Showdown in the Ecuadoran Jungle
Rare Class-Action Pollution Trial Pits Indians Against U.S. Oil Company
By Scott Wilson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, October 23, 2003; Page A18
LAGO AGRIO, Ecuador, Oct. 22 -- Under a warm setting sun, a half dozen
children gathered Tuesday around a
Government to change unfair pension rules
Rupert Jones
Thursday October 23, 2003
The Guardian
The government is to change the way the money is shared out when a company
pension scheme is wound up, acknowledging that the current system is
unfair.
Pensions minister Malcolm Wicks gave details yeste
Greens lose patience with oil giants
Demo planned at BP chief's speech as softer image fails to convince
Terry Macalister
Thursday October 23, 2003
The Guardian
Attempts by BP and Shell to present themselves as "enlightened" oil
companies mindful of climate change and human rights are running in
Does anybody recall where Norquist made his starve the beast statement?
Supposedly he said it on NPR.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Practical idealism"--that was why Gore must be the next President. He went
on to call for saving Social Security, preserving abortion rights,
bolstering public education, improving urban planning and resisting
restraints on free trade.
(David Corn, Nation Magazine, January 28, 1999)
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Among th
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 18:27:21 (-0400) Yoshie Furuhashi writes:
>At 5:59 PM -0400 10/22/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>We should make wages relative to labor productivity an issue, though.
Good luck explaining the concept.
>>>=
>>>Why Wojtek
At 5:59 PM -0400 10/22/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
We should make wages relative to labor productivity an issue, though.
Good luck explaining the concept.
=
Why Wojtek, I didn't know you lurked on pen-l.
Here's a problem. As long as people's wages are rising by n%,
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
We should make wages relative to labor productivity an issue, though.
Doug:
Good luck explaining the concept.
productivity isn't very hard: you can talk about the effectiveness of labor.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jde
Eubulides wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Doug Henwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>We should make wages relative to labor productivity an issue, though.
Good luck explaining the concept.
=
Why Wojtek, I didn't know you lurked on pen-l.
Here's a prob
Counterpunch, October 22, 2003
RIAA Watch
The New Morality of Capitalism
By BILL GLAHN
"You're not going to believe what I saw on TV this morning!" I had called
my wife from the road while on a business trip and these were the first
words out of her mouth. I could tell she was pissed. Not just
- Original Message -
From: "Doug Henwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> >We should make wages relative to labor productivity an issue, though.
>
> Good luck explaining the concept.
=
Why Wojtek, I didn't know you lurked on pen-l.
:->
Ian
Pollsters working in the Middle East give interviewers special training to
overcome respondents' tendency to guess the "right" answer instead of
express their true feelings. That tendency is especially acute in Iraq
after decades under Saddam Hussein, when a wrong reply could mean death.
http://www
My letter:
22 October 2003
Dear Sirs,
I am writing as an attorney and a citizen in
connection with the matters of Rachel Odes, Snehal
Shingavi, and Michael Smith, whom the University of
California has convicted before a disciplinary
committee for action relating to their involvement in
nonviolen
productivity isn't very hard: you can talk about the effectiveness of labor.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> >We should make wages relative to labor productivity an issue, though.
Doug:
> Good luck e
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
We should make wages relative to labor productivity an issue, though.
Good luck explaining the concept.
NY Times, October 21, 2003
Argentina and Brazil Align to Fight U.S. Trade Policy
By TONY SMITH
SÃO PAULO, Oct. 20 - A left-leaning statement of intent signed in Buenos
Aires last week by the presidents of Argentina and Brazil might have been
short on economic specifics, but it did send a clear me
>Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 03:08:58 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Adam Turl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Fw: URGENT APPEAL FROM THE BERKELEY STOP THE WAR COALITION
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>* please forward widely *
>
>Dear friends:
>
>The University of California has found three students
>- Rachel Ode
Bill Lear wrote
In other words, Intel demands that it be able to suckle at the teat of
the nanny state.
Exactly, and one can't help but notice that capital is headed straight
for those countries who, as a result of evil socialist and state-funded
educational development, have a highly educated wo
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 10:35:02 (-0700) Michael Perelman writes:
>...
>INTEL TO CALIFORNIA: WE'RE OUTTA HERE Intel chief executive Craig
>Barnett says ...
> "California has to treat
>business as something it has to attract and nurture." ...
In oth
So Intel says California is not willing to bribe the company enough to
expand here. I don't know what Oregon gave the company, but I recall
that Ariz's subsidy was huge. Intel made outrageous demands on Cal.
INTEL TO CALIFORNIA: WE'RE OUTTA HERE Intel chief executive Craig
Barnett says his compa
Carrol writes:
> The impact of the "race to the bottom" on u.s. conditions is
> "economic"
> only indirectly, and for that reason economic statistics can
> not really
> identify that impact. That is in part because what affects labor
> resistance is the _belief_ in runaway jobs. If the workers
A Small Country with a Moustache:
Why Amnon Dankner Sacked his Satire Columnist?
The following piece was published last week in Israeli daily Ma'ariv's
chain of local magazines. Within 48 hours, Ma'ariv's editor in chief
fired its author, columnist Yehuda Nuriel. The item, part of Nuriel's
weekly c
Troy Cochrane wrote:
> I'm curious as to the opinion of those on this list of Participatory
> Economics. It seems to be a well thought out, rationally presented, and
> viable alternative to capitalism and state socialism.
I've made a detailed assessment of parecon in two articles that have
app
"Devine, James" wrote:
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> We should make wages relative to labor productivity an issue, though.
> --
> Yoshie
>
> -
>
> all else equal, if wages fall relative to labor productivity, the "rate of
> surplus-value" rises. Or in econ-speak, unit labor costs fall.
> Jim
Th
>> >Wages in the United States are higher than when NAFTA took effect, <
>>
>>but are they higher relative to labor productivity?
>
>That's not the issue.
We should make wages relative to labor productivity an issue, though.
--
Yoshie
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all else equal, it wages fall relati
At 7:25 PM -0400 10/21/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
Devine, James wrote:
>Wages in the United States are higher than when NAFTA took effect, <
but are they higher relative to labor productivity?
That's not the issue.
We should make wages relative to labor productivity an issue, though.
--
Yoshie
* Br
Okay, please define what exactly constitues the working class? What other classes must we concern ourselves with in a class analysis of society? Are there two classes? Three? More? On what lines do we divide them up? Is this a useful distinction? Have the divisions changed at all over the last 150
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