Re: [PEN-L] 20 reasons to vote for Ralph Nader on November 2

All the talk about Hitler and fascism rings true in my body and mind. It's interesting to talk about Nader but the question for me is not who to vote for, but "what will I do next?" I've been an activist since the mid-70s, so I know I'm not going back to a non-political life no matter who wins. I'l

Re: [PEN-L] stuff on divisions within the working class

What is the appeal? strong community families which take care of elders and kids hours spent with people you know cooking, eating, & singing stimulation for both brain and emotion. I am afraid of the evangelical mindset you speak about, but we need to offer much more to contra-act it's appeal in a

Re: [PEN-L] stuff on divisions within the working class

Michael Perelman wrote: > >>What is the attractiveness of the Evangelical faith. Doug writes: > >Absolute certainty, no? Every question is answered, every role is > >prescribed. Just like some debased forms of Leninism. Adrienne writes: > What is the appeal? > strong community > families wh

Re: [PEN-L] Farmers and the election

My farm-based family is slightly better off this year due to the dought letting up some in Nebraska. But it's not nearly enough to make up for losses due to the dought. Generally any figure that says "Net farm income" has to be analysized carefully. There are many corporate farms and then there

[PEN-L] Farmers and the election Part 2

I put a story about this announcement on our website's ag news page. You might ck there once in a while, in a pinch, for my perspective on big farm news. http://www.northplattebulletin.com/NorthPlatteBulletin/stories/index.asp?pageID=29&storyID=4829 (My brother edits an alternative regional newspap

Re: [PEN-L] Farmers and the election Part 2

yr welcome. a Thanks for this. Gene Coyle adrienne lauby wrote: I put a story about this announcement on our website's ag news page. You might ck there once in a while, in a pinch, for my perspective on big farm news. http://www.northplattebulletin.com/NorthPlatteBulletin/stories/index.asp?p

[PEN-L] Farmers and the election Part 3

"Farmers and ranchers I talk to are not prosperous. Most family farmers are gone, and the ones that are left survive by off-farm income... a job that provides medical insurance, and/or, in some cases, investment income. They are steadily leaving the land, and I fear they will be gone forever withou

Re: [PEN-L] latest SS poll: contradictions abound

This is exactly the problem-- those who can play the stock market and win (arguably a relatively small group of people) can pass on income to their kids. And, for the kids of the losers, it's back to the ole system whereby anyone who can't work due to age or disability must be cared for by those w

Re: [PEN-L] Global Warming: The Inuit Take on Washington

Title: Re: [PEN-L] Global Warming: The Inuit Take on Washingt Anyone seen or heard anything more about this? adrienne http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1215-24.htm Is 400 gigatons of methane locked in the frozen arctic tundra a ticking time bomb? By John Atcheson for the Baltimore Sun  Dece

Re: [PEN-L] Kerry Preparing Grounds to Unconcede (?)

Title: Re: [PEN-L] Kerry Preparing Grounds to Unconcede (?) I don't know about the conjecture.  Here's a bunch more facts. adrienne Kenneth Blackwell has requested a protective order to prevent him from being interviewed by lawyers as part of a court challenge of the presidential vote. What is h

[PEN-L] know an economic writer or a grassroots organizer?

Title: know an economic writer or a grassroots organizer? Labor activists  or writers about economics wanted for scholarships to "windfall retreat" Deadline: Saturday. simple? application. adrienne To: "Adrienne Lauby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: re: know an ecomo

[PEN-L] Social Security-- timeline?

Has anyone seen a timeline of when this is going to be introduced? Which congressional committees it will land in? adrienne

[PEN-L] E-mail to White House, Progressive Secretary

Title: E-mail to White House, Progressive Secretary Join this group.  Support the power of the Internet lobbying. Notice the statistics at the bottom of this letter.  In December almost 45 thousand  people asked this group to forward their internet appeal. Only 200 joined as new members.  That t

Re: [PEN-L] Greenspan shocker

May it be so-- and soon. >grin< adrienne GREENSPAN TO HEAD UP U2 Becomes Lead Singer as Bono Leaves for World Bank [by Andy Borowitz] Longtime Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan stunned the worlds of finance and pop music today by announcing that he would leave his post "effective immediately

[PEN-L] Bush/Schiavo irony

This action by the right is a dangerous governmental precedent. This can become an important wedge issue against the Administration and the religious right on many levels, because the right wing supreme court didn't take up the call from the right wing congress. Nonetheless-- Did you also know that

Re: [PEN-L] Bush/Schiavo irony

when talking about Terry's husband. Again, apologies. adrienne At 11:32 AM -0500 3/25/05, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: At 8:13 AM -0800 3/25/05, adrienne lauby wrote: Do you know that Terri's husband has refused for all these years to let her have any kind of rehabilitation therapy? I believe

Re: [PEN-L] Bush/Schiavo irony

I'd like an honorary membership. Would that be honorable? adrienne At 8:47 AM -0800 3/25/05, Devine, James wrote: Max wrote:>It doesn't pay for anybody to get too self-righteous about this, IMO.< I think that this is a totally unjustified slur on us Self-Righteous Americans. We've been slandered,

Re: [PEN-L] Bush/Schiavo irony

I hope I'm not taking you out of context, Yoshie. As I read these excepts of two posts I see an underestimation of the power of (sensationalist) media which is, ironically, shared by Marta Russell in her article. California has a Physician Assisted Suicide bill coming up this summer. Disabled voic

Re: [PEN-L] Schiavo, Wedge issues, Disabled Rights

Title: Re: [PEN-L] Schiavo, Wedge issues, Disabled Rights This article addresses some of the scientific medical issues surrounding brain damage and the labeling of Schiavo's condition.   Adrienne In Sunday's Chicago Tribune:  THE ISSUES RAISED BY THE TERRI SCHIAVO CASE LINGER A ND ARE AS COMPLI

Re: [PEN-L] Schiavo, Wedge issues, Disabled Rights

I'll try to resolve the difference between these ways of assessing this particular brain. In the meantime, how about a deep breath and appreciation of all we don't know about the brain? I have it from an academic expert that we are decades yet to put everything we know about the brain into someth

Re: [PEN-L] Schiavo, Wedge issues, Disabled Rights

In the interests of not milking, I'll keep this short. I wrote my friend who works in a major university as Assoc Professor, Cognitive and Neural Systems. He said-- "Its the behavioral data that counts in the end. There easily can be something not picked up the a neurologists instrumentation." If

Re: [PEN-L] Save the Pope! Pass Karol's Law Now!

way to go doyle a Greetings Economists, Bill Lear writes, I urge each member of PEN-L who is part of the culture of life to phone Congress and George Bush to demand that they intervene in the killing of Pope John Paul II, who does not have a feeding tube and who is not being forced into the hospita

Re: [PEN-L] Pacifica radio heads step down

The deep trouble at WBAI is deeply troubling to a lot of people. There are rational and smart folks who understand the problems but not enough (yet) to make a sea change. WBAI is worth working for-- A 50,000 watt station in the middle of the FM dial in the largest metro area in the US during a ti

Re: [PEN-L] Pacifica radio heads step down

what Pacifica needs now is an competant and wise new exec. director-- same with the manager job at WBAI. None of the current managers have proven to be able to clean up the mess although, rumor has it, a couple want to apply. Please think who you know and talk to them about it.