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The Vancouver Sun Friday 29 August 1997
LABOR PEACE DISTURBED BY PILES OF GARBAGE
Ken MacQueen and Eric Beauchesne
It was a week with garbage on Vancouver streets where the buses
should have been. There's talk of a national postal strike, and some
2,000
The Globe and Mail, August 27, 1997
WHEN THE WORKERS STRIKE BACK
Stephen Roach
The recently resolved United Parcel Service strike
was a shot across the bow of the inflationless 1990s.
U.S. workers are now beginning to challenge the very
forces that have led to a spectacular
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Press Statement 29th July, 1997
SERVICE STOPPAGE LIKELY AS THOUSANDS OF
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Look at book by Isbister on Immigration; look at Portes and Rumbaut book;
special issue of Social
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The Globe and Mail Friday, July 18, 1997
MOUNTING LABOUR UNREST ALARMS CHINA'S LEADERS
Disgruntled workers angry over shutdown of state factories
By Rod Mickleburgh
China Bureau
An escalation in public protests against deteriorating working and
living
BURSON-MARSTELLER: PR FOR THE NEW WORLD ORDER
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By: Carmelo Ruiz
The public relations (PR) business is one of the fastest growing
industries in the global market economy. In order to face perils like
labor unions, organized consumer activists
Graduate Employees' Organization
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The Vancouver Sun Wednesday 16 July 1997
STARBUCKS, UNION SIGN HISTORIC DEAL
The B.C. contract with the coffee chain, which has 1,100
outlets, is a North American first.
Bruce Constantineau, Sun Business Reporter Vancouver
From: Seth Klein, Coordinator, CCPA - BC Office
RE: APEC
The APEC leaders summit will take place in Vancouver this November.
A parallel People's Summit on APEC will also be taking place
between Nov. 19 and 24, during which a number of issue forums will occur.
One of those forums
The Atlantic MonthlyJuly 1997
THE COMPUTER DELUSION
by Todd Oppenheimer
There is no good evidence that most uses of computers
significantly improve teaching and learning, yet school
districts are cutting programs --
Translate the coded file into text. (No, I was not able to access the
files.)
KARL: How do I do that? Were you able to acces the files?
On 26 Jun 97 at 12:08, D Shniad wrote:
How about sending a plain text version
INTERNATIONAL MESSAGE OF SOLIDARITY
The General Secretary
Western Australia Trades and Labour Council (WATLC)
By e-mail to:
Dear Comrades,
The South African Municipal Workers Union stands with you in
solidarity against the anti-worker legislation that has just been
passed in
===Electronic Edition
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. RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT HEALTH WEEKLY #552 .
. ---June 26, 1997--- .
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How about sending a plain text version?
ACTION ALERT - INDONESIA
19 June 1997
Internet use to be controlled
SOURCE: Reporters sans frontieres (RSF) Paris
(RSF/IFEX) - On 18 June 1997, Minister of Tourism, Posts and
Telecommunications Joop Ave said in launching a new Internet
service for the partly state-owned
* New York Times News Service, June 23, 1997
Mexican Leaders Honor a Union Giant, And an Era
By JULIA PRESTON
MEXICO CITY, June 23 -- Government officials and labor leaders turned
out Sunday to pay their last respects to Fidel Velazquez Sanchez, the
97-year-old labor
Max,
Who has called you to Paris?
Sid Shniad
The Daily Telegraph Friday 20 June 1997
Jospin finds key policy pledges hard to honour
By Susannah Herbert in Paris
France's Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin, struggled yesterday to
disguise his government's inability to meet his campaign pledges,
and his
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:43:53 -0400 (EDT)
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DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY ENDORSES KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION
TORONTO, June 18 /CNW/ - More than 1,400 people involved in
international development and information technology
Sid,
In case you were expecting a rejoinder
regarding your latest wave of EU-related
posts, I'm not ignoring you. I haven't changed
my mind. I just don't have anything new to say.
Cheers,
MBS
Max, it's not only legitimate to say nothing under such circumstances --
The Baltimore Sun June 17, 1997
Market on verge of collapse, analyst says
When the stock market crashes, it'll be like an earthquake leveling a city.
That's what Thomas H. Eichler says. And he feels the rumbling.
Eichler, who is the president
The Globe and Mail Tuesday, June 17, 1997
Compromise ends bickering between France, Germany
Unemployment problem gains recognition at EU summit
By Madelaine Drohan
European Bureau
France declared victory yesterday in its battle
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 10:58:47 -0700 (PDT)
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The Nation June 13-20, 1997
PBS Strikes Labor
Public television added another episode of timidity to its history this spring
when the Public Broadcasting Service rejected a documentary because it had
received funding from unions. Out at Work,
The Nation June 12-18, 1997
Hotline to the White House
Sprint, blatantly anti-union, has drawn N.L.R.B. censure but Bill Clinton's
praise.
