Just to make things more complicated Where I live people bristle when
they hear US folk calling themselves "Americans". Remedies are not simple,
however. Typically, forwards to new books in English acknowledge this
problem and then go on to use "American" anyway since everything else is so
means an injury to the seller."
Is it a "non-injury" by virtue of the fictive equality in the exhcnage
relation ("liberty, equality, and Bentham", as Doug notes)?
Tom
At 07:19 PM 17/03/99 -0500, you wrote:
Thomas Kruse wrote:
Doug Carrol:
Speaking of irony (you we
I'd be very interested to hear from you all on the following claims. Takers?
-o-o-o-
Productivity Gains Help Keep Economy on a Roll
NYT, March 22, 1999
By LOUIS UCHITELLE
DES MOINES, Iowa -- At the Maytag Corp. factory in nearby Newton, four
young people stand around a large Lazy Susan, as
Nathan writes:
What is the criterion here for when state violence is potentially
progressive and when, as Yoshie argues, there is no "we" attached to an
inherently anti-worker state? Is anarchism the only moral position until
after the cataclysm of world revolution?
[another post]
Would the
Ruling Allows Tariffs by U.S. Over Bananas
NYT, April 7, 1999
By DAVID E. SANGER
WASHINGTON -- The World Trade Organization handed the United States a
significant but only partial victory in its long-running dispute over
banana trade on Tuesday, authorizing the Clinton administration to impose
On the banana war:
When I was working on drugs ... er, when I was doing research on the _drug
issue_ last year I came across a WP article on how changes in European
banana buying had left various Caribbean nations with no choice but to
transship cocaine. Someone really should do a transnational
On air power, Lou posts:
Air Power 2:
NY Times, April 7, 1999
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- When the skies cleared over the Balkans on Monday, it
seemed to be a promising day for NATO's high tech warplanes to attack
Yugoslav tanks and armor in Kosovo. But alliance officials acknowledge that
few, if any,
Max:
Given the evolution of discussion on PEN-L, your clippings on the
atrocities perpetrated against Kosovars could be seen as weighing in on the
side of arguments for "doing something" to "stop ethnic cleansing".
I have been watching with horror the whole thing unfold; a couple of things
are
There is a new "proactivivity" in US foreing polciy -- the ides that
"something must be done" before a "contagion spreads" or gets "out of
hand". In the Balkans we hear huaminitarina reaons invoked; below the
justification is the "collective defense of democracy". Feeling safe?
Read on:
At 11:45 PM 7/04/99 -0500, you wrote:
In all the demonizing of 'el presidente' Slobodan Milosevic not only
in the media but even on this list -- even by those who oppose
NATO's illegal and genocidal bombing of Serb and Albanian
civilians -- no one has ever given one argument why Milosevic
But capitalism civilizes, right?
It doesn't seem to do so, in the post-socialist Eastern Europe. (In fact,
just the opposite.) The Balkan civil wars illustrate why capitalism is not
at all 'progressive' there.
Yoshie
Capitalism is pretty canabalistic here too, tending to drive wages lower
and
The Economist
April 10th - 16th 1999
Fruitless but not harmless
America is declaring victory in its absurd banana war with Europe.
The damage from the dispute may prove lasting
AFTER six long years, America this week claimed to have won its
battle with the European Union over bananasa
Here's a note I sent to Henwood a bit ago, on this issue. At the time I
was a bit more agnostic on NGOs; now I'm a good bit more critical. I have
been looking at micro-finance NGOs, and I can't but come to the conclusion
that they foreclose on a lot of progressive potential, but turning
An effort to reduce/limit criminalization of the poor:
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First of all, all countries in the Americas should be bombed.
YO! Please skip Cuba ... wouldn´t want to hurt the refugees in Guantanamo;
and do lets try not to hit the Galapagos Islands.
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How much more shaping up of our facts and conjectures before we go on the
"offensive"?
I'm dusting off my F-117 now
The list, for me, is a place to contstantly shape up factss and arguments;
when I get offensive [ ;-) ], I try to do it off list ... the act locally
thing.
