[PEN-L] California's Raging Health Care Crisis

2008-01-26 Thread Seth Sandronsky
http://www.counterpunch.org/sandronsky01272008.html - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

[PEN-L] Health care reform

2008-01-11 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Come health or high prices Critics say Núñez-Schwarzenegger health-care proposal does nothing to control costs By Seth Sandronsky There’s no question what’s ailing our festering health-care system. Soaring costs for insurance premiums have pushed health care beyond the reach of 47

[PEN-L] Subject: Re: closing the barn-door after the horse has escaped.

2007-12-22 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Speaking of the Three Strikes law: http://www.counterpunch.org/sandronsky1007.html Seth Sandronsky Date:Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:49:15 -0800 From:Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: closing the barn-door after the horse has escaped. Charles Brown wrote: The cleanest

[PEN-L] CA prison reform measures

2007-11-30 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Prison corrections Two reform measures head for the state’s November ballot By Seth Sandronsky http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=602590 - Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage.

[PEN-L] October Speaker at the Marxist School of Sacramento

2007-10-12 Thread Seth Sandronsky
October 2007 Speaker at the Marxist School of Sacramento, Point of View Speaker Series: Challenging Perspectives on Current Issues presents: Kevin Wehr, assistant professor of sociology at CSU, Sacramento, giving a talk titled Bicycle Messengers and Fast Capitalism--why old technologies persist

[PEN-L] CSU student fees rising

2007-09-20 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Green and gold and red By Seth Sandronsky There's red ink at CSU Sacramento. The school has a deficit of about $7.5 million in its $240 million operating budget, and Sac State President Alexander Gonzalez has a budget plan. Student enrollment must rise for the deficit to fall. But total

[PEN-L] Alexander Saxton talk in Sacramento

2007-09-14 Thread Seth Sandronsky
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/06/18446043.php Central Valley | Global Justice and Anti-Capitalism View Other Events For The Week Of 9/20/2007 Title: Alexander Saxton Talk on Religion and Society START DATE: Thursday September 20 TIME: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Location Details: Garden

[PEN-L] The price of protest

2007-09-06 Thread Seth Sandronsky
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[PEN-L] Sodexho workers

2007-08-30 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Food fight! Sacramento UC Davis labor struggle has led to arrests By Seth Sandronsky Valerie Matthews earns $11.12 per hour working up to 38 hours a week as a cook in the Tercero student dining commons, which serves 800 to 1,000 daily meals at UC Davis. Though she stirs what’s inside the same

Re: [PEN-L] Who needs a recession?

2007-08-29 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry (Touchstone/Simon Schuster, 1997). Seth Sandronsky To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: Re: Who needs a recession? From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:09:06 -0700

[PEN-L] PGE spying

2007-08-23 Thread Seth Sandronsky
on anyway. Seth Sandronsky _ Booking a flight? Know when to buy with airfare predictions on MSN Travel. http://travel.msn.com/Articles/aboutfarecast.aspxocid=T001MSN25A07001

Re: [PEN-L] Environmental Ironies

2007-08-16 Thread Seth Sandronsky
More genius land use from the same article: “Natomas Central (which supplies irrigation water to the Natomas basin) recently reached a tentative agreement with the city of Folsom to sell it a big chunk of water for its expansion south of Highway 50. Seth Sandronsky Date:Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18

Re: [PEN-L] Contagiousness

2007-08-14 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Dean Baker’s recent work in part looks at the oversupply of homes in the U.S. [Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) New Report - Midsummer Meltdown: Prospects for the Stock and Housing Markets] http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/meltdown_2007_08.pdf Seth Sandronsky Date

[PEN-L] Nurses mess with Texas

2007-08-09 Thread Seth Sandronsky
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Re: [PEN-L] From Idris of Dungiven

2007-08-09 Thread Seth Sandronsky
standards in Ireland is a success case in point, according to Baker. NAFTA was not set up to bring Mexican's living standards up to Americans'. full: http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2007-07/25sandronsky.cfm Seth Sandronsky Date:Wed, 8 Aug 2007 13:31:58 -0400 From:Louis Proyect [EMAIL

[PEN-L] Calculate this

2007-07-19 Thread Seth Sandronsky
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[PEN-L] Subject: California Sicko

2007-07-17 Thread Seth Sandronsky
“By far the biggest donors to the term limits campaign have been unions,” The Bee also reported in the article that Michael mentioned. Is this an example of labor-industry unity against single-payer, which would upset the old apple cart? Seth Sandronsky To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: [PEN-L] Sicko: Heavily Doctored?