By Bill Mesler
It was the most exciting day of Eliza Lopez's life. This past February at the
In their open letter to the heads of government of the 15 member states of
the European Union, published June 12, 1997 in several European papers,
331 European economists expressed concern about the current policy
trajectory in Europe. They characterized the European Central Bank (ECB)
as
The Irish Times
FOREIGN Monday, June 16, 1997
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A crowd of an estimated 50,000 carries banners as they march in an
unemployment protest in Amsterdam on Saturday. Trouble broke out when
a group of marchers tried to get to the Dutch National Bank building,
where the EU
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I'd like to echo Blair's comments. If participants in Pen (or any other
list) find other participants' views too obnoxious, the answer is obvious
-- sign off the list. I presume that by participating, folks are trying
to influence the views of others, not shit all over them and prove to them
Here is the publisher's description:
Working Free? The Origins and Impact of New Zealand's Employment Contracts
Act by Ellen J. Dannin
The Employment Contracts Act (1991), a key component of the structural
reforms that have taken place in New Zealand since 1984, is discussed
The New York Times June 10, 1997
Peru's Poverty and Repression Dull Fujimori's Gleam
By Diana Jean Schemo
LIMA, Peru -- Eager to show what a man of the people he was,
President Alberto Fujimori drove his jeep high into the dusty slums
where Lima's
The Irish Times
FOREIGN Wednesday, June 11, 1997
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A demonstrator wears a mask depicting the new French Prime Minister,
Mr Lionel Jospin, as he carries a sign that reads "Vilvoorde will
live", a reference to the Belgian Renault car plant which is due to
close, during
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Home Page
The full story about the New Zealand economic
"miracle"
There is intense international interest in the state of New Zealand
because structural adjustment during the last decade has been an almost
"pure" version of the free market policies that
The Globe and Mail Tuesday, June 10, 1997
Slashing is over, Liberals predict
Party to put on a beneficient face
By Scott Feschuk and Hugh Winsor Parliamentary Bureau
As members of the new and old Liberal caucuses met yesterday in Ottawa, the
message
The Globe and Mail Tuesday, June 10, 1997
Budget crisis grips German government
Kohl urged to step down as coalition
backing his government near collapse
By Alan Freeman
European Bureau
The three-party coalition supporting the government
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JOURNAL OF COMMERCEWednesday, April 23, 1997
GLOBAL GIANTS: FEARS OF THE SUPRANATIONAL
Critics say a proposed treaty could give too much power to
multinationals, whos
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PREFACE from LABOR-L listmanagement. The following is an excellent
checklist and should be glued to the coffee/lunch space wall in every
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Subject: [PEN-L:10629] Re: Bitter Paradise on TV Ontario (fwd)
On Fri, June 6, 1997 at 15:25:57 (-0700) D Shniad writes:
BITTER PARADISE: THE SELL-OUT OF EAST TIMOR
Is it possible to order a copy of this on videotape?
Bill
"The thinking of
MAI --THE MULTINATIONALS' CHARTER OF RIGHTS
COLUMN NUMBER 1 approx June 1, 1997
By HUBERT BEYER
VICTORIA, BC, Canada - A couple of weeks back, I wrote a piece on the
Multilateral Agreement on Investment, and how it could be that Canada,
along with 28 other
Date:Fri, 6 Jun 1997 07:43:13 -0400
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Big Business Remains the Real Election Winner
Come hear Tony Clarke outline the new politics in the era of corporate
rule and launch his new book
SILENT COUP: Confronting
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Sid,
I'll resond to your inquiry, but I hope you will post the results to
PEN-L. Formally, I belong to
Anders asks a series of questions, basically asking why French Social
Democracy couldn't pursue a progressive program designed to transform or
derail the current (reactionary) trajectory of European unification.
Cutting to the chase, it seems to me that your real question is this:
NOW Magazine, Toronto June 5, 1997
Netizens out secret investment treaty
Cyberspace new player in furtive top-level negotiations
By COLMAN JONES
Secret negotiations on a global investment treaty that threatens to
greatly strengthen the power of transnational corporations aren't
If this is the case, Doug, what should French folks have done in the
context of the recent election?
Cheers,
Sid
A not-entirely-fanciful scenario: the new French government fails even in
its weak program, unemployment remains high, and the National Front gains
in appeal. So the sans papiers
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 14:20:35 -0800
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BITTER PARADISE: THE SELL-OUT OF EAST TIMOR
Screens on TV Ontario this Sunday, June 15, at 9 p.m.
