[PEN-L:12456] Coverage of APEC WLN protest, Sept 13/97, Hull (fwd)

> - > > Coverage of "APEC Women Leaders' Meeting" protest, September 13, 1997, > Hull > > 1. The Ottawa Sun, Sunday September 14, 1997, Page 21 > 2. The Ottawa Citizen, Sunday September 14, 1997 Page A6 > 3. The Globe and Mail, M

[PEN-L:12454] KPFA Workers Sign Divisive Contract, Lay-Off's Follow (fwd)

> Subject: KPFA Workers Sign Divisive Contract, Lay-Off's Follow > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [Those unfamiliar with the history of Pacifica radio may want to check out > . -- Aaron] > > Date: Tue, 16 Sep 97 09:09:50 CDT > From: "Lyn Gerry" <[EMAIL PROT

[PEN-L:12453] The ITF on the International Day of Action (fwd)

> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The ITF reports (part of) the International Day of Actiom in support of the > Liverpool dockers without even mentioning them !! This is scandalous. > > Chris Bailey > > --- > > >From ITF Info 13 > > Dockers' unions take action for global solidar

[PEN-L:12423] WSJ on UNCTAD report

The Wall Street Journal September 16, 1997 International: The Dark Side of Freer Global Markets U.N. REPORT FORESEES WORKER BACKLASH By Bhushan Bahree Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal GENEVA -- Western industrialized nations are the leaders so far

[PEN-L:12419] apec-L: Creating Democracy in Vancouver (fwd)

> > >Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 07:02:09 -0700 (PDT) > >From: The Vancouver International of Hope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: apec-L: Creating Democracy in Vancouver > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Precedence: bulk > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >X-UIDL: 2576647c158dc37

[PEN-L:12418] Asia Pacific Soilidarity Conference (fwd)

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 14:37:53 +1000 > > ASIA PACIFIC SOLIDARITY CONFERENCE: > SYDNEY AUSTRALIA APRIL 1998 > GLEBE HIGH SCHOOL, GLEBE > > > ALL WELCOME > > Organised by the Asia Pacific Institute for Democratisation and Development. > > Contact: > Dr Helen Jarvis,

[PEN-L:12391] Re: Prisoner to Prisoner

I missed this item. Can the original sender send it to me directly? Thanks. Sid Shniad

[PEN-L:12385] Further report on ILWU action for Liverpool (fwd)

There was absolutely no coverage of this story in the Vancouver press! > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ILWU closes down West Coast ports for Liverpool > > by Steve Stallone, Editor, The Dispatcher, the ILWU newspaper > > ILWU longshore workers shut down all ports along the North American West > Coas

[PEN-L:12357] UNCTAD REPORT

11 September 1997 Press Release TAD/1847 UNCTAD SOUNDS WARNING ON GLOBALIZATION ADVANCE RELEASE GENEVA, 11 September (UNCTAD) -- The big story of the world economy since the early 1980s has been increasing integration through the unleashing of market forces. But

[PEN-L:12353] On the other hand ...

The ONIONNumber One In News * 10 September 1997 _ News In Brief _ GEOPOLITICAL BALANCE OF POWER SOMEHOW UNAFFECTED BY DEATH OF PRINCESS LONDON--In a develo

[PEN-L:12299] Blair chastises British unions (fwd)

> > The London TimesSeptember 10, 1997 > > > > JOIN THE REAL WORLD, BLAIR TELLS UNIONS > > > > By Philip Webster and Philip Bassett > > > > The Prime Minister told the trade unions in stark terms yesterday that they > > must cast aside dogma and j

[PEN-L:12297] Bitter Paradise on TV (fwd) -- to folks in BC

> A doc done by Elaine Briere of Vancouver. She's one of the co-founders of > ETAN. There are some "good" quotes by local businessmen re: Timor > > Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 03:14:42 -0700 (PDT) > From: East Timor Alert Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Bitter Paradise

[PEN-L:12296] Re: paparazzi Greenspan

That's papparazzo (singular). > > > Last Friday there was a speech by Alan Greenspan at a dinner party for the > Center for Economic Policy Research at Stanford. Surprisingly, the speech > can be accessed on the web (with other speeches/papers by Greenspan and > others) at: > > http://woodrow

[PEN-L:12294] Re: WWW at UCLA

> I did not get to see the article to which you refer in the Times either if > you'd like to forward it to me I'd appreicate it. > > ellen starbird > I'm sending you a copy. Sid Shniad

[PEN-L:12264] Fwd(2): Protests may make Suharto may jam out on APEC

> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 13:48:35 -0400 > Subject: Fwd(2): Protests may make Suharto may jam out on APEC > > Source: CP/AP > > Protests might keep Indonesian leader away from Asia-Pacific summit > > JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesia's president might not attend an > Asia-Pacific leaders' su

