The Pacific News Service, a nonprofit radio broadcasting company, has created a new bimonthly print magazine for Silicon Valley's temporary workers. Given out free at bus stops and other places where young workers can be found, it's called Silicon Valley De-Bug. The magazine's 27-year-old editor Raj Jayadev has an activist social message and says the publication "is doing something which Silicon Valley doesn't allow a voice for everyday people. There's this other demographic that researchers and the media have passed over young workers who aren't on the high-tech fast track or four-year university track. No one's paying attention to them." Jaydev says traditional labor-organizing hasn't worked for temp workers and considers the magazine an alternate form of organizing. "The point is to start a dialogue among young and working people. What we want is for people to critically examine Silicon Valley, so they have a voice at the table at their workplace and in their communities. We want them to come up with the agenda." (San Jose Mercury News 26 Mar 2002) http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2941314.htm
----- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929
