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34651 what to do -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Were unions powerful, well organized, & willing to practice massive >secondary boycotts, wildcats, etc., worker delegations could do the >inspection work. Otherwise, no. Unions that don't even have enough power >to compel the OSHA to do frequent & unannounced inspections on behalf of >workers, not capitalists, can't be expected to protect worker safety on >their own. > >You need _power_ to compel capitalists to respect workers' need for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 28 11:52:33 PST 2000

34652 share repurchases -- rank: 1000

"Share Repurchases and Employee Stock Options and their Implications for S&P 500 Share Retirements and Expected Returns" BY: NELLIE LIANG Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System STEVEN A. SHARPE Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Division of Research and Statistics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=205015 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/workingpa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 28 11:20:42 PST 2000

34653 Fwd: Fw: Former Nike partner arrested (Indonesia) -- rank: 1000

From: "Jeffrey D. Ballinger" <jeffreyd at mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:29:37 -0500 Dear friends: Until several months ago, the Astra Group was one of the largest producers of Nike shoes in Indonesia. When the Oregonian newspaper asked Nike's Labor Practices chief, Dusty Kidd, about the company's association with the most reviled Suharto crony, he replied, "That's the way it works in Indonesia." Astra "inherited" the claims of Cicih Sukaesih and 23 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 28 11:13:25 PST 2000

34654 what to do -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Yes, and "alternative institutions" can't take care of safety >inspections, etc. Why can't worker delegations do the inspection work? Could be better than waiting for the OSHA rep to come once every two years. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 28 10:59:02 PST 2000

34655 A16 -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Is the world-renowned Doug Henwood going to be in attendance at the >A16 protests in DC? Not sure about the world-renowned, but yeah, I'll be there. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 28 10:56:06 PST 2000

34656 Socialism must be democracy -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >What I said was that Marx and Engels conceived of democracy as the >working class as the ruling class. You seem to assume the working class is a unitary thing with self-identical interests, and that once "it" takes power, all internal contradictions are resolved. But the working class - the one existing in the world, not the one playing the hero role in the heads of revolutionaries - is complex and divided, and likely to remain so (and many members of the wo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 28 10:54:31 PST 2000

34657 Summary intellectual execution? -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Well, this is sort of my point. Since I have been reading your >posts your thinking has always seemed to mix "appreciation" of >bourgeois principles with dashes of socialist principles. But I >doubt that you were more "socialist" before meeting "self-identified >Marxists". That sounds like scapgoating Marxists for thinking the >way you have always wanted to think, as if Marxists made you more >bourgeois. Good luck recru ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 28 10:48:30 PST 2000

34658 press freedom in NYC -- rank: 1000

Daily News (New York) - March 28, 2000 <http://www.nydailynews.com/2000-03-28/News_and_Views/Crime_File/a-61484.asp> <Reporter Became Part of the Story ---Juan Gonzalez went to visit a friend at Brooklyn's Kings County Hospital early yesterday afternoon but was not allowed to see him. When I got to the hospital, a New York City policeman was standing guard over his bed in the coronary intensive-care unit, restricting who could get near him. "You'll have to go to the 67th Precinct t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 28 10:30:42 PST 2000

34659 Fwd: project censored -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 23:31:34 -0800 From: David Bacon <dbacon at igc.org> DOES PROJECT CENSORED CENSOR THE NEWS TOO? The Media and its Critics Ignore Workers and Communities of Color By David Bacon BERKELEY, CA (3/27/00) - In 1992, immigrant drywall hangers went on strike from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border, halting Southern California home construction for almost a year. They defied police and border patrol agents, even shutting down freeways at rush hour to stop the deportation of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 28 10:23:55 PST 2000

34660 US credit markets -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment - this is all a way of saying the credit markets are getting nervous about risk, and marginal borrowers are having to pay higher interest rates than before, right? and the big question is will there be a credit crunch, i.e., will it get harder for those riskier borrowers to find a loan at any price?] From: DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 07:44:46 +0100 >Daniel Davies writes in his daily commentary today: >>All in all, the confidence of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 28 10:21:03 PST 2000

34661 Fwd: oped on afl-cio and immigration -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 22:43:29 -0800 From: David Bacon <dbacon at igc.org> The fo,llowing is an oped piece that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on March 27, 2000. ON IMMIGRATION, THE AFL-CIO GETS IT RIGHT By David Bacon This year the AFL-CIO took a big step towards embracing the immigrants who have contributed to its best traditions. It called for a new amnesty for the undocumented, for repeal of employer sanctions (the U.S. law making it illegal for an undocumented worker to hol ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 28 10:22:47 PST 2000

34662 news from the public opinion front -- rank: 1000

[from Gallup's weekly update] One in Five Americans Unaware That Either Bush or Gore Is a Likely Presidential Nominee 3/22/00 -- While Texas Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore have clinched the number of delegates needed to win their respective party's nomination, a new Gallup poll shows that about one in five Americans seem generally unaware of the presidential candidates. Two-thirds of all Americans can name both Bush and Gore as their respective party's likely presidential nom ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 28 10:12:27 PST 2000

34663 Summary intellectual execution? -- rank: 1000

Curtiss Leung wrote: >I say it's near/proto-fascist speech, and your saying >that you care only about fascist/genocidal speech, not >hate speech per se is an equivocation on the order of >objecting to "premature anti-fascism." I think the distinction is this: when "Communists" censor newspapers and arrest unionists it's in the name of the revolution. When "fascists" censor newspapers and arrests unionists it's in the name of counter-revolution. I swear, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 14:54:16 PST 2000

34664 campus updates -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] MEMBERS OF PURDUE Students Against Sweatshops are slated to start a hunger strike today at 4 PM, along with a rally and march. . . A TEN DAY SIT-IN AT THE OFFICES OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO has ended with student protesters meeting with the administration today . . . 10 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY students and citizens rode nude across the campus to protest the university's refusal to sign the Workers Rights Consortium. One naked rider fell onto ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 14:48:41 PST 2000

34665 Henry Liu is Chinese -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: The subject heading is a little weird. Yes, Henry Liu is Chinese. So what? >CB: The validity of this whole critique of Henry is dependent upon >the implicit critique of the PRC. I don't buy this critique of the >PRC. I think it reflects the anti-communism of the liberal left, >which has been horrendous for the Western working class in the >historical long term. In other words, at least the Chinese >Communists had a Communist Revolution. If you , your polit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 10:50:39 PST 2000