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31876 Fwd: (no subject) -- rank: 1000

PRESS RELEASE "Plan Colombia," the U.S. program to use $1.3 billion in mostly military aid to halt drug production in the Andean region of Latin America, will be the subject of a major conference at Columbia University on Mar. 23-24. Entitled "Widening Destruction: A Teach-In on the Drug War and Colombia," the event will bring together leading Colombian human rights activists and experts on the drug war here in the United States. Participants include: · Luis Gilberto Murillo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 09:40:54 PST 2001

31877 reparations & exploitation -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >At 11:14 AM 3/12/01 +0200, Peter van Heusden wrote: >>In turn, this feeds into a >>kind of identification with the job which is exploited by managers, >>what I've called in the past '2nd order Taylorism'. > >YES!!!! > >but it is the same for academics too, yes? (and probably every >other profession -- which is how professionals are exploited in a >specific kind of way without ever recognizing that they are). what >we write is hard work, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 08:13:29 PST 2001

31878 reparations & exploitation -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >Do people actually understand, by the way, that most federal >judicial opinions are written by recent law graduates? I had dinner a few weeks ago with two former Supreme Court clerks. They said that almost all the SC justices are heavily involved in the process of opinion-writing, with the exception of O'Connor, who's pretty disengaged. A couple of the justices run their operations like a high-level law seminar. I was a bit surprised by that; I'd assumed that the cl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 07:51:45 PST 2001

31879 Cipla & cheap AIDS drugs -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - March 12, 2001 Altruism, Politics and Bottom Line Intersect at Indian Generics Firm By DANIEL PEARL and ALIX FREEDMAN Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BOMBAY, India -- Yusuf K. Hamied is a man with impressive humanitarian credentials. His pharmaceuticals company, Cipla Ltd., runs a free cancer-care hospital in India. His apartment near London's Hyde Park boasts a series of paintings of Mother Teresa that bear her signature. When a devastating earthquake recently s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 07:36:45 PST 2001

31880 Hillary ducks St Pat's flap -- rank: 1000

[Better late than never. Such a profile in courage!] New York Post - March 10,2001 HILL GETS HER IRISH UPSTATE FOR ST. PAT'S DAY PARADE By ADAM MILLER, MARIA ALVAREZ and DAN MANGAN Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is avoiding the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade gay controversy, saying she'll wear the green and march in Syracuse rather than on Fifth Avenue next week. Clinton insisted her decision had nothing to with the perennial flap over the Manhattan parade, which bars the Irish Lesbian and Gay Org ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 06:11:16 PST 2001

31881 WBAI developments -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:09:44 -0500 From: Dred-ScottKeyes <dred at escape.com> March 11, 2001 To: Utrice Leid, Interim Station Manager, WBAI From: Dred-Scott Keyes, Production Engineer Re: "N-word" I want to preface this memo with an opening statement about myself. For the past eighteen years I have been at WBAI and during the course of those years, I have seen at least five changes of management and participated in the struggle to diversify the stations' programming. During th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 05:47:52 PST 2001

31882 Fwd: {FP} The Pacifica Crisis: An Interview with Juan Gonzalez -- rank: 1000

The Pacifica Crisis: An Interview with Juan Gonzalez by John Tarleton 11:02pm Wed Mar 7 '01 The former co-host of Democracy Now! talks about why he recently resigned from that show to help lead a nationwide campaign to oust the Pacifica Foundation's national board. The Pacifica Crisis: An Interview with Juan Gonzalez By John Tarleton Juan Gonzalez is an award winning journalist and until recently was the twice a week co-host of Democracy Now!, Pacifica Radio's popular morning news show. His dram ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 11 12:16:35 PST 2001

31883 Grammy sequel -- rank: 1000

Eminem Releases Single About Hugging Elton John At Grammys Then Ripping His Dick Off With Pliers LOS ANGELES-- With the nation still buzzing over his Feb. 21 Grammy Awards duet with Elton John, Eminem released a single Tuesday inspired by the performance. Among the song's lyrics: "I was at the Grammys and Elton John gave me a hug / So I got out my pliers and ripped his little faggot dick off with a tug / Shoved it down the throats of Britney, then Christina A. / Probably gave both of the bi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 11 12:09:06 PST 2001

31884 more CIA mischief -- rank: 1000

Observer (London) - March 11, 2001 'CIA's bastard army ran riot in Balkans' backed extremists' Peter Beaumont, Ed Vulliamy and Paul Beaver The United States secretly supported the ethnic Albanian extremists now behind insurgencies in Macedonia and southern Serbia. The CIA encouraged former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters to launch a rebellion in southern Serbia in an effort to undermine the then Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, according to senior European officers who served with the inte ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 11 11:03:47 PST 2001

31885 truth in spam -- rank: 1000

[first line of a spam message} At 7:47 PM -0500 3/10/01, hmflin at home.kc.rr.com wrote: >Internet E-Commerce Businesses are exploding!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 11 10:34:30 PST 2001

31886 reparations & exploitation -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > If you >> take a large pool of workers with roughly equal education and >> experience, it's likely that their average productivity is very >> similar. > >Like I said, maybe it's just my experience (so I'm my own muppet!), >but I see whole groups of people who graduated from the same big >colleges in the same decades who worked for the same 50 large >companies and they couldn't be more different in their productivity. Large pool o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 11 10:32:38 PST 2001

31887 reparations & exploitation -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > Standard wage equations, in which pay is dependent on an array of >> attributes, like age, experience, occupation, education, etc. > >... but not productivity? Try measuring it. Maybe you & Kelley can collaborate and split a Nobel. Economists who deny discrimination usually explain statistical evidence of it away by citing "unobservable characteristics" - like productivity (and never the boss's own prejudices, of course). If you take a la ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 10 16:24:30 PST 2001

31888 reparations & exploitation -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >i'm not trying to dispense with anything. i'm pointing out that >jordan's comment was about productivity and the assumption that say, >women may not be as committed to work as men (gee i wonder why?) >then it just goes to show you why they are less productive then men. >why hell, they have their minds on their kids, they take sick days >to take care of them and then go get pregnant and stuff. oh my! >now, there's some structural sexism going on there no? No ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 10 16:15:39 PST 2001

31889 reparations & exploitation -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >ach. i was pointing out that the very notion that work ought to be >measured by "productivity" and, worse, that we have an objective >standard by which to measure and then compare is part of a system of >oppression! the very idea that we ought to pay people based on >productivity, the very idea that we ought to pay people based on the >idea that one person's labor is more important or crucial than >another--that's where oppression comes in to play! ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 10 15:21:02 PST 2001

31890 Williams on intra-class competition -- rank: 1000

[from the late Rhonda Williams paper "If You'Re Black, Get Back; If You'Re Brown, Stick Around; If You're White, Hang Tight: A Primer On Race, Gender And Work In The Global Economy." Email me for the full text, in MS Word format] Competition among workers: race and gender in the working classes From the standpoint of workers and their communities, competition arises from the simple reality that the jobs generated by competing capitalists vary in earnings possibilities and employment c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 10 15:18:54 PST 2001