Tom
Tom Kruse
Michael noted that NPR was saying talks with para militaries in Colombia
were needed. Now this:
February 19, 1999
Title: RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: European Lawmakers Urge Redistribution of
Wealth
By IPS Correspondents
BOGOTA, Feb 19 (IPS) - A group of European parliamentarians
visiting Colombia said
Max:
Your continued defense of the "do something" (apologist for imperialsm,
etc.) camp is helpful in clearing some thoughts up
In this operation there is the "what to do" and the "how to do it" problem.
Problems arise as we analyze. The how (aerial bombing) is totally out of
synch with
Dear PEN-L:
Is there a web place to get historical (a decade or two) data on exchange
rates (I want to peak at the Brasilian real)?
Thanks-
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I hope I'm not asking for repeats of discussion here
1. Why was the autonomy for Kosovo revoked in 1989? Was it, as Paul
Phillips suggests, a response by Milosevic to anti-Serb activities in
Kosovo? Paul noted:
The third purge of Slavs from the province began in the early 1980s
which
From Chile, a response to the recent Law Lords decision.
---
A LITTLE JUSTICE FOR MAJOR CRIMES
Valparaíso sits proudly staring at the Pacific Ocean, its multicolour
houses hanging miraculously from its 37 hills, indifferent to the rain and
wind that sweeps through the city's narrow
Dear PEN-L:
Any suggestions on a good introduction to Taylor and Taylorism?
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear PEN-Lers:
Does anyone have an email address for David Harvey?
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it the case that:
... the main point of the Left's opposition to death
penalty (at least as I see it) is that it is class [and race, I'd add]
biased.
??
I've worked with a lot of religious social action left types for whom
killing was just plain wrong; with other secular types who suggest
Doug Carrol:
Speaking of irony (you weren´t, Doug), that is what don Carlos was up to
here, no?
On first glance, and even second, the market is that place of
liberty, equality, and Bentham that Marx said it was
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242,
Tuesday's Guardian of London carried a rare, perhaps unique, interview with
a volunteer Serbian "cleanser," a 50-year-old Belgrade truck driver named
Milan Petrovic, who recently spent 10 days in Kosovo helping to drive
thousands of ethnic Albanians from their homes. Petrovic said that the
Here's a very healthy anti-dote to much of the spin on Columbine High. As
a non-jock whose school was divided between athletes and non-athletes, this
rings true. By pointing attention to the collective culture, it also helps
to see how the enemy is in us, not "out there", in the families or
At 08:26 PM 13/05/99 -0400, you wrote:
regarding a "better globalization", Jim D writes:
One thing we need is more cooperation between labor unions in the "North"
and those in the "newly industrialized countries," to figure out how to
achieve this goal.
That kinds leaves out Bolivia, what with
Didn't Joan Robinson say that the only thing worse than being exploited
under capitalism is not being exploited?
Doug
My father in law, who worked as a low level office guy for the state mining
corporation (COMIBOL) for decades and now (age 73) makes photocopies for a
living, said with a laugh
Regarding:
I officially left the Mormon Church aka LDS Church (officially known as
The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) six years ago after having been
most faithful
in that organization my entire 47 year life span. I am just glad that I
finally
woke up before it was
At 02:16 PM 18/05/99 -0400, you wrote:
Bombing of Yugoslavia Awakens Anti-U.S. Feeling Around World
Yup. I might have mentioned we did a couple of teach ins with unions and
students on Yugo here. People are on it: they take as their point of
departure that if the US is doing it, it's propably
In a couple of posts over the months I've alluded to it. Bolivia's economy
is effectively dollarized already, without any official declarations. Most
savings and checking accounts are in dollars or both dollars and bolivianos
(the local currenecy); you can buy all manner of fiancial instruments
Tom, Is evangelical Christianity spreading rapidly in the whole country or
just
the Cochabamba area?
All over, really, but like much else in this world it is quite diverse,
with marked class differences. Mormons, for example, seem to be a much
more upper middle class thing, with the occasional
Compensate the living for wrongs but
dragging out every historical exploitation and compensating the descendants
is not possible or a reasonable political goal.
OK. But I had a conversation with a black Ghanaian poet friend not long
ago; we were picking apart Amistad, the movie. One point he
At 10:27 PM 28/04/99 -0400, you wrote:
I never once attacked Max personally for taking a position I disagree
with, much
less accused him of being evil.
