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JINN MAGAZINE

PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE

Issue No. 6.06

03/20/00 - 03/31/00

CONTENTS


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

    Starving For Dignity
    By Eduardo Stanley
    Date: 03-21-00
    Workers at the Spanish-language Univision station KFTV-21 in Fresno have been on a hunger strike to protest the company's lack of "good faith" in negotiating a labor contract. KFTV reportedly earns more than $8 million annually, has excellent ratings and a constantly growing audience. Yet, the workers say, they are being paid starvation wages. PNS commentator Eduardo Stanley is a freelance journalist based in the San Joaquin Valley who worked at KFTV for six years.

    Pray Brown Is Not Trapped By Bygone Fantasies Of Violent Revolution
    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
    Date: 03-24-00
    The arrest of Jamil al-Amin, once known as H. Rap Brown, on charges of killing one deputy sheriff and wounding another, calls to mind the rhetoric of violence which marked Amin's career as a Black Panther some 30 years ago. PNS commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson reflects on the way violence obliterates good work in the public mind. Hutchinson is the author of the forthcoming, "The Disappearance of Black Leadership" ( Middle Passage Press, Los Angeles, April 2000). Order Information: 323-298-0266. E-mail: ehutchi344@aol.com.

    Old General And Mystic Is Key To Mideast Peace -- And End To Oil Crisis
    By Franz Schurmann
    Date: 03-29-00
    While the "oil crisis" and attempts to fashion a peace agreement in the middle east are usually treated as separate topics, they are in fact intimately linked. Moreover, the fate of both may rest in the hands of one man. PNS editor Franz Schurmann, professor emeritus of history and sociology at UC-Berkeley, is author of numerous books on foreign affairs and reads widely in the Arab language media.


* HERESIES: Thinking the Unthinkable About the Future

    China Eyes California As Model For Development Of Its Own Far West
    By Franz Schurmann
    Date: 03-23-00
    A major development project, comparable to those launched in California during the depression, is now beginning in China's Xinjiang province. Its attractions include not only the hope of economic development, but a chance to emulate the American way of life. PNS editor Franz Schurmann, professor emeritus of history and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, is author of numerous books on China and monitors the Chinese-language news media for New California Media (www.ncmonline.com).


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

    Taiwan Vote May Mark A Serious Shift In The Wind From The East
    By Edward Liu
    Date: 03-22-00
    The great significance of the elections in Taiwan is what was rejected. Voters have shown that, after 55 years, they have had more than enough of Nationalist Party rule. PNS commentator Edward Liu speculates on the possibility that the mainland Chinese Communist Party may be facing some of the same problems. Liu, an ethnic Chinese born and raised in the Philippines, is a practicing attorney in San Francisco.

    Exclusive Interview -- Taiwan's First Woman VP Embodies Victory Of Hope Over Fear
    By Rick Mercier
    Date: 03-28-00
    Taiwan's first elected female vice president, Annette Lu, is credited with starting that country's women's movement and spent five and a half years in jail as a political prisoner while battling cancer. This article is based on an exclusive interview obtained by PNS correspondent Richard Mercier, and looks at her role in the administration of President-elect Chen Shui-bian. Mercier ./ . .


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

    Pinochet's Trial And Tribulations In Chile -- The Murderer Returns To The Scene Of The Crime
    By Tito Tricot
    Date: 03-30-00
    Former dictator Augusto Pinochet's return to Chile became the occasion for a small-scale, insulting coup d'etat by the Chilean military, says former political prisoner Tito Tricot, an independent journalist and a sociologist. Tricot directs academic programs in Chile for the School for International Training, the University Academy of Christian Humanism and the University of Art and Social Sciences. E-mail him in Valparaiso at ttricot@agata.ecored.cl.


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

    Some See Fang Family Replacing Hearsts As Poetic Justice -- But Will New Owners Cover The New City?
    By Andrew Lam
    Date: 03-20-00
    The once notoriously anti-Chinese Hearst-owned newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, is now owned by a Chinese American family, a shift that some Asian Americans see as poetic justice. But the deeper question, raised also by the Chandler family's sale of the L.A. Times to the Chicago Tribune, is whether the Examiner will cover the "new city" -- let alone the "new California" -- that is coming into being. PNS editor Andrew Lam is a journalist and commentator for National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

    Downside Of High-Tech -- Upsurge In Shyness
    By Koren L. Capozza
    Date: 03-31-00
    It's not all stock options and IPOs and breathtaking incomes. In the heart of high tech country, California's Silicon Valley, there's been a rapid rise in shyness -- a rise that may be connected with the nature of the work itself. PNS writer Koren L. Capozza is also an editor for New California Media, PNS' ethnic news media collaborative and web site (NCMonline.com). She frequently reports on high-technology trends and its surrounding culture.


* YOUTH OUTLOOK: The World Through Young People's Eyes

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