(Province of Ontario only)
Bitter Paradise is
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UNEMPLOYED FROM EUROPE
WALK TO AMSTERDAM
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Max: "As I've said before, the EU is a GOVERNMENT of Europe.
(NAFTA was a mere regional trade agreement between governments.) It
starts with certain features and biases, but its potential, for good or for ill, is
vast. Politics on the ground informs the development of this potential. The
You're absolutely correct in your interpretation, Jerry.
Cheers,
Sid
PS -- what are you doing to change the world?
D Shniad wrote:
This is true, ironically (perhaps especially true) of
many Marxist intellectuals, despite Marx's famous thesis on Feuerbach
about the need to stop
The Vancouver Sun December 3, 1996
FRENCH MINISTER ON TOUR TO SELL EU IDEAL
The campaign is up against growing public opinion
that sees integration as unbridled capitalism.
By Nick Spicer, Southam Newspapers
PARIS -- It looks like
Michael talks of being in a quandary about what to do next. One of the
things that frustrates me about professional intellectuals (and why I
didn't stay in academia) is that they are content with reading and writing
for themselves. This is true, ironically (perhaps especially true) of
many
Address by Mbhazima Shilowa, General Secretary, Congress Of South
African Trade Unions (COSATU) at Investment Conference in Bonn,
Germany 5 June 1997 Time: 11a.m.
Chairperson, comrade Nzo, delegates, comrades and friends. It is my pleasure
to present to you the COSATU perspective on the
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/mai.html
The Corporate Rule Treaty
MAI-DAY!
The Corporate Rule Treaty
The Multilateral Agreement on Investments (MAI)
seeks to consolidate global corporate rule
By Tony Clarke
Canadians are gradually becoming aware of the increasingly
World Wide Web giants Netscape and Yahoo have announced their plans to
merge to become the world's largest internet provider. The new firm will
be located in Israel and will be known as:
Net'n'yahoo.
This coincidentally coincides with the merger of El
http://www.carleton.ca/~shick/kelsey.htm
DEMYSTIFYING APEC
Dr. Jane Kelsey
APEC (the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum) is hard to get a grip
on. Unlike the European Union (EIJ) it is avowedly not a trade bloc.
Operating under the slogan 'open regionalism', APEC exists to service the
Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers
Craftsmen Hall, 3909 Centre Street, Ste. 210
San Diego, CA 92102
phone (619) 542-0826; fax (619) 295-5879
June 2, 1997
E M E R G E N C Y A L E R T
Maquiladora Workers Demand Union Recognition!
Faxed Letters Urgently
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sierra Club of Canada)
Subject: Recent postings to web sites of WTO/MAI info
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 01:24:36 -0400
Subject: Recent postings to web sites of WTO/MAI info
A home page for Common Front on the World Trade Organization
information has recently
APEC Ministerial Conference in Toronto June 9-11
(Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation)
Australia Brunei Darussalam
CanadaPeople's Republic of China
Chile Hong Kong
Indonesia Japan
Republic of Korea Malaysia
The WSJ says:
"Britain's Mr. Blair ... [has] outlined a "welfare-to-work" program that
is more right wing than what many European conservatives would dare
suggest."
Kind of like Clinton's ending welfare "as we know it."
Cheers,
Sid Shniad
Max,
Your irrepressible optimism vis-a-vis "social Europe" and unification
reminds me of the kid who's whistling away as he's shoveling tons of
horse shit out of the stall.
When aske why he's so happy, he answers: "With all this horse shit,
there's got to be a horse in here somewhere!"
How the
Message from Bruce Allen CAW (Canadian Auto Workers) Local 199
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 21:38:47 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Resolution on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment
Fellow Workers,
The following is the text of a resolution that I am trying to
I guess I'm more than a bit jaundiced on this kind of effort, but this
move into credit cards and consumerism via union membership seems to me to
be part of an attitutde of resignation on the part of union bureaucrats:
if we can represent workers as workers in the current anti-labour
environment,
The Daily Telegraph Thursday 29 May 1997
Crisis over euro after Bundesbank blocks Kohl
By Andrew Gimson in Bonn
The future of the euro was in doubt last night after the Bundesbank
refused to help the German government meet the criteria for
Multilateral agreements and democracy: Where do politicians,
business people and international civil servants lead us to?
By Y. Bajard, D.Sc,
Secretary, National Centre for Sustainability
(Victoria and Vancouver, B.C. Canada)
I worry about current action at the World Trade
Date:Wed, 28 May 1997 19:54:35 -0400
To: MAI-L (worldwide)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hendrik)
Subject: "MAI? No thanks...!" information
To whom it may concern:
To circumvent possible technical difficulties at one web site
there are now two technically independent ways to obtain
I just received this message about the NDP's position on the MAI. Penners
can use it as grist for the mill in the debate between Paul Phillips and
Tom Walker.
