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34456 Fwd: (50 Years) Important: Follow-up on IMF & World Bank -- rank: 1000

From: Soren <Soren at afgj.org> To: "'stop-wb-imf at 50years.org'" <stop-wb-imf at 50years.org> Subject: (50 Years) Important: Follow-up on IMF & World Bank Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:33:17 -0400 IMPORTANT follow-up actions on the IMF & World Bank May 16, 2000 Solidarity Greetings from the 50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice! Its been a month since our collective triumphant pole vaulting of IMF/World Bank issues into the international arena. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 17 10:17:19 PDT 2000

34457 Clintonoids Serve Up Mud Pie Analysis -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I know you all love this stuff so I will keep you >posted on it. New briefing paper from EPI. . . . > > >50 LOST OPPORTUNITIES >Commerce Department’s state-level >review of supposed gains from China trade >betrays hollowness of claims of PNTR proponents Hey, didn't you guys predict all kinds of employment losses from NAFTA? Employment is up 18.8 million since January 1994, average real hourly earnings up 5.6%. Would things have been even better withou ...

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Date:	Wed May 17 10:13:00 PDT 2000

34458 SZ responds to MH -- rank: 1000

Slavoj Zizek - or "Slavoj @i`ek" as his email header says - writes in response to Michael Hoover's critique: >My God, people REALLY must hate me?!?! First, Jameson EXPLICITLY mentions >such non-contemporary contemporary encounters as paradigmatically >postmodern. Second point apropos of Lafitte, the guy DIDN´T DO HIS >HOMEWORK. In every GOOD biography of Marx or Lafitte you find this fact!!! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 16 15:08:52 PDT 2000

34459 Gallup on Bush-style SS scheme -- rank: 1000

Andrew English wrote: >You can get people to support their own execution in a poll if you word the >question right. Now that I'd like to see! I suppose it would help to have a choice of mode - needle, hanging, firing squad; choice is always popular. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 16 14:11:02 PDT 2000

34460 Fortune on (anti)globalism -- rank: 1000

Fortune - May 15, 2000 SECTION: FEATURES/ANTI-GLOBALISTS; Pg. 232 LENGTH: 3371 words HEADLINE: There's Something Happening Here; WHAT'S THAT SOUND? A NOISY AND GROWING CHALLENGE TO THE GLOBALIST CONSENSUS. DESPITE WHAT SOME PUNDITS WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE, THESE PROTESTS AREN'T JUST FREAK SHOWS. BYLINE: Jerry Useem BODY: Around 1 P.M. on Monday, April 17, a woman with a foam evergreen tree on her head stood before a police barricade on Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue, picked up a bullhorn, and a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 16 13:42:00 PDT 2000

34461 Fwd: Anti-China Trade Campaign - Part 2 of 2 -- rank: 1000

Dangerous Liaisons: Progressives, the Right, and the Anti-China Trade Campaign By Walden Bello and Anuradha Mittal* Institute for Food and Development Policy May 2000 [ cont'd... Part 2 of 2 ] The Anti-China Trade Campaign: Wrong and Dangerous It is against this complex backdrop of a country struggling for development under a political system, which, while not democratic along Western lines, is nevertheless legitimate, and which realizes that its continuing legitimacy depends on its ability to d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 16 13:28:42 PDT 2000

34462 Gallup on Bush-style SS scheme -- rank: 1000

[from Gallup's weekly bulletin] * Bush on Social Security GOP presidential candidate George W. Bush today announced his plan for partial privatization of the Social Security system. In an attempt to increase investment returns and prevent bankruptcy of the trust fund in 2037, Bush's plan would allow workers to personally invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in stock market accounts. A Gallup survey earlier this year found close to 2-to-1 public support for this general concept. Six ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 16 13:35:09 PDT 2000

34463 Fwd: Anti-China Trade Campaign - Part 1 of 2 -- rank: 1000

From: Anuradha Mittal <amittal at foodfirst.org> Subject: Anti-China Trade Campaign - Part 1 of 2 Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:17:32 -0700 Dangerous Liaisons: Progressives, the Right, and the Anti-China Trade Campaign By Walden Bello and Anuradha Mittal* Institute for Food and Development Policy May 2000 [ Part 1 of 2 ] Like the United States, China is a country that is full of contradictions. It is certainly not a country that can be summed up as "a rogue nation that decorates itself wi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 16 13:22:20 PDT 2000

34464 Fwd: New Issue Brief on Social Security Privatization -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >There is not much to fear in Bush's proposal, IMO. Really? You guys got poll numbers on this? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 16 12:17:28 PDT 2000

34465 US no longer #1 in college -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - May 16, 2000 Norway Supplants U.S. as World Leader in College-Graduation Rates By DAVID L. WHEELER For the first time, international-education statistics show that three countries -- Norway, Britain, and the Netherlands -- surpass the United States in the proportion of young people who graduate from college, according to a report being released today. The report, by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which pools data ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 16 12:01:57 PDT 2000

34466 union premium narrows -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >>Leo Troy, a labor economist and union critic, says unions are being >>"left at the train station" by focusing on lower-income workers >>such as janitors. > >??? Troy is rabidly anti-union, isn't he? I guess he'd prefer unions focus on the winners and forget about those who can't afford a Metroliner ticket. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 16 12:03:21 PDT 2000

34467 union premium narrows -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >Would this narrowing be common during an uspurge in employment? Probably, but the article said the trend's been going since 1982. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 16 11:34:03 PDT 2000

34468 Fed ups rates 50bp -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/Boarddocs/Press/General/2000/20000516/default.htm> Release Date: May 16, 2000 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee voted today to raise its target for the federal funds rate by 50 basis points to 6-1/2 percent. In a related action, the Board of Governors approved a 50 basis point increase in the discount rate to 6 percent. Increases in demand have remained in excess of even the rapid pace of productivity-driven gains in potential supply, exerti ...

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Date:	Tue May 16 11:22:42 PDT 2000

34469 union premium narrows -- rank: 1000

[from today's Wall Street Journal Work Week feature on the front page] THE WAGE GAP narrows between union and nonunion workers. Union hourly wage costs rose 12.4% to $16.21 between 1995 and last year, while nonunion wage costs rose 13.8% to $13.54 during the same period. In fact, according to a recent report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nonunion wages have been climbing faster than union wages since 1982. Albert Schwenk, an economist for the bureau, attributes the change to an increase i ...

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Date:	Tue May 16 11:08:41 PDT 2000

34470 Punk rock and contemporary anarchism -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >is it friday yet? No. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 15 17:38:10 PDT 2000