2007-07-01 Thread Seth Sandronsky
doctors practicing stateside ended, U.S. health care would become more affordable for those with low and middle incomes. (The United States Since 1980 by Dean Baker (Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pages 31-32.). Seth Sandronsky To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sicko: Heavily Doctored? From: Paul

[PEN-L] Health care in Honduras

2007-06-02 Thread Seth Sandronsky
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[PEN-L] Subject: Re: The closing of the university commons

2007-05-21 Thread Seth Sandronsky
In relation to our esteemed moderator’s essay on MRZine, my brief news item on related events at CSU Sacramento: http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=321096 http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/perelman190507.html Seth Sandronsky

[PEN-L] (No) confidence man

2007-05-03 Thread Seth Sandronsky
(No) confidence man http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=318709 Seth Sandronsky _ Get a FREE Web site, company branded e-mail and more from Microsoft Office Live! http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0050001411mrt

[PEN-L] Student wisdom

2007-04-26 Thread Seth Sandronsky
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=315528 Seth Sandronsky _ The average US Credit Score is 675. The cost to see yours: $0 by Experian. http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=660600bcd=EMAILFOOTERAVERAGE

[PEN-L] Labor dispute at CSU Sacramento

2007-04-05 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Penners: Here is a link to my story on a labor dispute at CSU Sacramento: http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=305855 Seth Sandronsky _ MSN is giving away a trip to Vegas to see Elton John. Enter to win today. http

[PEN-L] Subject: modern-day equivalent of a witch hunt.

2007-03-13 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Penners, Below is my take on political ignorance and a tough-on-crime law in the great state of California. Seth Sandronsky California Crime and Punishment By Seth Sandronsky t r u t h o u t | Guest Contributor Tuesday 13 February 2007 Heard of California's 10-20-life law? It mandates a life

[PEN-L] Boris Kagarlitsky

2007-03-09 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Jeff, Please contact me off-list concerning the North America speaking tour for Boris Kagarlitsky. Thanks, Seth Sandronsky _ Get a FREE Web site, company branded e-mail and more from Microsoft Office Live! http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT

[PEN-L] My review of Michael Perelman book

2007-03-08 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Penners, I have a review of Manufacturing Discontent: The Trap of Individualism in Corporate Society (Pluto, 2005) by Michael Perelman in the March 2007 issue of Socialism and Democracy. Seth Sandronsky _ The average US Credit

[PEN-L] Labor conflict at CSU Sacramento

2007-03-06 Thread Seth Sandronsky
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[PEN-L] California politics

2007-02-20 Thread Seth Sandronsky
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=281938 Seth Sandronsky _ With tax season right around the corner, make sure to follow these few simple tips. http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Taxes/PreparationTips

[PEN-L] Feb 13th-Sacramento Coalition to End the War: HR 787

2007-02-14 Thread Seth Sandronsky
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/13/18362707.php Central Valley | Anti-War Rep. Matsui House speech today sounds good, but fails the troops by Dan Bacher Tuesday Feb 13th, 2007 5:08 PM In spite of Rep. Matsui's House speech today, she doesn't support any proposal that brings this war to

[PEN-L] Subject: Re: t r u t h o u t

2007-01-26 Thread Seth Sandronsky
TO pays at least one of its contributing writers, he told me a month ago. I have not been paid for any of my TO pieces. But then, I have not asked for payment, either, proving yet again that the closed mouth does not get fed. :-( Seth To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t r u t h o u t From:

Re: [PEN-L] Missing in Antiwar Action

2007-01-22 Thread Seth Sandronsky
One of my students works for the world’s biggest computer chip maker. A rival firm has increased its share of the chip market. The shareholders of my student’s employer want higher stock prices as profits plummet. His job will be outsourced to Central America, he told me. The student and his

[PEN-L] Subject: Re: Ah-nold

2007-01-17 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Jim and Michael, It should be juicy to watch the course of AS’s proposed health-care reform. Recall his veto last Sept. of universal health-care coverage (state Sen. Sheila Kuehl's SB 840), approved by the state Legislature. Here is her recent LA Times op-ed on health-care reform in CA

[PEN-L] Subject: Re: Socialism and Islam

2007-01-17 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Speaking of finding common ground in the USA… Seth Science and Faith Join Forces By Associated Press RODRIQUE NGOWI Updated: 1/16/2007 BOSTON Some leading scientists and evangelical Christian leaders have agreed to put aside their fierce differences over the origin of life and work together to

