Money does not cause happiness, but it sure as hell is often necessary
for the conditions within which _other_ things can bring about
happiness.
Didn't Lou Reed say Money can't buy you love, but it can get you a
Cadillac to go look for it?
Tom
--
Tom
.
--
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812
Cochabamba
BOLIVIA
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 424-8242
eFax: (413) 280-5234
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony D'Costa
Sent: Monday
genitalia. I was next
to the nun contingent, and was delighted to see some of them chanting along,
and when the chant died down, cracking up over their public transgressions.
What an awful day; what a great day.
--
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812
Cochabamba
BOLIVIA
Century State
Formation in Latin America. In Hidden Histories of Gender and the State
in Latin America, edited by E. Dore and M. Molyneux. Durham and London:
Duke University Press.
Tom
--
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812
Cochabamba
BOLIVIA
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 424-8242
eFax
to tolerate in
terms of when something ought to come to pass is delicately negotiated
balance; and over time, when institutionalized, those balances can
become social facts themselves.
--
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812
Cochabamba
BOLIVIA
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 424-8242
eFax
.
--
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812
Cochabamba
BOLIVIA
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 424-8242
eFax: (413) 280-5234
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
exmaple, here I'm not interested in civil society per se (Lion's Club?);
rather, certain kinds of "actors of civil society" who carry a progressive
vision of how things ought to be, and work on it daily. Like (many)
unions, rights organizations, etc.
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cocha
exercising thier right ot organize in the last years. I was with some
Colombian compañeros in trades recently, and they tell of living under
constant death threats, etc.
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ssed.
The centenary of Marx's death is not over yet, but it may be doubted
whether a more oiginal work exemplifiying the living influence of that
great thinker will have been published in the course of it.
Essay reprinted in Hobsbawm, _On History_, New York: New Press, 1997, p. 177.
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casil
)...
manufactured housing increased 230% between 1970s and 1990s...
currently, 1 out of every 3 new home purchases is manufactured
housing, up from 1 out of 4 15 yrs ago...Michael Hoover
Question: does "manufactured housing" always mean on wheels?
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/F
campaigns?
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
s that "Diverging trends in access based on income and education are
placing large groups of US citizens at a significant disadvantage."
(www.rand.org)
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ry courses in political economy
to replace the regular mainstream micro-macro courses now being
offered. The problem is, are their any appropriate theory texts that
could be used for two such courses. I welcome suggestions.
Paul Phillips,
Economics,
University of Manitoba
Tom Kruse
Ca
At 09:35 3/03/99 -0500, you wrote:
Tom, is that Taussig , Mick ? I just realized it probably is as you are in
Bolivia - _The Devil and Commodity Fetishism_
Yup. Many -- myself included -- have major problems with his interpretaion
of the Bolivian materials in the book.
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812
are booming, with lots going to Brazil, I'm told.
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
er of problems, you never know.
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
most abstract
categories ... are a product of historical conditions and retain their
validity only for and within the framework of these conditions." Marx, Zur
Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie
Don Carlos a standpoint epistemologist?
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591
erated by Peruvian capitalists, is to be shut
down here by angry workers, fired up over the firing of a leader yesterday.
Their demands? That they be "allowed" to organize (against the 12-14 hour
days they're working). We're going to be at the takeover, to see what
"very material act
ining them.
Taussig did a great piece on the role of open secrets in society -- that
is, the effects of all acting as if we don't know something we do, knowing
that others know and know we know. Like congressmen fucking around, say.
I'll try to find the citation.
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dded to the expanded study of class and class formation."
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Friends:
I need to get used copies of out-of-print books (like Buroway's Politics of
Production) sent down to Bolivia. I do my book buying through email with
the Seminary Co-op in Chicago, but they don't deal in used books. Any
suggestions?
Many thanks-
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812
a plan for
direct action. Relocating union organizing and anticapitalist struggle to
the least-valued sites in communities can, Corlett argues, encourage people
to share resources in mutual support and defense while practicing
irredentist maneuvers in the name of a Labor underground.
Tom Kruse
I need to get a complete Capital in English. Any suggestions on versions,
publishers, translations?
Thanks!
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- I've tried it all). Anybody know what's up with the business side of MR?
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
m did compare the
Houses to street gangs and the balls to gang wars...Michael Hoover
Yup, that's the one. A must see. The multiplicity of opresions is
palpable. Notable is the class issue: a lot of the problems the guys in
the film face is poverty.
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Te
Dear PEN-L:
I just sent a note to the whole list that was meant for Mike Yates.
Apologies.
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--=_920193057==_
Dear Mike:
You sent a note a bit ago asking for references on labor, anthropology and
the global economy. Here's my short list.
