FW: The profit motif knows no conscience

1999-07-29 Thread Thomas Lunde
Title: FW: The profit motif knows no conscience Thomas: This posting is from Graffis and re-posted from EnviroScan: -- RISING COAL USE INCREASES AIR POLLUTION Coal consumption in the U.S. has risen almost 16 percent since 1992, says a report by the Environmental Working Group and the U.S.

Online Conference on Organized Labour in the 21st Century (fwd)

1999-07-29 Thread Michael Gurstein
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:42:38 +0200 From: Niki Best [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Online Conference on Organized Labour in the 21st Century (Apologies for cross-posting)

PROTESTERS

1999-07-29 Thread Johnny Holiday/John A. Taube
JOHN A. TAUBE WRITES I’m writing the following because I feel that I have an important message to protesters in general and KPFA protesters in particular. Let me be up front: I think KPFA protesters are extremely dedicated to their cause, not one of them is so engaged for selfish reasons. After

Forwarded mail....

1999-07-29 Thread Michael Gurstein
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:26:01 -0400 From: Henry Milner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I received this on another listserve.What can one say? Los Angeles Times, June 1, 1998 In California, more than 600 lawyer hopefuls were

Re: Canadian Indian Claims

1999-07-29 Thread Ed Weick
Ray, I'm not really sure of where this is taking us. Much as we would like to, we can't resuscitate history. The bacilli and viruses moved overwhelmingly in one direction and not the other. What was destroyed can never be recovered. While those viruses were doing their thing over here, my

Re: Canadian Indian Claims

1999-07-29 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Permit me to insert, in medias res, a concern I have: Ed Weick wrote: Too bad they can't assess liability for lost families, intellectual capital, land use ideas etc. It seems to me that you are using the rules of a divorce without separating. Better you start with the ideas of justice

Re: Canadian Indian Claims

1999-07-29 Thread Robert Rosenstein
If there is no such thing as obligations to past generations, then the idea of History is nullified. If an action such as a genocide has no force after a given number of years, then as long as one can get away with it for the requisite period, the action has no value except to let others know

Re: Canadian Indian Claims

1999-07-29 Thread Ray E. Harrell
Brad McCormick, Ed.D. wrote: Permit me to insert, in medias res, a concern I have: Ed Weick wrote: REH not Ed wrote this Too bad they can't assess liability for lost families, intellectual capital, land use ideas etc. It seems to me that you are using the rules of a divorce