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36121 Fwd: MEDIACHANNEL.ORG LAUNCHES -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 17:22:37 -0500 From: Danny Schechter <editor at mediachannel.org> For immediate release: February 4, 2000 "I urge you to make MediaChannel your portal to the Internet." - Walter Cronkite MEDIACHANNEL.ORG, FIRST "GLOBAL MEDIA SUPERSITE" GIVES NEW ONLINE HOME TO INDEPENDENT VOICES <http://www.mediachannel.org> Responding to a "media crisis" in an age of mega-mergers and unprecedented corporate concentration, two international foundat ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 14:38:58 PST 2000

36122 Teamsters and Seattle WTO -- rank: 1000

Pahtoo at aol.com wrote: >How long does anyone conceive that the ephemeral coalition between labor and >environmentalists will last when the NW Aluminum (congealed electricity) >industry is forced to cut way back or even shut down in order to prevent the >extinction of native salmon? > >When the basically non-unionized timber industry was forced to adjust to >cutbacks in the Ancient Forest extraction industry, Big Labor resounded by >sending troops to Indiana to campaign ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 12:20:16 PST 2000

36123 Fwd: Teamsters and Seattle WTO -- rank: 1000

[via Michael Eisenscher; familiar narrative of WTO week excised] I think this article should get distribution as wide as possible since it it helps explain an important part of the developing link between the student and environmental activists and the labor movement. Mike Parker The WTO in Seattle The following report by Mike Brannan, a long-time member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) and new staff member at Teamsters Local 174, appears in the latest issue of TDU's Convoy Dispatch. It ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 10:43:46 PST 2000

36124 LatAm grim: Wolfie -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - February 4, 2000 LATIN AMERICA: Region no better off now, says World Bank By Henry Tricks in Cancún James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, on Thursday painted a grim picture of poverty in Latin America, saying the region was no better off than it was more than two decades ago despite far-reaching economic reforms. His remarks were a dose of cold water in an otherwise upbeat meeting of finance ministers from Latin America, the US and Canada, where Michel Camdessus, manag ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 09:51:13 PST 2000

36125 Gore on AG's "excellent, terrific job" -- rank: 1000

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Vice President ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release February 3, 2000 STATEMENT BY THE VICE PRESIDENT I'm very pleased with the Senate's decision today to once again reappoint Alan Greenspan as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. This month marks the longest period of economic expansion our country has ever enjoyed and I think it's clear that Chairman Greenspan has play ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 3 17:46:28 PST 2000

36126 Jude writes... -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 15:07:51 -0500 From: Jude Wanniski <jwanniski at polyconomics.com> February 3, 2000 PRESIDENT MCCAIN? Arizona Sen. John McCain's 19-point victory in New Hampshire has to be read as a great leap forward by him toward the GOP presidential nomination. The cognoscenti will await the results of the South Carolina primary on February 19 before they seriously begin talking about a McCain presidency. But the combined results of George W. Bush's disaster in New Hampshire foll ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 3 12:16:17 PST 2000

36127 Commies shill for Hillary -- rank: 1000

[Let's see. She's pro-death penalty, pro-end of welfare, she's backtracking on abortion, and her husband's policies have contributed no small amount to the Wall Street boom. But voting for her is a vote against Tom DeLay or something.] From: John Bachtell <jbachtell at cpusa.org> Subject: Clean up New York: Dump Giuliani and the ultraright Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 14:40:56 -0500 (EST) Clean up New York: Dump Giuliani and the ultraright By John Bachtell (Reprinted from People's Weekly World) ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 3 11:58:35 PST 2000

36128 Two Million Behind Bars by Mid-February -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:05:44 -0500 From: Vince Schiraldi <Vschiraldi at aol.com> Justice Policy Institute For Immediate Release February 1, 2000 Contact: Vincent Schiraldi/Jason Ziedenberg, (202) 678-9282 TWO MILLION AMERICANS WILL BE BEHIND BARS BY FEBRUARY 15 Study posted at <http://www.cjcj.org/punishingdecade> Washington, DC -- The Justice Policy Institute reports that the U.S. Prison and Jail population will top two million for the first time on February 15, 2000 the day after ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 3 10:32:32 PST 2000

36129 Bello on Davos -- rank: 1000

FOCUS ON TRADE, Number 45, February 2000 Focus-on-Trade is a regular electronic bulletin providing updates and analysis of trends in regional and world trade and finance, with an emphasis on analysis of these trends from an integrative, interdisciplinary viewpoint that is sensitive not only to economic issues, but also to ecological, political, gender and social issues. Your contributions and comments are welcome. Please contact us c/o CUSRI, Wisit Prachuabmoh Building, Chulalongkorn University, ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 3 10:23:01 PST 2000

36130 phallopolitics, Russian style -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] From: Matt Taibbi <exile.taibbi at matrix.ru> Subject: Yuri Luzhkov's Phallic conflict Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 the eXile Yuri Luzhkov's Phallic Conflict By Dr. N.I. Kimmelman Less than a year ago Yury Luzhkov seemed the most likely presidential candidate. Now, his chances are so slim that he is not even daring to run. What has happened in the public psyche to cause such a dramatic decline of popularity? We believe that Mr. Luzhkov's greatest weakness as a politic ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 3 08:49:51 PST 2000

36131 Fwd: Support the Strikers at Pacifica!!! -- rank: 1000

[My union boss has spoken!] Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 17:03:28 -0800 To: NWU National Office West <nwu at nwu.org> From: NWU National Office West <nwu at nwu.org> Subject: Support the Strikers at Pacifica!!! Mime-Version: 1.0 Dear Members, This is to let you know that the majority of active free-lance contributors to the Pacifica Network News, produced in Washington, D.C., are officially on strike for 3 months as of January 31, 2000. They are striking to protest on-going censorship of t ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 3 08:11:59 PST 2000

36132 Fwd: Re: Kagarlitsky on Chechnya -- rank: 1000

From: "GBK" <goboka at online.ru> To: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Re: Kagarlitsky on Chechnya Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:21:24 +0300 I never said that it was so secret. On the contrary - half of Moscow new that all long before my article. The only problem was that no-one dared to publish it. Boris -----Original Message----- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Cc: B ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 3 06:39:03 PST 2000

36133 historical progress -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an address oddity] Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 01:49:10 -0500 (EST) From: bhandari at mmp.Princeton.EDU (Rakesh Bhandari) While I am still thinking about one of Doug's question, a quick reply to Jim F For Cohen superstructural >elements (i.e. the state, the law, religions, ideology) function >so as to stabilize the economic base with a differential selection >that favors those superstructural elements most suitable for >stabilizing the base over those that are lest suited. ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 3 06:40:27 PST 2000

36134 Fed raises rates -- rank: 1000

["Heigtened inflation pressures in the foreseeable future" sounds like there's more to come.] <http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/boarddocs/press/General/2000/20000202/default.htm> Release Date: February 2, 2000 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee voted today to raise its target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 5-3/4 percent. In a related action, the Board of Governors approved a 25 basis point increase in the discount rate to 5-1/4 percent. The Committ ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 2 12:57:51 PST 2000

36135 Kovel writes... -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 11:52:55 -0500 From: joel kovel <jkovel at prodigy.net> TO THE GREENS #1 >From Joel Kovel [The following is the first in a series of occasional pieces I plan to release during the nominating process, so you can get to know me better as a potential Presidential candidate. I'll be commenting on news items, developing issues of green straegy, and also bringing in some matters of philosophical interest. I hope to get some out every few days for the next two and a half ...

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