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NYTimes.com: Prison Nation
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

This page was sent to you by: sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu. OPINION | March 10, 2008 Editorial: Prison Nation Persuading public officials to adopt a more rational approach to prison policy is a daunting prospect, not least because building and running jailhouses has become a major industry. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/opinion/10mon1.html?ex=1205812800&en=ca27… ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

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NYTimes.com: Athletic Scholarships: Expectations Lose to Reality
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

This page was sent to you by: sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu. SPORTS | March 10, 2008 The Scholarship Divide: Athletic Scholarships: Expectations Lose to Reality By BILL PENNINGTON The expectations of parents and athletes can differ sharply from the realities of college athletics. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/sports/10scholarships.html?ex=1205812800&… ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

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Better Neighbors: A New Way Forward for North America
by Eugene McElroy 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

Better Neighbors: A New Way Forward for North America Nationwide Speaking Tour featuring Carleen Pickard (Canada), Hector Sanchez (Mexico) and Manuel Perez Rocha (Mexico) Thurs, March 13, 6 pm, Graduate Student Lounge, College Avenue, Rutgers University As the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) turns fifteen it is time to get the facts out about how this defining agreement has failed. In late-winter 2008, Global Exchangetogether with the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, The Council of Canadians, the Mexican Action Network on Free Trade, the Alliance for Responsible Trade and many other groupsare organizing a speaking tour across the United States to detail the indisputable yet seldom mentioned links between bad continental trade and economic policies and accelerated Mexican migration to the US. The team of experts representing Mexican, Canadian, and US organizations, will also take a critical look at the "NAFTA-plus" economic and security arrangements being forged behind closed doors between the leading corporations and executive branches of Canada, the US, and Mexico without genuine consultation with the legislatures or public in any of the three countriesotherwise known as the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). Carleen Pickard is a Regional Organizer for the Council of Canadians, which is Canada's largest citizens' organization with members and chapters across the country. Carleen works with communities to protect Canadian independence by promoting progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, safe food, public health care, and other issues of social and economic concern to Canadians. In August of 2007, the third Summit on the Security and Prosperity Partnership took place in Montebello, Quebec, and the Council of Canadians called a National Day of Action. Carleen worked with activists in BC to oppose the Summit. She previously worked with Global Exchange on human rights and economic rights issues in Mexico and Latin America. Hector Sánchez is the Policy Education Coordinator for Global Exchange's Mexico Program. He represents the program in Washington, D.C., where he coordinates efforts to inform and organize legislators and key organizations in support of new priorities on trade and immigration. Hector has over 10 years of policy, research and community organizing experience in the education, government, and non-profit sectors. His commentaries on Mexican politics were frequently published in Mexico before he moved to Washington six years ago. During the five years prior to joining Global Exchange in the summer of 2007, Hector worked at Education Trust where he developed and led an initiative to improve public education for this country's immigrant and Latino community. He holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in Political Science from the University of Texas. Manuel Pérez Rocha is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C. where he directs an advocacy and research project on "the Security and Prosperity Partnership and the NAFTA Plus Agenda." Manuel works in coordination with the Alliance for Responsible Trade in the United States and is a member of the Mexican Action Network on Free Trade (RMALC). He has worked for more than a decade with Mexican and international civil society organizations and networks including the Hemispheric Social Alliance and Oxfam International doing advocacy work for fair economic relations among countries, particularly for trade with justice. Manuel studied International Relations at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and holds a M.A. in Development studies for the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. Sponsored by the Global Exchange, Rutgers Department of Latin American Studies, the Rutgers Global Food and Agriculture Coalition, and Sustainable Connections -------------------- See article below on the issue: Linking NAFTA and immigration By Ted Lewis February 29, 2008 San Diego Union Tribune As Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama slug out the Ohio round of their Democratic primary fight, the issue of NAFTA has returned to the center of debate, revealing deep, unresolved tension in the Democratic Party 15 years after the passage of the landmark trade agreement. It's not hard to see why knocking NAFTA makes for good politics in Ohio. The state has lost more than 200,000 manufacturing jobs since 2000. Anger spurred by these losses played a major role in Ohio voters' choice of Democrat Sherrod Brown - an outspoken opponent of NAFTA - as their U.S. senator in 2006. And NAFTA's political significance was demonstrated again in exit polls from the Feb. 19 Wisconsin primary, which found 70 percent of Democratic voters hold the treaty responsible for job losses in the Midwest. But while the candidates have taken political shots at each other over trade, neither one has been specific about how he or she would change the agreement. Indeed, Hillary Clinton's vague call for more labor and environmental protections in NAFTA echoes the toothless side agreements that her husband used as a fig leaf for supporting a trade agreement with major corporate backing in 1993. Obama hasn't gone much further. So would either a President Obama or Clinton live up to their campaign promises to Ohio voters and change NAFTA? Surprisingly, the answer may be yes. NAFTA's relevance to this year's election - and the likelihood that a Democratic president will have to scrap or change it - is due as much to its role in accelerating undocumented migration from Mexico as to the visceral reaction swing voters in Midwestern states such as Ohio have to job losses it causes here at home. During the NAFTA debate in 1993, advocates assured the U.S. and Mexican people that it would greatly alleviate unauthorized immigration by increasing employment opportunities in Mexico and closing the gap between U.S. and Mexican wages. But the promise of prosperity has been a mirage for millions of Mexicans: the value of the Mexican minimum wage dropped 23 percent in NAFTA's first decade; 19 million more Mexicans are living in poverty than 20 years ago, and today, one quarter of Mexico's population cannot afford basic foods. Increased income disparity and poverty in the post-NAFTA years correlated with a sharp rise in migration to the United States, especially from the Mexican countryside. Even the most conservative estimates make it clear that during the first decade of NAFTA the annual number of undocumented immigrants arriving in the United States from Mexico nearly doubled. While the bulk of the American immigration reform debate in the past year has focused on dueling proposals for higher border fences or restrictive guest-worker programs, some advocates have begun to state the obvious: If you don't address the root causes of economic insecurity, no fence will keep Mexicans from crossing the border in urgent search of opportunities that have disappeared at home. Indeed, both Obama and Clinton have started to make this link in their public appearances. While free-trade advocates will try to portray the agreement as sacrosanct, a Democratic Congress and president could do much to fix NAFTA. The first step lies in rebuilding America's fraying relationship with Mexico's people. A president offering to fix the worst aspects of the agreement would be hailed as a friend. Short of canceling the agreement outright, the United States, Mexico and Canada could agree to a series of steps to shield the most vulnerable farmers and workers. First among these would be to restore the power of national governments to shape agricultural policies with a special eye to stabilizing small and subsistence-level farmers, who are the most easily displaced. Additionally, we should assist communities that have been the hardest hit by targeting government, private and nongovernmental investments to grass-roots initiatives that stabilize communities and, in Mexico, reduce the pressure to migrate. To develop the tools needed for an intelligent rethinking of NAFTA, Congress should immediately mandate a bias-free and comprehensive study of NAFTA's impacts that includes employment and income distribution in all three NAFTA countries, as well as on immigration. Such a study - guided by reality, not blind faith in free-trade ideology - can serve any incoming administration as a road map for change. To date, such a study has never been carried out. This election year, the confluence of economic insecurity at home and abroad with growing immigration offers a unique opportunity to fix NAFTA. If a President Obama or Clinton spends the political capital necessary to link the issues of NAFTA and immigration, the payoff politically and in terms of real change for real people on both sides of the border could be enormous. Lewis is Mexico human rights director for Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based global human rights organization. Global Exchange is an international human rights group that relies on its members - tens of thousands of people like you - to work with us to create social, political and environmental justice. _______________________________________________ Global_initiative mailing list Global_initiative(a)email.rutgers.edu https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/global_initiative -- Eugene McElroy Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations Library 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 732-932-9513 tel: 732-932-9513 ********

