[PEN-L] Navajo professor hounded by rightwing students

2004-11-22 Thread Louis Proyect
Chronicle of Higher Education, November 26, 2004 A Liberal Professor Fights a Label A faculty member accused of bias takes on students and a conservative group By JENNIFER JACOBSON Oneida J. Meranto did something this semester that she had never done in her career. She tape-recorded her lecture.

[PEN-L] Litigating the Election

2004-11-22 Thread Charles Brown
Litigating the Election By Marjorie Cohn t r u t h o u t | Perspective Monday 22 November 2004 Without much fanfare, a number of lawyers are busy mounting court challenges to the election. Lawsuits have been filed and other actions are being taken in Ohio and Florida, the two

Re: [PEN-L] Navajo professor hounded by rightwing students

2004-11-22 Thread Drewk
Clearly the academic bill of rights can be, and is being, used to harass and intimidate instructors, because cases are being brought that have no merit whatsoever. This is a big threat to academic freedom. One way to protect both instructors and students from ideological harassment and

Re: [PEN-L] Navajo professor hounded by rightwing students

2004-11-22 Thread Devine, James
Drewk writes: One way to protect both instructors and students from ideological harassment and intimidation is to include a significant penalty for students who bring charges that are found to be without any merit. There should also be some sort of penalty for those faculty and administrators

Re: [PEN-L] Navajo professor hounded by rightwing students

2004-11-22 Thread Michael Perelman
Andrew, there is no need for such snide remarks here! On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:31:05AM -0500, Drewk wrote: Clearly the academic bill of rights can be, and is being, used to harass and intimidate instructors, because cases are being brought that have no merit whatsoever. This is a big threat

[PEN-L] FW: Please Rank Submissions: Reaching Beyond the Choir Project

2004-11-22 Thread Devine, James
People on pen-l may be interested the project below. Jim Devine, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; web: http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine/ -Original Message- From: Wade Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 8:43 PM Dear Fellow Progressives: You are invited to rank

Re: [PEN-L] movie ideas

2004-11-22 Thread Chris Doss
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attention Hollywood, here are some ideas for movies. a documentary tracing the route of the Motorcycle Diaries, showing how Latin America has changed -- and hasn't -- since Che and his friend traveled during the early 1950s. --- Russian TV is producing

[PEN-L] Was It Hacked?

2004-11-22 Thread Craven, Jim
Title: Message WAS IT HACKED? By Alan WaldmanPublished 11/18/04http://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/Story.asp?ID=4688Despite mainstream media attempts to kill the story, talk radio and the Internet are abuzz with suggestions that John Kerry was elected president on Nov. 2 but Republican

Re: [PEN-L] is economics a science, revisited

2004-11-22 Thread ravi
Eubulides wrote: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/ Is economics a science, revisited ian, have you read toulmin's recent book? (return to reason). thoughts? here's shapin: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n02/shap01_.html relevant: The 17th-century Quest for Certainty (in Dewey's phrase)

Re: [PEN-L] Navajo professor hounded by rightwing students

2004-11-22 Thread Drewk
I'm sorry, Michael, I didn't mean to be snide. I meant to be enraged, furious, and indignant. I agree that there's no need to be snide, but I have lots of reason to be enraged, furious, and indignant against the perpetrators and defenders of suppression. Andrew Kliman - Original Message

Re: [PEN-L] Navajo professor hounded by rightwing students

2004-11-22 Thread Michael Perelman
Well, that kind of rage does not belong here either. We have already been over that debate. On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:04:34PM -0500, Drewk wrote: I'm sorry, Michael, I didn't mean to be snide. I meant to be enraged, furious, and indignant. I agree that there's no need to be snide, but I

Re: [PEN-L] Navajo professor hounded by rightwing students

2004-11-22 Thread Drewk
We have already been over that debate. I greatly resent my ability to be heard and not to be slandered being a matter of debate. Yes, we have been over it, but justice has not been done -- yet. Do you expect people simply to give in when persecuted? Or to deal with their persecutors with

Re: [PEN-L] is economics a science, revisited

2004-11-22 Thread Michael Perelman
I had three excellent teachers as an undergraduate. Wolfgang Stolper -- a famous economist, whose classes mostly covered music, philosophy, stories about Schumpeter, and European history -- Dan Fusfeld, who allowed me to take a graduate class in history of economic thought that consisted of me

[PEN-L] Wellstone Fellowship

2004-11-22 Thread Michael Hoover
Families USA Establishes Wellstone Fellowship for Social Justice Deadline: January 7, 2005 Families USA ( http://familiesusa.org/ ), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality affordable health care for all Americans, has announced the establishment of the

[PEN-L] Impact of dollar decline?

