Stories by Scott Harris
Some Naderites and Greens are pushing vote-trading: "Register Green. Vote Kerry. Beat Bush." But is it legal – and will it work?
Posted on Sep 14, 2004, Source: AlterNet
A landmark legal case seeks to enforce procedures that treat minority voters with same respect and dignity as all other citizens.
Posted on Jan 23, 2001, Source: Between the Lines
Pennsylvania police posing as union carpenters provided the information that was the pretext for the August raid on the warehouse where puppets were being made for demonstrations against the Republican National Convetion.
Posted on Sep 18, 2000, Source: AlterNet
Though Sunday and Monday's marches were peaceful, activists from Direct Action groups are ready to deliver a stronger message by disrupting the GOP Convention.
Posted on Jul 31, 2000, Source: AlterNet
"$1.3 billion in U.S. assistance to 'fight the drug war' in Colombia may derail peace negotiations between the government and leftist rebels."
Posted on Jul 6, 2000, Source: AlterNet
A new Human Rights Watch report, analyzing data from 37 states, finds that communities of color are disproportionately incarcerated for non-violent drug offenses.
Posted on Jun 19, 2000, Source: AlterNet
The Council for a Livable World Education Fund's media director says President Clinton and candidate George W. Bush's missile defense plan would spark a new global nuclear arms race.
Posted on Jun 5, 2000, Source: AlterNet
An organizer describes the goals and obstacles in preparing protests targeting this summer's Republican National Convention in Philadephia.
Posted on May 15, 2000, Source: AlterNet
Protesters charge Washington, D.C. police with unconstitutional tactics before, during, and after the International Monetary Fund-World Bank protests.
Posted on May 4, 2000, Source: AlterNet
Protesters charge Washington, D.C. police with unconstitutional tactics before, during, and after the International Monetary Fund-World Bank protests.
Posted on May 2, 2000, Source: AlterNet
A policy analyst with the 50 Years Is Enough Network discusses the track record of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in the affairs of the poorest nations as they lend billions of dollars and mandate neo-liberal economic policies.
Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: AlterNet
A critic warns that the Clinton Administration's $1.7 billion Colombian military aid proposal ignores economic solutions and instead militarizes the conflict, blurring the distinction between the anti-drug effort and the 40-year civil war.
Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: AlterNet
A look at the personal history and politics of newly elected Russian President Vladimir Putin as he confronts his nation's economic crisis and conflict in Chechnya.
Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: AlterNet
Consumer activist Wenonah Hauter says that rising gas prices are caused in part by rising oil costs, but also by oil company insiders covertly making big bucks at the expense of consumers.
Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: AlterNet
Robert Meeropol, the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, two suspected spies executed during the McCarthy era, now works to support children of the politically persecuted. Scott Harris spoke with Meeropol about his personal journey from being the child of parents executed for alleged political crimes to founding an organization that assists the children of activists persecuted for their political beliefs.
Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: AlterNet
American journalist Charlie Horman's widow expresses disappointment that the opportunity to expose U.S. support of Chilean dictatorship is lost as Britain releases former Gen. Augusto Pinochet, ending prospects of his trial in Spain.
Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: AlterNet
Max Sawicky, an economist with the Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute, says that although the president's budget proposes to expand Medicare coverage, the plan overall will reduce discretionary spending -- shrinking social investment programs.
Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: AlterNet
