Re: query: unemployment insurance.

2004-06-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
is there, and it is usually on line if you can't get a hard copy. You might also try to Bureau of Labor statistics website. Joel Blau Original Message: - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:02:35 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: query: unemployment

Re: welfare-warfare state

2004-05-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
in the United States to its rising imperial ambitions. Joel Blau Original Message: - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 21:32:12 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: welfare-warfare state A friend has a question: I have a question for you: what is the welfare

Re: super-size me!

2004-04-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Either they work too hard, or they eat badly... Joel Blau Original Message: - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:46:54 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: super-size me! actually, the web-site was http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type

Re: Wal-Mart vs. Costco Again

2004-04-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Costco certainly looks like a better place to work than Wal-Mart, although it does not take much for that to be true. But is Costco more attractive to big money that cares only about making more money? The Business Week article tries to make it seem so, with the implication that good treatment of

Re: Bush/Greenspan tax increase?

2004-04-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sure, but just for the record, the 1983 Social Secuirty Commission already raised the retirement age to 67 so that anyone born in and after 1960 will have to wait until 2027 to collect social security. Joel Blau Original Message: - From: Eugene Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu

Re: the future of social security/medicare

2004-03-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
of reckoning. Faster economic growth, lower unemployment, ora higher income cap, (roughly $88,000 this year) would make the crisis disappear. Joel Blau Original Message: - From: ravi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:16:09 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: the future

Re: talk

2004-03-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jim: Clicking on your talk, I get file not found. Do you know what happened? Joel Blau Original Message: - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:09:29 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: talk To see the notes of a talk I just gave to the Progressive

Re: FW: Who do you favor for the next president? Take our online poll.

2004-03-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 20:44:53 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: Who do you favor for the next president? Take our online poll. FWIW, in this on-line poll, Ralph is beating George! but John is #1 by far. So if you want to wow the right-wing Xians, vote

Re: The economy - a new era?

2004-02-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
negotiations are the likely vehicle with which to do this. Joel Blau Original Message: - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:47:38 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: The economy - a new era? Lenin applauded large factories for just that reason

Re: the next wedge issue

2003-11-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Um, let's see, because it is child abuse? Joel Original Message: - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:43:17 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: the next wedge issue In a message dated 11/20/03 12:08:23 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Like

Re: question about Iraq

2003-10-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am out of town right now using remote access, so I will only give a limited reply - yes. This was first established by the big Security Council Resolution at the end of the war. The readiness of the French et. el. to withdraw the embargo and turn the UN role to the U.S. was a major and

Re: Heavy pressure to back a Democrat

2003-09-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
that it doesn't exist at all. Joel Blau Original Message: - From: John Gulick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:53:24 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Heavy pressure to back a Democrat From Richard Goldstein's Left-Handed Compliments in the Village Voice: The coalescing

Turkish Military finally spoke..

2003-03-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
. *Turkish army backs US troops* http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/europe/2822061.stm Turkey's top general supports the deployment of US troops, saying a northern front against Iraq will make the war shorter.

RE: Re: Turkey

2003-01-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Original Message: - From: Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:25:21 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:34048] Re: Turkey More than that. I read somewhere a while ago that Turkey has the third largest military on earth, although I don't know which

iht.com article | More on Call Centers in India

2001-03-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- In Bangalore, Pretending to Be Chicago Mark Landler New York Times Service Thursday, March 22, 2001 http://www.iht.com./articles/14201.htm

New Demand Planning Management System

2001-02-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with the word unsubscribe in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trilogy Environmental has announced the launch of LV DAMS demand planning and management system, its latest integrated module within LV

[PEN-L:9890] Y2K HOAX

1999-08-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Y2K HOAX About some misinformation An e-mail message being circulated re: Windows software and Y2K about changing the short format date in Windows is a hoax. Read on to see what one of the contributing writers/editors at Windows magazine (Fred Langa) has to say about it and other Y2K

Re: [PEN-L:6924] Crapulinski?

