Issue 251: January/February 2004

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features

• Immigrant Restaurant Workers Hope to Rock New York

  Dan La Botz

  Following 9/11, displaced restaurant workers are transforming grief into action.

• The Power of Salvadoran Labor

  Esther Cervantes

  Interview with fired labor leader Sara Quintanilla.

• Book Excerpt: Harvard Works Because We Do

  Greg Halpern

  Custodians and service workers at the world's wealthiest university tell their stories.

• Wealth Inequality by the Numbers

  United for a Fair Economy

• Tax Wealth to Broaden Wealth

  Chuck Collins and Dedrick Muhammad

• The Chad-Cameroon Pipeline: Barrelfuls of Trouble

  Victoria Finkle

  The World Bank is helping three multi-national oil giants develop Chad�s oil reserves. Who will benefit?

the regulars

• the short run
• letter
• active culture San Francisco raises minimum wage
• comment Good news on the economy?
• making sense FTAA-Lite / U.S. military crackdown on Iraqi unionists
• in review Can Christianity fix capitalism
• economy in numbers Who votes, and how