Dear Pen-lers:
A bit ago there was a note on anti-abortionists in congress and us fogn.
aid. Below an article from the WP on how this relates to milit. ops. and
IMF bailout $$.
$1.8 Billion More Sought for Military Operations
Wednesday, March 4, 1998; Page A18
By Helen Dewar Washington Post St
Dear Pen-Lers:
I'm in the midst of a project to look at interdiction policies herein South
Am. A real eye-opener. I knew there was a war on; I didn't know quite how
bad it was.
As might be expected, the net is chock full of drug war realted sites. A
sample of one decent bit follows from DRCNe
THE PONGO'S DREAM
by José Maria Arguedas
(Arguedas learned Quechua as a boy from servants in the household of his
stepmother and his father, an itinerant lawyer. Until his suicide in 1967,
the novelist and anthropologist was perhaps more responsible than any other
Peruvian for the impassioned de
Well, does anyone have a take, so far, on the Microsoft hearings?
valis
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THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST:
A monthly journal of the Heartland
March 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 3
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EDITORIAL
Battlefield Conversion?
Can the Washington, D.C., elites become any more
john gulick muses:
>
> >EU-US TRADE ZONE LAUNCHED [The Guardian]
>
> I'm wondering what to make of this. It's rather astonishing to me how quickly
> the U.S. drops one or another scheme to expand markets for the export of
> commodities and capital (FTAA, MAI) in the face of momentarily inoppor
In a message dated 98-03-06 11:12:05 EST, Michael writes:
<< Be careful about this. It could be used much more often against the left
than the
right. Remember how Bruce Church's suit against the Farm Workers almost
destroyed
the union. With Rico, it would have been even easier.
-- >>
I agr
I don't think it quite accurate to say the US is dropping one scheme and
proposing something else in the face of adversity. I think that the FTA
spilled over into NAFTA, which is being used as a model for much of the
MAI. In many ways, these are all parts of an amazingly coherent long term
strateg
For people's information, their CD is absolutely fantastic. The single
"Pissing the Night Away" gets heavy rotation on commercial FM station,
but the truth is that every cut is superb. Don't miss it.
Louis Proyect
Other than leafing through the world's major dailies and the financial
press over the last four months, does anyone know of any good sources
on the E. Asian financial meltdown and its implications both for the
global economy and inter-imperialist alliance/conflict -- i.e. a bunch
of good theoretic
At 11:47 AM 3/6/98 -0800, The Guardian wrote:
>EU-US TRADE ZONE LAUNCHED
I'm wondering what to make of this. It's rather astonishing to me how quickly
the U.S. drops one or another scheme to expand markets for the export of
commodities and capital (FTAA, MAI) in the face of momentarily inopport
The GuardianMarch 4, 1998
EU-US TRADE ZONE LAUNCHED
Asian crisis spurs plan for transatlantic common
market pounds 60 billion benefits of lifting barriers
Ambitious proposals that could revolutionise trade relations between the
United Sta
> The British anarchist punk group CHUMBAWAMBA is on a North American tour.
> They're the folks who recently dumped a bucket of ice on the British Deputy
> Prime Minister at an awards banquet and told him "that's what you get for
> being a scab".
>
> Check out their web site at (http://www.chumba
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> Jan-Feb 98 Washington Free Press
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> > Sex Trade Workers Organize
> > Lawsuits filed in Washington State and Minnesota; Labor Union formed
> > in California
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> Written 9:02 AM Feb 22, 1998 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] in mideast.levant
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> / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\ Making Sense of
> Subject: Judge to GM: Do I Have to Arrest You?
>
> Sometimes it takes a threat of jail time for corporate lawyers to abide by
> the law.
>
> Attorneys for General Motors, threatened with imprisonment for contempt,
> last month turned over internal documents that are likely to undermine the
>
The Vancouver Sun Friday 6 March 1998
CLARK JOINS OPPONENTS OF MAI
B.C.'s premier says the treaty, negotiated largely
in secret, will garner more detractors as details
of the deal become public.
By Petti Fong
With the May deadline looming
There have been several posts lately on Pen-l about Native land claims in
Canada and the residential school system.
For those interested, the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision upholding
aboriginal title (Delgamuukw [the name of the first of the plaintiffs in
this case] v. British Columbia)
On Thu, March 5, 1998 at 13:53:17 (-0500) Paul Zarembka writes:
>Does anyone have a good citation for the background leading President
>Roosevelt to include Section 7B in the NIRA of 1933? This is the section
>providing for the right to union representation and comes BEFORE the mass
>unionizing w
As we speak, activists are gathering at the Ward Valley Reservation,
22 miles west of Needles, California for a peaceful protest against
turning this and other reservations into dump sites for radioactive
toxic wastes. Of the 73 sites designated for toxic waste disposal, 72
are Indian Reservat
RICO is a very problematic act, often a cover for serious violsations of
constitutional guarantees in anti-drug ops, etc. Finally, NOW has found a
good use for it, suggesting other applications.
If the criteria is the existence of "... thugs racketeers ... mobsters
who cannot live by t
Be careful about this. It could be used much more often against the left than the
right. Remember how Bruce Church's suit against the Farm Workers almost destroyed
the union. With Rico, it would have been even easier.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, C
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