[PEN-L:12484] Re: happy American toilers

Bravo, spoke like a brilliant statistician!~ one question though, what are "symbol manipulators?" maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Lies! Lies! & Sample Bias! > >I'd like to know the breakdown by age, income, etc. Every year they do >surveys of all the employees at my workpl

[PEN-L:12483] Re: cultural relativism

In a message dated 97-09-19 01:20:51 EDT, you write: >Slavery was abolished in the U.S precisely because >it did not conform to the constitutional principles of the North; if >the U.S was to be true to its own principles, slavery had to be >abolished, which does not explain the time and the man

[PEN-L:12482] Re: POMO on Social Classes

Larry; I no where suggest that some marxists have not written on ideas that are considered pomo today. However, regardless of the excellent work produced by some marxists--the actuality of left movements in the USA has been to pit those who see demographic issues of race and gender as primary aga

[PEN-L:12481] Ontario's Labour Rollback

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dave markland) Since Ontario has come up, here's an article I wrote a couple years ago (I'm currently updating it). Ontario’s Labor Rollback Ontario business groups welcomed Mike Harris’ June 1995 election victory with broad smiles. The Conservatives’ Common Sense Revolu

[PEN-L:12480] Re: Bill 136 withdrawn?

>The Toronto Star September 19, 1997 > >HARRIS BOWS TO PRESSURE FROM UNIONS > >"The Ontario Federation of Labour has assured >us that the retention of the right to strike would >not jeopardize public service or create instability." > > -- Labour

[PEN-L:12479] Re: happy American toilers

Lies! Lies! & Sample Bias! I'd like to know the breakdown by age, income, etc. Every year they do surveys of all the employees at my workplace, and: a) the people making good salaries are "satisfied" and b) everyone else is not! I have a strong suspicion that whatever the WSJ says, there sampl

[PEN-L:12478] Words of wisdom from Barbara Amiel

Since Conrad Black took over the Vancouver Sun, we have been treated to a regular column written by his wife, Barbara Amiel. If anything, she is even loonier and more rabidly right wing than he is. Today's column was headlined "Considering the alternative, the Russian Mafia is not so bad." Y

[PEN-L:12477] Bill 136 withdrawn?

The Toronto StarSeptember 19, 1997 HARRIS BOWS TO PRESSURE FROM UNIONS "The Ontario Federation of Labour has assured us that the retention of the right to strike would not jeopardize public service or create instability." -- Labour Minist

[PEN-L:12476] A Pop Quiz on News Judgment (fwd)

> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 21:48:41 -0700 (PDT) > From: Norman Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: A Pop Quiz on News Judgment > > > A POP QUIZ ABOUT NEWS JUDGMENT > > By Norman Solomon / Creators Syndicate > > > With summer almost gone and schools back in session around > the country

[PEN-L:12475] Re: NYT story on European currency project (fwd)

> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 18:28:10 + > Reply-To: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Jordi Martorell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: NYT story on European currency project > To: [EMAI

[PEN-L:12474] Fw: PEN-L Message (fwd)

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[PEN-L:12473] Who Dunnit? "Not me," they all said; Big Biz Fast Track Push

[COMMENT: If it did not have such potentially disasterous consequences for the labor movement, the series of denials reported here would be almost comical. According to these reports, no one did anything and no one knew anything, except those three actually indicted. SoIf this were happenin

[PEN-L:12472] Who needs fast track? by Lori Wallach

Guest Opinion Journal of Commerce September 19, 1997 Who needs fast track? BY LORI WALLACH The Clinton administration's bill to establish a new grant of "fast track" trade authority constrains a president's ability to address environmental and labor issues until 2004. Given the Democratic con

Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL PEACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION Global Political Economy Commission Panels The International Peace Research Association (IPRA) will be holding its 17th General Conference in Durban, South Africa on June 23-26, 1998. Its overarching theme will be "Meeting Human Needs i

