[PEN-L:4222] David Noble on the information highway

1995-02-17 Thread D Shniad
>From Issue 013 of CPU: Working in the Computer Industry 02/15/95 An electronic publication for workers in the computer industry THE TRUTH ABOUT THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY by David Noble At the end of November, the truth about the information highway finally got out. Protesting

[PEN-L:4221] Apologies

1995-02-17 Thread D Shniad
Apologies to folks who are feeling inundated with unsolicited forwarded messages from Mexico. I have been informed that these messages are not the subject of universal appreciation among folks on the list. So I will put an end to forwarding them. For anyone on the list does want to keep abreast

[PEN-L:4220] Forwarded mail...

1995-02-17 Thread D Shniad
Forwarded message: Date: Thu, 16 Feb 95 18:50:39 cst From: list PAZ EN MEXICO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Apparently-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 95 18:50:09 cst From: juan sweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: solidarity THE MEXICAN JES

[PEN-L:4219] New Run on Markets in Mexico (fwd)

1995-02-17 Thread D Shniad
Forwarded message: > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 16 19:20:29 1995 > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 21:05:36 -0600 (CST) > From: "Harry M. Cleaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: New Run on Markets in Mexico (fwd) > To: Comite de Solidaridad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTE

[PEN-L:4218] OAS Petition Protesting Human Rights Abuses (fwd)

1995-02-17 Thread D Shniad
> > /* Written 6:43 PM Feb 16, 1995 by afscilemp in igc:reg.mexico */ > /* -- "HUMAN RIGHTS PETITION TO THE OAS" -- */ > The following is a press statement to announce the filing of a > petition before the OAS Inter-American Commission for Human rights > to protect persons being

[PEN-L:4217] Anti-Chase Actions (fwd)

1995-02-17 Thread D Shniad
Forwarded message: > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 17 07:30:04 1995 > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 09:16:19 -0600 (CST) > From: "Harry M. Cleaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Anti-Chase Actions > To: Comite de Solidaridad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], >

[PEN-L:4216] Rept. of HR Observers in Chiapas (fwd)

1995-02-17 Thread D Shniad
> /* Written 9:32 PM Feb 16, 1995 by moonlight in igc:reg.mexico */ > /* -- "Eng.Version: Human Rights Viol./Iss" -- */ > The following are excerpts of reports posted to reg.mexico that are related to > human rights issues and violations and which have been translated into Englis

[PEN-L:4215] Report of Bodies, Searches, Harrassement (fwd)

1995-02-17 Thread D Shniad
> Subject: (Eng) Deaths, Arrests and Court > > /* Written 10:48 PM Feb 16, 1995 by moonlight in igc:reg.mexico */ > /* -- "(Eng) Deaths, Arrests and Court" -- */ > 0[B > La Jornada, Feb. 15, pg. 13 > > *Suspicions that the Mexican Army had casualties* > *Some 20 bodies were ta

[PEN-L:4214] AI: Mex. Bull. 1-4 (threats, disappearances, etc) (fwd)

1995-02-17 Thread D Shniad
> To: chiapas-l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: AI: Mexico Bulletin 1-4 > > Following the AI: Mexico Bulletin from the activ-list > > --Forwarded message begins here- > >Subject: AI: Mexico bulletin 1/4 > > > >+

[PEN-L:4213] Urgent Action Alert, Jorge Santiago (fwd)

1995-02-17 Thread D Shniad
> To: Activists > Re: Human Rights Abuses in Mexico > Date: February 15, 1995 > > Jorge Santiago Santiago, director of DESME, A.C., an internationally funded > organization which does rural development work in the state of Chiapas, was > arrested February 10th and charged with subversive acts.

[PEN-L:4212] references on "competitiveness"

1995-02-17 Thread Lynn.Duggan
PEN-L friends, I'm working on a project with sociologists and political scientists to try to understand the effect of "globalization" on welfare states. As an economist I'm used to formulating this as the effect of the increasingly international nature of finance, production, and trade. At th

[PEN-L:4211] Three economists "protest" punitive "welfare reform".

1995-02-17 Thread Mike Meeropol
Dear Penners: The following memo was put together three economists (all PENNERS) in an effort to influence my (Mike M's) local Congressman. We decided it might be useful to share it with a wider audience in case -- a) people have ideas how to make such an argument better [but not longer!], b) pe

[PEN-L:4210] Forwarded message...

1995-02-17 Thread Marianne Hill
Excerpts from: ANTI-ABORTION TERROR ESCALATES IN CALIFORNIA *** Four Women's Clinics Attacked in February By Tom Burghardt SAN FRANCISCO (February 16) -- Four California women's health centers have been attacked by anti-abortion terrorists since February 1. The latest attack follows close

[PEN-L:4209] Re: "story"

1995-02-17 Thread Jim Devine
On Thu, 16 Feb 1995 20:46:19 -0800 Eugene Coyle said: >He didn't use the word story, but Paul Samuelson, in >conceding defeat in the Cambridge controversey, called >neo-classical marginalism a parable. I think it was in >the QJE but don't recall what year. Early '70s I think. >Parable is a good