Bob Morris @ Oct 4th 2002 23:33 - Category: Unfiled ;
More Sunday L.A. Protest info
Just added speaker, Ron Kovik, author “Born on the Fourth of July”
Parking map. Arrive early!
http://www.notinourname.net/~losangeles/parking.html
Bob Morris @ Oct 4th 2002 10:05 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bob Morris @ Oct 4th 2002 10:00 - Category: Unfiled ;
Not In Our Name ad in L.A. Times
Not In Our Name is the umbrella organization for the upcoming nationwide anti-war protests on Sunday. When their full page ad appeared in the New York Times last month, they started getting 10,000 hits a day on the website!
Today, the ad is in the L.A. Times, pg 7 in the California section in my edition.
Just in time for the Sunday demonstration! (Federal Bldg, 11000 Wilshire at Veteran in Westwood, 1-6 PM)
Bob Morris @ Oct 4th 2002 09:37 - Category: Unfiled ;
Dock strike, the major issue (and it’s not money)
The big stumbling block to a renegotiated labor agreement is technology. Shipping and terminal companies want to replace hundreds of unionized clerks with labor-saving devices, such as bar codes and scanners.
Since the 1960s, when mechanization first became an issue, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union has not stood in the way of progress, even as it lost tens of thousands of unionized jobs to technological advances. Labor’s only insistence has been that the high-tech workers who remain be protected by union contracts. At stake are good jobs that workers need to preserve a middle-class standard of living.
The maritime association wants the jobs to be nonunion.
Bob Morris @ Oct 4th 2002 00:12 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bob Morris @ Oct 4th 2002 00:11 - Category: Unfiled ;
Where’s the Beef? It’s in Your French Fries
This award winning series of articles from India West, an American weekly, looks at the McDonalds beef in the fries brouhaha from the viewpoint of people from India, and of Jains, who are strict vegetarians, and who were not pleased to learn that eating the fries, however inadvertently, broke their religious tenets..
Cathy Gilbert, coordinator of McDonald’s Customer Satisfaction Department, confirmed that natural beef flavoring is used in the french fries. “We use something similar to beef broth, just to enhance the flavor”
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Taco Bell’s 7-layer vegetable burrito, which is served with guacamole laced with sour cream, contained gelatin, a jelly-like extract made by boiling the skin, hooves, horns or bones of animals. <Yuck!> Taco Bell switched to gelatin-free guacamole a couple of years ago, said Laurie Gannon, the fast food chain’s director of public relations. <Whew!>
Bob Morris @ Oct 4th 2002 00:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
Custom Jesus KING OF KINGS GI Joe figure
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people, P.T. Barnum
Bob Morris @ Oct 4th 2002 00:06 - Category: Unfiled ;
Graduated? Now grab a gun or some cocaine
Every year only 70 out of more than 800 high school graduates in the towns of Saravena and Araquita in Colombia’s oil-rich west go on to higher education. “The rest have no other option than to join the guerrillas or go to work processing coca plants,” lamented Saravena’s mayor.
Or maybe get recruited in the U.S. - 2000 Sheep and a Shovel Toilet
Bob Morris @ Oct 4th 2002 00:05 - Category: Unfiled ;
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