[PEN-L:10348] Job

Dublin City University has a 3 year contract position in Enterprise Development. This is really an economics position. They are looking for a PhD in economics who can teach a course on the economics of entrepreneurship. If interested, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Terry McDonough

[PEN-L:10350] Free market or corporate welfare?

On the front page of the May 19 issue of the NYT there is an article on Pataki's plan to give companies free pollution credits. The pollution credits are being described as "a free market innovation created by the Federal Clean Air Act of 1990, are generated by agencies and companies that keep

[PEN-L:10357] For Canadians -- Reform site

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Billie C. Carroll) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reform Watch website Date: 26 May 1997 15:12:27 GMT Hi Sid If you are not already aware of it, there is now an online version of the Reform Watch newsletter, distributed for several years by

[PEN-L:10360] Re: Working Assets Labor

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: To all who use Workings Assets (WALD) as their long distance phone company. As you know WALD has program funding nonprofit organisations working for progressive causes. However, they are yet to provide funding to any organization defending workers' rights in this

[PEN-L:10362] re: more planning and democracy

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker) Subject: [PEN-L:10356] re: more planning and democracy First, I want to confirm that I'm every bit as TV-deprived as Jim Devine. My last TV went on the fritz during the 1973 coup in Chile and I decided not to get it fixed to spare myself

[PEN-L:10363] Black Man's Burden

Our Marxist knowledge of Africa is underdeveloped. There is far too little coverage in left journals and discussion on the Internet tends to revolve around advanced capitalist countries. Exceptions are made for Asia and Latin America occasionally but much more attention should be paid to Africa,

[PEN-L:10366] Re: Working Assets Labor

Wojtek Solowski wrote: To all who use Workings Assets (WALD) as their long distance phone company. As you know WALD has program funding nonprofit organisations working for progressive causes. However, they are yet to provide funding to any organization defending workers' rights in this

[PEN-L:10370] Solinet conference

Solinet has been involved in an innovative form of international organizing through their web-based conferencing system. They host moderated discussions on a variety of topics which run about a month each and bring together people with common interests from different countries. It's easy to sign

[PEN-L:10369] Fwd: scary politics

The following is a truly frightening example of why gender roles are reproduced so strongly from one generation to the next. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought I would share this with you. It is unbelievable! -- Stefanie Schmidt Economist Milken Institute for Job Capital Formation

[PEN-L:10368] Re: Working Assets Labor

Sprint is nonunion and has vigorously opposed the unionization of Sprint workers. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 97-05-27 14:27:23 EDT, you write: Doesn't WALD use Sprint as their main carrier, and isn't Sprint a known union-busting company? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left

[PEN-L:10367] Re: Working Assets Labor

Doesn't WALD use Sprint as their main carrier, and isn't Sprint a known union-busting company? Doug yes to both questions...as I recall, Sprint fired a mostly Latina workforce at a Spanish-language branch in San Fransisco one week prior to a certification election that the union (CWA?) was

[PEN-L:10365] Re: Working Assets Labor

At 11:22 AM 5/27/97 -0700, Doug Henwood wrote: Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: To all who use Workings Assets (WALD) as their long distance phone company. As you know WALD has program funding nonprofit organisations working for progressive causes. However, they are yet to provide funding to any

[PEN-L:10364] re: more planning and democracy

Maximum Sawicky wrote, The only thing you missed was Max Headroom. No relation, I presume? Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [and in spreadsheets] [EMAIL

[PEN-L:10361] Re: Umbrage

Paul Phillips made several good points, 1. The NDP has tried to campaign on good solid issues -- jobs, health care, day care and social programs. 2. It is the media and the right wing politicians that have hijacked the election campaign . . 3. The NDP's decision to accept that the

[PEN-L:10359] re: more planning and democracy

Just wanted to add my two-cents' worth of confusion. On Tue, May 27, 1997 at 10:40:01 (-0700) Tom Walker writes: Bill Lear wrote, I don't remember ever advocating anything resembling a dictatorship of the proletariat, and would reject it in principle. So, we have two diametrically opposed

[PEN-L:10358] Working Assets Labor

To all who use Workings Assets (WALD) as their long distance phone company. As you know WALD has program funding nonprofit organisations working for progressive causes. However, they are yet to provide funding to any organization defending workers' rights in this country. To my knowledge, they

[PEN-L:10355] Re: Tom Walker's pronouncements

I wrote, . . . I'll bet a lot of the people who've said they're "concerned about the deficit" wouldn't know a deficit from a left-handed sky hook. And Anders Schneiderman agreed, That's certainly true this side of the border. If you asked most folks in the U.S. whether Clinton has reduced the

[PEN-L:10356] re: more planning and democracy

First, I want to confirm that I'm every bit as TV-deprived as Jim Devine. My last TV went on the fritz during the 1973 coup in Chile and I decided not to get it fixed to spare myself apoplexy. My knowledge of the Partridge Family is strictly from hearsay and supermarket tabloids. Second, I want

[PEN-L:10354] NZ jobs site

Subject: The Jobs Research Website Launched Today Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 12:50:46 + From: "vivian Hutchinson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "The Jobs Research Website" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "The Jobs Research Website" [EMAIL PROTECTED] T H E J O B S R E S E A R C H W E B S I T E

[PEN-L:10353] Re: Virtual History (fwd)

D Shniad, Don't blame the new technology on the reactionary content of virtual history. The traditional media were just as bad. Actually, the new media presents for the first time a realistic opportunity for alternative histories. While digital media (or what is called CBT in the

[PEN-L:10351] Umbrage

I apologize if I offended Tom by my somewhat immoderate response to his posting. For Sid's benefit, I will quote the original comment that prompted my frustrated response. Here in Canada, the social-democratic NDP abstains from even its own social-democratic, electoral politics in a vain attempt

[PEN-L:10352] Newspaper striker welcomes march on Detroit (fwd)

Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 19:40:03 -0500 Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Jim Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newspaper striker welcomes march on Detroit [Editor's Note: The following is the text of a speech given at a gathering of Detroit

[PEN-L:10349] more planning and democracy

Max titled his missive on this subject "The Plan Boss, the Plan" as an effort to introduce some humor. I am not humor-impaired, but it took me a couple of days to get it. The problem is that I'm TV-deprived, especially with respect to the 1970s and early 1980s. I never saw the "Brady Bunch," "the

[PEN-L:10347] FW: Daily Report

BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1997: Analysts at BLS say the latest figurs show no major varieations from their initial finding that the experimental CPI is rising about 0.25 percentage point less than the official CPI. Patrick Jackman, BLS economist, said it is too soon to interpret what