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36361 globalizers: we feel your pain -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - August 28, 2000 Critics of globalisation promised a hearing By Gerard Baker in Jackson Hole, Wyoming A number of senior economic policymakers have signalled a more sympathetic approach to opponents of globalisation and pledged to do more to deal with their concerns over integration of the world's economies. Stanley Fischer, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund and now its deputy, summed up the softer stance when he said not all critics of globalisatio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 28 09:51:29 PDT 2000

36362 Studies on Social Mobility -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >forwarded query from another list: > ><forward> > >To All: > >The Wall Street Journal of 17 August dusted off and referred to two >studies attempting to show social mobility is the rule, rather than the >exception, in the United States. One study, a "U.S. Treasury" study of >14,351 households, which found in a nine-year period between 1979 to >1988 86% of those in the lowest income quintile "moved up, two-thirds to >the mi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 27 13:04:08 PDT 2000

36363 Green green -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >Votes for Gore also reduce the chance that the Greens will receive the >necessary %5 for federal funding. I think we have to take seriously that were the Greens to get federal money, the result could be some mix of hilarious and tragic. Look at the Reform Party's squabbles. The Daily Show did a report from their convention, which appeared to be chock full of middle American wackos. There are some very fine people in the Green Party, but there are also tons of left wackos ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 27 11:46:58 PDT 2000

36364 distinctions -- rank: 1000

A compelling formula from the new Workers Vanguard - a front-pager "Democrats, Republicans: Enemies of Labor, Blacks; Break With All Capitalist Parties! Nader: Shill for the Democrats; For a Workers Party to Fight for Socialist Revolution:" "The capitalist class runs the Republican and Democratic parties, whose main difference is not *what* they say but *how* they do it. The Republicans make no bones about being the party of 'big business' in viciously going after the working clas ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 27 11:40:26 PDT 2000

36365 Fwd: Tamiment Conference Schedule -- rank: 1000

>>>>>>>>>>> A Conference! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< SUMMARY: Conference - Explorations in the History of U.S. Trotskyism New York City, Sept. 29 - Oct 1, 2000. (Friday - Sunday) Sponsored by: New York University's Tamiment Library & American Studies Info: 212-998-2639 / peter.filardo at nyu.edu Registration: $15 Checks payable to: Tamiment Library - NYU Should be sent to: Tamiment Institu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 26 16:55:53 PDT 2000

36366 Women Surpass Men Online -- rank: 1000

John Kawakami wrote: >So, what kinds of software will women develop? Over the last 10 years, the share of women entering tech professions has declined, as has the share of women majoring in engineering. It's still mostly a boy's game, at least on the production side, even if more women are now using the stuff. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 26 13:21:56 PDT 2000

36367 info -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment - jeradonah, please send messages in plain text format only] From: "jeradonah" <jera at fastmail.ca> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 13:35:01 -0400 (EDT) On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:57:58 -0700 (PDT), Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at tsoft.com> wrote: > >> libertarians have widely criticized the book, but its central >> premise, that code is law, was what i was referring to in reaction >> to your comment... > > I ended up buying both L ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 26 13:19:52 PDT 2000

36368 Fwd: Demonstration in Support of New York Public Library Workers -- rank: 1000

On September 6th at noon, the staff of the New York Public Library, members of AFSCME Local 1930, will be demonstrating in front of the Central Research Library. We are protesting unliveable wages, bloated management salaries and a Library system left in tatters by ineffectual Library leadership and the policies of the Giuliani administration. We need you to march with us in support! Fight for your neighborhood library! Date: Wednesday, September 6th Time: Noon to 2 PM Place: Between the L ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 26 13:17:35 PDT 2000

36369 AG on globalization -- rank: 1000

[Layoffs promote employment, says AG. "The second derivative of output per hour still appears to be positive." Next year in Jackson Hole!] Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan At a symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming August 25, 2000 Global Economic Integration: Opportunities and Challenges Globalization as most economists understand it involves the increasing interaction of national economic systems. Of necessity, these systems are reason ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 26 13:12:41 PDT 2000

36370 warmer -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 22:40:28 -0400 (EDT) From: David Winner <viddar at earthlink.net> I've never posted to a list before & obviously I'm doing something wrong because it's not getting through, but if you.re really worried about the Artic melting there's a good article at http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/071100sci-environ-climate.html "Research Predicts Summer Doom for Northern Icecap"--Walter Gibbs 7/11/00 explaining the possible consequences. David

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 26 12:51:23 PDT 2000

36371 Gore Joins Max in Spending the Surplus -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >What about the possibility that Gore will be more successful in >dismantling programs because there won't be any Dem/liberal >opposition? Worked nicely for welfare reform, clear-cutting, mass >incarceration, etc. Doug > >Wrong binary. Not the binary I was suggesting. I was suggesting that at least in some areas Gore can accomplish worse things than Bush could. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 25 14:03:34 PDT 2000

36372 Gore Joins Max in Spending the Surplus -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >And if Nader if elected would be any more successful in passing the >programs over a GOP/conservative Dem opposition, I would be more likely to >take Nader more seriously. What about the possibility that Gore will be more successful in dismantling programs because there won't be any Dem/liberal opposition? Worked nicely for welfare reform, clear-cutting, mass incarceration, etc. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 25 11:53:43 PDT 2000

36373 crime.com -- rank: 1000

New York Times - August 24, 2000 Hoping People Watch Jail And Won't Want to Visit By MINDY SINK THE inner workings of at least one piece of the criminal justice system can now be viewed on the Internet 24 hours a day, courtesy of Webcams in the Maricopa County jail in south-central Arizona. Four cameras make up the Jail Cam (<http://www.mcso.org> or <http://crime.com>), which lets visitors view detainees being led into the jail in handcuffs, being fingerprinted and booked and being t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 25 13:05:19 PDT 2000

36374 Gore Joins Max in Spending the Surplus -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >The arbitrariness of the turn in coverage also struck me. >One gets the feeling that Paula's "Big Cigars" said O.K., >Bush is likely to use up more of the surplus. The >conventions >are over; it's time to start chopping him up. Journalists also need something to write and talk about. If there's no horserace, they might have to cover substance, and that's the last thing they want to be troubled with. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 25 10:49:50 PDT 2000

36375 Verizon: union win -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>Nathan Newman wrote: >> >>>Try reading less market analysis >>>and more Alinsky. >> >>Do I have to? He's such an awful writer. >> >>Doug > >So, who's a good writer re market analysis, then? How'd market analysis get set up as the ideal here? Most of it is awful too. I've long wanted to do a critique of the community organizing model, which would mean studying Alinsky. I've made a start several times and gave up afte ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 25 10:42:52 PDT 2000