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34861 smart kids -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >These kids are smart, unlike the >idiots I ran around with forty years ago. "They're smarter than we were." - Marc Cooper to me, in front of the King County Jail, Seattle. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 9 09:06:13 PST 2000

34862 Women's Day, Russian style, part II -- rank: 1000

[I should have included this. Also from JRL.] Putin sends perfume to female troops on Women's Day By Ron Popeski MOSCOW, March 8 (Reuters) - Acting President Vladimir Putin led Russian men in showering Russia's womenfolk with gifts and compliments on International Women's Day on Wednesday, sending sets of cosmetics to female troops in war-racked Chechnya. Russian television showed the packages, topped with yellow ribbons, being readied at Moscow's Krasnaya Zarya (Red Dawn) toiletries plant. Each ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 9 08:44:21 PST 2000

34863 celebrating Women's Day, Russian style -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Aeroflot Offers Women Free Trip to Europe March 6-April 20. MOSCOW, March 8 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's airline Aeroflot has announced a special bonus programme for women. Under the programme pegged to International Women's Day, every woman will get a free ticket to any European city between March 6 and April 16 if she travels there with a man. If during this period a man buys a full business class ticket on any of the Aeroflot flights, a woman accompanying him will get a ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 9 08:42:01 PST 2000

34864 Fw: <alter-ee> Introducing . . . . . FREE RADICAL from L.A. Kauffman -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >The people who were busted in the ruins of Esperanza a few >nights ago are the very same vegans some of you have been >putting down and are still putting down as redolent of Nazi >ideology. I spoke to two of them at Food Not Bombs last >Sunday; both of them had been beaten up, and their friends >were still in jail. > >So, people want to stand in their light now? Ironies abound. Hey, look, it's one thing to say that an obsession with health and purit ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 15:42:47 PST 2000

34865 Fwd: <nettime> Ken to stand as Independent -- rank: 1000

[via nettime] Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 22:12:01 +0000 From: "Livingstone for London" <simonfletcher at livingstoneforlondon.org.uk> NEWS RELEASE 6 March 2000 STATEMENT FROM KEN LIVINGSTONE MP The London election on 4 May will now be a referendum on whether London's first elected mayor will bring self-government to the capital, or merely be a fagade with all real decisions taken centrally. Democracy and local self-government will be meaningless if candidates and policy are imposed ce ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 15:04:11 PST 2000

34866 NYC independent politix forum -- rank: 1000

Independent Politics and Third Parties: Is the Moment Ripe? Daniel Cantor executive director, Working Families Party Christopher Hitchens columnist, The Nation Arianna Huffington author, "How to Overthrow the Government" Frances Fox Piven co-author, "Why Americans Don't Vote" Adolph Reed Labor Party, Interim National Council member Micah L. Sifry author, "The People Want More Democracy" (forthcoming) April 11, 7-9pm CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. To register o ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 14:57:23 PST 2000

34867 Fwd: 2000-03-08 Fact Sheet on Raising the Minimum Wage -- rank: 1000

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release March 8, 2000 RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE: AN OVERDUE PAY RAISE FOR AMERICA'S WORKING FAMILIES March 8, 2000 Today, President Clinton will call on Congress to pass clean, straightforward legislation to raise the minimum wage by $1 -- from $5.15 to $6.15 -- in two equal steps. The President will say that working families de ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 13:44:22 PST 2000

34868 women's strike -- rank: 1000

[better late than never...] <http://womenstrike8m.server101.com/> Stop the world and change it. Join the GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE 8 March 2000 for a millennium which values all women's work and all women's lives. ---- Women and girls do 2/3 of the world's work for 5% of the income. So when women stop everything stops. Stop the world and change it. Join the GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE 8 March 2000 For a millennium which values all women's work and all women's lives. Why Strike? Women in Ireland call ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 11:50:06 PST 2000

34869 Fwd: [stop-imf] NYT and FT on the Meltzer Comm'n: reports and commentary -- rank: 1000

[from the stop-imf mailing list, formatting cleaned up a bit] Financial Times - March 8, 2000 Report urges slimming down of IMF and World Bank By STEPHEN FIDLER A commission appointed by the US Congress is set to release a report today calling for a radical contraction of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. The report of the advisory panel, created last year to review reform of international financial institutions, says the "frequency and severity of recent crises raises doubts ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 11:35:48 PST 2000

34870 labor news -- rank: 1000

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_669000/669747.stm> Wednesday, 8 March, 2000, 18:25 GMT Sex workers join global strike The sex workers' strike is part of a global day of action Prostitutes in one of London's infamous red light districts are going on strike as part of a global women's day of action. Soho sex workers are joining the Global Women's Strike on Wednesday which will see women in more than 50 countries stop work to protest against inequality and violence. Protest organ ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 11:47:20 PST 2000

34871 Social Protectionism -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >oug had an >interesting interview on his radio show last week with Naomi Klein, author >of _No Logo_ It's really a very fine book. She's smart, has good politics, and writes well. Everyone should buy a copy! Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 11:41:59 PST 2000

34872 popular movements -- rank: 1000

Patrick, the more I think about your "popular movement" standard on the social clause the more confused I am. I bet most workers would support some version of it, in the U.S., SA, and just about everywhere else. A small group of hardcore lefties might object, but I'm guessing most people would be pro. Do you have info to the contrary? Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 11:40:20 PST 2000

34873 Woodcock: pro-China trade -- rank: 1000

{Ian Murray asked me to post this.] A Labor Voice Urges China Trade By Steven Mufson Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 8, 2000; Page A29 Leonard Woodcock has earned his stripes in the American labor movement. A key lieutenant in the 1930s drive to unionize the U.S. auto industry, he later rose to president of the United Auto Workers and led a major strike against General Motors. But at age 89, Woodcock has parted ways with American labor leaders and is urging Congress to grant China ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 11:28:41 PST 2000

34874 WB on its future -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service; amusing to read its coverage of its (dimming?) future...] CONTROVERSIAL REPORT RECOMMENDS REDUCED IMF, WORLD BANK ROLE. A commission appointed by the US Congress is set to release a report today calling for a radical contraction of the IMF and World Bank, reports the Financial Times (p.4). The story notes that the committee's recommendations were voted by a 8-to-3 majority. A statement signed by three dissenting members of the commission, led by C ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 11:09:41 PST 2000

34875 WSJ on IMF/WB report -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - March 8, 2000 Editorial Page A Blueprint for IMF Reform By Allan Meltzer and Jeffrey D. Sachs. Mr. Meltzer is a professor of political economy at Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Sachs is director of Harvard's Center for International Development. Mr. Meltzer served as chairman and Mr. Sachs as a member of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission. A related editorial appears nearby. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, set up respectively to ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 11:02:24 PST 2000