Read my post. Max was not mentioned.
I stand behind every word in my post.
Innocent people are getting killed.
The bombing attacks are evil (my
Lou notes:
I believe that the key to unraveling this question is in the use
value/exchange value dichotomy. Before the introduction of large-scale
commodity production, cities were much more woven into their natural
environment. It is interesting to note--as Ellen Wood does in her article
in the
At 09:11 AM 18/05/99 -0700, you wrote:
For anyone interested in the scamming of indigenous peoples by
missionaries, strongly recommend They Will Be Done.
Anybody got any good, concise dirt on the Mormons? Or a website for
recovering ones?
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
regarding a "better globalization", Jim D writes:
One thing we need is more cooperation between labor unions in the "North"
and those in the "newly industrialized countries," to figure out how to
achieve this goal.
That kinds leaves out Bolivia, what with almost no industrailization and
all.
For an essay I'm doing on the hypocrisy of economic journalism here, a
couple fo questions:
Lawrence Summers wrote, as you all know, a little memo on the logic of
dumping toxics on poor people. Does anyone have the original citation, or
report on the memo (I believe a write-up apperaed in the
During Reagan's Nicaragua campaign in the 1980s, the contra radio stations
based in Honduras would consistently broadcast horrific stories about
Sandinistas sending children to Cuba, where they would be turned into
canned meat. On the face of it absurd, but in the war-torn northern
reagions of
Doug notes:
If ever there was a target deserving sharp satire and polemic, it's
the smug, brutal, and philistine U.S. ruling class of 1999, but they're not
getting what they deserve.
Right-o. This just in: Camille Paglia explains Littleton CO and comes out
aginst the war. Pithily. Read on:
Henry wrote:
Cultural and language imperialism is a serious issue, but more for non
Westerners.
I live somewhere in between "here" and "there", north/south. (Some pomos
might want to argue we all do.) Daily I am directly involved in the the
workaday (third) world, talking with people about how
Dear Pen-L-ers:
Each BLS daily report makes mention of an attachment. How does one read it?
I tried to bring it into my word processor and got jibberish. Thanks in
advance for any suggestions.
Tom
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5869
Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (011-591-42) 48242 (h)
Email: [EMAIL
Dear Pen-lers:
I know this may be considered a bit far afield, but here it is THE NEWS.
"Certification" of cooperation in the US Government's War on Drugs is, for a
small, highly dependent country like Bolivia, a life and death matter.
Around the world lots of ass-kissing and sundry servile
One healthy antidote (among many) to the political problems involved in "red
vs. green" is the work of Jorge Hardoy (Argentine planner, now deceased) and
Co. in the journal Environment and Urbanization. Looking principally at the
3rd World, they focus their environmental concerns on living
ANC GUERRILLAS TURN TO CRIME
By Alec Russell in Johannesburg
In a nightmare for post-apartheid South Africa, former African
National Congress guerrillas have become disillusioned with their political
masters and turned to crime.
[snip]
From guerillas to criminals is a story
Of all the major US papers, the Miami Herald has the most coverage of Lat
Am. Not surprising, as Miami is becoming the fianancial and media center
for a peculilar end of the millenium "Latino" culture. It's also the new
headquarters of the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), point organization in
More on the Berlin wall metaphor from today's New York Times:
"Just as the fall of the Berlin wall represents a political and ideological
victory for the U.S. over socialism, the collapse of the economies in Asia
marks another more subtle triumph of U.S. financial imperialism over the
rest of
Le Monde diplomatique
{ english edition }
January, 1998
(edited by Wendy Kristianasen)
LEADER
Broken childhoods by Ignacio Ramonet *
If Christ were alive today, the Christians would crucify him. If Marx were
alive today, the marxists would give him advice on what agency to apply to
for a project grant to write Das Kapital.
