A 2,000-mile love canal: people on both sides lose with the free-trade agreement

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Environmental activists are finally gaining some ground in their protest against the foreign-owned factories in Mexico. More Mexicans are becoming aware of the dangers the factory facilities are posing to their environment and eventually to their health.

author: Greider, William
Environmental aspects, Mexico, Factories

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Stand and deliver

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Proposed educational vouchers would extend governmental assistance to private and secular learning institutions. Many oppose this proposal for fear that it would merely contribute to the already deteriorating public school system in the US.

author: Greider, William
Evaluation, Education and state, Social policy, Education policy, Educational vouchers

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Planet of pirates: the manic logic of global capitalism

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Most people would not want to be identified as citizens of the world, but they are already of the world if they are consumers or producers, workers, investors or merchants.

author: Greider, William
World, Social aspects, Economic aspects, International aspects, International economic relations, Capitalism, Citizenship

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