[PEN-L:12027] Re: Shameless self-promotion

Monday morning, 9-9:45 EDT I will be on WBAI (and Pacifica Radio) (oh, along with Karen Nussbaum). Discussion subject: labor day, women, unions. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:12029] Growing labour strife?

The Vancouver Sun Friday 29 August 1997 LABOR PEACE DISTURBED BY PILES OF GARBAGE Ken MacQueen and Eric Beauchesne It was a week with garbage on Vancouver streets where the buses should have been. There's talk of a national postal strike, and some 2,000

[PEN-L:12033] Re: ADC = BullShit (fwd)

Shawgi A. Tell wrote: In short, on matters political and historical, ADC has become a kept woman of the Arab regimes. Now that's not a very nice way to put it, is it? Doug

[PEN-L:12034] Re: ADC = BullShit (fwd)

Greetings, On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Doug Henwood wrote: Shawgi A. Tell wrote: In short, on matters political and historical, ADC has become a kept woman of the Arab regimes. Now that's not a very nice way to put it, is it? Doug For the sake of accuracy, MER wrote this. I think

[PEN-L:12037] A rally against police brutality

Between 10 and 15 thousand New Yorkers protested police brutality at rally this afternoon in City Hall park. They demanded justice for Abner Louima--in Creole, "Jistis pou Abner Louima"--as they streamed across the Brooklyn Bridge. The crowd was mostly Haitian, judging from the Creole

[PEN-L:12038] Disney Globalization

This is passed on from another network with permission. Cheers, Ken Hanly A colleague passed on to me this tid-bit --- from Disney's contract with SUBSCRIBERS to its for-pay Web site: Disney shall exclusively own all now known or hereafter existing rights to the Information of every

[PEN-L:12031] Is Capitalism Sustainable?

While I was doing research on the tourist economy of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Richard Douthwaite posted a message with the above title, among other things saying: Herman Daly looked at the extent to which technology had already increased factor productivity and found the results disappointing. He

[PEN-L:12032] ADC = BullShit (fwd)

FYI Shawgi Tell Graduate School of Education University at Buffalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 09:41:43 -0400 From: MID-EAST REALITIES [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ADC = BullShit .. ___ __

[PEN-L:12035] Re: ADC = BullShit (fwd)

On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Doug Henwood wrote: Shawgi A. Tell wrote: In short, on matters political and historical, ADC has become a kept woman of the Arab regimes. Now that's not a very nice way to put it, is it? Au contraire, Doug, that's the very breath and soul of objectivity!

[PEN-L:12044] Slate on taxes

Slate is Microsoft's online mag. The article has a graph showing that the stock market goes up when taxes increase. Yes, I know that the Dow Jones does not really represent well being for most of us, but it makes a nice debating point foor certain purposes. -- Michael Perelman Economics

[PEN-L:12040] Re: taxes

Michael Perelman wrote, Check out the new article in Slate on taxes. Why? and How? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ knoW Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296

[PEN-L:12039] Spy phones

This is reprinted from another net with permission Cheers, Ken Hanly Here is another of those "1984" future technology products which offers some positive benefits at the expense of major intrusions on privacy, just like the closed circuit tv camera systems which now operate in most British

[PEN-L:12036] taxes

Check out the new article in Slate on taxes. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 916-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:12028] When workers strike back

The Globe and Mail, August 27, 1997 WHEN THE WORKERS STRIKE BACK Stephen Roach The recently resolved United Parcel Service strike was a shot across the bow of the inflationless 1990s. U.S. workers are now beginning to challenge the very forces that have led to a spectacular

[PEN-L:12025] FW: BLS Daily Report

BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1997 RELEASED TODAY: The number of employed youth increased by 2.8 million (not seasonally adjusted) from April to July, the traditional summertime peak for youth employment. This year's seasonal expansion in employment of 16- to 24-year-olds was slightly

[PEN-L:12024] Labor Day, 1997

LABOR DAY 1997: FULL-TIME, PART-TIME AND UNEMPLOYED WORKERS INTENSIFY THE STRUGGLE By General Baker DETROIT -- The year 1997 has sparked an intensification of the class struggle here at home. Labor Day 1997 follows the first anniversary of the so-called welfare reform bill, which ended the