Cheers,
Sid Shniad
Here is the position of the New Democratic Party of Canada
on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI),
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Date: 26 May 1997 15:12:27 GMT
Hi Sid
If you are not already aware of it, there is now an online version of the
Reform Watch newsletter, distributed for several years by
Subject: The Jobs Research Website Launched Today
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 12:50:46 +
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T H E J O B S R E S E A R C H W E B S I T E
D Shniad,
Don't blame the new technology on the reactionary content of virtual
history. The traditional media were just as bad.
Actually, the new media presents for the first time a realistic opportunity
for alternative histories. While digital media (or what is called CBT
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 19:40:03 -0500
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Subject: Newspaper striker welcomes march on Detroit
[Editor's Note: The following is the text of a speech given at a
gathering of Detroit
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hendrik)
Subject: "Global Leaders have no clothes"
Last year (1996) the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) had invited
Robert Theobald, New Orleans based U.S. economist, to deliver the "Fall
Massey Lectures", part of the "Ideas" programming
Date: Sat, 24 May 1997
From: Norman Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"VIRTUAL HISTORY" ... AND VIRTUAL MENDACITY
By Norman Solomon / Creators Syndicate
This spring, thousands of youngsters have gotten involved in "the ultimate
multimedia exploration of the American experience."
(This document is part of the European History section of the documentary
collection, World History Archives, and is associated with the world history
resource page, Gateway to World History.)
The European Union and the Future of Socialism
by James Stewart, General Secretary of the
Somehow I missed Tom's original missive, which elicited such a heated
response from Paul. Any chance either of you gents could send me the
orginal?
Cheers,
Sid Shniad
Today's Vancouver Sun had an article headlined "Blair predicts trouble in
Britain if EU rules restrict competition." Excerpt:
"British officials say Blair senses that enthusiasm has wanted in the EU
for piling on regulations, such as shortening work hours, which hamper
competitiveness. Blair's
Date:Wed, 21 May 1997
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hendrik)
Subject: MAI: Globalisation is a disaster for India
Reference: Global Times [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Copyright 1997 People's News Agency.
--
GLOBALISATION OF THE
Anyone who resents receiving this lengthy piece has only Bill Burgess to
blame! (I'm sending it in response to his repeated comments about not
wanting to misstate my position re: international trade, etc.)
Cheers,
Sid Shniad
G.A.T.T., THE CANADA-U.S. FREE TRADE AGREEMENT AND
N.A.F.T.A.:
From all appearances, Trevor, it doesn't seem that the EU will be dragging
Britain in a progressive direction:
The Daily Telegraph Thursday 22 May 1997
BLAIR TO PRESS FOR FLEXIBLE JOB LAWS
By George Jones, Political Editor
Tony Blair will
Subject: MAI ACTION ALERT!
Ok MAI enthusiasts, it's time for some action.
As you know, the OECD Ministerial meeting is May 26-27 in Paris. This was
the original completion date of the MAI, but thanks to the effective
opposition organized by citizen's and activists LIKE US, they have
I've been meaning to respond to one of Doug's missives from last week, but
have neglected to do so.
Doug asked (rhetorically? sarcastically?) whether folks really are opposed
to increased international trade per se, citing the example of Japanese car
manufacturers setting up production
Trevor (and others): what does it mean to say that "NAFTA is just a trade
group"? NAFTA, the CAnada-US FTA, the WTO and other such arrangements
impose a set of restrictions on countries' ability to regulate the
behaviour of capital. I'm very uncomfortable with the (oft-repeated)
proposition
Boston Cambridge Alliance for Democracy
c/o Jean Dunbar Maryborn, Co-chair
427 River St. Norwell MA 02061
617-826-2482, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5/21/97
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jean Maryborn
617-826-2482
NATIONAL SPEAKERS COME TO BOSTON FOR CITIZENS'
CONFERENCE ON MAI
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Subject: Univ of Calif @ Santa
Copyright 1997 by The American Prospect, Inc. Preferred Citation: Robert
Kuttner, "The Limits of Markets," The American Prospect no. 31 (March-
April 1997): 28-41 (http://epn.org/prospect/31/31kutt.html).
THE LIMITS OF MARKETS
By Robert Kuttner
Adapted by the author from Everything for
Trevor:
[T]he EU has ...contradictary roots. For example, many of the bourgeois
politicians who were involved in promoting the European Community in
the 1950s were concerned to ensure that the national divisions which had
given rise to two world wars should be overcome.
Sid:
I grant that
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Message forwarded by Bob Olsen..
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Subject: Poor Journalism From Mexico
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Via:
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Tom did a very nice job of encapsulating my argument -- a better job than
I did in the original!
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