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Most people would not want to be identified as citizens of the world, but they are already of the world if they are consumers or producers, workers, investors or merchants.

Proposed educational vouchers would extend governmental assistance to private and secular learning institutions. Many oppose this proposal for fear that it would merely contribute to the already deteriorating public school system in the US.

Organized labor suffered a decline in membership and political influence as a result of legal constraints and the economic slowdown. However, labor unions are devising alternative tactics to confront business and to promote workers' welfare.

Environmental activists are finally gaining some ground in their protest against the foreign-owned factories in Mexico. More Mexicans are becoming aware of the dangers the factory facilities are posing to their environment and eventually to their health.

Elections and human rights are bogus signs of a sham democracy in Mexico. Just to preserve the one-party rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the ruling elite will do anything abusive or summarilly violent. The citizenry is beginning to be aware, however, and movements are on the rise.