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The 50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice is a
coalition of over 200 US organizations (policy, labor, grassroots,
peace, solidarity, women's, youth, etc) committed to the
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/* -- "Int'l Days of Action Against Privat" -- */
LIST OF SCHEDULED ACTITIVITES FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DAYS OF PROTEST AND
STRUGGLE AGAINST PRIVATISATION AND DEREGULATION
(MAY 30-31, 1997) - PT, Paris France, May 15,
1:16 PM
The Preamble Collaborative presents:
The MAI in the Words of Framers, Proponents and Opponents
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Glossary of Acronyms:
MAI Multilateral Agreement on Investment
NAFTANorth American Free Trade Agreement
USCIBUnited
Journal of Commerce May 28, 1997,
Metalworker union's aim: globalization
PETER TIRSCHWELL
SAN FRANCISCO
An umbrella union organization representing 20 million metalworkers around
the world is to approve today a groundbreaking blueprint to confront
corporate globalization.
Meeting in San
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
Max wrote,
Really, is this post some kind of Sokal-type snare for
POMO-tistas? They should thank me for alerting them.
The snare's there, but not in the post. Just because there's a radical
separation between language and reality doesn't mean there's no reality or
even that reality is
The remarks below by Max and Jim Hurd are flippant and show very little
insight into Cuban history and politics. Even the bourgeois press concedes
that there is very little support for a capitalist restoration in Cuba
along Polish lines. One of the reasons for this obviously has to do with
the
A quick note re. Jim D's reference to Gould's reference to Lamarckianism as
a model for human cultural evolution:
a) Gould's point about the possible Lamarckian aspects of society-culture
was made to argue that we can "inherit" parental traits through learning
but was not, as far as I can tell,
The msg below suggests to me that when Fidel goes to
his reward, the shit hits the fan in Cuba, even without
a US invasion. Has anybody ever considered what the
US left ought to be saying and doing with regard to such
circumstances?
MBS
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Even weirder was what came at the beginning of the Brigham City fwd:
I thought I would share this with you. It is unbelievable!
--
Stefanie Schmidt
Economist
Milken Institute for Job Capital Formation
1250 Fourth Street
Santa Monica, California 90401
Said institute sounds like someone's idea
= I recall when this onus was on fast food, but I'm still excited.
So we replace two-thirds of the cops with chemists and field
biologists and civilization is saved after all, probably at
a significant profit.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker)
Subject: [PEN-L:10415] Re: more planning and democracy
Max wrote,
The problem is getting accurate information and
having the plan's instructions carried out without the eye
and hand of God behind every economic agent.
May I add that
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
Max wrote,
The problem is getting accurate information and
having the plan's instructions carried out without the eye
and hand of God behind every economic agent.
May I add that this is a problem for which there _cannot_ be a solution
because it is rooted in the contingent relationship between
The sad part about this story is that it does not seem unrealistic at all.
So I guest the old guy had it right -- the first time its tragedy, the
second as farce.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 916-898-5321
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Dear Pen-l'ers,
I am going to organize two courses "Industrial Organization" and
"Engineering Economics". I will really appreciate if you can suggest me any
textbook or articles regarding these courses.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Dilek Cetindamar Karaomerlioglu
Visiting Scholar
Center
On Thu, May 29, 1997 at 08:12:46 (-0700) Anders Schneiderman writes:
... I don't have a problem if Chomsky
wants to toss off wild flights of speculative fantasy about biology and
justice--or, for that matter, biology and language--so long as he's very
clear
At 09:22 AM 5/29/97 -0700, you wrote:
The issue arose after scores of parents complained that children in the
kindergarten class at Brigham Elementary were being led in a game which
mimicked same-sex marriages. At issue was the game "The Farmer in the
Dell."
As much as I love a good
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1997
The third quarter of 1997 should have the most robust hiring since
1988, according to the results of a Manpower, Inc., survey of 16,000
businesses. The survey finds that 30 percent of respondents will be
searching for additional workers this summer,
Wojtek writes that: we can safely dismiss all so-so biologies,
eveloutionary psychologies, etc. as crap without even reading it, for the
same reason we dismiss astrology, parapsychology, and metaphysics without
even bothering to refute them -- because they attempt to sneak on us an
impossible
Maggie,
Next up: The Dream Police !
Jason
The New Creationism: Biology Under Attack
By Barbara Ehrenreich and Janet McIntosh
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When social psychologist Phoebe Ellsworth took the podium at a
recent interdisciplinary seminar on emotions, she was already
feeling rattled.
FUROR ERUPTS IN BRIGHAM CITY SCHOOLS
.. . .
IT'S A HOAX.
Ye! and I figgered it out all by myself. Now watch for the story to crop
up on PEN-L every six months or so for the next seven years. By the way, did
you hear the one about the kidney thieves operating in New Orleans . . .
Regards,
At 09:47 AM 5/28/97 -0700, Mark Weisbrot wrote:
I have to say I did not like that "New Creationism" article at all, and
wonder why the Nation would even print it, let alone make it their cover
article. In an age when Newsweek runs cover stories about how standards of
beauty are genetically
At 08:40 PM 5/28/97 -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
Irrelevant comment: today I put together a computer desk we bought at Ikea.
I know that Ikea's founder was a Nazi (after WW II of all times!!) but I
can't see that company as any worse than any other corporation. However,
they made the instructions so
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker)
Subject: [PEN-L:10395] Re: The Farmer in the Dell
1. This is an urban legend;
2. This is a parody of homophobic hysteria; or
3. The parents *real* objection is that the farmer takes *only one* wife.
The issue arose after scores of
At 04:24 PM 5/28/97 -0700, Bill Lear wrote:
That notwithstanding, please read Barbara Ehrenreich's article in the latest
issue of The Nation...
Which issue, precisely?
June 7 if I am not mistaken.
wojtek sokolowski
institute for policy studies
johns hopkins university
baltimore, md 21218
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1997
RELEASED TODAY: State unemployment rates were generally unchanged in
April, as 40 states reported changes of 0.3 percentage point or less
in either direction from March. The national jobless rate declined to
4.9 percent from 5.2 percent in March.
From: James Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:10349] more planning and democracy
I'm pacing myself with JD; otherwise I'd never
be able to keep up with him.
Max titled his missive on this subject "The Plan Boss, the Plan" as an
effort to introduce some humor. I am not
I hope you skeptical Marxists didn't actually *fall* for this
one...
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Gina Neff
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Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 14:36:31 -0400
From: Beth Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: (Fwd) ROBERTS' RULES: Brigham
Barkley, At long last I'm ready to send the Dorman review. Unless you
indicate a preferred alternative I intend to express mail it to your James
Madison address.
Gil Skillman
This is to let people on this list know that I shall
be removing myself from all internet lists for the
Bill writes: I'm also curious about goods which are now sold in giant
stores (Office
Depot, for example) where the "sales staff" are generally clueless, phone
lines with automated menus replace a real salesperson, and you generally
have to forage for your own goods (I'm exaggerating a bit).
this
At 08:40 PM 5/28/97 -0700, Jim wrote:
I wouldn't reject the role of all biology/genetics/evolution in explaining
human behavior. However, I would follow Marvin Harris, the anthropological
padrone primero of "cultural materialism," ...
[..]
BTW, according to Michael Albert, he has been
Either,
1. This is an urban legend;
2. This is a parody of homophobic hysteria; or
3. The parents *real* objection is that the farmer takes *only one* wife.
The issue arose after scores of parents complained that children in the
kindergarten class at Brigham Elementary were being led in a game
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