Global crash imminent?

2002-10-06 Thread Louis Proyect
Global crash fears as German bank sinks Faisal Islam, economics correspondent and Will Hutton Sunday October 6, 2002 The Observer Stockbrokers around the world are braced for a potentially calamitous week as alarm mounts over a looming, Thirties-style global financial crisis. A leaked email

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Sweet Sixteen - Ken Loach

2002-10-06 Thread Chris Burford
Another film in which Ken Loach brilliantly uses non-professional actors to portray poor working people in Britain. Set on the Clyde estuary, it fortunately is subtitled for the first 15 minutes. Described as socialist-realist in reviews in the Guardian and Observer, it of

National Lawyers Guild Legal Support for civil disobedience

2002-10-06 Thread Ralph Johansen
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 3, 2002. NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD SUPPORTS ACTS OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN PROTESTING PREEMPTIVE STRIKE AGAINST IRAQ Will Provide Legal Support and Materials Regarding Necessity Defense The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) condemns George Bush's proposed

National Days of Resistance...

2002-10-06 Thread Diane Monaco
National Days of Resistance to War and Repression, Oct 6-7 Nearly 500 marched in Toledo, Ohio from 2-3:30pm EDT today...with virtually unlimited support for peace from the countless passing pedestrians and cars. We jumped in coming from a youth soccer game -- let's hear it for my 8 year old

Re: Tragedy on the docks: White House Warns of Economic Harm

2002-10-06 Thread joanna bujes
It's interesting that Bush has not treated this situation so far as Reagan did the air traffic controllers. Any speculation as to why he's holding off? Joanna At 10:18 PM 10/05/2002 -0700, you wrote: Port Talks Resume; White House Warns of Economic Harm (Update3) By Karen Gullo San

Re: Tragedy on the docks: White House Warns of Economic Harm

2002-10-06 Thread Michael Perelman
The union says that the estimates of economic loss come from a study commissioned by the Pacific Maritime Association. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

stock market U.S. economy

2002-10-06 Thread Devine, James
Title: stock market U.S. economy Falling Shares as a Symptom of Something Bleaker www.nytimes.com Falling Shares as a Symptom of Something Bleaker By DAVID LEONHARDT Maybe the stock market really has been predicting the future of the economy. In just the last two weeks, growth has begun

Re: Tragedy on the docks: White House Warns of Economic Harm

2002-10-06 Thread Charles Jannuzi
--- joanna bujes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's interesting that Bush has not treated this situation so far as Reagan did the air traffic controllers. Any speculation as to why he's holding off? Joanna Repugs want white male votes. These guys may be overpaid, but they aren't elite civil

Re: Sweet Sixteen - Ken Loach

2002-10-06 Thread Charles Jannuzi
Loach and Leigh are just repeatedly brilliant. This is why it's easier to use film to teach UK society than it is to teach anything about the US (with a few exceptions). What is Bill Forsythe up to? CJannuzi __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill -

Re: Re: Re: Decline of American Power?

2002-10-06 Thread Charles Jannuzi
--- Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Jannuzi wrote: US private equity interests What are you talking about? This phrase is utterly new to me. Carrol Sabri answered the question, but let me also respond. If you've got at least 5 million USD to place, a whole new

Re: National Days of Resistance...

2002-10-06 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Diane Monaco [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Days of Resistance to War and Repression, Oct 6-7 Nearly 500 marched in Toledo, Ohio from 2-3:30pm EDT today...with virtually unlimited support for peace from the countless passing pedestrians and cars. We jumped

Mobilizing against the War on Iraq (Oct. 10) + Other Upcoming Events.

2002-10-06 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Thursday, October 10 Mobilizing against the War on Iraq (Workshop) Speakers: Connie Hammond, National Network to End the War Against Iraq; and Keith Kilty, Professor of Social Work, Ohio State University Come and develop strategies, tactics, talking points, etc. to help the anti-war movement

Re: Re: Tragedy on the docks: White House Warns of Economic Harm

2002-10-06 Thread Eugene Coyle
What's the basis of saying these guys may be overpaid.? That's the employer's perspective. One difference with the air traffic controllers is that they were govt employees -- and could be fired. Bush can fire the longshoremen. Gene Coyle Charles Jannuzi wrote: --- joanna bujes [EMAIL

Re: Re: National Days of Resistance...

