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34501 UCal-grad student agreement -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - May 11, 2000 Graduate T.A.'s Reach Tentative Contract Deal With U. of California By COURTNEY LEATHERMAN After more than a year of stalled talks, failed mediation, and threatened strikes, the University of California system and the union of its graduate teaching assistants reached a tentative agreement Wednesday on a contract. According to the university, the tentative deal, which would expire in September 2003, includes an immediate 1.5 percent salary ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 11 07:48:52 PDT 2000

34502 again on china -- rank: 1000

M A Jones wrote: >Lester Brown's 1997 piece on how China won't be able to feed itself is >archived at: >http://www.britannica.com/bcom/magazine/article/0,5744,7155,00.html > >I read yesterday somewhere that if China accedes to the WTO its arable >agriculture, wheat in partic, will be decimated by cheap imports capturing >30% + of the doemstic market. One of Lester Brown's assumptions is that >world grain surpluses would soon be swallowed by Chinese demand IN EXCESS of > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 11 07:42:58 PDT 2000

34503 Women Children & Revolutionaries -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >"Women, children and revolutionaries have no taste for irony." > Joseph Conrad "Irony makes everything ok." - Ana Marie Cox, a woman. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 11 07:26:32 PDT 2000

34504 LBO web updates -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >where's that hot Summers interview? Hey, that's only available to paying subscribers for now. I can't give everything away, you know. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 11 06:48:01 PDT 2000

34505 LBO web updates -- rank: 1000

Finally, after long delay, the LBO website has been updated. * "Dow 36,000" - why the stock market should quadruple almost overnight, even though it's already way above trend <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Dow36000.html> * "Boom for whom?" - latest U.S. income & poverty numbers - most people doing better, but rich still doing best <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/IncPov98> * U.S. employment <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Stats_empl.html>, unemployment & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 10 15:31:23 PDT 2000

34506 Fwd: ICFTU OnLine: The future shape of the trade union movement (III) -- rank: 1000

INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS (ICFTU) ICFTU OnLine 083/000510/LD All about the ICFTU World Congress. (Durban, 3-7 april 2000) The future shape of the trade union movement (III) Collective bargaining remains an important role for the trade unions. But their demands and their membership will go far beyond the confines of the enterprise. Did the Durban Congress see the birth of social trade unionism? Solidarity: sharing ideas World trade union solidarity is the only force power ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 10 10:17:52 PDT 2000

34507 OAS shutdown -- rank: 1000

From: Brent Patterson [SMTP:bpatterson at canadians.org] +++++ Please note my e-mail address is bpatterson at canadians.org, not coc at web.net +++++ Schedule of Events for the OAS Meeting in Windsor Compiled by Brent Patterson (The Council of Canadians) Revised May 9, 2000 T H U R S D A Y J U N E 1 -------------------------------------------------- Teach-In 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm CAW Local 195 Hall; 1214 Ottawa Street Organized by Peoples Global Action OAS Shutdown Convergence; Civil Disobedienc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 10 09:50:06 PDT 2000

34508 Cockburn anti-SPLC -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >White supremacists have been spreading much of this nasty info about Dees >since the early 1990s that Cockburn writes about. Silverstein. >If I am pissed off at the personal attacks on Dees, it is because >Counterpunch (Cockburn and Sinclair) seem to have raised attacking other >activists, from radicals to liberals, to a new art form. You might enjoy this curious passage (missing verb in original) from the April 15-30 Counterpunch by JoAnn Wypijewski: "T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 9 14:54:43 PDT 2000

34509 Clint Eastwood vs. the ADA -- rank: 1000

[clever how the reporter worked in all the cinematic references] Wall Street Journal - May 9, 2000 Clint Eastwood Saddles Up For Disability-Act Showdown By JIM VANDEHEI Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON --Dirty Harry wants revenge, Washington style. This time, it is a gang of trial lawyers staring down Clint Eastwood, asking themselves about taking him on: "Do I feel lucky?" These "sleazebag lawyers," the veteran actor says, his voice constricting, messed w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 9 13:24:15 PDT 2000

34510 Connerly gives up on Florida -- rank: 1000

[From today's Wall Street Journal. What happened?] Ward Connerly called off a petition drive to put an antiaffirmative-action measure on the Florida ballot. He said there wasn't enough time to collect the required 500,000 signatures by the deadline in August.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 9 13:08:09 PDT 2000

34511 Cockburns anti-PLC -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Picked this off the FREE REPUBLIC web site. The WASHINGTON TIMES is now >recyclying Cockburn's attacks on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)to >attack not only the SPLC but Chip Berlet's outfit and the left generally. >Principled criticism of other progressives is a good thing, but this kind of >immediate use of Cockburn's statements shows why his kind of roundhouse >invective is a menace to progressives and leftists of all kinds. It allows >right ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 9 12:53:04 PDT 2000

34512 Fwd: 2000-05-09 Attendees of Distinguished Americans In Support of PNTR -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >What's PNTR? Permanent Normal Trade Relations [with China]. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 9 12:45:34 PDT 2000

34513 [Fwd: RE: An Orientalist explanation from Zizek] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Good idea -- but the post, while in some part intended as a provocation, >was not directed at you but at those who seem to have been driven by >the exigencies of combat to believe that in order to defend psychology >they must defend every crackpot who ever spoke in the name of >Freud. Heavens no! Only selected crackpots for me, thank you! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 9 12:39:30 PDT 2000

34514 Fwd: 2000-05-09 Attendees of Distinguished Americans In Support of PNTR -- rank: 1000

[They forgot to invite Rakesh!] THE WHITE HOUSE _________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release May 9, 2000 DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS IN SUPPORT OF PNTR List of Attendees May 9, 2000 Former Presidents Honorable Jimmy Carter Honorable Gerald Ford Former Executive Branch Officials Honorable James Baker -- Former Secretary of State; Former Secretary of the Treasury; Partner, Baker & Botts Honorable John Block - ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 9 09:01:38 PDT 2000

34515 Zizek responds -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >What's wrong with taking one's self very motherfucking seriously ? Because people will laugh so hard when you slip on a banana peel. In fact, they may anticipate laughing so hard that they'll put the banana peel in your path when you're not looking. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 9 08:09:19 PDT 2000