Re: Ireland civil rights

1998-01-22 Thread anzalone/starbird
In message v01540b0cb0eb0bb7c744@[205.134.235.45], anzalone/starbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes What rubbish. Yes, the Sein Fein movement leadership is negotiating with the forces of petty bougie etc and governments who aren't politically correct, etc. US British etc. Negotiations

RMD980102 Irish news for Thursday/Friday 1/2 January

1998-01-22 Thread anzalone/starbird
Sometimes a little slice of (real) life adds to the analysis/judgement. Ellen Starbird IRISH NEWS ROUND-UP Thursday/Friday, 1/2 January, 1998 1. Peace process under attack 2. Family of five escapes murder bid 3. McAliskey's fate in hands of British Home Secretary 4. Sinn

RMD980122 Irish news for Thursday 22 January

1998-01-22 Thread anzalone/starbird
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 18:26:02 -0500 (EST) From: RM_Distribution [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RMD980122 Irish news for Thursday 22 January Status: U IRISH NEWS ROUND-UP Thursday, 22 January, 1998 1. Random shootings terrorise Belfast 2. SDLP vote collapses in mid-Tyrone

RMD980122 Irish news for Thursday 22 January

1998-01-22 Thread anzalone/starbird
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 18:26:02 -0500 (EST) From: RM_Distribution [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RMD980122 Irish news for Thursday 22 January Status: U isn't it? Unless and until, of course, Mr Trimble can form an alternative arrangement with the SDLP. He's been trying for long enough

RMD980102 Irish news for Thursday/Friday 1/2 January

1998-01-22 Thread anzalone/starbird
Sometimes a little slice of (real) life adds to the analysis/judgement. Ellen Starbird IRISH NEWS ROUND-UP Thursday/Friday, 1/2 January, 1998 1. Peace process under attack 2. Family of five escapes murder bid 3. McAliskey's fate in hands of British Home Secretary 4. Sinn

Re: Ireland civil rights

1998-01-20 Thread anzalone/starbird
What rubbish. The civil rights movement mobilized and organized the Catholic majority to take up again the struggle for freedom. The civil rights movement leadership represented (and still does) the broadest possible coalition. Movement toward socialism and Irish liberation has been steady on

Economic Black-out on Monday (fwd)

1998-01-15 Thread anzalone/starbird
Here's an ambitious agenda at the last minute for you. FYI. Here is a message from Rhodessa. -KH -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 22:33:17 EST From: Rhodessa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Economic Black-out on Monday Dear Karin, I am putting everyone on notice

Re: Marx on Native Americans

1998-01-05 Thread anzalone/starbird
I liked "Bingo Palace". I can't remember the woman's name who wrote it, she also wrote Heart Medicine? (or Love Medicine?) or something like that and "Beets... something" I know it's very current, were you looking for olden days stories? I'll dig you up a better reference if you don't mind

Re: good jobs

1997-12-24 Thread anzalone/starbird
Once you quantify what you consider a "good" job then you can check with the Employment Development Dept. to see how many exist. They keep such statistics available in their computer base. Don't forget that many folks consider lack of supervision a better quality in a job than "conceptualization

Re: U.S. growth

1997-12-08 Thread anzalone/starbird
Actually the gender gap, at least in income is not narrowing by BLS statistics, it is widening. ellen Shawgi A. Tell reproduces every tired leftist cliche about the U.S. labor market in just three paragraphs, an impressive achievement. I think it is necessary to avoid focusing on the appearance

Re: Query: Parents-children income relationship

1997-11-15 Thread anzalone/starbird
How about "Schooling In Capitalist America" that I think comes out of Harvard? on the question of the myth of the meritocracy... Ellen Anyone have good references on the relationship between the incomes of children and their parents. Said differently, are their any good empirical pieces on

Re: FastTrack - LatAm view

1997-11-11 Thread anzalone/starbird
Is the Carribbean close enough for you? The former Prime Minister of Haiti will be speaking at Laney College on Thursday, can you do a phone hook up with KPFA? They will be interviewing her 8:30 am California time Thursday morning. (I'm schleping her around Wednesday and Thursday because I'm such

RE: [PEN-L] Re: income race

1997-11-05 Thread anzalone/starbird
e: income race Date: Sunday, November 02, 1997 4:52PM Ellen (anzalone/starbird) wrote: Is it true that inmates incarcerated in prison are NOT counted as households in your data? To be counted as being employed or unemployed in the US data, one must first be counted as being part of the labor f

Re: Marx's Marxism?

1997-11-04 Thread anzalone/starbird
Howard Zimm quoted Marx in the context of his own McCarthy attack (on his tenure as a professor?). I don't know the original citation, but I dimly recall the reference can be found (in the forward?) of Zimm's "You can't be Neutral on a Moving Train". Something to the effect that when asked if he

RE: [PEN-L] Re: income race

1997-11-04 Thread anzalone/starbird
race Date: Sunday, November 02, 1997 4:52PM Ellen (anzalone/starbird) wrote: Is it true that inmates incarcerated in prison are NOT counted as households in your data? To be counted as being employed or unemployed in the US data, one must first be counted as being part of the labor force. But, the l

RE: [PEN-L] Re: income race

1997-11-03 Thread anzalone/starbird
Levy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L] Re: income race Date: Sunday, November 02, 1997 4:52PM Ellen (anzalone/starbird) wrote: Is it true that inmates incarcerated in prison are NOT counted as households in your data? To be counted as being employed or unemployed in the US data, one must

