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...spent months learning nonviolent civil disobedience from groups like the Ruckus Society and the Direct Action Network. "The WTO," notes Ruckus Society coordinator Han Shan, "gave us home-field advantage by coming to Seattle." The '98 trashing of a Eugene, Ore., NikeTown was an informal dry run for last week's mayhem, some of whose perpetrators call themselves the Eugene Brickthrowers Local 666. "Their goal is to take things to the furthest edge of acceptability," says Seattle activist Dana Schuerholz of the Eugene radicals, "to get their message out by literally smashing the state...
Oops. Most anarchists publicly decried last week's vandalism, which was perpetrated in part by local teens whose direct actions for social justice consisted of looting StarTACs from a cell-phone store. "Several press accounts have stated that there were only 'hundreds of anarchists'" in Seattle, an online activist wrote last week. "This would be true if you only counted teenagers dressed in black. This would have left out...the vast majority of us, who look just plain ole working class...
When I heard last week that the National Labor Relations Board had ruled that medical students have the right to form unions, I thought of my own medical training and the night two years ago when a colleague nearly killed a patient...
...hospitals overwork their interns? Because they can. Why don't interns do something about it? Because for 23 years they were forbidden to organize. The NLRB ruled in 1976 that interns were not employees but students and had no right to bargain collectively. Last week's decision reverses that ruling. It covers some 90,000 residents working at privately owned hospitals across...
...this smirk, this "I know something you don't" smile, pure catnip for journalists. And so there was always a gaggle of us around MARTA DORION, waiting for some tidbit to waft through her smoke-filled office, a last refuge for cigarette lovers here at TIME. Many who hated tobacco would suffer through nicotine haze just to listen. She'd been through Watergate, earthquakes and O.J., but those weren't the stories we were really interested in. It was the one she was living, the one we shared: the story of Time Inc. Marta's breadth of memory and experience...