2002-10-06 Thread Eugene Coyle
There was a good crowd in San Francisco -- average age quite low. Lots of infants, some more young kids, and lots of people in the 17 - 23 age bracket. I can't estimate the crowd but I heard the number 10,000 offered on the radio. The police were well behaved. The signs led me to believe

cowboy

2002-10-06 Thread Dan Scanlan
Title: cowboy Professor Richard Dawkins, the Oxford biologist, said in response to the report that the British have every right to feel degraded and humiliated at our government's cringing subservience to the illiterate, uncouth, unelected cowboy in the White House.

Argentina: Alternative Media Social Movements (Oct. 17) OtherUpcoming Events

2002-10-06 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Thursday, October 17 Argentina: Alternative Media and Social Movements / Argentina: Medios Alternativos y Movimientos Sociales Lecture by Marie Trigona, with Videos Slides / Conferencia por Marie Trigona, con proyeccion de videos y diapositivas Marie Trigona, an independent journalist and

Re: cowboy

2002-10-06 Thread Michael Perelman
How would a US professor do coming on like that? On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 07:38:48PM -0700, Dan Scanlan wrote: Professor Richard Dawkins, the Oxford biologist, said in response to the report that the British have every right to feel degraded and humiliated at our government's cringing

RE: Re: Re: National Days of Resistance...

2002-10-06 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30954] Re: Re: National Days of Resistance... This sounds like the rally in L.A., but that one was much smaller. There was quite an ethnic mix in L.A., from Filipinos to Native Americans. Some excessive rhetoric, but no-one seemed to care (partly because it was hard to

Re: Tragedy on the docks: White House Warns of Economic Harm

2002-10-06 Thread Devine, James
Title: Re: Tragedy on the docks: White House Warns of Economic Harm Joanna: It's interesting that Bush has not treated this situation so far as Reagan did the air traffic controllers. Any speculation as to why he's holding off? 1) the current situation is a lock-out, not a strike. 2)

1.5 Million March Against Attack on Iraq - UPI October 6, 2002

2002-10-06 Thread Ralph Johansen
United Press International October 6, 2002 1.5 Million March Against Attack on Iraq Anti-War Rallies Change Italy on Iraq? by Eric J. Lyman ROME -- More than 1.5 million Italians took to the streets of dozens of cities Saturday afternoon and evening to protest possible U.S. military action

Re: Re: Re: National Days of Resistance...

2002-10-06 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Eugene Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] The signs led me to believe that people aren't very focused yet, and still appealing to rationality on the part of govt officials. Gene Coyle = The signs in Seattle were a combo of simple variations on 'no

Re: Tragedy on the docks: White House Warns of Economic Harm

2002-10-06 Thread Charles Jannuzi
--- Eugene Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the basis of saying these guys may be overpaid.? That's the employer's perspective. One difference with the air traffic controllers is that they were govt employees -- and could be fired. Bush can fire the longshoremen. Gene Coyle

Re: Tragedy on the docks: White House Warns of Economic Harm

2002-10-06 Thread Charles Jannuzi
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joanna: It's interesting that Bush has not treated this situation so far as Reagan did the air traffic controllers. Any speculation as to why he's holding off? 1) the current situation is a lock-out, not a strike. Yes, but the union had

U.S. port closures batter Korea's economy

2002-10-06 Thread Sabri Oncu
It appears that Korea is not doing well in these days. I remember that my first exchange on PEN-L was with Brad DeLong. I just casually wrote, without giving any reasons, at the time that Korea was at risk and he said, without giving any reasons other than quoting the Economist, that the IMF

Re: U.S. port closures batter Korea's economy

2002-10-06 Thread Charles Jannuzi
--- Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears that Korea is not doing well in these days. I remember that my first exchange on PEN-L was with Brad DeLong. I just casually wrote, without giving any reasons, at the time that Korea was at risk and he said, without giving any reasons