Cairo to Beijing: Disaster Averted? Janet Gottschalk’s article traces steps in “the long and difficult journey toward a world of equality development and peace” and describes the events leading up to and the outcome of the United Nation’s Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995. Gottschalk’s perspective echoes the theme of a […]
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Emily Merideth and Garrett Brown
The Maquiladora Health and Safety Support Network: Case Study of Public Health Without Borders Emily Merideth and Garret Brown take an expansive view of who constitutes the public in their model for social change. In their case study of public health without borders Merideth and Brown describe a growing cross-border solidarity movement composed of U. […]
Barry S. Levy
Health and Social Effects of Worldwide Economic Transformation: Focus on Occupational and Environmental Health Barry Levy documents the dire implications of global economic transformation for environmental and occupational health. He likens these developments to a global embrace of a value system antithetical to public health while substituting the concept of preventing morbidity and mortality with […]
Gilbert Elbaz
Beyond Anger: The Activist Construction of the AIDS Crisis Integral to the construction of a less fragmented more inclusive view of ”the public” are efforts that increase citizen participation in scientific and technological decision making affecting public health. A consistent public health theme in the 1990s will be how to balance the often divergent perspectives […]
Thomas Bodenheimer
The Industrial Revolution in Health Care This is a historical overview of health care in the U.S. The increasing tendency for profits to be severed from socially beneficial endeavors is borne out by Thomas Bodenheimer’s analysis of the evolution of the U.S. health care system. Bodenheimer explains that in contrast to the past when health […]
John McMurtry
The Social Immune System and the Cancer Stage of Capitalism When we think of a society’s “defense system,” we think of its armed forces. We have long been conditioned to do this. The military-industrial establishment and the armaments business are the world’s most powerful institutions of organized violence and international trade. For them to preserve […]
Patrice Sutton and Robert Gould
Introduction: Public Health in the 1990s Issue overview. Citation: Social Justice Vol. 22, No. 4 (1995): i-iv
Ann Bar-Din
Refugees, Expelled Communities, and the Edge of War: A Chiapas Journal Activist-author Ann Bar-Din, offers information concerning the fate of the civilian, uninvolved population in the wake of the Zapatista uprising that is little known inside Mexico, given the area’s relative inaccessibility and the government-controlled television system. The observations and analysis are based on the […]
Asafe Jalata
The Emergence of Oromo Nationalism and Ethiopian Reaction Asafe Jalata’s article forwards our understanding of the very complicated situation in the Horn of Africa. It describes the Oromo national movement’s independence struggle within the historic, multi-ethnic Ethiopian nation-state that was constituted along colonial lines in the middle of the 20th century. That empire came under […]
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Who’s the Killer? Popular Justice and Human Rights in a South African Squatter Camp Anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes elaborates on her research concerning “everyday violence” in the Chris Hani squatter camp, which is based on exploratory fieldwork on the political transition in Franschhoek, a conservative South African farm community. This provocative article also delves into the […]
Nahzeem Oluwafemi Mimiko
Between Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia: The Abacha Coup, the National Conference, and Prospects for Peace and Democracy in Nigeria Human rights activists around the world have been monitoring the worst repression Nigeria has known since independence from Britain in 1960, including massive arrests, secret tribunals, and the possibility of executing opponents of the military government. Calls […]
Jeremy Colwill
From Nuremberg to Bosnia: War Crimes Trials in the Modern Era Jeremy Colwill discusses the Hague Intemational Tribunal that was established by the U.N. in 1993 to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide committed in the former Yugoslavia. To date, investigations have resulted in the leveling of charges against 22 ethnic Serbs. According […]
Juan Valdés Paz
The Socialist Transition in Cuba: Continuity and Change in the 1990s In the early 1990s, Cuba’s halting recovery from economic crisis initially plunged the government into total chaos at the ideological level and led to the introduction of significant elements of capitalism. Juan Valdes Paz outlines efforts at developing a new socialist paradigm that is […]
Dave Broad
Globalization and the Casual Labor Problem: History and Prospects Dave Broad analyzes the structural transformation of the world labor market, including the growing prominence of part-time or temporary work, cost cutting through massive layoffs, subcontracting in the informal economy, and outsourcing from the developed centers to the Third World. Broad argues that full-time work does […]
Elízabeth Martínez
Affirming Women’s Rights Elizabeth Martínez identifies women as key to combating the right-wing assault on equality of opportunity. To date, an estimated six million women have benefited from affirmative action policies on the job. Some five million “minorities” have benefited, a figure that includes women. Although women of color have experienced more meager gains relative […]
Campus Coalitions for Human Rights and Social Justice
California at a Crossroads: Social Strife or Social Unity? A series of public policy and ballot initiatives in the 1990s compelled Californians to choose between social peace and deepening struggle and growing violence between competing groups. The idea behind California’s Proposition 187, which scapegoated undocumented immigrants, denied the state’s dependence on immigrants avoid taking responsibility […]