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35791 freedom of assembly, Rudy style -- rank: 1000

X-From_: ARTISTpres at aol.com Fri Feb 25 10:02:41 2000 From: ARTISTpres at aol.com Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:55:42 EST Subject: Giuliani's 20 Person Parks Rule Selec tively Enforced MIME-Version: 1.0 To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Giuliani's 20 Person Parks Rule Selectively Enforced by Robert Lederman When street artists and vendors held a protest this past Wednesday 2/23/2000 at City Hall Park we got a first-hand experience of exactly what the Giuliani administration intends to do with its 20 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 25 07:18:01 PST 2000

35792 global inequality -- rank: 1000

[LBO subscribers will recognize Milanovic's name and work. I sure couldn't find the promised references on the FT's obscure website.] Financial Times - February 25, 2000 COMMENT & ANALYSIS: The truth about global inequality: Mattias Lundberg and Branko Milanovic argue that the benefits of economic integration are not always distribute: Globalisation and inequality have received a great deal of attention lately. (Martin Wolf, The big lie of global inequality, February 8). We believe the discu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 25 07:15:17 PST 2000

35793 WFP & HRC -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: > Citing the Clinton administration's commitment to labor laws, Mrs. >Clinton said she was "very proud" of what White House's partnership with >labor organizations has accomplished. Which is....? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 25 06:51:13 PST 2000

35794 27-1 -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >I'm faintly hesitant to mention Chomsky again, even in a different >context, but in an article for the February 1995 Z Magazine ("Rollback," >Part II), he wrote > >"In New York, a draft proposal of Governor-elect George Pataki's >administration calls for a cut of over $1 billion in Medicaid, while Mayor >Rudolph Giuliani proposed a 25 percent reduction in Medicaid and other >help for the poor. To better comprehend these measures, one ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 24 23:18:28 PST 2000

35795 economists thinking constructively: sweatshops -- rank: 1000

"Balancing Sweatshop Ethics And Economics" BY: LAURA P. HARTMAN University of Wisconsin at Madison School of Business BILL SHAW University of Texas at Austin RODNEY STEVENSON University of Wisconsin at Madison Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=200329 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://instruction.bus.wisc.edu/lhartman/laborstandard s.pdf SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 24 23:08:48 PST 2000

35796 Hillary & NY politics (Re: WFP & HRC) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Someone on this list last year suggested that a Guiliani- >Clinton race would give New York voters a two for >the price of one vote. They could vote against Guiliani >as Mayor of New York and against the reactionary >Hillary as a senator. Rudy's finished as Mayor, thanks to term limits - which I used to think were sorta dumb, but now I'm grateful. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 24 22:44:14 PST 2000

35797 WFP & HRC -- rank: 1000

Andrew English wrote: >I lived in Arizona almost 20 years and never heard a single Democratic >candidate >make an issue out of repealing right-to-work, and heard many of them say >they >supported keeping it. That includes house, senate, gubernatorial and state Speaking of which, has HRC herself spoken up on this topic? Is she out there on the stump supporting the right to organize? Just what does HRC stand for anyway, Nathan? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 24 22:36:22 PST 2000

35798 27-1 -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Your highest quintile-lowest quintile income ratio in DC, on your back page... Ah that. Funny, with government as the major industry, too. When I was briefly writing for the late DC bizmag, Regardie's, my editor there said that the city had lots of "affluent" people, but no super-rich. I wish I had the figures for Manhattan; they'd probably make DC look like Sweden. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 24 22:38:20 PST 2000

35799 WFP & HRC -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >A few more Democrats in the Senate is not merely a "lesser-evil" issue but >could mean the accomplishment of serious positive change in labor law if GOP >filibusters could be overcome. Speaking of lesser evils, the choice between Rudy G. as Bush' attorney general - likely, people say - and Sen Rudy, well I'll choose Sen. Rudy. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 24 22:19:26 PST 2000

35800 IMF contest widens -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: > > From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > > Hey, he was born in Africa. > >Um, not really. In Bulawayo, then very much heartland-Rhodesia. And >then raised in apartheid Cape Town. I knew that. It was a joke. But Rhodesia and SA are on the African continent. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 24 12:25:51 PST 2000

35801 Fwd: -- rank: 1000

X-From_: press-release-owner at info.census.gov Thu Feb 24 14:53:01 2000 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 13:50:10 -0500 (EST) From: owner-press-release at census.gov Subj: Census Bureau Facts for Features Sender: owner-press-release at census.gov Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Press-Release-Owner at census.gov Census Bureau Facts for Features A product of the U.S. Census Bureau's Public Information Office CB00-FF.03 February 23, 2000 Women's History Month: March 1-31 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 24 11:57:47 PST 2000

35802 WFP & HRC -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >So what are you peddling that is better? An ex-sitcom actor? Don't malign actors. An ex-B-movie actor, who got second billing to a monkey, changed the world. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 11:54:35 PST 2000

35803 WFP & HRC -- rank: 1000

David Glenn wrote: >And I'm willing to hold >my nose for the HRC endorsement even though she's clearly done more harm >than good in public life. Why? I absolutely don't get this reasoning. Why support someone who's done net harm? And what good *has* she done really? Her major contribution to public life, health care reform, was one of the great disasters of the 1990s. Evidence is that she's pulled her husband to the right. She may not be guilty of the worst offenses the loony right accu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 24 11:44:23 PST 2000

35804 27-1 -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >TWENTY FUCKING SEVEN TO ONE? What was the antecedent to this? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 24 10:58:55 PST 2000

35805 WFP & HRC -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Why the insane impulse to denigrate the motives of a range of impeccably >progressive activists who worked to create the Working Families Party. Yes, >you disagree with the strategy - so noted, but the "pwogwessives" and >"hacks" comment is just intellectually bankrupt and plain nasty. Nasty, but not bankrupt. There are "impeccably progressive activists" who constitute the "footsoldiers" (see article at URL below for the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 24 10:20:50 PST 2000