Michael Ansara

I had to smile when I saw that Ansara was one of three people who entered a guilty plea in the Teamsters/Demoparty case. Was he the same guy who was satirized in the situationist cartoon pamphlet about the Harvard strike as saying "if you make a revolution, do it for funds"? Peter Dorman

[PEN-L:12471] re:ethnocentrism

> Date sent: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 09:04:49 -0700 (PDT) > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Colin Danby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject:[PEN-L:12466] nature of culture > Arrives now from Ricardo: > > >Colin

[PEN-L:12470] Re: happy American toilers

Doug Henwood asked, >While the dissatisfaction over pay is no surprise, the picture of workplace >satisfaction, rather low levels of anxiety, and an upbeat picture of >technology contradict a lot of left cliches. What are we to make of this? Perhaps (as Arlie Hochschild would argue) part of the

[PEN-L:12469] re: cultural relativism

Below, Terry McD and I basically agree. Most of what is going on is a matter of clarification. A friendly discussion, not an effort to trash each other. I had written: > We have to figure out how to learn from and apply Enlightenment values while respecting other cultures. < Terry McD responds:

[PEN-L:12468] re:language and thought

Ricardo Duchesne writes about my contribution: >However commendable it may be to learn about a large number of thinkers, you must also ensure coherency in your arguments.< Right, though it's hard to present any kind of consistency in little snippets. > I am not saying your views are altogether

[PEN-L:12467] 51 Unionists In South Korea Arrested

Pyongyang, September 17 (KCNA) -- The south Korean fascist clique cracked down upon the strike of unionists of the Changwon Tongil Heavy Industries Co. in south Kyongsang Province with the mobilisation of more than 2,000 policemen at dawn on September 14, a Seoul-based radio reported. The

[PEN-L:12466] nature of culture

Arrives now from Ricardo: >Colin: You may have asked one central question, but alongside that >one came a whole series of more detailed ones. Moreover, I am sure >you know that behind your queries about what I meant by "cultural >practices" is the central issue of ethnocentrism. While I am unw

[PEN-L:12465] Re:ethnocentrism

Colin: You may have asked one central question, but alongside that one came a whole series of more detailed ones. Moreover, I am sure you know that behind your queries about what I meant by "cultural practices" is the central issue of ethnocentrism. While I am unwilling to get bogged down into

[PEN-L:12464] re:language and thought

Devine: However commendable it may be to learn about a large number of thinkers, you must also ensure coherency in your arguments. I am not saying your views are altogether inconsistent, but they keep shifting, and, to that extent, there is an element of inconsistency. Also one has to be caref

[PEN-L:12463] FW: BLS Daily Report

BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 AND 18, 1997 The CPI-U rose a moderate 0.2 percent, seasonally adjusted, in August, while the core rate edged up just 0.1 percent, BLS reports. Falling apparel prices and plunging airline fares held down the core rate and helped moderate inc

[PEN-L:12462] happy American toilers

Today's Wall Street Journal has a special supplement called "American Opinion," reporting on a quarterly survey on economics, politics, and values. It portrays a fairly happy populace. Specifically, 41% of those polled reported they were "very satisfied" with their degree of job security, and ano

[PEN-L:12461] re:language-t

> Date sent: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 10:57:53 -0700 (PDT) > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tom wood) > To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject:[PEN-L:12422] Re: language-t > > Tom Wood writes: > > > Are you saying

[PEN-L:12460] Cultural Relativism

Jim D. writes >Right. We have to learn how to steer between the Skylla of ethnocentrism and the Charybdis of cultural relativism.< Absolutely right. > We have to figure out how to learn from and apply Enlightenment values while respecting other cultures. < This seems to me off the mark. In

[PEN-L:12459] Repost on Paedophile cover up

Repost Apparently the original post of this document did not come over so well ... so am reposting it ... hopefully in better readable form. Note: Since the original posting, the Premier of NSW has announced that a "judicial inquiry" will investigate Ms Arena's claims ... as another media comme