For those groups which have been or are interested
in working on workfare/welfare reform issues, you may want
to know that --
Jobs With Justice is discussing a national day of action
on workfare/welfare reform in December (date not finalized).
The three themes of the proposed day of action
On April 8-9, Central Arizona Jobs With Justice will be sponsoring
"A Teach-In With the Labor Movement" at Arizona State
University in Tempe. The teach-in will be modeled after the
successful teach-in held at Columbia University last fall.
Linda Chavez-Thompson, executive vice president of
the
Brief Report on October 13-15, Progressive Unity Conference at Arizona
State University
Approx. 75 activists representing several dozen peace, human rights,
environmental, and social justice organizations met for a three day
conference at ASU.
The two major urban areas of the state, Phoenix
Arizona State AFL-CIO calls for WorkerUs Bill of Rights ballot initiative.
The Arizona AFL-CIO is circulating petitions to place an Arizona WorkerUs
Bill of Rights on the November 1996
general election ballot.
Organizers plan to collect 250,000 signatures statewide
I disagree with Bill Mitchell's statment that environmental
considerations mean the abolition of poverty is impossible.
The physical resources of the Earth may be finite but technological
development is not. New technologies being developed will allow
for more efficient use of resources,
Is there anything to the notion of Kondratiev waves?
I tend to be skeptical, since the underlying technology
of society changes so much during the 50-year "cycle"
and because of the impact of large political events
(World War Two for example), that such a large scale
cycle could be governing the
