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38461 Turkey -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because it had a bad word in line 3 of the text] Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 08:02:32 +0100 From: Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> Subject: Ocalan's death sentence There has been surprisingly little comment or reports of mobilisation against Ocalan's trial. As far as I can see quickly scanning the lists I s*bscribe to, there has been no report on his death sentence. I suggest this is the result of the leftist error many good people have fallen into over Kosovo. Just because ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 30 09:05:04 PDT 1999

38462 Marxian vs. bourgeios categories [was Marx on Smith] -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >So I read Marxism as a critique of policy solutions. Ok. So what's your strategy for revolution then? Not, of course, that you have to have one. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 30 09:03:21 PDT 1999

38463 "sunshine of opportunity" -- rank: 1000

[from an article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal on the low US savings rate] Ignorance and Glamour The reasons Americans don't save more are complex, ranging from lack of knowledge about the financial vehicles and their benefits, to a popular culture that glamorizes consumption. Many families are strapped despite the good times, and simply don't have enough money. "Right now I'm at the limit," says Donna Bradford, a 45-year-old inspector at a Georgia yarn factory. She contributes on ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 30 08:41:57 PDT 1999

38464 PBS Frontline show -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >I'm not an economist, but couldn't one argue that the Fed is trying to >prevent the bubble from popping? Greenspan no doubt wants to deflate it slowly without a disaster. We'll see. >(I do tell the girls at the singles bars >that I'm an amateur economist, though) My god, doesn't that drive them away? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 20:46:10 PDT 1999

38465 Zaps to NYC LGBT Pride March -- rank: 1000

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation's Subcomandante Marcos released the following statement of support for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender community on the eve of Mexico City's 21st LGBT Pride March: ENGLISH VERSION Zapatista Army of National Liberation Mexico, June of 1999 To the Committee of Sexual Diversity To the lesbian, gay, transsexual and bisexual community: We are grateful that you have allowed us the opportunity to say our word on this, the 21st March of Lesbian, Gay, Tr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 18:58:11 PDT 1999

38466 High-Tech Piece Work -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 18:01:44 -0700 From: "Intl. CRT" <svtc at igc.org> Subject: High-Tech Piece Work The San Jose ran a 3 part story on the Valley's piece rate workers and those working in contract positions. Some of these are long articles so I only included the URL and a bit of the article. Part I ran on Sunday, June 27 Outside the eyes of the law, Silicon Valley companies pay Asian immigrants by the piece to assemble parts (6/27/1999) http://www.sjmercury.com/premium/front/ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 18:46:28 PDT 1999

38467 Pacifica's guards -- rank: 1000

Tom Trouble wrote: >I hear a couple of the guards used to work for the CIA. Any truth to this? People are speculating that but no one has offered any evidence. The freepacifica list is a fever swamp of speculation. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 18:45:35 PDT 1999

38468 Pacifica's guards -- rank: 1000

It was reported on the freepacifica list that Pacifica has hired IPSA International <http://www.ipsaintl.com/> to guard their Berkeley HQ. From their website, they look like a bunch of ex-IBM security guys who set up to get big corporate contracts. This is strange company for Pacifica to keep. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 17:42:08 PDT 1999

38469 Fwd: A Square Peg into a Round Hole -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:42:12 -0400 From: Robert Weissman <rob at essential.org> To: Multiple recipients of list CORP-FOCUS <corp-focus at essential.org> X-Comment: Please see http://lists.essential.org for help Fearful of a public backlash that might drive the biotech industry into oblivion, Monsanto is reaching out to its critics. Last week, Jeremy Rifkin, the biotech critic, flew to Monsanto's world headquarters in St. Louis to address something called the World Business Counci ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 16:59:47 PDT 1999

38470 No Debt, No Sweat Conference -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 18:23:57 -0400 From: Njoki Njoroge Njehu <wb50years at igc.org> Subject: REMINDER No Debt, No Sweat Conference To: 50-years at igc.org Dear 50 Years Is Enough Activists & Friends, This is a reminder about the conference. If your registration is postmarked by June 30 the registration fee is $35.00 (last year's fee). We urge and encourage you to register early, it helps us as we plan for your participation. PLEASE register now. Read on for details. In Solidarity, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 15:27:17 PDT 1999

38471 apology to Brenner -- rank: 1000

Robert Brenner tells me that it's not true that he's holding the book's publication until the market crashes; a certain person within Verso is wrongly spreading such info. Sorry to be wrong, and sorry even to have brought it up. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 14:02:18 PDT 1999

38472 JKG in TSC -- rank: 1000

[A debut column in TheStreet.com!] The Fed's Pre-Emptive Misfire By James K. Galbraith Special to TheStreet.com 6/29/99 1:51 PM ET With this column we introduce James K. Galbraith, the noted economist and author of Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay. Galbraith is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and director of the university's Inequality Project <http://utip.gov.utexas.edu/>, a research group concerned with assessing changes in the inequality in wages and earnings ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 29 13:47:20 PDT 1999

38473 Gore letter on AIDS drugs -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:39:22 -0400 From: James Love <love at cptech.org> To: Multiple recipients of list INFO-POLICY-NOTES <info-policy-notes at essential.org> Subject: Vice President Gore's June 25, 1999 Letter to James E. Clyburn, endorsing the use of compulsory licensing and parallel imports of pharmaceutical drugs in South Africa In my opinion, this letter represents a real change in US foreign policy, and appears to be a huge victory for public health groups on a very importa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 12:42:41 PDT 1999

38474 Fwd: USE OF PRISONERS for productive work -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Kirsten Nielsen; from the Wall Street Journal] USE OF PRISONERS for productive work simmers as an issue for unions. The number of prisoners doing work -- like making gloves or furniture -- rose to about 80,000 in 1998, mostly in state prisons, from 76,500 in 1997, says the Correctional Industries Association in Baltimore. The AFL-CIO backs the idea of inmates working but wants it done "carefully." Low-wage or unpaid "prison inmates are just one more group being added t ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 29 12:13:48 PDT 1999

38475 Marx and Productivity -- rank: 1000

JayHecht at aol.com wrote: >I hope this debate is going turn out to be a lot more interesting than the >"Capital Critique." Heterodox economists in the 1960s and early 1970s >thought they had found the "magic bullet" to destroy NC economics. Well they >did have the bullet, but I suppose they never had a large enough gun! And the NCs just forgot about the critique and went on their merry way, right? Does anyone remember that at all, aside from a few "heterod ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 29 12:07:46 PDT 1999