellow for hemispheric affairs at the World Policy Institute.
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Power Shift-- Workers in Border Plants Could Tip Mexico's Next Election
By David Bacon
Date: 02-23-99
Workers in factories on or near the U.S.-Mexican border, "maquiladores," a million of them earning an average of $5 a day, have begun to flex their political muscles. There are signs that those muscles could bring dramatic changes in nationwide elections set for next year. PNS associate editor David Bacon writes widely on immigrant and labor issues.
CALIFORNIA COLLAGE: California as Trendsetter for the Country and the World
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Gleanings From the Ethnic Media #9
By Emil Guillermo
Date: 02-18-99
What does the world look like as reported on the pages of California's growing ethnic newspapers? PNS monitors the Chinese-, Spanish-, Vietnamese-, Japanese-, Korean-, Arabic-language news media as well as English-language newcomer and native-born ethnic press published and/or distributed widely in California. "Gleanings from the Ethnic Media" is a regular weekly column compiled by Emil Guillermo, host of "NCM: New California Media TV" (seen on PBS station KCSM-TV60 in the Bay Area); assisted by Pacific News Service and the NCM Network. Just as the alternative news media connected the disaffected populations in the 1960s, so in the 1990s the ethnic media connects the new ethnic majority communities of California -- to one another and to the larger public forum.
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Gleanings from the Ethnic Media #10
By Emil Guillermo
Date: 02-25-99
What does the world look like as reported on the pages of California's growing ethnic newspapers? PNS monitors the Chinese-, Spanish-, Vietnamese-, Japanese-, Korean-, Arabic-language news media as well as English-language newcomer and native-born ethnic press published and/or distributed widely in California. "Gleanings from the Ethnic Media" is a regular weekly column compiled by Emil Guillermo, host of "NCM: New California Media TV" (seen on PBS station KCSM-TV60 in the Bay Area); assisted by Pacific News Service and the NCM Network. Just as the alternative news media connected the disaffected populations in the 1960s, so in the 1990s the ethnic media connects the new ethnic majority communities of California -- to one another and to the larger public forum.
CIVIL CONFLICTS: Interpretive Reports on Ethnic, Religious, and Inter-National Conflicts Worldwide
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The Whole Story -- King May Be Guilty of Jasper Killing, But All of Us Are Responsible
By Michael A. Kroll
Date: 02-24-99
The verdict from Jasper Texas was swift and predictable: John William King was found guilty of murdering James Byrd, Jr. But this gruesome crime must also be seen as the effect -- the predictable effect -- of a criminal justice system based on violence. Michael Kroll, an associate editor of Pacific News Service, specializes in criminal justice and death penalty issues.
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