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1186 Hollywood and NAFTA -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: > *Canada* is not a low-wage country. Doug already pointed out that film industry people are paid less in Canada. I've heard this from people who moved to Vancouver -- but it suited them alright because cost of living is somewhat less and they were ready to get out of LA. But there are other lowered costs -- studio space, equipment rental, etc. that also accounts for producers lowered overall cost of production. I have a friend who won an Oscar for visual effects years b ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Nov 16 16:16:26 PST 1999

1187 [Fwd: A Movie Electrician Responds to Katha] -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: > I expect to hear from a few others out in California familiar with the > situation in the movie industry. > > TL I don't recall Katha saying anything against the workers. The discussion was about the union and my original post was about the recent union decision to get on board the free trade issue. My film experience was in visual effects production and later supervision of that production -- a category of film work where there were no unions representing superv ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Nov 16 09:08:26 PST 1999

1188 [Fwd: A Movie Electrician Responds to Katha] -- rank: 1000

I'd like to add one more thing that may not come through after reading my last post -- everyone I know who works in one of the craft trades in Hollywood, works hard to make their living. I did too in visual effects production -- long days are a part of the gig for hands-on workers though may not be for say, voice over actors. There is no doubt that the way the studios have structured the business, craft workers need to be ever vigilantly guarding and advancing gains. marta Marta Russell wrote: ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Nov 16 10:02:09 PST 1999

1189 Hollywood and NAFTA -- rank: 1000

I am not referring to products made in Hollywood, but a process -- the studios moving production to countries where they can get a cheaper workforce which has come in the wake of NAFTA. Isn't that largely what the WTO protest in Seattle is about -- the eroding of working people's jobs and job security and the beating back of unions? >From the Hollywood Fair Trade Campaign press release: "We are here to tell Mr. Daley and the world that behind the glitz and glamour of our industry is a ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Nov 16 09:31:35 PST 1999

1190 Populism as Masquerade (was Re: Henwood vs. Cockburn) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > Not the least of the mistakes -- one might almost say crimes -- of > the AFL-CIO is that AFSCME counts prison guards as workers. > I live only 35 miles from the Illinois prison at Pontiac Illiinois -- and > I do believe the guards there are the most vicious "gang" in the > state of Illinois. They have about as much right to be accepted as > workers as the guards at Buchenwald. > > Carrol There seems to be a right wing dominance in certain &qu ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Nov 14 17:44:21 PST 1999

1191 Populism as Masquerade (was Re: Henwood vs. Cockburn) -- rank: 1000

I'd add to this the prison guard union in California- which has tremendous wealth and for all practical purposes owns both parties - but has been a most backwards corrupt force in the state. It has, for instance, used that power to support the building of more prisons over using state money for rehabilition, something most of us know is badly lacking in the current incarceration craze. Most recently the union used its power to protect member guards who regularly abuse prison inmates from any ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Nov 14 09:53:27 PST 1999

1192 Hollywood and NAFTA -- rank: 1000

Well after years of being chummy with the studios, and having little allegiance to any workforce other than their own, the Hollywood unions have finally realized their own ox is getting gored by NAFTA. Surprise! -- Marta PRESS RELEASE Commerce Secretary Daley's Free Trade Dinner at Sony Studios 11 November 1999 Jobless film and television workers gather today outside the Sony Studio gates to remind Commerce Secretary Daley that when he visits Hollywood, he visits America's newest rust belt. We ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Nov 12 07:37:51 PST 1999

1193 Hollywood and NAFTA -- rank: 1000

Well after years of being chummy with the studios, and having little allegiance to any workforce other than their own, the Hollywood unions have finally realized their own ox is getting gored by NAFTA. Surprise! -- Marta

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Nov 12 07:26:45 PST 1999

1194 Medicare Givebacks -- rank: 1000

Some while back there was a question about cuts to homecare and hospitals. Here is an update. Seems we can only get back to where we were before Newt's gang did so much damage (with the help of Clinton's signature). Business seems to have gotten everything it wanted here, including no prescription drug benefit. marta >From today's California Healthline: #7 MEDICARE 'GIVEBACKS': HOUSE PASSES $11.5B IN RESTORATIONS The Medicare Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999, the "only Medica ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Nov 8 12:35:12 PST 1999

1195 "Strobe" Talbott -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: > For you Canadians who are reading this, Talbott is the guy who looks > like Duke in the Doonsbury cartoons. Strobe Talbott looks to me like a > fetal alcohol syndrome case, of course I have to reserve judgment > because I've never seen him in person(?). So what if he is a fetal alcohol "case". That has nothing to do with his politics or his affiliations. Tom, you know this ??? Your comment reminds me of Marc Cooper denigrating Bob Dole by calling him ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat May 29 10:34:36 PDT 1999

1196 Modest proposal to end the war -- rank: 1000

The Greens in California appear to be white, middle class and all that goes with that. Marta Doug Henwood wrote: > Dennis R Redmond wrote: > > >the Greens (if they exist as an > >organization in your state) > > The Greens as an organization is/are a pretty funny thing. As I recall, > there were 4 different candidates for president running under the Green > banner in 1996. The New York State Green party had two different vice > presidential candidates; one group h ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri May 28 19:16:05 PDT 1999

1197 Neo-liberalism -- rank: 1000

Juan, Can you tell me what does ECLAC stand for and how can I get a citation for this information?? Marta Juan Jose Barrios wrote: > Maybe some of you are interested in the results of a study carried on by > ECLAC > on Poverty and Indigency (needies) in Latin America: > > Poverty Line(1) Indigency > Line(2) > > Country Year Country Urban Rural Country Urban > Rural > > Argentina 1990 ...

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Date:	Thu May 20 11:00:53 PDT 1999

1198 Another Rally this week -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: May 13, 1999 Janine Bertram-Kemp:(202)342-9439 Jennifer Burnett: (717) 238-0172 Marsha Katz: (406) 829-9495 Four Thousand March with ADAPT to Supreme Court WASHINGTON,D.C.-- Solidarity prevailed yesterday as several thousand disability advocates joined with nearly 800 ADAPT activists on the U.S. Capitol grounds, rallying in support of the "integration mandate" of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Over 200 ...

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Date:	Fri May 14 15:21:29 PDT 1999

1199 Unz, Cooper and Huffington -- rank: 1000

Here is the other bit on KPFK. <<Didn't Marc Cooper do a show where he had Unz on as a guest on KPFK???>> I heard him do a Pat Buchanan interview, but I must admit I am not shocked. KPFK's roots are in the old left, and it long ago made its peace with the underlying status quo. The after glow of 1930s popular front politics is alive and well in the form of opportunistic cozying up with any bourgeois force which sounds progressive on a point or two. For example, Arianna Huffington, ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri May 14 17:41:07 PDT 1999

1200 Katha Pollitt -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > Seth Ackerman wrote: > > > Who does, Doug? > > I'll give a guess. The heiress to the MCA fortune. (Re, who sets policy > at the Nation). Others echo her. > > Carrol No wonder they go on cruises and offer credit cards. You might be interested to know that the Kosovo "Teach In" in Los Angeles is being underwritten in part by the Nation and moderated by Marc Cooper. Guess who they are billing as one of their key speakers???? Another milliona ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri May 14 17:21:45 PDT 1999