[PEN-L:12251] WWW at UCLA

The New York Times September 3, 1997 AT UCLA, MIXED REACTION TO WEB-BASED COURSES By Steven R. Knowlton When students at the University of California at Los Angeles call up the World Wide Web home page for a class on 20th-century American literatur

[PEN-L:12250] People's Summit on APEC '97 (fwd)

> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 21:50:48 -0700 > Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Larry Kuehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: People's Summit on APEC '97 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The People's Summit on APEC '97 has a web site at www.vcn.bc.ca/summit

[PEN-L:12249] marcha_virtual_12_de_Septiembre (fwd)

> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Sep 9 23:35 PDT 1997 > From: juan manuel gomez gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: marcha_virtual_12_de_Septiembre > Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 01:37:27 -0500 (CDT) > > English version below > > Marcha Virtual... > > Como es de conocimiento de la opinion publica, u

[PEN-L:12217] Drake International document (fwd)

> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The following document - quaint spelling mistakes faithfully preserved - > was recovered from the wall of Drake International's offices in Charles > House, Regent St., London during the occupation by Reclaim the Streets in > support of the Liverpool dockers on 8 Sept.

[PEN-L:12214] Re: Piece on Mike Davis in _Lingua Franca_

As a refugee from my native Los Angeles, I strongly recommend City of Quartz to any Penners who want a very insightful analysis of the history and politics of L.A. I learned more from reading the book than I knew from having been raised there. Sid Shniad > > Following coffee-sipping Lou

[PEN-L:12212] Striking workers occupy PC World! (fwd)

> Strikers occupy PC World plant > CAW members vow to stay until contract is signed and 8-month walkout ends > > By Susan Bourette > The Globe and Mail > > TORONTO - Nearly 100 striking workers barricaded themselves in PC World's > main plant in Toronto yesterday, hoping to force an end to an e

[PEN-L:12211] Re: Real social change

> I'm not on any crusade against do-gooders > about whose projects I have skepticism. > But sooner or later we all have to consider > the best use of scarce political resources. > Don't we? The implication is that resources generated by Diana's campaign against land mines would otherwise be used

[PEN-L:12193] Real social change

c. I guess that settles it. No point in trying to raise public awareness or to change public opinion on the subject. In any event, that wouldn't be _real_ social change, would it? Sid Shniad

[PEN-L:12192] ALERT: Congress near a vote on Net privacy legislation; call now! (fwd)

> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 12:12:45 -0400 > From: "Shabbir J. Safdar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: ALERT: Congress near a vote on Net privacy legislation; call now! > > == > ___ _ _ _ _ > / _ \| | |

[PEN-L:12191] International Dockers Day of Action world round-up (fwd)

> Reported and expected action as of 6 p.m., 8 Sept. > > Sweden > all ports organised by Swedish Dockworkers Union to stop and all ACL and > CAST containers to be halted. All trade with Liverpool and Sheerness to be > hit. > Gothenburg: ACL vessel diverted until Wednesday. Dockers refusing to han

[PEN-L:12190] Fw: International solidarity (fwd)

> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 15:54:18 -0700 From: ntlab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: International solidarity > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Turin September 8, 1997 > > Dear comrades: > > 17 delegates from ICEM affiliated trade unions in Africa and Asia are > participating in a seminar on G

[PEN-L:12189] Major Canadian Boycott Test Case Begins (fwd)

> Subject: Major Canadian Boycott Test Case Begins > Date: Sept 5, 1997 > From: Peter Abramowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > From: SCHWARZBAUER PETER[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: August 29, 1997 1:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Lubicon Mailout > > > Fr

[PEN-L:12166] Slagging Di

f the phoniness and media hype attached to this woman and her demise, how many leftists can be said to have had a comparable influence? The Old Softy, Sid Shniad

[PEN-L:12143] Request for help for Zapatistas

THE ZAPATISTAS NEED YOU. PLEASE HELP THEM IN THEIR STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE IN MEXICO. A representative group from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation has begun a journey to Mexico City. Leaving from Chiapas, it will arrive on September 12th in Mexico City. The march to Mexico City has two

[PEN-L:12142] ACTU backs Maritime Union of Australia against government

> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Content-Type: text/plain;charset="us-ascii" > > Australian Congress of Trade Unions backs Maritime Union of Australia > against Howard Government > > Press reports from Australia quote Bill Kelty, secretary of the Australian > Congress of Trade Unions (ACTU), as promisi

[PEN-L:12127] BC Premier talks about APEC

The Vancouver Sun Thursday 4 September 1997 B.C. sees APEC as springboard Premier likens economic summit to Expo 86 when it comes to business effects. Daphne Bramham, Sun Asia-Pacific Reporter The provincial government will use its role

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