Re: [PEN-L] work work work

2007-01-15 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Date:Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:40:59 -0800 From:Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: work work work FYI SLATE moneybox Dirty Work What are the jobs Americans won't do? By Daniel Gross Posted Friday, Jan. 12, 2007, at 6:36 AM ET [clip] Americans, it seems, are also less willing to take

[PEN-L] Class struggle at CSU Sacramento

2006-11-16 Thread Seth Sandronsky
November 16, 2006 All, Here is my take on class struggle at CSU Sacramento in the city’s alternaweekly: http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=oid%3A246324 Seth _ Get free, personalized commercial-free online radio with

[PEN-L] Subject: Re: Ruling class?

2006-11-15 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Hey Michael, A few days ago in Business Week, I read a review of Blind Side, a book about a low-income black kid with no privileges who excels as an offensive left tackle in U.S. high school football. full: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_44/b4007119.htm Seth Date:Tue, 14

[PEN-L] In Sacramento October 16-Michael Perelman Talk on Railroading Economics

2006-10-10 Thread Seth Sandronsky
October 10, 2006 News Release For more information: Call Ellen Schwartz, (916) 799-1354 P.O. Box 160406 Sacramento, CA 95816 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.marxistschool.org In Sacramento October 16-Michael Perelman Talk on Railroading Economics Michael Perelman will give a talk on his new book,

Re: [PEN-L] Right Wing Attack on Labor (RN safe staffing laws)

2006-10-06 Thread Seth Sandronsky
on elites attacking RNs and other U.S. wage earners: Seth Sandronsky What is the evidence that nurses are in short supply? That more nurses are needed after the nurses passed legislation requiring the employment of more nurses? Another government created shortage. What a joke. RNs did not pass

[PEN-L] Robert Skidelsky's book on John Maynard Keynes

2006-09-24 Thread Seth Sandronsky
PEN-Lers: 12:00 am EST time Sept. 25 for the C-SPAN 2 Book TV program below. Seth Sandronsky On Monday, September 25 at 12:00 am

[PEN-L] Corporatization Of The University

2006-08-10 Thread Seth Sandronsky
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=10ItemID=10727 Seth

[PEN-L] Subject: Re: Debunking the myth of Europe's sluggish economy

2006-07-23 Thread Seth Sandronsky
If so, fans of Thomas Jefferson should also speak now. Seth Date:Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:02:00 -0700 From:Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debunking the myth of Europe's sluggish economy Any Aaron Burr fans here? On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 07:49:58PM -0400, Paul wrote: This

[PEN-L] Subject: Re: inequality

2006-07-16 Thread Seth Sandronsky
/14278700p-15087496c.html. Seth Sandronsky Date:Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:13:42 -0400 From:Michael Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: inequality Michael Perelman writes: Here is my question: Looking at sports or entertainment figures you find a similar expansion of inequality. I doubt

Re: [PEN-L] The Real �Flation� Threat

2006-06-28 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Isn't the deflation of the U.S. housing bubble driving up the market prices of rents, and the rate of inflation? Seth Date:Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:40:54 -0700 From:Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Real “Flation” Threat Friends, What is your take on what is below? Best, Sabri

[PEN-L] Karl Marx on California Stage in Sacramento

2006-06-16 Thread Seth Sandronsky
June 16, 2006 News Release For more information: Call (916) 799-1354 P.O. Box 160406 Sacramento, CA 95816 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.marxistschool.org Karl Marx on California Stage in Sacramento “Marx in Soho,” a play by Howard Zinn, with Jerry Levy as Karl Marx, will be performed June 29 to July 2

[PEN-L] Subject: Re: pen-l conspiracy?

2006-06-14 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Frantz Fanon focused on the processes by which the oppressed took on characteristics of the oppressor. Seth Date:Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:46:35 -0700 From:Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: pen-l conspiracy? Ravi: I am not buying it: white guys (no offense!) suggesting that Middle

Re: [PEN-L] Risk

2006-06-12 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Interestingly, the BW article that Michael posted makes no mention of the Russian default that involved the Long-Term Capital Management crash. I note this after just reading Fictitious Capital, Real Debts: Systemic Illiquidity in the Financial Crises of the Late 1990s by Anastasia Nesvetailova

