> . . .
> Or they can send me a roundtrip plane ticket to D.C. so I can give a seminar
> on Hours of Work to the Economic Policy Institute (I'm sure Max will let me
> billet at his place for free, as long as I don't eat too much cabbage and
> beans). Preferably the ticket will be routed so I ca
At 04:15 PM 1/14/98 -0800, Tom Walker wrote:
>If that's what you want, Wojtek, your course of action is clear: do nothing.
>The system is already partially or completely dysfunctional.
examples follow.
It is a tempting proposition, but I am a bit uneasy about the do nothing
part. It is not o
At 04:10 PM 1/14/98 -0500, Dave Richardson wrote:
>It should be noted that none of these decisions were made strictly from
>the narrow financial point of view of the hospital -- that would be a
>violation of medical ethics.
etc.
There is another possible interpretation: once the docs found out
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>Nothing absurd about Baudrillard's analysis of the Gulf war. >
Ha
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John Gulick
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Sociology Graduate Program
University of California-Santa Cruz
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Wojtek Sokolowski wrote,
>I agree, however, I also think college trained professionals can do more
>than just exposing superficial class peace and providing "leadership." The
>latter sound suspciously like the traditional aspirations of the middle
>class. We can do much more than that: provide
The term white arose as a designation for European explorers, traders and
settlers who came into contact with Africans and the indigenous people of
the Americas. As such, it appeared even before permanent British settlement
in North America. Its early usages in American served as much to
distingui
In a previous post, I relayed a press release from the Canadian Bankers
Association announcing their plans to launch a campaign of "better
understanding of economic and financial issues." The announcement specified
that they would be working with the Canadian Foundation for Economic
Education. Her
Max and I have been discussing the design principles of a tax on overtime.
Max has been prompting me for price tags, definitions, and close
quantifications. I have been averse to multiplying assumptions needlessly.
Now, I'd like to retrace my steps and highlight once again the simple
hypothesis th
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ricardo Duchesne
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>Nothing absurd about Baudrillard's analysis of the Gulf war.
Wouldn't Baudrillard be disappointed with the judgement that his work
was not absurd?
> The war
>was hardly "real" in that we merely experienced it through a
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Jerry Levy's discussion of anarcho-Marxists is very welcome. My
understanding is that the difference between "antiauthoritarian Marxists" (a
redundant phrase, at least in my book) and pure anarchists is that while the
latter want to abolish the state as soon as possible, the former want to
fir
At 07:10 PM 1/13/98 -0500, starbird/anzalone wrote, as quoted by Lou Proyect:
>During a heated cold war U.N. debate (I believe the issue was whether or
>not the U.S. should be allowed to dictate policy to a souvereign nation;
>Cuba?) Krushchev spoke/cajoled, yelled and beat his shoe against the ta
At 02:18 PM 1/13/98 -0500, Dick Platkin wrote:
>So, knowing that severe economic and political crises will appear, in the
U.S.
>and elsewhere, shouldn't we be ahead of the curve? Shouldn't we now
undertake
>the political organizing necessary to make sure that future crisis don't
>present squander
At 12:53 PM 1/14/98 -0800, Tom Walker wrote:
>Sometimes I get the impression that leftistes are more wedded than anyone to
>institutionalized financial support for political/educational work -- as if
>a board, a bureaucracy, and a charitable tax number (in other words,
>legitimization in the eyes
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote,
>My idea was to subvert that system altogether, introduce elements that
>would render it partially or completely dysfunctional. Otherwise, I would
>have titled my project the 'Reformer Cookbook for the 21st Century.'
If that's what you want, Wojtek, your course of actio
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This is for those who have wondered where the BLS Daily Report had gone.
The following was sent out to my co-worke
Max Sawicky wrote,
>He wouldn't get a grant for that. Too much lead
>time required. If he could do it in 2,000
>installments, it might get syndicated. I'm
>thinkin multimedia, Internet, Java scripts
>for little balloons that pop up. "Click here
>for solution to transformation problem."
And
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ricardo Duchesne
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>> Mediated is not the same as unreal. 180 000 Iraqis were killed in the
>> initial raids. Tens of thousands more have died since as a result of the
>> embargo on Iraqi oil, and the shortages of medicine and foodstuffs.
>
Dates: Friday, January 16th and 23rd, 1998 (check local listings)
Subject: Surviving the Bottom Line with Hedrick Smith
Place: Your Local PBS Affiliate
If the economy is going great guns, why do so many of us feel jumpy about
our jobs, our future and our communities? Who calls the shots in our
from http://www.kctu.org/news8.htm
The 'historic' meeting began with an explanation by Mr. Camdessus that the
urgency of the situation when he was last in Korea prevented him from
meeting with labour leaders, but one of the specific purposes of the current
visit was to hold dialogue with the labo
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