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41536 Heather Boushey, "Unemployment, Pay, and Race", LBO#84 -- rank: 1000

Mike Yates wrote: >I could be wrong about this, and I do not havbe the Oswald and >Blanchflower book in front of me (I reviewd this book, Card's and >Krueger's book on the minimum wage, and Botwinnick's "Persistent >Inequality" in a Monthly Review article last year). But the O and B book >is based on a multi-million sample from the entire world and not just for >the U.S. whereas Boushey's paper is for the U.S. alone. Heather's work is also based on a study of large m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 21 12:17:07 PDT 1998

41537 la revolution -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones wrote: >I was a little intemperate, hope I didn't singe your coat tails. OK, then, so >what strategy? What should the workers by hand and brain DO? Fucked if I know, Mark. The reason that sectarians drive me so nuts is that they think they know. Maybe I'm nuts, but I thought one of the reasons for this list (and yours) was to try to figure out some answers. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 21 10:21:51 PDT 1998

41538 Heather Boushey, "Unemployment, Pay, and Race", LBO#84 -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >I'd be very curious to see these results broken down by occupation as >well ... she mentions that she did code workers according to >occupation, so I'll bet she has the stats in her database somewhere >... Doug, any chance she might put her stats up on the web for us? Heather's on a long post-doctoral vacation and out of touch. I'm going to bug her for a response to all these questions and comments that have popped up here. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 21 10:00:36 PDT 1998

41539 la revolution -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones wrote: >What DO you think Korean/Russian/S African etc workers ought to do? >Can you answer a straight question? What ought the workers to do, >Doug Henwood? Join a revolutionary party, if there were one, and fight for socialism, of course. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 21 09:57:01 PDT 1998

41540 la revolution -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones wrote: >These are just rhetorical questions, yes? Or do you believe that workers are >wrong to struggle for their jobs, on the Murdoch-press editorialising line >that trade unions are bad for jobs and we need 'deregulation' etc? That >what you >think? No they're certainly not wrong to fight for their jobs. What I'm questioning is the attitude that action is the most important thing of all. If the actions aren't part of an analysis and strategy, and if the actors aren't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 21 09:56:08 PDT 1998

41541 Justice for Jazzers -- rank: 1000

[this bounced] Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 08:30:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19980821083326.4d5fbb28 at pop.igc.org> X-Sender: meisenscher at pop.igc.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Tim Dubnau <TDubnau at Local802AFM.org> (by way of Michael Eisenscher <meisenscher at igc.apc.org>) Subject: Justice for Jazz Artists August 21, 1998 Dear Labor Supporte ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 21 09:06:05 PDT 1998

41542 Fisk on Bin Laden -- rank: 1000

<http://www.independent.co.uk/stories/B2108802.html> BIN LADEN WILL TAKE HIS REVENGE Robert Fisk, the first Western journalist to meet Osama bin Laden, says the Saudi dissident will strike back against Bill Clinton FOUR days ago, as President Bill Clinton was testifying to Kenneth Starr about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, foreign diplomats in Pakistan were told that "all foreigners" in Afghanistan were in danger. European embassy staff suspected that the United States, w ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 21 08:57:10 PDT 1998

41543 Reform of IMF -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >BTW if the US government really wants global peace and stability, it might >do better to look at the economic system than to thrash around spending >billions on raids against terrorists, which will provide the conditions for >even greater dangers. The U.S. wants peace and stability on its terms, which means that the other OECD countries are its junior partners and people in the so-called Third World should be happy if they dine on things more pleasant than tree ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 21 08:37:13 PDT 1998

41544 la revolution -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Imagine if the Korean workers had their consciousness dominated by Chris >or Max. Instead of occupying Hyundai in defense of their jobs they would >be standing cap in hand in the lobby of the Korean Central Bank, begging >to have a chance to kneel before the Chairman to convince him of the >truth and beauty of the Tobin Tax. And will occupying the plant actually save their jobs? Do they want to do anything other than continue to make cars for export to the U.S.? ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 21 08:20:37 PDT 1998

41545 Cramer goes wobbly -- rank: 1000

Former permabull James Cramer writes in his TheStreet.com column (which is charmingly called Wrong!) today: >Of all of the problematic sectors, the one that you would least like to >see not working if you are a bull is the brokerage stocks. These stocks >trade by and large with the health of the markets, both bond and stock. >They are simultaneously a coincident and a predictive barometer of >prices down the road. But let's face it, these guys have been hit by a >triple whammy: ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 20 19:35:47 PDT 1998

41546 the fatwa -- rank: 1000

W. Kiernan wrote: >By the way, this mailing list (a swell bunch of lefty posters, too) is >the busiest I've ever seen. Have you thought of creating a public >newsgroup for this subject, say alt.politics.lbo? Creating an alt. >group is pretty easy; I've done it once myself. The advantage would be, >the whole world could read the discussions here; the disadvantage is >that, probably, some right-wing loonies would occassionally spam us with >nonsense and insults. Just a tho ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 20 17:54:16 PDT 1998

41547 Postings, format of -- rank: 1000

Steven Matthews wrote: >For those who have shell access, procmail can be used to do this. >I know Panix has it, so it could even be set up to delete these posts >before they're distributed to the list. I'd never give a script that much power. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 20 16:00:29 PDT 1998

41548 the fatwa -- rank: 1000

The text of the kill all Americans fatwa is on some odd counterterrorism site at <http://www.emergency.com/bladen98.htm>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 20 15:42:25 PDT 1998

41549 Reform of IMF (was the global melodrama) -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones wrote: >We want people who join us now, >because they know it's the right thing to do. Remind me who "us" are? Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 20 14:44:34 PDT 1998

41550 1998-08-20 Statement by the President -- rank: 1000

Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: White House Electronic Publications Precedence: Bulk To: Public-Distribution at pub.pub.whitehouse.gov Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:02 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at pub.pub.whitehouse.gov> Reply-To: Publications at pub.pub.whitehouse.gov Subject: 1998-08-20 Statement by the President Keywords: Defense, Foreign, International-Security, Middle-East-North-Africa, President, Principal-Statement, Security, South-Asia, Topical-Remarks Document-ID: pd ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 20 14:09:40 PDT 1998