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PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE

Issue No. 5.11

05/24/99 - 06/06/99

CONTENTS


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

    The True Cause of High School Violence Embedded in the 'Jock' Culture of Conformity
    By Andrew Reding
    Date: 05-24-99
    The search for explanations of the recent shootings at high schools has avoided the difficult and troubling fact that they are only the most visible symptoms of a deep rift in the lives of teenagers. This in turn reflects a tendency to overvalue conformity and athletic activity according to PNS commentator Andrew Reding. Reding, vice mayor of Sanibel, Florida, is an associate editor of Pacific News Service and director, North America Project, World Policy Institute

    Stereotypes in a Distant Galaxy -- Racism Reaches Outer Space
    By Lee Hubbard
    Date: 06-03-99
    Enthralling action, breathtaking special effects, and skillful promotion are drawing crowds to the most recent "Star Wars" offering. But very near the surface of all this dazzle are some familiar -- and ugly -- stereotypes which do not belong in any universe. PNS commentator Lee Hubbard is a writer on the staff of the San Francisco Bay View. His e-mail address is superle@hotmail.com.


* HERESIES: Thinking the Unthinkable About the Future

    Los Angeles Shooting -- Are Black Women the New Menace to Society?
    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
    Date: 05-25-99
    Police shot and killed a homeless woman in Los Angeles recently, allegedly for threatening an officer with a screwdriver. The death raises questions that go beyond the conduct of the LA Police Department, according to PNS commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson, and point to a change in attitude toward black women. Hutchinson is the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black."


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

    The New View from Beijing -- U.S. Trying for Victory Over China
    By Franz Schurmann
    Date: 06-01-99
    As front pages across the United States trumpet news of the "Chinese threat," the Chinese language press has focused on the "American threat." Convinced that the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was deliberate, Chinese strategists are worried that the U.S. is headed for a major confrontation. PNS associate editor Franz Schurmann writes extensively on international affairs. He is Professor Emeritus from UC Berkeley and author of "The Logic of World Power" and "The Foreign Politics of Richard Nixon."


* PACIFIC PULSE: The Pacific Century and Its Impact on the Americas

    History in South Asia Takes Place on the Cricket Pitch
    By Andrew Robinson
    Date: 06-04-99
    That most British of games, cricket, has become the focus of the most heated attention in Southern Asia. Passions are particularly kindled when -- as often happens -- a tiny David vanquishes an established Goliath. PNS commentator Andrew Robinson, a freelance writer, worked and wrote in Bangladesh and India for three years.


* CALIFORNIA COLLAGE: California as Trendsetter for the Country and the World

    Gleanings From the Ethnic Media #23
    By Emil Guillermo
    Date: 05-26-99
    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.

    Gleanings From the Ethnic Media #24
    By Emil Guillermo
    Date: 06-02-99
    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.


* MOVEMENTS: Strategies For Survival, Identity and Direction by People on the Margins

    Street Corner Workers Join Immigrant Labor Movement
    By David Bacon
    Date: 05-28-99
    Day laborers are the newest immigrant workers to start grassroots union organizing efforts in Los Angeles. Starting with committees on each street corner that set ground rules for seeking jobs, the Day Laborers Union harks back to union's traditional role as a social movement. PNS associate editor David Bacon writes widely on labor and immigration issues.

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