Re: income race

1997-11-03 Thread anzalone/starbird
in 1996. New York topped BLS' list of metropolitan areas with the highest average pay, at $45,028 in 1996 (Daily Labor Report, page D-1). On Sun, November 2, 1997 at 12:44:35 (-0800) anzalone/starbird writes: If so then the 1986-1997 "War on (Black American men mascarading itself as

Re: income race

1997-11-02 Thread anzalone/starbird
Has there been a decrease in Black teenage unemployment? ellen In a message dated 97-11-01 20:09:26 EST, (Doug, er, whoever) writes: Obviously an unemployment rate below 5% should help black workers a lot, but why are the bottom quintile of white households losing income (-4.3% between 1989 and

Re: income race

1997-11-02 Thread anzalone/starbird
Hi Doug! I'm not sure who makes it into the count of Black households, and so I ask this as much out of ignorance as I hope, to be of some help on directing the inquiry on income and race in a positive direction (as I can be no help in providing a packaged answer, besides idunno.) Is it true

Re: VOTE SCHEDULED ON FAST TRACK NOVEMBER 7

1997-10-30 Thread anzalone/starbird
Drive a steak through it's heart now lads, that's the best. Then there'll be no temptation next year. ellen Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:53:43 -0800 Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "michael perelman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: Info on the Economics of the Family, Present and Future?

1997-10-17 Thread anzalone/starbird
Try the Labor Project for Working Families in at U.C. Berkeley. Ellen Starbird I'm to appear on a local community college panel discussing the economics of the family, present and future. The other two participants are a sociologist and an historian. I would be grateful for any data sources,

Re: Marx making a comeback?

1997-10-17 Thread anzalone/starbird
It was actually Adam Smith who first summised that labor produces all wealth. David Ricardo, arguing against the corn laws of England proceeded Marx in making that same deduction; and invented the labor theory of value. Ricardo quoted Smith, "The real price of everything...is the toil and trouble

Laney College Instructor Targeted by Shipping Firm: Won't besilenced!

1997-10-08 Thread anzalone/starbird
I got a very nervous call today from one of my students, speaking of actions on behalf of the Liverpool Dockers; it seems the school administration where I work is investigating my participation in the picket for the Liverpool Dockers at Oakland's port. I may be sending out a shout for help

[PEN-L:12718] Re: Question: The USSR and the Great Depression

1997-09-30 Thread anzalone/starbird
During most U.S. depression, capital has succeeded in preserving part of its prior gains by bearing down harder on workers, farmers, etc. Such was not the case during the Great Depression. Was there any reason, None come to mind, but other possible variables could include: Greater

[PEN-L:12496] Re: Shout

1997-09-21 Thread anzalone/starbird
Love to stand you for a round! I teach in sf on monday nights, but can be in town early to goof off a bit from 3-6:30 and I teach at Laney on Wed. most other evening are good (free). If we get Alan (m' better alf) to the kitchen I can even offer a decent home cooked meal, should you be road weary

[PEN-L:12498] Re: travels

1997-09-21 Thread anzalone/starbird
Friends, My wife and I are going to be driving cross country starting this Monday. We should hit the west coast in Seattle in about a week. then we are going down the coast to LA and then winding our way back. I've got an 800 number connection to the internet, so I can be reached by email.

[PEN-L:12411] Re: the beautiful poor

1997-09-17 Thread anzalone/starbird
I think it is true that the (catholic) church has not always been monolithic on the subject of the poor. (Or women for that matter; St. Bernadette the patron saint of Ireland for instance ran abbys and performed at least one abortion, two unusual things the church today would not have smiled

[PEN-L:12352] Re: the beautiful poor

1997-09-15 Thread anzalone/starbird
For clarification: My remarks were intended to remind our colleague of the Catholic church hierarchy requirements that clerics and nuns spout the party line. Sr. Nirmala was responding as per the requirement of her oath of office to a question about abortion. As a nun she was not "free" to make a

[PEN-L:12351] Re: language vs. thinking

1997-09-15 Thread anzalone/starbird
Why on earth would you think, even using your own analysis, that words not acted on are less significant than deeds; that the work building a building across the way is LESS significant than you class room lecture? ellen starbird Ricardo writes notes that I wrote that depending on one's

[PEN-L:12321] Re: The trouble with China

1997-09-14 Thread anzalone/starbird
I culled this from the Economist China's leaders agree that the SOEs remain technologically backward; that the firms have insupportable obligations to look after their employees from cradle to grave, paying for schools, hospitals, pensions and so forth; What could be more inefficient that

[PEN-L:12320] Re: the beautiful poor

1997-09-14 Thread anzalone/starbird
The way to say it without sounding like a chauvanist is to say it like a feminist. There is no cultural basis for asserting that Sr. Nirmala is acting out of an Indian cultural perspective. The beauty of culture is its adaptability. The Indian pantheon of religions include many female deities,

[PEN-L:12292] Re: WWW at UCLA

1997-09-12 Thread anzalone/starbird
I did not get to see the article to which you refer in the Times either if you'd like to forward it to me I'd appreicate it. ellen starbird As one who has been engaged in teaching on the internet for some two years, I'm glad this article from the NYT was posted for the benefit of those of us

[PEN-L:11895] Economics History

1997-08-19 Thread anzalone/starbird
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 16:26:50 -0700 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (anzalone/starbird) Subject:Economics History Two labor studies courses: Economics and California Labor History are offered Monday night at 4th and Mission. They are at room 318 and 319 respectively. Worth 3 units