Email Author Lenora Todaro

2000 Stories by Lenora Todaro

• Ralph Nader Lashes Back

  published December 19, 2000

  Scoundrel. Spoiler. Narcissist. This fall the left warred over whether a vote for Nader was a vote for progress, a vote in protest, or worse, a... More >>

• Conscientious Objector

  published November 28, 2000

  Eduardo Galeano speaks to ghosts. He rescues their stories, recounts their lives. And, for his unwavering stance as a critic of contemporary... More >>

• Poverty Outlaws

  published November 21, 2000

  The Kensington Welfare Rights Union, headquartered in the badlands of north Philadelphia, is ground zero in this country for organizing against... More >>

• Global Warnings

  published November 7, 2000

  When 50,000 activists took to the streets of Seattle last November and shut down the annual meeting of the World Trade Organization, most... More >>

• The Promise of Prague

  published October 3, 2000

  PRAGUE—The Prague Castle, seat of power in the Czech Republic for the last one thousand or so years, hovers over this medieval city,... More >>

• United Nations, Inc.

  published September 5, 2000

  Imagine, as one editorial cartoonist did, the flags encircling the United Nations replaced by corporate banners: the Stars and Stripes by the Nike... More >>

• Naming the Corporate Criminals

  published August 15, 2000

  SANTA MONICA—While the "Blue Dog Coalition" of conservative Democrats held a fundraiser soaked in corporate dollars on the Santa... More >>

• Surfing Up Democracy

  published August 15, 2000

  SANTA MONICA—They call themselves "the leaders of the pack." Their symbol: a pointy-eared, beady-eyed, squat little blue dog. They are... More >>

• From Peace to Pellets

  published August 15, 2000

  LOS ANGELES, August 15—Dubbed "Human Needs, Not Corporate Greed," a mass march through downtown L.A. this evening began peacefully but... More >>

• Kissin' and Dyin'

  published August 15, 2000

  LOS ANGELES, August 16—The Queers and Allies march, fueled on the principle that an "injury to one is injury to all," began with a... More >>

• Do You Want to Ralph?

  published July 25, 2000

  In his mind, Ralph Nader is already there. In front of the TV camera. Reciting his platform—the one that threatens to topple Al Gore's... More >>

• It Takes a Global Village

  published July 18, 2000

  It's called S11 (September 11), the date when activists from all over the world plan to shut down the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum... More >>

• Firecracker Alternative Book Awards

  published June 13, 2000

  Across town from the numbing fluorescent lights of Chicago's McCormick convention center, where Book Expo America 2000 unfolded, the Crobar... More >>

• Going After Globalization

  published June 13, 2000

  Globalization is a spongy word, bandied about until it has become as familiar as a bad pop song, and yet its many interpretations... More >>

• Portrait of a Protest

  published April 18, 2000

  WASHINGTON, D.C.—They move in synchronized waves: Lines of protesters against the International Monetary Fund stride toward an... More >>

• Seattle : The Sequel

  published April 4, 2000

  FLORHAM PARK, New Jersey—Banging on kettledrums, playing pan flutes, and juggling, a hundred or so activists celebrated April Fool's Day with... More >>

• Hire Education

  published March 14, 2000

  Any day now, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is expected to decide whether some 1400 graduate... More >>

• Edifice Wrecked

  published February 1, 2000

  For now, there are the excavation holes. There's one on the south side of Washington Square Park, one on 14th Street and Third Avenue, and there... More >>