Tom Walker
Hmmm. And a non-PC thought: with a bit o' funding maybe he would have lost
fewer children
Argentines Debate Torture Site's Future Proposed `Unity' Park Offends Many
Survivors
By Anthony Faiola Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, January 11, 1998;
Page A21
BUENOS AIRES-In the bright southern light, a massive complex rises in
misleading tranquillity, with a life-size Nativity
In the 26 Jan 98 Nation editorial on the Pope's visit, the isssue of eroding
support for the embargo is brought up. In that context, the following appeared:
"Denying food and medicine to the people of Cuba is behavior unworthy of a
great nation like the United States," the US Chamber of
Speaking of colonialism (we weren't), here's a conference on the status of
US "unincorporated" territories. (And Lord! Look at the conference title!)
Maybe someone up there could fill us in on what goes down.
***
FOREIGN IN A DOMESTIC SENSE:
From today's NYT:
To the liberal critique [of the IMF Asia bail out plans], Rubin responded
that human rights, workplace issues and the environment, while important,
should be not be thrown into the maelstrom of bringing an international
financial crisis under control.
"To add these three
"Holy Father, we feel the same way you do about many important issues of
today's world," the Cuban leader said in his welcoming remarks [to el Papa]
at Jose Marti Airport Wednesday afternoon. "Another country will not be
found better disposed to understand your felicitous idea -- as we understand
Louis notes:
He [Fidel] went so far
as to defend liberation theology during the 1980s in a series of speeches
that are contained in the volume "Socialism and Religion" or something to
that effect.
Interviews with Frei Betto, around 1987, published in Spanish in Cuba and
Nicaragua as "Fidel y la
On the totally separate subject of satire and the need (?) to label it,
I'm bewildered about this request. Have we entered an age when it's
necessary to tell people "Don't take this seriously" or "You can laugh
now"? I find that an integral part of satire and parody is getting part
way into it
An anecdote: An Aymara farmer once said here to a friend of mine:
"God forgives always, people sometimes, but nature never."
Tom Kruse / Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-42) 48242
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Penners:
I returned from a trip to Chile not long ago, and intended to make some
quick notes for list on impresions and reacitons to the time there. It
kinda grew, thorugh no fault of my own, of course I will be sending
installments over the nex couple of days. As I am still
3. Valparaíso 1: Impressions
Much to my partner's chagrin, I have an aversion to what the urban planners
call "primate cities": usually 3 to 5 times larger than the second largest
city, they dominate the economic, political and cultural life of the country
(Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Lima,
4. Imaginings
In Valparaíso I had the chance one afternoon to accompany a friend to his
interview with a leader of an urban Mapuche group. Up and up the bus
climbed, often backing down to let descending buses pass. Our destination
was a wood building, 10 feet below the edge of the road down
President's oath of office or fit with the idea of high crimes and
misdimenors. But it's quite possible that l'affaire Lewinski could tip the
balance against Clinton, coming as it does on top of six years of sleaze,
betrayal, and mediocrity.
as usual, time will tell.
in pen-l solidarity,
Jim
LA PAZ, 27 January 1998 (AFP). In 1997 the amount of foreign debt of a
combined group of 23 Latin American and Caribbean countries reached 644
billion dollares These obligations grew by 50% in the period 1991-1997.
The Indicators of the foreign debt load showed a general improvement and
In general I see a tendency to let capitalism's
moral crimes and despoilation of the environment
obscure the advances it brought in terms of
productive capacity. The latter doesn't justify
the former, but the former does not negate the
latter either.
Cheers,
MBS
OK, yes. But why the
6. Valparaíso 2: Re-membering
Towards the end of our seven days in Valparaíso, a friend called, asking if
we were busy for the afternoon. He wanted to show us a bit of his
Valparaíso, walk around his old haunts. Of course, we said, after all, what
kind of busy can you be while on vacation?
We
A closing comment on the Chile stuff. It may seem my notes strayed a bit
from the purpose of this discussion list. My justification is this:
I live in a country that, like Chile, underwent a point of historical
inflection recently; there is a universally understood "before" and "after"
(Chile:
8. RENO DELAYS RELEASE OF CIA/CRACK COCAINE REPORT
A report detailing the findings of an investigation by the
Justice Department into the much-heralded CIA-Crack cocaine
connection, will not be released as scheduled, but the
department insists that it will be released eventually.
Janet
The Latest Dr. Seuss Book (read to the rhythm of Green Eggs and Ham)
Mr. Starr says--
I am Starr. Starr I are.
I'm a brilliant barri-star.
