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35026 Savings vs Social Security? -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >A while ago, Max suggested in what I thought was a mocking tone >that representing Social Security as "unfunded liabilities" makes >as much sense as representing it as present value. But Feldstein >takes the proposition in all seriousness. > >Also, I remember Doug Henwood saying that we have more capital >than we know what to do with, thus money is thrown at high risk >ventures all over the globe. > >So, my question is two-fold. How s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 20 13:31:07 PDT 2000

35027 Fwd: Abusive Child Labor Found in U.S. Agriculture -- rank: 1000

From: Human Rights Watch <hrwatchnyc at igc.org> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 08:43:10 -0700 Abusive Child Labor Found in U.S. Agriculture U.S. Law Discriminates Against Child Farmworkers (New York, June 20, 2000) -- Hundreds of thousands of child farmworkers are laboring under dangerous and grueling conditions in the United States, Human Rights Watch charged in a report released today (available online at: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/frmwrkr/ ) . The international rights group found that ch ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 20 13:24:15 PDT 2000

35028 poor Americans "jittery" -- rank: 1000

[from Gallup's weekly update] Despite Good Economy, Low-Income Americans Jittery 6/13/00 -- While Americans continue to give the U.S. economy a highly positive rating, a new Gallup poll shows that lower-income Americans express at least a moderate degree of worry about their personal economic situation. They are also more likely than higher-income Americans to say that rising interest rates have affected their major spending decisions. View full release: http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr000 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 20 13:00:24 PDT 2000

35029 Buchanan, deconstructionist -- rank: 1000

Dr. Lenora B. Fulani 225 Broadway, Suite 2010 New York, New York 10007 Dear Lenora: I have received your letter of resignation as campaign co-chair, and, and do not dispute your rendition of events -- except to say this: While we did finally accede to the Dallas faction to support the removal of Jack Gargan as co- chair at Nashville, we did so only after we came to believe it was essential for peace in the party. That is also why, instead of supporting Dallas' choice for chair, we supported Pat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 20 12:56:31 PDT 2000

35030 NGOs irresponsible, credential them! -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > >On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > >> Under the US law, all orgs with expenditure over $25k/year must file >> the 990 form with the IRS. 990 forms are public records, posted on >> the internet. I do not know how much more disclosure is possible. > >Really? I was under the impression that 990's only show aggregate inflows >and expenditures, and that the organizations are under no obligations to >disclose the detail ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 20 12:53:32 PDT 2000

35031 Where was the Color at A16 in D.C.? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >> >I have to say it seems odd for a Marxist to complain about insider's >> >vocabularly and an assumed common culture. Reification and the >> >transformation problem aren't the stuff of everyday speech. >> > >> >Doug > >I never did understand what "reification" meant. Can someone enlighten >me. > >Carrol > >P.S. I think Jim Devine over on pen-l said about all that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 20 12:49:05 PDT 2000

35032 mimes & capital -- rank: 1000

This is from Salon's email newsletter. Helps you understand why their stock is off 91% from its high: >On Wednesday, Ruth Shalit, in another must-read >column, reports on how big, serious corporations are turning to >mimes, comedians and stilt-walkers to help them figure out who they >are. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 20 12:45:47 PDT 2000

35033 the modern libertarian -- rank: 1000

[via Frances Bolton] I Am the Very Model of a Modern Libertarian by Kimstu [With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan, and also to one Lollius. Note: In order to avoid the infringement of individual rights by imposing totalitarian ideals of harmony, the soloist and choristers may sing each in his or her own tempo, tune, and key.] I am the very model of a modern Libertarian: I teem with glowing notions for proposals millenarian, I've nothing but contempt for ideologies collectivist (My own ideas of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 19 12:55:08 PDT 2000

35034 Fulani unendorses Pat -- rank: 1000

Liberal activist Fulani withdraws support of Buchanan By Douglas Kiker, Associated Press, 6/19/2000 12:39 WASHINGTON (AP) Liberal activist Lenora Fulani resigned from Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign and withdrew her support, saying the socially conservative candidate has divided the Reform Party by excluding other viewpoints. In a letter announcing her resignation as campaign co-chair, Fulani said Buchanan put his conservative issues above their common interests in political reform, trade a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 19 11:50:12 PDT 2000

35035 Moore: WTO a friend of the poor -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - June 18 2000 The WTO is a friend of the poor Openness to trade alleviates poverty and helps developing countries catch up with rich ones, says Mike Moore It is hard for a Financial Times reader to grasp how one could survive on less than $1 a day. For us, a dollar is the cost of a cup of coffee. Yet 1.2bn people, a quarter of the world's population, scrape by on such a modest sum. A further 1.6bn, another third of the world's population, make do with only twice that - barely en ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 19 11:43:58 PDT 2000

35036 NGOs irresponsible, credential them! -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Although I don't see anything terrible about more disclosure by NGOs. >NGOs are already "credentialed" in an informal way; a few more standards >are actually more likely to question the corporate sponsorship of some >"respectable" NGOs. Unions live with certain standards of accountability >and democratic requirements, and those are generally rules that benefit a >more open and ultimately more militant union movement. Abit more >acc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 19 09:51:07 PDT 2000

35037 Where was the Color at A16 in D.C.? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I'd have to agree with Irene Tung quoted in the article below about >the style of organizing that has become fashionable among young >activists through Seattle, A16, etc.: "There was definitely an >insider's culture at A16, especially at the convergence spaces. >There was a vocabulary and behavior, an assumed cultural >commonality, that was somewhat eerie. It seems that the ideals of >absence of leadership and `facilitated chaos'--as they say--f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 19 09:04:17 PDT 2000

35038 NLRB decision allows profs @ private colleges to organize? -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - Monday, June 19, 2000 http://chronicle.com/daily/2000/06/2000061902n.htm NLRB Lets Stand Decision Allowing Professors at a Private College to Unionize By COURTNEY LEATHERMAN The National Labor Relations Board has let stand a decision by a regional labor official permitting professors at Manhattan College to bargain collectively, signaling a possible shift by the board toward favoring faculty unionization at private colleges. But the same labor experts ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 19 08:45:59 PDT 2000

35039 Philly: Call for J30 Volunteers -- rank: 1000

From: <MWMorrill at aol.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:02:24 EDT Subject: [a16-dc-planning] Call for J30 Volunteers Please forward widely. ================ Unity 2000 will be a history making event on July 30 in Philadelphia. Do you want to help make history? Then volunteer for one or more of the following jobs for U2K. There are innumerable jobs, and the list is growing every day. The following is a sample of what we need. J30 committee chairs will be posting their needs as they develop. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 19 08:59:28 PDT 2000

35040 NGOs irresponsible, credential them! -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - June 18, 2000 Pressure groups warned on public scrutiny By Rosemary Bennett, Political Correspondent Greenpeace and other pressure groups must open up to public scrutiny or risk losing all credibility, a government-sponsored think tanks warns on Monday. The Foreign Policy Centre, whose president is Robin Cook, chief foreign minister, said that London's Mayday riots, the siege of Seattle and the row over Brent Spar have robbed many non-governmental organisations of their legitim ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 19 08:52:46 PDT 2000