1999-05-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, As the participants in right-wing talk-radio say "first time caller, long time listener"--last eight or so months, anyhow. I just want to say I have found this list an invaluable tool in assessing NATO's ongoing bloodletting and the Asian Financial Crisis (remember that?!) , and have

[PEN-L:1720] labour studies position available -- pleasae circulate

1998-12-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] [130.179.16.47]
Please circulate among potential applicants: The Labour Workplace Studies Program in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Manitoba invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to commence on 1 July 1999 or soon thereafter. This

[PEN-L:1391] Fields on Wheels Conference

1998-12-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] [130.179.16.47]
Ken, You should know that it is the very superior efficiency of the Canadian single desk system of the wheat board that completely discredits the neo-cons (and Charles Mueler on the PKT net) and which requires these economists, (including my colleagues) to rail against the marketing system --

[PEN-L:1238] Re: pen-l questions

1998-12-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] [130.179.16.47]
Gil, I await with baited breath. I hope it is out before I retire ;-) On the issue of efficiency wage, I think in its institutional form (gift-exchange model) it has been around for a long time in fact, if not in theory, in the workers demand from the 19th C for "a fair days work for a fair

[PEN-L:1215] pen-lquestions

1998-12-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] [130.179.16.47]
Jim asks why we don't debate/explore theoretical questions more. To me the answer is easy. For the political, ephemeral questions that dominate the list (and which I enjoy as much as anyone else), it is easy to drop a line or two in response. For the kind of issues Jim wants us to debate, it

[PEN-L:1071] Re:Living Wage book

1998-11-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] [130.179.16.47]
Just as a footnote to Jim's interesting post, on page 61 of Kaufman's *The Economics of Labor Markets* (4th edition) is a graph of five empirically estimated labour supply curves, three are backward sloping throughout, two are backward bending above $6 and $9 resprectively. In short, only one has

[PEN-L:960] Re: unemployed Ph.D.

1998-11-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] [130.179.16.47]
In response to Michail's critique of my response to the original post let me offer the following. 1. I don't think/believe that university teaching is the only unalienated application of academic training. Indeed, I spent three years working as an intellectual worker for the unions, and another

[PEN-L:949] UofM Strike Settlement

1998-11-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] [130.179.16.47]
Just to let you know that the strike scheduled for 12:00 midnight of faculty at the U of Manitoba was settled at the 11th hour -- well actually around 3:30 this afternoon. I will post relevant details when they become available. Paul Phillips, Economics, University of Manitoba

[PEN-L:933] unemployed Ph.D's

1998-11-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] [130.179.16.47]
Though one can sympathise with someone who always wanted to be a prof and took the appropriate training before finding out that there were more candidates than there were openinings, I find the condementory tone and accusations of elitism to be off the mark. Both my wife and my daughter are

[PEN-L:909] Another gem

1998-11-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] [130.179.16.47]
Pen-l-ers, Another gem from 'Texas North' and the redneck right. "Albertans prepare for winter in dark" "Blackouts imminent in energy-rich province" by Carol Harrington, Winnipeg Free Press, Nov.2, 1998 Dr. Michael Harvey is so afraid of the dark, he bought his own generator. The Calgary

[PEN-L:793] Income disparities and economic crises

1998-11-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] [130.179.16.47]
In support of some of the discussion of the crisis of distribution both here and on the PKT semimar list with Jamie Galbraith's _Created Unequal_, I offer the following that appeeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, Oct. 30, '98. "MDs prescribe better pay for the poor" "Meagre wages linked to lousy

[PEN-L:1217] Labour and Aboriginals

1998-08-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] [130.179.16.47]
I resisted the temptation to contribute further to the previous debate with Bhoddi, Louise and Jim and have no intention to reignite it, but I thought all might be interested in this announcement released today by the Canadian Labour Congress. "Labour and Aboriginal groups enter into

[PEN-L:969] Re: 3 Articles on Russia

1998-08-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] [130.179.16.47]
Surely the most destabilizing aspect of the current Russian collapse on top of the continuing crisis in Asia is the demonstrated abject failure of the IMF bailouts and the structural adjustment (Washington) model, a model so recently rejected in toto by Stiglitz as V-P of the World Bank. In

