Subject: Montreal Serai
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 22:49:00 -0800


The new issue of Montreal Serai, with a changed format,  is up at
http://www.montrealserai.com.  Check it out.

1.  EDITORIAL

A look at the world as it happened, which oddly enough isn't the same world
as was reported to have happened.

 2.  WTO protests in Prague and Melbourne

by Naomi Klein

Transnational corporations control more than one-third of the world's
productive assets.  Nearly 40% of all international trade takes place within
corporate families.


3.  DISPATCHES FROM CHIAPAS:  Open letter from SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS to
President Vicente FOX

Another rumble in the jungle in the year 2001.  Will the pen emerge mightier
than the sword?



4.  REFUSE TO LOOK AWAY

by Justin Podur

A look at the effects of western sympathy on the wretched of the earth in
Chiapas.



5.  Interview with director KIM CHI

by Patty-Lynne Herlevi

Twenty five years after the war, Kim-Chi returns to Vietnam to find the
father who beat her mother.



6.  ESCHATOLOGY AND ORGASM

by Jason DeBoer

DeBoers proposes that men in particular experience a little death after each
orgasm - that performance anxiety is a red -- herring.



7.  The Art of NGUYEN TAI

The serenity in Tai's art belies a personal struggle that required the
intervention of  Zen Buddhism.



8.  Fela and his Wives

by Derek Stanovsky

Explores how the masculinity of postcolonial cultural icon Fela was packaged
for mass consumption in the West.



9.  The People's Health

by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

Are the bottom-line-healthy, multi-national drug firms interested in your
health?



10.  The Volunteer

by Maria Worton

It gets to the point where you want to put them out of YOUR misery.



11. Bass Notes and Drum and the Moon Goes Crazy

by Robert J. Lewis

Is Rap merely another opium for the have-nots, and melody a bourgeois luxury
rappers can't afford?











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