A good, grounded primer on innovation in social analysis from
anthro/cultural studies is Renato Rosaldo's Culture and Truth.
by the lingo. By default, not as a matter of
conviction as it is for Lou, I fear I may never read her.
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
., and their relation to
the debt-led capitalist development that later led to the "lost decade".
Since then, well, neo-lib ideology has regined supreme, and talk of
subsumption (etc.) is viewed with derision, along with most things marxist.
If anyone wants the article, I can send it on.
Tom
litary interventions
as part of long, sordid history. If you decide to throw in some
intervention in Lat Am stuff for good measure, I can help.
Tom
At 05:24 PM 25/02/99 -0800, you wrote:
I am currently involved in planning an undergraduate "cluster course" ...
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812
lexibility is
the rigidity demanded by stockholders re: thier rate of return. And the
parts on how one has to willy nilly re-furbish and refashion oneself as
commodity for fickle labor markets is great.
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and really try to understsnd folks on thier own
terms. I rescue from these efforts some important on the cultural stuff of
class fromation, sort of EP Thompsons of our times. And this is a very
real, very useful product of the cultural turn, or pomo, or whatever.
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 /
ppreciated. Please send leads, ideas, etc. to
the email address given below.
Many thanks!
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
e at
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/STATE/UPDATES/lat_marines1213.htm.
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brad writes:
feeling that we today owe a pretty big debt to Harry S Truman...
Mccarthysim? NSC 68 and it's legacy? Nope; I don't buy it.
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
t; We who are
offended by this should send our own message to our demented leaders.
Howard Zinn is professor emeritus of history at Boston University, and
author of _A People's History of the United States_.
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
h I am painfully aware that this project is only a small
contribution to gay Bolivia's struggle for recognition and can not come
close to solving all of it's problems, I think it is an important start.
--
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
n process innovation
occurs, eliminating a one-to-one correpsondence between jobs before in the
US and jobs after overseas? Any insights?
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
, as the govbernment is hoplessly
corrupt. The Nicaraguan government apparently intercepted the email, and
used it as the basis for expelling the her.
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eresa go postal" is simply a metaphor and a bit of hyperbole and is in no
way
intended to suggest or threaten that I would ever "go postal."
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and fascination
with sex causes lots of head scratching.
With regard to "what the US will do" lots of people here (a) give up on
trying to understand, while (b) assuming the worst. Not a bad approach.
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
impotence, some fanatics sharpen
their teeth and the people await an end to this uncertainty.
Tito
December 98
------
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
that neither Hoffmann nor his wife were
involved in the group's long campaign to have Pinochet tried in court.
© Copyright 1998 The Associated Press
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ining
them, do not exist here either. Otherwise, I agree with everything.
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
where
Bolivia stands on the global Big Mac index.
Many thanks!
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
defintions of maquilas, and a good feeling of
solidarity much more real than "virtual".
At the same time I understand why non-economists (and others without
graduate degrees generally) would drop out.
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
).
With statements such as these, I need someone to explain the practical and
political importance. At a gut level I know there's some bombshells in
this for organizers, but I can't figure it out. I fine Pollin's work in
the Nation great in this regard; a lot of Devine's posts too.
Tom
Tom
a Clinton plan that would allow Nike and similar companies to
maintain sweat shops in Asia. It turns out that some huge and powerful Wall
Street legal firms who counsel these corporations are major funders of the
"Lawyers Committee on Human Rights.")
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochaba
it when people don't "leave well enough
alone"! The precedents set for the future are great: no hiding place for
(some) facists; no impunity for (some) capitalists. Optimistic? Golly
yes, but do let's enjoy the feeling of possibility, if only for a moment.
Tom
Tom Kruse
Ca
had remained under police guard awaiting news of
his fate.
Pinochet underwent back surgery Oct. 9 during a regular visit to Britain
and was arrested in his bed at another hospital.
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Y E S !
(3 to 2 the House of Lords decided Pinochet
does not enjoy immunity, opening the possibility
of his extradition to Spain for trial.)
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
isappeared here in Bolivia, these are the best and worst of times, rife
with possibility.
Thank you to all of you who took the time to zap off notes to people and
agencies in the decision making process. Who knows if it makes a
differece; regardless, the gesture is appreciated.
Tom
Tom Kruse
Ca
Welcome Kevin!
At 21:28 23/11/98 -0800, you wrote:
Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange is joining on to pen-l. Perhaps his
presence will help us to become more active in contributing to the
protests vs. sweatshops, the world bank, imf et al.
--
Michael Perelman
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812
53 matches
Mail list logo