[PEN-L:723] re Bhoddi vs Proyect

1998-08-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] [130.179.16.47]
It seems to me that lost in the invective of this debate is some of the history of the 'expropriation of the aboriginal commons', at least as I understand it in the NA context. First, with regard to the intermingling of the (mercantile) capitalist mode of production with the aboriginal domestict

[PEN-L:24] Win one once in a while

1998-06-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] [130.179.16.47]
The following article appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, Tues June 16, 1998. JOB CUTTER FIRED AS STOCK SINKS Sunbeam Corp. chairman Al Dunlap, nicknambed "Chain Saw" as the cutthroat king of corporate job cutters, now knows wht it's like to be on the receiving end of a pink slip. Sunbeam's

Re: sayles movie

1998-05-04 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Magic realism or fantasy in one form or another has been a factor in most John Sayles films. The most obvious example was "Brother From Another Planet." It would be possible to bypass its role in "Men with Guns", but I think that would be a mistake. The device of the mother telling the story to

Re: Section 7(a)

1998-03-20 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are a few sources for information on these events that have not so far been mentioned. James Gross (Cornell labor historian) has written a multi-volume history of the NLRA and NLRB. Jim Pope (Rutgers Law school) is currently doing an analysis of s.7(a). And related but slightly off

Bronfenbrenner

1998-02-25 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you for your support. We have received nearly a thousand endorsements. Based on these we have put our a press release and expect coverage on this situation. We have also sent the material to the congressional representatives who attended and called the Town Hall meeting at which Kate

Follow up on Kate Bronfenbrenner (fwd)

1998-02-24 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have had an enormous outpouring of support for Dr. Bronfenbrenner. At this point, we don't need further endorsements. We will be going to the media today (Wednesday, February 23, 1998) with the petition and the hundreds of endorsements. We will try to provide updates as newsworthy events

Kate Bronfenbrenner

1998-02-21 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Relations Conference Center The statement, including background information, is set forth below. If you are willing to add your name to the Statement of Protest, please e-mail Ellen J. Dannin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please add my name to the Statement of Protest

Re: union free

1998-02-11 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Doug Henwood wrote: I got a flyer in yesterday's mail announcing a series of seminars on "How To Stay Union-Free into the 21st Century" (printed with "UNION FREE" in red in what looks like 96- or 100-point type, in contrast with the rest of the phrase, which was merely

Re: Ecology and the American Indian

1998-01-26 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A visit to Cahokia (across the river from St. Louis) is fascinating in and of itself and also for the evidence it provides that the large number of residents there overused the local resources, which then led to its decline. There may have been other factors, such as climate, but the decline took

re: Analyzing Technologies

1997-12-29 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Louis Proyect wrote: * * * I have to confess that the discussion about "technology" sort of baffles me since it seems detached from the broader question of how society is organized. There is no question that automation of blue-collar and white-collar work has led to

Re: Pen-l's Dannin writes!

1997-12-21 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Tom Walker wrote: Ellen Dannin wrote, Suppose you were an employer whose employees were represented by a union. Now suppose that the labor laws you bargain under state that when the parties reach an impasse, you, the employer, get to impose your final offer. What

Re: the superiority of economics ...

1997-12-12 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, James Devine wrote: * * * Lately, I've been wondering about the social-psychological basis of these claims of "superiority." Why make this kind of outrageous claim at all? Is it because we're working at a liberal arts college and have to rub shoulders with all sorts of

Re: contingency

1997-12-03 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Doug Henwood wrote: Continuing a discussion from several months ago, the opening of a BLS news release published today. The full text is on the BLS web site at http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.toc.htm. I welcome discussion as to what it all means. Doug Doug,

Re: Global Financial Crisis II

1997-11-28 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Doug Henwood wrote: It's magic: lower incomes + higher labour force participation = a lower rate of unemployment. This precisely confirms the right-wing nostrum that there is no such thing as involuntary unemployment. At a low enough wage, there is a job for everyone who