I'm here to ask, as you'll soon see,
Did you grope Miss Lew-in-sky?
Did you grope her in your house?
Apocalypse Now
by Edward Said
It would be a mistake, I think, to reduce what is happening between Iraq
and the United States simply to an assertion of Arab will and sovereignty
on the one hand versus American imperialism, which undoubtedly plays a
central role in all this. However
I've heard more in the last 24 hours about the
contents of a snowboard champ's urine than I'll ever hear about the
magnitude of bad debt held by Japanese banks (recently estimated at US $620
billion).
What is this a reference to? I appreciate the sentiment; I don't get the
reference. Is
Haven't seen the film...
Right, and won't be able to for another month or two. And when it does come
to Bolivia, chances are I'll see it in the bootleg video store first. Each
time around, the news comes late, and with a different message.
Tom
Tom Kruse / Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
At 20:53 20/02/98 -0800, you wrote:
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A second questions -- what IS it about ohio? Kent State, heckling the
president's propaganda team.
Proof positive, as if we needed it, that socialist dissidence is as
American as apple pie and cornfields. I have
Oh absolutely, I was just pointing to the phrasing, the "three-legged
stool" of business, government, and civil society (as if the last two
weren't dominated by the first). Rifkin uses it, I think Korten uses it,
foundation hacks use it. Considering the unpleasant associations of the
word "stool"
More on Chile, this time from the trenches. The following is a note from a
friend there; his English is excellent because he spent many years in exile
in England and Ireland.
---
Estimado: Things are getting rather exciting around here. For the first time
in a very long time a wide
So much cyber this and virtual that, trillions of hot money moved with the
push of key (etc.) that sometimes I forget that good old fashioned making
and selling stuff still is pretty important. Such stuff still needs, it
seems, factories, ships, boxes, docks. And that, in turn, requires a
Dear Pen-lers:
In recent months there has been a good bit of discussion on "Indians",
"Native Americans", etc. Now and again someone would interject that the
terms "Indians" (a product of the European imagination, largely) covered
over a lot of heterogeniety in terms of culture, experiences,
At 10:16 31/01/98 +, you wrote:
In message l03102806b0f789b5b05f@[166.84.250.86], Doug Henwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Apologies to all you non-USers - and maybe a few USers too - who don't
share the present obsession with Tailgate.
Don't apologise. The whole world waits with baited breath
5. Beaches
We did the beaches too, twice. The first day our friends took us to Caleta
Abarca. Legend has it that Abarca was a local fisherman who organized his
fellow workers, forming a trade union that fought for fishermen's rights.
He became so well known that the place was known as
Vox populi, according to the NYT:
But most people here said private sin has little to do with public
statesmanship. "I might not think of him[Clinton] as a good husband," said
Scott Inman, a 36-year-old warehouse worker, "but I approve of him as a
president."
And some might judge Clinton more
2. Crossing
At the day to day level, I am used to life in Bolivia, and true to form we
had to cajole a uniformed fellow out of his post-lunch lethargy to unlock
the gate so we could cross into Chile. Five km down the road, the Chilean
customs and migration people were waiting, precise and
1. Baggage
Last "fall" (seasons in the northern hemisphere) my work running a semester
abroad program here, a sort of "3rd world 101" for US college students, left
me absolutely exhausted and doubting the usefulness of the enterprise
generally. It was time to get out.
We set off by land to
Just heard on NPR (via the internet) that the largest US federal enforcement
agency is now the INS, surpassing the FBI, DEA, etc. Over 12,000 border
guards alone. I would argue that one can (also) judge a country by the
police it keeps. Here people are mostly going out -- to Argentina and
Dear Pen-Lers:
I have trying to ignore the Clinton sex scandal stuff (that's why I posted
Casto's puzzlement -- I share it). However, I just got whiff of a call for
Clintons resignation.
Is this shit for real? Is such Limbaugh-type bombast, or is there a chance
this could force Clinton to
Castro Disconcerted with Clinton
Havana, 24 January 1998 (AP). The senstaionalism of the US press
concerning the sexual scandals surrounding US president Bill Clinton have
disconcerted [desconcertado: embarrased or puzzled by, concernd or baffled
with] president Fidel Castro, according to a
BTW, does anyone remember the details of his infamous appearance in
Nicaragua where, if I remember it correctly, he virtually endorsed Reagan's
secret war on that country?