[PEN-L] Subject: Re: Marx and the fragmentation of capital

2006-06-01 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Crucially, capitalism precedes fascism. Seth Sandronsky Date:Wed, 31 May 2006 16:18:16 -0700 From:Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Marx and the fragmentation of capital On 5/31/06, michael perelman wrote: Jim is absolutely correct that if capital would operate as a single

[PEN-L] Subject: NLRB vs. Unions

2006-05-27 Thread Seth Sandronsky
that economist Dean Baker critiqued on his blog http://beatthepress.blogspot.com/. Tom Walker, I have a question for you. How does the U.S. NLRB and the Senate one-two punching of nurses stateside relate to your post concerning Say's Law? Seth Sandronsky To: PEN-L@sus.csuchico.edu Subject: NLRB vs

[PEN-L] Subject: Farms and airlines? What else?

2006-05-18 Thread Seth Sandronsky
? Seth Sandronsky Date:Wed, 17 May 2006 16:05:43 -0700 From:Eugene Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Farms and airlines? What else? This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --040306090401000801070806 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content

[PEN-L] Subject: Re: Key Economic Measures Jumped in March - NYT

2006-04-28 Thread Seth Sandronsky
All, Seth Sandronsky here. I have a question for the list. Does the $107 billion worth of wood products U.S. workers produced in 2004 count the labor of undocumented workers such as those recently arrested by federal authorities at the workplaces of IFCO Systems North America, a firm

[PEN-L] Bring home cash for levees

2006-03-13 Thread Seth Sandronsky
http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2006/03/13/editorial5.html Seth Sandronsky

Re: [PEN-L] Capitalism's new markets

2006-02-28 Thread Seth Sandronsky
globally. Seth Sandronsky -- Date:Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:52:24 -0500 From:Marvin Gandall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Capitalism's new markets Here is another article, this one from the Economist, illustrating how untethered from their countries of origin the largest

[PEN-L] Subject: Re: bye, bye pensions

2006-01-28 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Entering the market as consumer/worker produces the ideology of independency. That is a tough nut to crack for the laboring majority in the USA. There are a host of reasons for this, of course. Seth Date:Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:26:45 -0800 From:Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [PEN-L] Black democractic athlete-politicians

2006-01-12 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Tom Bradley was the mayor of L.A. for five terms, having earlier been a top quarter-miler at UCLA. http://www.socalhistory.org/Biographies/bradley.htm Seth Sandronsky Date:Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:48:23 -0800 From:Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Black democractic althlete

[PEN-L] Sac forum addresses same-sex marriage, capitalism

2005-11-28 Thread Seth Sandronsky
/article/?id=11506 Seth Sandronsky

[PEN-L] David Roediger talk in Sacramento on Nov. 17

2005-11-14 Thread Seth Sandronsky
The Marxist School of Sacramento presents David Roediger, professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a scholar of critical whiteness studies. Roediger will deliver a talk titled The Dilemmas of Popular Front Antiracism: Looking at the House I Live In on Thurs.,

[PEN-L] Subject: Re: Voters reject Arnie's proposals

2005-11-10 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Arnold publicly backed the Minuteman Project: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/sandronsky051105.html Seth To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Voters reject Arnie's proposals From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L] My interview with Katrina activist

2005-11-03 Thread Seth Sandronsky
http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2005-11-03/fifteen.asp Seth Sandronsky

[PEN-L] Don't forget Social Security

2005-10-08 Thread Seth Sandronsky
http://www.newsreview.com/issues/Sacto/2005-10-06/guest.asp Seth Sandronsky

[PEN-L] The Hiring Crisis for Black Teens

2005-10-04 Thread Seth Sandronsky
http://www.counterpunch.org/sandronsky10032005.html Seth Sandronsky

[PEN-L] In Arkansas, Grassroots Activists to the Rescue of Katrina Evacuees

2005-09-29 Thread Seth Sandronsky
http://lefthook.org/Ground/Sandronsky092805.html Seth Sandronsky

Re: [PEN-L] San Francisco demonstration

2005-09-26 Thread Seth Sandronsky
September 26, 2005 Eugene, Greetings. My family and I attended the San Francisco demo, too. On Market St. near Jefferson Park we saw a sign with the photos of the president and vice president. Below the photos was a caption: “free with purchase.” At the end of the march we saw the city’s

[PEN-L] Sept. 15 Sacramento Talk on Obesity and Overwork in the U.S.