New Zealand Employment Contracts Act

1997-10-30 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
view/International Law Journal California Western School of Law 225 Cedar Street San Diego, CA 92101 Or contact us directly at (619) 525-1477 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Origins of the term wage slavery

1997-10-23 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, William S. Lear wrote: Can anyone fill me in on the origins of the term "wage slavery"? I can't fill you in on its origins, but there is a great example of the comparisons you made in the 1960's movie "Burn" or "Quemado" starring a thin Marlon Brando with a British

[PEN-L:12758] Re: Science Society, Fall 97

1997-10-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, David Laibman wrote: The Fall 1997 issue of SCIENCE SOCIETY (vol. 61, no.3) is now out on selected newsstands and available from the publisher [...] Books reviewed include...Barney Dews and Carolyn Law's THIS FINE PLACE SO FAR FROM HOME (on academics from the working

[PEN-L:12737] Re: Unions and Globalisation

1997-10-01 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The now defunct labor research review out of Chicago has done several research volumes on the topic. These are usually written by union activists, so they present a more hands-on approach. If you wanted to talk to people deeply involved in this work, contact the Support Committee for Maquiladora

[PEN-L:12725] Re: CWA Organizing Win

1997-10-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In Big Victory for Labor, Workers at US Airways Vote to Unionize In the biggest union organizing election in private business in a decade, nearly 10,000 reservations takers, gate agents and ticket sellers at US Airways have voted to join the Communications Workers of America,

[PEN-L:12717] Samir Amin and Arab-Muslim prospects

1997-09-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoth John Gulick: I always thought Amin was not assailing Arab-Muslim culture per se, but was merely claiming that the rise of so-called "fundamentalist Islam" bears a direct relationship to the crisis of the sort of national developmentalism Louis chronicled, although it can not and could

[PEN-L:12713] Re: Algeria Samir Amin

1997-09-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, john gulick wrote: Thank you [Louis] for the extraordinarily enlightening disquisition on post-independence Algerian political economy. Has Samir Amin written anything specifically on this subject ? Your analysis sounds very much like what I imagine Amin's would

[PEN-L:12698] Re: Algeria II

1997-09-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reading Louis Proyect's analysis prompts this question: What, if anything, can prevent a poor country's campaign of socialist development from degenerating into a coercive 20th-century retread of mercantilism? I ask because this is what appears to happen, again and again.

[PEN-L:12692] Re: Question: The USSR and the Great Depression

1997-09-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, michael perelman wrote: During most U.S. depression, capital has succeeded in preserving part of its prior gains by bearing down harder on workers, farmers, etc. Such was not the case during the Great Depression. Was there any reason, other than the existence of an

[PEN-L:12657] Can't we let her go?

1997-09-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Katha Pollitt in The Nation (courtesy of Jim Devine): "What depresses me about the outpouring of emotion on the death of Diana is what it says about how little so many millions of people expect of life. It's pathetic, really, all those grown men and women telling reporters about how much it

[PEN-L:12634] Re: ethnic terminology

1997-09-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoth Ellen Dannin: One of my colleagues who has worked on rights of indigenous peoples told me that the preferred term was Indians and not Native Americans in the eastern US as well as elsewhere for decades. He explained to me that the predominant feeling was that the latter term was

[PEN-L:12628] Re: ethnic terminology

1997-09-27 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, James Devine wrote: Doug reports poll results: half of "American Indians" called themselves that, 37% "Native American"; My wife has worked a lot with the "Native community." She finds that most of them call themselves "American Indians," thinking that "Native

[PEN-L:12598] Re: Warning from Wolfensohn

1997-09-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HONG KONG -- World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn has challenged governments and development agencies to join him in a new approach to narrow the gap between rich and poor, or invite a time bomb which "could explode in our children's faces". Isn't this The Little Wolf Who Cried

[PEN-L:12580] Re: Tax break for Student Loans?

