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39481 From the Horse's Mouth -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Doug among others has alluded to the mexican truck >driver thing. I fail to see the slightest problem here. It depends on how they spin it. It was the cover story in a recent ish of Teamster magazine. The cover and some of the pull quotes in the story played on all kinds of ancient fears about the Brown Hordes coming north, polluting our pure, great land with filth and drugs. But the story also professed solidarity with the crappy pay and working conditions Mexican tru ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 20 13:17:31 PST 1999

39482 Wen Ho Lee Support -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey St. Clair wrote: >I know that in the sauna-like warmth of post-Seattle solidarity we >shouldn't broach such divisive subjects, but for the two or three >shameless sectarians lurking on the lbo-list who might be interested in >lending financial or emotional support to Dr. Wen Ho Lee, his family and >friends have set up this web site: http://www.wenholee.org. [But don't >let Jimmy Hoffa or Mike Dolan catch you peeking at those pages.] Now who's confusing anti-Chinese regi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 20 09:17:20 PST 1999

39483 Barkley on WTO, etc -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >I don't see how bans on imports produced by non-unionized, terrorized or >child labor will improve the conditions of workers. How are such bans different from a boycott, an ancient labor tactic (and one highly restricted under U.S. law)? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 20 08:43:30 PST 1999

39484 facts & figs -- rank: 1000

[kinda gee-whiz-y, but not uninterestingly] Census Bureau Facts for Features A product of the U.S. Census Bureau's Public Information Office CB99-FF.17 December 20, 1999 A Century of Change: America, 1900-1999 To commemorate the close of the 20th century, the Census Bureau, the nation's premiere statistical agency, compiled the following profile, which shows how the United States has changed since the beginning of the century. Population Distribution œ - As ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 20 08:35:41 PST 1999

39485 WTO, nationalism -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >It seems to me that we are ever nearer a >complete disaster and delegitimation of labor if it follows this anti >globalization course. That's a bit overdone. Quoting the AFL-CIO statement: >America's unions are committed to a new internationalism focused on >building international solidarity around a progressive, pro-worker, >pro-environment and pro-community international economic policy. [...] >The current framework of global rules has failed misera ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 20 08:29:39 PST 1999

39486 WSJ on living wage -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - December 20, 1999 The Outlook SAN FRANCISCO - The modern movement for a "living wage" began in Baltimore in 1994, but it is poised to reap its biggest gains in California next year. San Francisco, Santa Monica and several smaller cities in the Silicon Valley are considering living-wage ordinances that would match or exceed San Jose's record-breaking $10.75 an hour enacted last year -- more than double the federal minimum wage of $5.15, and enough to lift a family ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 20 07:39:29 PST 1999

39487 Fwd: (BN ) Russia's Unity Challenges Communists in Duma Election -- rank: 1000

[Bloomberg does the Russian election.] Russia's Unity Challenges Communists in Duma Election (Update4) 12/20/99 9:2 (New York) Russia's Unity Challenges Communists in Duma Election (Update4) (Adds individual seats; updates bonds, stocks.) Moscow, Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Russian voters unexpectedly backed a new party that supports President Boris Yeltsin's government, ending the communists' hold on parliament and clearing the way for new cooperation that could accelerate economic reforms. The Comm ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 20 07:21:07 PST 1999

39488 US put on S&P danger list -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - December 20, 1999 US among 20 economies given warning by S&P By George Graham and Edward Luce The US is among 20 financial systems labelled "vulnerable to a credit bust" in an analysis by Standard & Poor's, the credit rating agency. S&P said domestic lending in the US had grown rapidly, while non-performing loans had also risen. Given the length of the economic upswing, commercial loan portfolios were likely to have been built on overly optimistic projecti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 20 07:25:26 PST 1999

39489 Russian election -- rank: 1000

A friend writes from Moscow: "The way everyone has been saying it's a triumph for democracy is crap -- Unity doesn't even have a party headquarters -- it's a complete puppet and its success is very depressing to me. It means voters can be totally manipulated: just dress the PM in a pinstriped suit, start a war, and the most massive machine in the entire country practically gets first place. The real triumph for democracy will be when the Kremlin is challenged, allows elections to go through ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 20 07:23:39 PST 1999

39490 <THE::CYBER.COM/MUNIST::MANIFESTO> -- rank: 1000

[from nettime] Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 23:42:48 +0000 From: richard barbrook <richard at hrc.wmin.ac.uk> <THE::CYBER.COM/MUNIST::MANIFESTO> Richard Barbrook At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the prophets of American neo-liberalism are heralding the imminent arrival of the digital utopia. They believe that the noise and confusion of industrial production are being replaced by friction-free trading within the perfect markets of cyberspace. They claim that an elite of entrepr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 20 07:02:40 PST 1999

39491 Rudy v. Marxists -- rank: 1000

[Actually, last I checked, Tim Schermerhorn was a Marxist - a member of Solidarity and on the edit board of Against the Current.] New York Times - December 20, 1999 GIULIANI'S NEW MISSION: GET MARXISTS OFF STREETS By John Kifner A decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall signaled the swift collapse of communism's Evil Empire, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani is still darkly wary of Marxist influence in the nooks and crannies of the city. The mayor's latest encounter with the Red Menace came as he faced ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 20 06:42:42 PST 1999

39492 Fwd: RE: Re: Great Cockburn/St. Clair piece on Seattle -- rank: 1000

[I forwarded the latest Cockburn/St Clair eruption - jointly published in NY Press & Counterpunch - to Soren Ambrose of the 50 Years Is Enough Campaign. The article said: >But, the Economist continued, there's hope. "Take the case of the >World Bank. The 'Fifty Years is Enough' campaign of l994 was a >prototype of Seattle (complete with activists invading the meeting >halls). Now the NGOs are surprisingly quiet about the World Bank. This would appear to try to press 50YIE in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 19 21:10:14 PST 1999

39493 WTO, nationalism. -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >Compare & contrast with what Pat Buchanan said the other day: > >I don't see anywhere Pat Buchanan promising to dismantle all foreign bases, >bring all troops home, end all military aids, abolish the CIA, etc. Am I >missing something? No, that's exactly the point. He's no Lew Rockwell (the libertarian who runs the von Mises Institute at Auburn - hey Christian, you ever see those nuts on campus?). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 19 18:13:18 PST 1999

39494 Chinese left -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion wrote: >There damn sure is, one need only go to chinabulletin.com to find it, but >most of the articles are in Chinese, not convienient if you don't read >Chinese of course. There is a left in China that is slowly developing an >alternative to the dogma of Deng and the dogma of a brand of official >Maoism that has little to say to the problem of how to organize workers in >today's China...One might want to look at the May 1999 New Left Review >interview wit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 19 16:29:11 PST 1999

39495 Barkley on WTO, etc -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >The US is threatening to invoke non application against China on the >ostensible grounds of labor violations (right?) The U.S. in the person of the Clinton administration? Extremely unlikely, since they're the ones who negotiated the WTO agreement with China. Clinton made some noises about labor standards during the WTO summit, but his negotiating team was in the convention center the very next day saying the president had "misspoken." It was gays in the m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 19 15:51:53 PST 1999