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NYTimes.com: Hormones, Genes and the Corner Office
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

This page was sent to you by: sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu. BOOKS / SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW | March 9, 2008 Hormones, Genes and the Corner Office By EMILY BAZELON Though girls and women are triumphing in the classroom, men still largely rule the workplace. Susan Pinker asks why. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/books/review/Bazelon-t.html?ex=1205726400… ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

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NYTimes.com: The No. 1 Detective Agency
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

This page was sent to you by: sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu. BOOKS / SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW | March 9, 2008 The No. 1 Detective Agency By CHELSEA CAIN The fictional memoirs of the real Allan Pinkerton, P.I. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/books/review/Cain-t.html?ex=1205726400&en… ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

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NYTimes.com: Ex-Labor Leader, Guilty of Racketeering, Recites a 45-Minute Catalog of Crimes
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 08 Mar '08

08 Mar '08

This page was sent to you by: sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu. NEW YORK REGION | March 8, 2008 Ex-Labor Leader, Guilty of Racketeering, Recites a 45-Minute Catalog of Crimes By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS Brian M. McLaughlin's methods of enriching himself included methodical theft from a youth athletic association and receiving kickbacks for providing unpaid union labor. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/08/nyregion/08plea.html?ex=1205643600&en=ae2… ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

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NYTimes.com: Colleges Reduce Out-of-State Tuition to Lure Students
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 08 Mar '08

08 Mar '08

This page was sent to you by: sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu. EDUCATION | March 8, 2008 Colleges Reduce Out-of-State Tuition to Lure Students By JONATHAN D. GLATER Flagship public universities have long sought a national student body, but now more state universities appear to be reducing tuition to attract out-of-state students. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/08/education/08states.html?ex=1205643600&en=… ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

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NYTimes.com: Math Suggests College Frenzy Will Soon Ease
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 08 Mar '08

08 Mar '08

This page was sent to you by: sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu. EDUCATION | March 9, 2008 Math Suggests College Frenzy Will Soon Ease By ALAN FINDER Universities expect a declining number of applications within a few years, which could make it easier for students to get into college. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/education/09admissions.html?ex=1205643600… ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

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NYTimes.com: Sold on a Sense of Family at Rutgers
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 08 Mar '08

08 Mar '08

This page was sent to you by: sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu. SPORTS / COLLEGE BASKETBALL | March 8, 2008 Sports of The Times: Sold on a Sense of Family at Rutgers By HARVEY ARATON Rutgers Coach C. Vivian Stringer, a college basketball lifer, has endured many a personal blow across 37 years at three schools while maintaining the audacity of hope. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/08/sports/ncaabasketball/08araton.html?ex=12… ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

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NYTimes.com: Economy Lost 63,000 Jobs in February
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

This page was sent to you by: sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu. BUSINESS | March 7, 2008 Economy Lost 63,000 Jobs in February By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM A report showing the fastest fall-off in the labor market in five years raised anticipation on Wall Street that the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates sharply later this month. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/07/business/07cnd-econ.html?ex=1205557200&en… ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

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