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Where Have All the Black Revolutionaries Gone in Steel City? An Interview with Sala Udin
No full textOn August 25, 1967, Pittsburgh became one of only twenty-two locations across the United States to initiate FBI Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) operations, in order to destroy the lives of the city’s Black revolutionaries. After I reviewed over four thousand pages of FBI Memorandums obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), it was very clear that J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI had surveilled one of Pittsburgh’s greatest Black Power Movement activists, Sala Udin. The FBI hoped to either weaken his authority as a leader, incarcerate him, or neutralize him. Today, over fifty years later, we cannot pretend the FBI’s documented acts of systemic violence against Udin do not exist. In two recorded interviews I had with Udin in July 2020 and May 2021, we spoke on a variety of issues, including his thoughts and self-reflection on nineteen pages of FBI COINTELPRO memos specifically detailing actions for his neutralization
The Five-Year Effect of NAFTA on Pennsylvania: An Analysis of Export Data
Get PDFThis article explores the effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on Pennsylvania since the agreement\u27s enactment on January 1, 1994. It does so by examining export statistics related to Pennsylvania as a whole as well as to several key regions within the state. As judged by these export statistics, NAFTA\u27s impact on Pennsylvania has been quite positive. At the very least, increases in exports from Pennsylvania since NAFTA\u27s enactment have been so strong that critics of the agreement will be hard-pressed in making a case against it
The Making of American Drug Policy: A Multimodal Analysis of the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914
Get PDFThis research examines the making of American drug policy and the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914. Depending upon the analytical model employed, different explanations can be offered for early drug policy development. From a rational perspective, the goal of the Harrison Act was to improve relations with China; from an organizational perspective, the Act was intended to protect the financial interests of doctors and pharmacists; and from a political process perspective, the Act was the result of a Progressive-era crusade of a few policy entrepreneurs
A New Democratic Era? Presidential Politics in Pennsylvania, 1984-1996
Get PDFThis article examines changes in general elections in Pennsylvania from 1984 to 1996. The county level vote of New Democrat Bill Clinton is compared with that of traditional Democrats, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. Clinton won Pennsylvania by gaining votes in the traditionally Republican suburban counties around Philadelphia. Compared to that of previous Democratic presidential candidates, Clinton\u27s percentage of the vote actually declined in the Democratic counties of western Pennsylvania
Polarization and Compromise: A Value Approach to the Understanding of Mass Political Attitudes on Abortion
Get PDFThis research attempts to explain the sources of abortion attitudes among individuals. The proposed model moves beyond a single value-attitude formulation to a consideration of the interrelationship among core values. The result of holding equally strong and conflicted values relevant to the issue is a decrease in the strength with which abortion attitudes are held. Support for the theoretical framework comes from a survey (N=437). The results indicate that the various components of attitude strength appear to be sufficiently independent dimensions of involvement with the abortion issue, and conflict between relevant core values is associated with a decrease in attitude strength for most of the attitude strength measures
Ulcers, Baseball, and the New Ethical Naturalism
Get PDFThose involved in the current revival of ethical naturalism claim that this approach offers an escape from the inadequacy of moral relativism, especially the nihilism entailed in its denial of objective standards for our normative discourse. From this perspective, nature becomes the foundation of our moral claims. The following discussion generally ignores the logical and ideological issues involved in using nature in this way and instead shows that far from replacing moral relativism an ethics based on current evolutionist theory will ultimately lead to something like the relativist position. I then draw on the rules of baseball and their ability to govern behavior on the field to argue that we ought not necessarily despair our failure to locate an objective basis for our moral theories. Politics and our polilical institutions function in much the same capacity as the baseball establishment: they provide the rules by which the game should be played and the power to enforce compliance
Joining International Organizations: The United States Process
Get PDFThis study examines how the United States affiliates with multipartite international organizations, not only by the treaty, but also the executive agreement process. It examines these processes as a legal/political feature of executive-legislative relations, involving nearly 150 international organizations with which the United States has been affiliated since 1945. With few exceptions, Congress has cooperated with the President in developing a variety of techniques for such affiliation, and such coaction is not a post-World War II phenomenon, but began in the 1860s
Independent Judges in a Democracy: A Research Note
Get PDFThis research note tests the proposition that different local selection processes recruit judges with different outlooks about tile roles they aught to perform Wi democratic officials and as legal professionals. Based on interviews with ninety-four state and local trial judges in California, Louisiana, and Massachusetts, I conclude that there is no statistically significant relationship between selection process and role orientation