1997-09-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 97 22:06:55 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: hello hi im to quit but not stupid

[PEN-L:12596] Re: Warning from Wolfensohn

1997-09-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WORLD BANK HEAD ISSUES CHALLENGE OF NEW AGENDA HONG KONG -- World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn has challenged governments and development agencies to join him in a new approach to narrow the gap between rich and poor, or invite a time bomb which "could explode in our children's

[PEN-L:12534] Non-business as usual?

1997-09-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am amazed at the lack of interest shown by all, not only the list's indefatigable anthropologists, in the UN's easy acceptance of a billion dollars from a media tycoon whose further ambitions are likely not limited even to this solar system. I always assumed, without any coaching from the

[PEN-L:12529] John Sessions Memorial Award (fwd)

1997-09-22 Thread by way of Michael Eisenscher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
collections; initiation of programs of special interest to the labor community; or other library activities that serve the labor community. Nominations are due no later than December 31, 1997. To receive an application form, send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or write to: Carol Krismann

[PEN-L:12452] Re: language-t

1997-09-18 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, tom wood wrote: Richard Duchesne wrote: What about pre-linguistic mental capacities, say in the first two years of a child? This is possible, but should we call that "thinking"? Are you saying learning is possible without thinking? I wanted to wade in just to the

[PEN-L:12458] ***FoI Act invoked in pen-l!***

1997-09-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoth Bill Lear: I realize that you are being brief, but can you tell us what, in plain English, pomo offers that cannot be found elsewhere?[...] [...] How would pomo help us enrich our understanding of class---or race or gender, for that matter? Convince

[PEN-L:12413] wriston@paradise.com

1997-09-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This week I have been reading Walter Wriston's feisty little 1992 book "The Twilight of Sovereignty, etc," an exuberant paean to a galactic world of knowledge workers the "limits to growth" people never knew. Wriston takes a whole chapter to trash the common instruments of economic measurement,

[PEN-L:12369] On Bill Lear's Website offer

1997-09-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, September 11, 1997 at 12:29:14 (-0700) michael perelman writes: Bill Lear said that he would help to set up a pen-l web site. Earlier Bill L had said: Perhaps now would be a good time to get everyone's opinion on what they'd like to have for the web site. I thought it would be

[PEN-L:12388] Re: Prisoner to Prisoner

1997-09-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One would have to be a stone to remain unmoved by this news account. Alas, the sentiments expressed can't have much effect in the context of the massive retrograde forces at work there, nor could their author, one Imad Sabi, be sufficiently representative to make much difference. The fact of his

[PEN-L:12348] The beautiful torched

1997-09-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
accidents while the husband is still alive so he can remarry. If he divorces his wife, he has to return her marriage portion, and there's no profit in that. Apparently, a man and his family can live quite well on the successive dowries of multiple wives. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:12331] Re: Asia's future

1997-09-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Doug Henwood wrote: Any thoughts on whether the financial crises in Thailand and Malaysia mark the end of the Asian miracle, or are just a little bump in the road with minimal real world fallout? I could prattle, but I really have no idea. I do know that for the past

[PEN-L:12315] Desperately Seeking Superlatives

1997-09-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tom, after furtively glancing around: Does anyone know where I can get some of those backward batteries? Apparently the energizer bunny has died. The cause of death? Sexual overstimulation. When the bunnie's batteries were changed, they were put in backwards. Instead of going and going

[PEN-L:12300] !Oiga! (Listen! in Spanish)

1997-09-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to be relevant to the matter at hand. valis Occupied America -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 19:53:57 -0500 (CDT) From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

[PEN-L:12234] Re: Slurs

1997-09-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Said Max S: [...] over-sensitivity tends to backfire and legitimate truly bigoted speech and elevate truly conservative critics of such a position. It reinforces the cultural isolation of the left. Hear, hear! I hate to lose any friends over this, assuming I have any to

[PEN-L:12220] Picking up on Thurow

1997-09-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Thad Williamson wrote: In his last book "The Future of Capitalism" Thurow is deeply pessimistic and has a chapter comparing the present to the Dark Ages--total breakdown of public goods. I wonder if that makes lists such as this one the effective equivalent of the

[PEN-L:12186] Re: Slagging Di [ad nauseam]

1997-09-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The issue I think isn't Diana but the common understanding of her, which is deeply flawed, to say the least. Though this addressed a comment of Sid's, my answer is that Diana, for reasons I've already mentioned, was and is a profoundly British phenomenon. Let the Brits sort her out; the

[PEN-L:12157] Re: Can You Top This[?] If you insist.

