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Hope for the ’90s
Dave Dellinger
Recorded at the World Fellowship Center.
Free Trade for Whom?
Kristin Dawkins
Interview by David Barsamian
Gene Wars: The Politics of Biotechnology
Kristin Dawkins
Rapid and radical developments are occurring in laboratories that will shape the future. Genetic engineering and biotechnology hold promise and peril. New varieties of plants and plant-derived medicines are being literally invented by multinational corporations. Anything that can be genetically engineered can be patented and monopolized. The biotech industry says the new strains of products […]
Debate with Keith Maskus on NAFTA
Kristin Dawkins
NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, is a pact between the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Negotiated by the Bush, Mulroney and Salinas administrations, NAFTA if approved, will reduce tariffs and other trade barriers and modify investment rules. NAFTA supporters contend that itwill create new jobs and stimulate economic growth in all three countries, as […]
G-7/GATT/NAFTA
Kristin Dawkins
David Barsamian interviews Kristin Dawkins, senior fellow and policy analyst with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis. The discussion centers on the GATT and NAFTA trade agreement negotiations and their implications for democracy in the US and around the world. The so-called regulations proposed by these agreements are really transnational corporations’ agenda […]
The New Face of Conquest: GATT and NAFTA
Kristin Dawkins
GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, are the broadest and most far-reaching trade pacts of this era. GATT, on a global level, and NAFTA, on a regional one, will structure and determine North/South economic relations in the 21st century. Advocates claim the agreements will generate […]
Race, Power & Prisons Since September 11th
Angela Davis
In 1992, an all-white jury acquitted 4 white police officers after they brutally beat Rodney King, a black man, as he lay prone on the ground. The United States was sitting on a racial tinderbox. Fueled by enormous inequality between whites and people of color, it erupted. L.A. burned. 55 people died, 2300 were injured, […]
Race, Crime & Punishment
Angela Davis
The U.S. has a “love affair with incarceration,” says England’s respected Guardian newspaper. Spanking-new prisons dot the landscape. Prison population has risen 500% since 1972, while the population on the whole only rose 28%. African Americans constitute most of the inmates. They receive longer and harsher sentences than whites. In addition, blacks are disproportionately represented […]
Report from Harlem
Angela Davis
The new code words for racism are “welfare” and “crime.” Reagan’s fictitious welfare queen is back. She’s driving her Cadillac and collecting extra checks while decent (read “white”), hard- working people struggle to make a living. In reality welfare, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, constitutes 1% of the budget. Corporate welfare, on the other […]
Black Women in the Academy: Defending Our Name
Angela Davis
Liberty and Justice for All?
Angela Davis
African American Women in the Twenty-First Century
Angela Davis
African American women have been rendered invisible for much of history. Although they have held the torch for movements including black empowerment and women empowerment, they have been scarcely acknowledged, and often deliberately suppressed. “Who will speak for us, if we do not speak for ourselves?”, asks Angela Davis in this powerful 1989 talk to African […]

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