2004-11-22 Thread Eugene Coyle
Reading about the dollar's decline leads to this speculation. The dollar slides. Consumer prices rise as imports get more expensive. A second rise in consumer prices comes from revaluation of China's currency. Interest rates rise as the old guard tries to choke inflation by tightening money.

Re: [PEN-L] [Marxism] Fight night in the NBA

2004-11-22 Thread Michael Perelman
Two thoughts on Lou.s message. The article did not mention the tremendous gulf between the economic status of the players and fans -- except the celebrity fans. A couple weeks ago, if I remember correctly, Latrell Sprewell, was griping about a $14 million salary, explaining, I've got to put

[PEN-L] Bichler Nitzan Archives

2004-11-22 Thread michael perelman
Greeting: This is an invitation for you to visit our new GNU Eprints interface for The at http://www.bnarchives.net. (maintained by and housed at York University). The new interface provides extensive search and browse capabilities. The archives currently have more than 70 full-text items.

Re: [PEN-L] the end of the left....

2004-11-22 Thread Michael Perelman
I appreciate Michael Hoover.s response. I asked my question because I did not have any recollection of conservative handwringing after the Goldwater defeat. Instead conservatives became more determined rather than wondering if they should become more like the Democrats. -- Michael Perelman

[PEN-L] FW: Middle East Report 233

2004-11-22 Thread Mohammad Maljoo
For immediate release November 22, 2004 Middle East Report 233 Winter 2004 IRAN'S CLOUDED HORIZONS After many modestly hopeful fits and starts, the reformist moment in Iran's Islamic Revolution is over. Hardline conservative clerics have recaptured almost the entire state. The hardliners and

[PEN-L] Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett on China

2004-11-22 Thread Sasha Lilley
Should progressives look to China as a socialist alternative? Today on Against the Grain Martin Hart-Lansberg and Paul Burkett talk about their book-length edition of Monthly Review titled China and Socialism: Market Reforms and Class Struggle. Listen to it live from noon to 1pm PST on KPFA 94.1

Re: [PEN-L] Fight night in the NBA

2004-11-22 Thread ravi
Louis Proyect wrote: Fight Night in the NBA By Dave Zirin ... The aftermath of the most violent player/fan brawl in US sports history... this trivial throwing of fists was the most violent player/fan brawl in US sports history? you got to be kidding me! --ravi

Re: [PEN-L] Impact of dollar decline?

2004-11-22 Thread Michael Perelman
Not really. When the dollar last declined, Japanese manufacturers reduced margins even absorbed losses to maintain their beachhead here. On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:01:30PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: There will be a pretty mechanical feed-through from a weaker dollar to higher import prices

Re: [PEN-L] Impact of dollar decline?

2004-11-22 Thread Doug Henwood
Michael Perelman wrote: Not really. When the dollar last declined, Japanese manufacturers reduced margins even absorbed losses to maintain their beachhead here. Yes really. When the dollar declined in 1986 and 1987, inflation rose from below 2% to above 4%. Based on the historical record, we can

Re: [PEN-L] Impact of dollar decline?

2004-11-22 Thread Michael Perelman
I guess that I fixed on your term mechanical. There will be some effect, but .. There are a number of studies like this: Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou and Michael M. Knetter. 1997. Goods Prices and Exchange Rates: What Have We Learned? Journal of Economic Literature, 35: 3 (September): pp.

Re: [PEN-L] Impact of dollar decline?

2004-11-22 Thread Devine, James
Luckily, I used the weasel-word exaggerated which means that even if you're right, I'm right too. ;-) Doug also wrote: When the dollar declined in 1986 and 1987, inflation rose from below 2% to above 4%. One difference was that during that period, the unemployment rate in both the US and the

Re: [PEN-L] Impact of dollar decline?

2004-11-22 Thread Chris Burford
Clearly (albeit in coded terms) the Bush administration sees no merit in defending the dollar. I would have thought the Bush administration is counting on the size of the US economy and the parochialism of the US population, most of whom do not travel outside the USA. If imports become somewhat