1997-09-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Max Sawicky wrote, shagging debutantes. The bottom line is they can't stand to think about their own lives and the real problems of the mundane world, so they are drawn to fantasy. To which Tom Walker, in a rare moment of unalloyed yeehaw, replied: I couldn't agree more. Really

[PEN-L:12136] Re: Can You Top This

1997-09-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This sort of derision is unnecessary, and possibly outsmarts itself; a majority of the British population is telling the royal family to shape up or ship out, and that _is_ almost a social revolution. Though you might prefer to see the cobblestones ripped up and Parliament stormed in one grand

[PEN-L:12046] Poverty is violence!

1997-08-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just thought I'd quote my favorite line by Julianne Malveaux, since the USA Today offering hardly suggests the power of this lyrical and penetrating poetess of the human condition. valis

[PEN-L:12045] Re: Disney Globalization

1997-08-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You probably won't believe this, but I always knew that Darth Vader was really Michael Eisner. A question, though: how does traditional and widely known fantasy qualify as proprietary information? valis

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

1997-08-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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:11966] Your taxes in action

1997-08-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Even from 5,000 feet up, I found evidence of American arrogance. The U.S. Army's First Division, the famous Big Red One, had been stationed at Lai Khe, the base near An Loc, until shortly before my arrival in Saigon. From my vantage point inside the helicopter, I looked

[PEN-L:11929] Visit pen-l, see the pyramids

1997-08-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Speaking at some possible peril to myself as a non-academic lurker, I suggest that this list, whose server apparently is automatic, is far too easily misused. Do we really want pyramid schemes like #93 carefully explained to us on this list, as if they were entirely new in concept? Unless the

[PEN-L:11842] Dispatch from an internal picket line

1997-08-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=== It's soul-baring time for true and truer apostles of revolution. Here's my reply to a guilt-ridden correspondent with several left labor connections, currently sidetracked by family problems. valis

[PEN-L:11667] Re: GEO Gets Mass Support From Rallying Unionists in Chicago

1997-08-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IN CHICAGO UNIONS RALLY FOR JUSTICE URBANA-- Friday, 8 August 1997 On Thursday, 7 August 1997, a delegation of Graduate Employees' Organization (GEO) unionists, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, traveled to Chicago to participate in a major "Justice

[PEN-L:11648] RE: Puerto Rico, Democracy and Anti-colonial Struggle

1997-08-06 Thread by way of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raymond Chase)
Puerto Rico, Democracy and Anti-Colonialism in a Post-Colonial World? Ted Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I was disturbed by Victor Rodriguez's comment that: Recently, the Machetero Guerrilla Army which since

[PEN-L:11629] Neoliberalism, Privatization: Puerto Rico

1997-08-06 Thread by way of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raymond Chase)
Neoliberalism and Latin America: Puerto Rico's Workers' Fight Back Martha's update on Argentina reminded me of Puerto Rico's workers recent response to privatization. Last July 11, tens of thousands of telephone company workers

[PEN-L:11620] Re: OJ and a full moon II

1997-08-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To James Craven: Many thanks for your exhaustive answer to my query. I now understand the legal logic connecting and separating the two Simpson trials, but I still feel a cloying sense of wrongness about it on a deeper level. Re your later rant on

[PEN-L:11440] Millennium takes a short cut?