His visit to Nicaragua was a horrible affair. The mission from the outset
was in general to undermine the Sandinistas and
Florida Farm Workers Fast for Better Wages 5 Enter Day 24 of Hunger Strike
to Fight Pay They Say Is Lower Than It Was 20 Years Ago
By Donald P. Baker Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 13, 1998;
Page A03
IMMOKALEE, Fla.-Blue-and-white buses straggled into the potholed parking
lot
Cro. boddi':
Hope this doesn't sound nit-picky, but could you expand on what you mean by
"development"? For example, when you write:
*real* political economy. You see a world of excess that has to be
reigned in by the state. I see a world of development stifled and
perverted by capitalism.
Maggie wrote:
Dear Pen-lers;
I need a few references. If anyone can help, reply to me direct at
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1. I know that the Republicans have recently tried to attach anti-abortion
riders to UN funding and IMF bills. Does anyone have a newspaper clipping
with a dated reference --
GA:
Bank news. And thanks for Assata; actually, it had come my way already.
*** 27-Jan-98 ***
Title: FINANCE: World Bank Chief Economist ''Disappears''
By Abid Aslam
WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (IPS) - The latest joke circulating the
corridors of the World Bank is that its
Dear PEN-Lers: Dirty tricks on the inernet?
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 16:35:15 +0100
From: "LabourNet" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Warning to labour web sites
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Below is further information concerning the sabotage of
I'm not surprised. "Downsizing" is a way of undermining the power of
_existing_ managers, getting rid of tacit and explicit job security,
getting rid of pension and benefit obligations, etc. As corporations
reconfigure themselves, merge etc., they hire new managers, set up new
bureaucracies.
Another nifty study from the good folks at the IDB:
Illegal Immigration, Border Enforcement, and Relative
Wages: Evidence from Apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico
Border
Spilimbergo, Antonio; Hanson, Gordon H.
Sep. 01, 1996
In this paper, we examine the determinants of illegal
immigration in the
Roberto: Una nota sobrelo que se negociara en Santiago; buenos datos sobre
bloques comerciales al final. Tom
-
Leaving Big Brother's Shadow: Latin Nations Confront U.S. as Equals at
Americas' Summit
By Anthony Faiola and Steven Pearlstein
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, April
Dear Pen-Lers:
One of the unacknowledeg benefits of NAFTA? Note: "...revenues estimated at
anywhere from $400 million to more than $3 billion."
Canada Exports Potent Pot to US
By David Crary Associated Press Writer
Friday, April 17, 1998; 1:44 p.m. EDT
TORONTO (AP) -- In the past, Canada's
From: jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Wharfies injunction Australia
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Wharfies won injunction today in Federal Court for Patrick's to reemploy
1400 sacked union workers pending civil suit. Tony North (judge) found
Regarding:
I admit that the real problem is the structure of the legal
economy. If this cash and these goods can't get people into other
businesses, they'll go right back to coca. Right now, however, they're
both poor and contributing to the drug problem. At least they wouldn't be
as poor and
Regarding:
by the way, Louis is like my friend Fernando Gapasin, organizer of Monthly
Review's LA meeting recently.
could somebody fill me in on what's afoot with MR's meetings? Is the
reaching out to labor thing I heard about? If so, how's it going? I ask
because in a way we are doing
Dad Sal:
Well, heres's one way to look at it Any comments?
Tom
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:18:16 +0100
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard K. Moore)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (philosophy of history), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: the story of science
in the beginning there was a chaos of
Estiamdos compañeros:
Just out of curiosity, a brief digression on form. What's the story with
anonymity on the internet? I can think of all sorts of reasons, both good
and bad, for posting things publicly or anonymously, but I would be very
intereted to hear from participants, both anonymous
In reply to Thomas Kruse's question, Monthly Review has been sponsoring
meetings ...
[snip]
Perhaps Thomas could tell us what is happening where he is.
80% of industry here is concentrated around 3 cities: Santa Cruz,
Cochabamba, La Paz. In each place there are independent leftists, academics
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