2005-09-13 Thread Seth Sandronsky
ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: The Marxist School of Sacramento For more information: Call Ellen Schwartz, (916) 799-1354 P.O. Box 160406 Sacramento, CA 95816 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.marxistschool.org Lecture/Discussion on Obesity and Overwork in the U.S. Jackie Carrigan will deliver a talk Overweight and

[PEN-L] Subject: N.O. Humanitarian PR Disaster

2005-09-05 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Michael, My view of the national revulsion against the federal government’s role in the suffering of mainly African Americans in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast states is that many white folks are seeing themselves in Katrina’s victims. This is deep. This reflects, I think, a small step in

[PEN-L] My Katrina article

2005-09-03 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Weekend Edition September 3 / 4, 2005 Hurricane Katrina Blows Off the Mask The True Face of Capitalism By SETH SANDRONSKY I'm shocked, my wife told me many times this week, reflecting on the human calamity in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast states from the fury of Hurricane Katrina. Where

[PEN-L] Subject: Re: research topic

2005-08-25 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Didn’t Jerry Brown, in a bid for the White House, channel author Gore Vidal’s ideas about converting the production of weapons to the production of mass transit? Seth Sandronsky Date:Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:48:21 -0700 From:Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: research topic I

[PEN-L] My Cuba activism article

2005-08-18 Thread Seth Sandronsky
PEN-L: http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2005-08-18/news.asp Seth Sandronsky

[PEN-L] Ninety Years Young, A U.S. Leftist on the Politics of Social Security

2005-07-31 Thread Seth Sandronsky
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/1594/1/110/ Seth Sandronsky

[PEN-L] Book on suicide terrorism

2005-07-21 Thread Seth Sandronsky
This is an interesting interview concerning an author’s new book on suicide terrorism. Seth Sandronsky http://amconmag.com/2005_07_18/print/articleprint.html July 18, 2005 Issue Copyright © 2005 The American Conservative The Logic of Suicide Terrorism It’s the occupation, not the fundamentalism

[PEN-L] Sandronsky's rant

2005-07-03 Thread Seth Sandronsky
The Spies of Mother's Day California Spying, Schwarzenegger-Style http://www.counterpunch.org/sandronsky07022005.html

[PEN-L] Subject: Wall Street worries about China-bashing

2005-06-30 Thread Seth Sandronsky
When did Wal-Mart begin making fans (pun not intended)? Seth Sandronsky If U.S. Presses China on Yuan, A Delicate Scale Could Tip By CRAIG KARMIN and HENNY SENDER Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL June 29, 2005; Page C1 (clip) China has enabled American companies to cut cost

Re: [PEN-L] the Jesuits of Capitalism

2005-06-28 Thread Seth Sandronsky
, including the right of workers to go on strike, by invoking the labor encyclicals issued by Pope Leo (1891) and Pope Pius XI (1931) as bulwarks against radical politics. A leading example of that was the SF general strike led by Harry Bridges of the ILWU during the Great Depression. Seth Sandronsky

[PEN-L] Strom Thurmond query

2005-06-19 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Pen-l: I have a question. My thanks in advance for the answer. Was the late U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond one of the Dixiecrats who successfully barred agricultural and domestic workers from being covered by the Social Security Act of 1935? Seth Sandronsky

[PEN-L] Subject: Union Takes Pay Case to County

2005-06-12 Thread Seth Sandronsky
The city of Sacramento has a living-wage law, but it doesn't cover workers in Marin. New frontiers of labor in Gov. Schwarzenegger's California? Seth Sandronsky Marin Independent Journal (Marin, CA) June 8, 2005 Wednesday Union takes pay case to county Mark Prado Cintas accused of breaking

[PEN-L] Charles Schwab query

2005-06-09 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Pen-l: Greetings. Does Charles Schwab, the US investment firm, fund the Cato Institute? If so, what are the most recent amounts? Thanks in advance, Seth Sandronsky

[PEN-L] Subject: Re: Sociobiological tripe about Jewish intelligence

2005-06-05 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Ed Sullivan, as a journalist before he became host of a popular US TV variety show, said that Jewish basketball players excelled due to their genetic traits of stealth, etc. Seth Sandronsky Date:Sun, 5 Jun 2005 02:20:55 +0100 From:Daniel Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

[PEN-L] Subject: Re: [Marxism] Lincoln as industrial capitalist

2005-05-29 Thread Seth Sandronsky
minstrelsy” with a quote from Mark Twain’s bio on how much he liked this cultural form. Seth Sandronsky Date:Sat, 28 May 2005 09:25:23 -0700 From:Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Marxism] Lincoln as industrial capitalist all people are products of their times. Few get even an inch

