"Activist groups need to work together to require
that all trade negotiations be conducted in public."
"The secret dispute panels used in international
trade organizations now seriously undermine
our democratic parliamentary system."
We need "International
The Meaning of April 16
By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
The April 16 protests in Washington, D.C. against the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank made history and marked a new phase in
the effort to halt and reverse the processes of corporate globalization.
Citizens in
Futher to Michael and Ed's posts relating to the growth of
individualism in the western world (and doctor's obsessions with their
personal portfolios), today's Toronto Star has an article "Free agency
comes to the shop floor" quoting Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School
of Management at the
* * * * *
The Purpose of the Human Race.
Civilization is coming of age.
After a long childhood and a hundred years of
rapid adolescent growth, human kind is at the threshold
of maturity.
In some cultures young people
I am reposting this from Michael's earlier post to relate it to current
discussion from Sylvia Ostry's article.
'Melanie
Michael Gurstein wrote:
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This is from Mel Hertig's book Pay the Rent or Feed the Kids, page 128.
In 1988, the year before the Free Trade Agreement came into effect, the
ratio of those employed as a percentage of the population fifteen years
and over stood at 62 per cent. During the first ten years of the FTA
the
This is an open letter to the leaders of the world from the Honourable Paul
Hellyer, (former Deputy Prime Minister) Leader of the Canadian Action Party.
The views expressed reflect 50 years of experience in business, politics
and economic affairs.
November 23, 1999
The World Trade
A summary of an article from the Global Futures Bulletin #97,
"Globalisation, Protectionism and 3rd World Development"
Richard Douthwaite pointed out in his article "Sustainable economies and
globalisation" that " net" outflows of capital from mature economies
result in greater income and wealth
I recently learned about a new organization in Ontario providing support
for contingent workers that you might want to know about.
A large number of people in the workforce are now contingent
workers--temporary, contract, agency, casual, self-employed. Contingent
workers are those of us who do
With all the protests by businesses (and the threats to lay off staff)
against the 35 hour work week, its implementation next year seems
shaky. Analysts say that France is going against the trend in the rest
of Europe to part-time and temporary employment and will not be able to
compete. What
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The Globe and Mail, Saturday Sept. 25, 1999, p. D2
Dreary as Ottawa was, it was in the end a better place than New York
by Germaine Greer
. . . .Which is the great thing about New York. Anything, but anything,
can be had for money, from huge diamonds of the finest water, furs of
lynx and sable,
Actually for the $520 monthly "workfare" in Ontario a person is expected to work
17 hours per week--supposedly using the rest of the time to apply for more
permanent work. But even before it was implemented the recipient had to provide
a list of places, with names of personel directors, that
Labour Day message from The Right Rev. Dr. Bill Phipps, Moderator of
theUnited Church of Canada
as printed in the Toronto Star, Monday, Sept. 6, 1999, p.A9
"Thanking People Who Do Real Work"
Work. Vocation. Job. Calling. The nature of work and how we view it
is changing rapidly.
With cell
Re: "Plenty of jobs in future for today's kids", The Toronto Star,
Thursday, August 5, 1999, p. 1 and A20.
I would like to hear your response to the Urban Futures Institutue's
Report released in today's newspaper.
According to this report the retirement of the big bulge of the baby
boom
I think a number of people have made that point. That the period of time
when theWestern social safety net, universal rights, substantial proportion
of the population with a good standard of living, etc, is an aberration
rather than the rule of human history. But its hope of survival is often
I have been reading a book about the escalating forms of slavery throughout
the world and its relationship to the world population crisis and global
capital.
*Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy* by Kevin Bales,
Bales estimates there are now 27 million people in forms of debt
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 12:19:19 -0400
Sender: The Other Economic Summit USA 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Behind the "Economic Miracle"
From the Common Dreams News Center
http://www.commondreams.org
JUNE 3, 1999 3:57 PM
FOR
..are not refutable. Your plea is like a tape in a loop,
replayed ad infinitum without evidence.
Mid-winter break for me; next episode in Spring.
Steve
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downsizers profit, enjoying
tax breaks
in the bargain.
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out the seriousness of it all: It's only
a job.
We see ourselves as in the system, but not of it
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deremployed for the past 12 years!
Regards,
Victor Milne
FIGHT THE BASTARDS! An anti-neoconservative website
at http://www3.sympatico.ca/pat-vic/pat-vic/
LONESOME ACRES RIDING STABLE
at http://www3.sympatico.ca/pat-vic/
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I found this article to be going against the general media
reporting that
seems to be saying that our unemployment problems are solved or at least
is
not seriously evaluating the significance of the participation rate
drop.
Melanie
Toronto
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Arguing that corporate codes of conduct are never
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Asialink - Electronic Newsletter
Information Exchange for Social Change
Issue No. 10 (May 1998)
Dear Friends,
This
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The NY Times is running a four day series on NYC's Workfare programs:
Today (4/12/98): "An uncertain road to a real job."
Monday: "A Low-cost city
I wonder if futureworkers have been following this issue. Melanie
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