CSIS UPSETS HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
By Linda Diebel
Toronto Star
MEXICO CITY -- Efforts by Canada's spy agency to
interview human rights workers about Mexico have
created questions about the agency itself.
Human rights workers said calls from Canadian
Security Intelligence Service agents raise
I don't want to start a big discussion of this on PEN-L; but I do want to
note that not everyone (e.g. me) agrees with the view that one cannot
participate in a coalition or action if such a group as the Liberty Lobby is
also a participant. I suspect that some people who hold such a view might n
In delayed response to Marsh's request, here are some bibliographical
notes to accompany my recent posting on discrimination in the credit
market. I should note that UCR has had a transition to a new
computer system, so I was "off the net" from Saturday to this morning
(Wednesday). If there was
At 3:47 PM 4/25/95, Jim Devine wrote:
>I'm against NAFTA and all that, but isn't the Liberty Lobby a
>bunch of right-wing (nativist or even anti-semitic) kooks?
They call themselves "populist," but their guiding spirit is Willis Carto,
the notorious Holocaust "revisionist" and anti-Semite. They
At 3:03 PM 4/25/95, Jim Devine wrote:
>IMHO, to a large extent,
>the financial fragility has been shifted from the banks and
>corporations to the 80%. The corps got out of their debt trap
>partly because stagnant wages and salaries, plus down-sizing
>that shifted the costs and has boosted profi
The good news about HR 499 is that Marcie Kaptur (D OH) is on the
case. This woman is as forceful a critic of NAFTA as I've heard.
A freelance named Scott McLemee wrote a long article on the
Liberty Lobby for CAQ #50, Fall 1994:
_Covert Action Quarterly_, since 1978. ISSN 0275-309X (University
M
Mark Weisbrot wrote:
>
> Consider this proposal from Pen-l alum Dean Baker:
>
> How about trying to get a shareholder proposal within
> TIAA/CREF, which would mandate that the pension fund
> would not invest in any company whose compensation
> for any single executive exceeded a certain amount,
Re TIAA/CREF:
Sounds good. I have seen several initiatives on the mailed ballot in the ~3
years that I have been in it, and it seems like this one has been there
before -- but never using internet for organizing. Hey, the "YSN"
('unemployed' Young Scientist Network) used the internet to organiz