1997-07-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
? valis Occupied America From: "vivian Hutchinson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ian Ritchie [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 10:53:10 +00

[PEN-L:11254] The Street sends an assassin

1997-07-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:11253] Re: bingo Well doug, now you know you are in the know, with a pathetic review like this one. All the typical shit of the pro-capitalists: bash you by comparing the worst of socialism

[PEN-L:11193] A work on monopoly and its antidote

1997-07-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
== The public library system here in Milwaukee holds 14 copies of "The first $20 million is always the hardest: a Silicon Valley novel." This level of representation is almost unheard of for a new author working with a less than universal theme, and redeems the

[PEN-L:11083] Swarm alarm

1997-07-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"In our view, the competitive edge that led to the rise of the ants as a world-dominant group is their highly developed, self-sacrificial colonial existence. It would appear that socialism really works under some circumstances. Karl Marx just had the wrong species."

[PEN-L:11033] ***NEBRASKA SENATOR EATS EXCREMENT***

1997-06-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
By a 7-2 vote the CDA is history, but be not complacent, folks: while that law is dead, people like Ollie North and Louie Freeh are still alive. valis Occupied America "Necessity

[PEN-L:10969] Re: K/Y ratios

1997-06-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I hope you ultimately have an answer to that question, Doug. Though not quite sure that I really understand the concept, I looked for interesting correlations. All I could find was that Ireland and the Netherlands, next lowest to the US in the list, are also becoming service economies. Does

[PEN-L:10813] A light shines out of DC

1997-06-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
== Gosh, this kind of thing could give hypocrisy a bad name, especially if somebody somewhere recalls what Operation Paperclip was. Any hands, class? Don't worry, folks, if the Russians come alive again Uncle Markus will be rehabilitated and brought over with a private cardiac

[PEN-L:10747] Re: historical question

1997-06-11 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Michael Perelman wrote: James Devine wrote: Michael Perelman asks if labor has ever been so weak with such low unemployment rates ("tight" labor markets). I'd say yes. The 1920s was a period of labor weakness, but low U rates: Jim D. correctly notes that union

[PEN-L:10740] Re: tight labor markets -- a historical question

1997-06-10 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One thing that seems to be affecting union power and thus the attractiveness of unions to members has been the expansion of the legal doctrine which allows employers to implement their final offers upon reaching impasse. Beginning in the mid-1980's the NLRB became increasingly willing to find

[PEN-L:10692] (Fwd) Top NEWSPEAK Stories of the Week #72 ( (fwd)

1997-06-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Mr Cohen, I just found out about your company's exciting new Hygiene Guard{tm} system through the admittedly somewhat biased means reproduced below. Gosh, I certainly hope that you don't offend against common sense in your spare time by worrying about a fascist takeover of this country.

[PEN-L:10597] Re: labor films

1997-06-06 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One excellent film on the globalisation of labor is "The Emperor's New Clothes" from the Canadian Film Board. Its main focus is NAFTA, viewed on many levels, concluding with a visit by Canadian auto workers to a Mexican plant where the work Canadians did is now being done. This is a very

[PEN-L:10419] The dirty truth at last?

1997-05-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
= I recall when this onus was on fast food, but I'm still excited. So we replace two-thirds of the cops with chemists and field biologists and civilization is saved after all, probably at a significant profit.

[PEN-L:10301] Soul economics

1997-05-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Last night I was present at an event deemed historic: the biggest crowd in all the years that Centennial Hall has been a vital part of Milwaukee's cultural life. The SRO crush was for wilderness writer Jon Krakauer, whose new book, Into Thin Air, somberly recounts the Everest climbing disaster

[PEN-L:10260] Re: Business as usual II

1997-05-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[D Shniad:] Nope. It's those who strike a neutral stance at a time of fundamental crisis among conflicting value systems. Am still awash in existential nausea brought on by the State Dept's appalled discovery, after 32 years of wedded bliss, that Mobutu is one evil dude who should

[PEN-L:10240] Business as usual

1997-05-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Am still awash in existential nausea brought on by the State Dept's appalled discovery, after 32 years of wedded bliss, that Mobutu is one evil dude who should have been hung out to dry in the Sixties. In Dante's Inferno, isn't it the hypocrites that rate the hottest spots?

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