[PEN-L] Old Lefty interviewed

2005-05-08 Thread Seth Sandronsky
PEN-L: I interview a member of the Old Left on page 60 in the May Political Affairs Magazine http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/994/1/90/. Seth Sandronsky

[PEN-L] A call for Mr. Dickens

2005-05-03 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Thanks to Jim Devine and Tom Walker for creatively inspiring me to write the article below. Seth http://www.counterpunch.org/sandronsky05032005.html May 3, 2005 Calling Mr. Dickens Towards Debtors' Prisons? By SETH SANDRONSKY Sacramento, California The bankruptcy reform bill that President Bush

[PEN-L] Subject: Re: bush SS

2005-04-10 Thread Seth Sandronsky
to the population. Step 5. I switch to decaf. Seth Sandronsky Date:Sat, 9 Apr 2005 14:37:52 -0700 From:Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bush SS I wrote: Insurance programs are transfer programs. If I have a fire, = the fire insurance company pays me by transferring money from all

[PEN-L] Subject: social security question

2005-03-06 Thread Seth Sandronsky
efforts to use the resources of the Social Security Administration to help convey the idea that the program is facing a crisis and need to be changed. Seth Sandronsky Date:Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:22:51 -0800 From:Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: social security question To what extent

[PEN-L] John Bellamy Foster to Speak in Sacramento

2005-03-03 Thread Seth Sandronsky
March 3, 2005 News Release For more information: Call John Rowntree, (916) 446-1758 P.O. Box 160406 Sacramento, CA 95816 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.marxistschool.org John Bellamy Foster to Speak on Capitalism and Socialism John Bellamy Foster will deliver a talk “Capitalism

[PEN-L] Subject: college dropout condmens US education

2005-03-01 Thread Seth Sandronsky
City Unified School District administration and The Sacramento Bee. Some Sac High students’ low test scores were cited by St. Hope and its backers as proof of the need to shift control of the school into private hands. Seth Sandronsky Sac High Class of 1974 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: college

Re: [PEN-L] Subject: Think Black, Think Indian

2005-02-12 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Charles, Greetings. White folks do have color, no? Seth Sandronsky Date:Wed, 9 Feb 2005 08:47:06 -0500 From:Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Think Black, Think Indian Therefore, there is no symmetry between the political identity as whites on one hand and the political identities

[PEN-L] My op-ed on Social Security

2005-02-07 Thread Seth Sandronsky
PEN-L: I got this op-ed in the Sacramento Business Journal on Feb. 4: http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2005/02/07/editorial3.html Seth Sandronsky

[PEN-L] JPMorgan: Predecessors linked to slavery

2005-01-23 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Jan. 23, 2005 PEN-L: And slavery reparations from JP Morgan for African Americans in the article below? Not a word. Seth Sandronsky SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER Thursday, January 20, 2005 · Last updated 9:20 p.m. PT JPMorgan: Predecessors linked to slavery THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- JPMorgan

[PEN-L] Sacramento premiere of Weapons of Mass Deception

2005-01-23 Thread Seth Sandronsky
, which is his 15th independent film. Seth Sandronsky

[PEN-L] Is the NBA fantastic?

2004-12-24 Thread Seth Sandronsky
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/487/1/54/ Seth Sandronsky

[PEN-L] Gary Webb’s Memorial Service to be held on Saturday, December 18, in Sacramento

2004-12-17 Thread Seth Sandronsky
. For directions, call 916-929-8855. Seth Sandronsky

[PEN-L] In Sacramento, Richard Lichtman to give a talk “Marx and Ideology”

2004-12-12 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Richard Lichtman will deliver a free talk “Marx and Ideology” on Thursday, Dec. 16, at 7 p.m. in Room 10, Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St., Sacramento. The Marxist School of Sacramento P.O.Box 160406 Sacramento, CA 95816 (916) 446-1758 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.MarxistSchool.org Point of View:

[PEN-L] Subject: Re: Fucked up American Airlines

2004-11-25 Thread Seth Sandronsky
, the working day and labor solidarity, by Seth Sandronsky http://sevenoaksmag.com/commentary/40_comm3.html -- Date:Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:33:43 -0600 From:Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fucked up American Airlines Devine, James wrote: Is Greyhound still in existence

[PEN-L] Query

2004-11-25 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Nov. 25 PEN-L: I am looking for a brief passage on Marx’s theory of ideology. This is for a popular handout. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Seth Sandronsky