Archive for April, 2007
Workers Appeal for Help as Just Garments Closes
This appeal just came to us from the tireless and wonderful Charles Kernaghan of the National Labor Committee, about the Just Garments factory in El Salvador (covered in an article in the Sept/Oct 2005 issue of D&S); thanks to Jay Blair for alerting us: Something went terribly wrong at the Just Garments factory in El ...Read more.
This just in…D&S reads the news (#7)
The seventh in a series of blog entries by D&S collective member Larry Peterson. Usually one can expect The Financial Times to stay clear of the more flamboyant rhetorical and editorial excesses characteristic of the Wall Street Journal, but today a headline so crass struck my befuddled morning eyes that I thought I had my ...Read more.
The economics, and the politics, of environmentalism
By Gerald Friedman, CPE Staff Economist An Econ-Atrocity, brought to you by the Center for Popular Economics. At the time of the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, the Environmental Movement straddled two approaches to addressing environmental problems, approaches rooted in two alternative theories. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin proposed the first Earth Day to ...Read more.
This just in…D&S reads the news (#6)
The sixth in a series of blog entries by D&S collective member Larry Peterson. Perhaps the most far-reaching yet underappreciated economics-related story hitting the news this week concerned the fight in Congress over patents. This fight features as antagonists two of the most important and influential sub-sectors in the economy (not to mention their lobbyists): ...Read more.
Post Office to the First Amendment: Drop Dead
By Robert W. McChesney This article appeared on Common Dreams on Tuesday, April 17th. Everyone who visits the Common Dreams site is reading articles that were first published or commissioned by print publications. Without these print publications, there would be a lot less material for all of us to read, and some of our most ...Read more.
This just in…Circuit City and the Global Economy(#5)
The fifth in a series of blog entries by D&S collective member Larry Peterson. We found this in our Inbox today: Greetings: Considering what is happening at Circuit City as well as in the manufacturing sector of the US economy, I am no longer shocked by, but I am disgusted at, the constant reports from ...Read more.
Monique Harden responds to the Times
Environmental activist Monique Harden, whom D&S collective member Ben Greenberg interviewed for our March/April 2006 special issue on Katrina, co-wrote an excellent letter to the editor of the New York Times: April 15, 2007Home to New Orleans (1 Letter) To the Editor: An April 10 news article praises Edward J. Blakely, the executive director of ...Read more.
Dreams and borders: Looking at immigration from the Mexican side
Chris Tilly and Marie KennedyApril 14, 2007 This is the third in a series of posts by D&S comrades Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly, who are spending six months in Tlaxcala in central Mexico. Their first posting was about the recent increases in the price of tortillas in Mexico. The raid came on a Friday ...Read more.
This just in…D&S Reads the News (#4)
by Dollars & Sense The fourth in a new series of blog entries by D&S collective member Larry Peterson. I had really hoped to avoid posting an entry on embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz. Honestly, I did. To me, the idea of an “anti-corruption” crusading Wolfowitz constituted something of a sick joke even before ...Read more.
This just in…D&S reads the news (#3)
The third in a new series of blog entries by D&S collective member Larry Peterson. Max Fraad Wolff of Global Macroscope has a knack for keeping his eye on what’s absolutely essential: …tax rates on the highest income earners fell starting in the 1970s…tax rates actually rose for the middle fifth of the income distribution ...Read more.
