[Peace] Tape prison specail tonight?

Tue May 10 10:08:22 CDT 2005

Can anyone tell me how to use the IMC's VCR to tape?  I don't have
a TV, but could probably make it over to the IMC by 9 and put a
tape into their VCR.

Wendy

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 02:45:51PM +0000, Sandra Ahten wrote:
> Can anyone actually program a VCR? Does anyone still have a VCR? I would 
> love to
> see this program (The New Asylums, 9pm, Tuesday, May 10 on WILL-TV) and 
> don't imagine I'll be back from the media conference in time. pleease? I'll 
> owe you one.
> 
> Sandra
> 
> 
> See my art at www.spiritofsandra.com
> 
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> 
> >From: "Kranich, Kimberlie" <Kranich at WILL.uiuc.edu>
> >To: "Peace Listerv (E-mail)" <peace at lists.groogroo.com>
> >Subject: [Peace] Is Wal-Mart Good for America? on WILL-TV Wednesday night
> >Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 09:18:32 -0500
> >
> >All,
> >Two good episdoes of "Frontline" on WILL-TV tonight and tomorrow.  Tape 
> >them
> >if you're going to be at the Media Conference.
> >Kimberlie
> >The New Asylums, 9pm, Tuesday, May 10 on WILL-TV
> >There are nearly half a million mentally ill people serving time in
> >America's prisons and jails. As sheriffs and prison wardens become the
> >unexpected and ill-equipped gatekeepers of this burgeoning population, they
> >raise a troubling new concern: are jails and prisons America's new asylums?
> >With exclusive and unprecedented access to prison therapy sessions, mental
> >health treatment meetings, crisis wards, and prison disciplinary tribunals,
> >FRONTLINE goes deep inside Ohio's state prison system to present a searing
> >exploration of the complex and growing topic of mental health behind bars
> >and a moving portrait of the individuals at the center of this issue.
> >Is Wal-Mart Good for America?, 9pm, Wednesday, May 11 on WILL-TV
> >In Circleville, Ohio, population 13,000, the local RCA
> >television-manufacturing plant was once a source of good jobs with good pay
> >and benefits. But in late 2003, RCA's owner, Thomson Consumer Electronics,
> >lost a sizeable portion of its production orders and six months later shut
> >the plant down, throwing 1,000 people out of work.
> >Thomson's jobs have moved to China, where cheap labor manufactures what the
> >American consumer desires -- from clothing to electronics -- and can buy at
> >"everyday low prices" at the local Wal-Mart.
> >FRONTLINE explores the relationship between U.S. job losses and the 
> >American
> >consumer's insatiable desire for bargains in "Is Wal-Mart Good for 
> >America?"
> >Through interviews <../interviews/> with retail executives, product
> >manufacturers, economists, and trade experts, correspondent Hedrick Smith
> >examines the growing controversy over the Wal-Mart way of doing business 
> >and
> >asks whether a single retail giant has changed the American economy.
> >"Wal-Mart's power and influence are awesome," Smith says. "By figuring out
> >how to exploit two powerful forces <../secrets/> that converged in the 
> >1990s
> >-- the rise of information technology and the explosion of the global
> >economy -- Wal-Mart has dramatically changed the balance of power
> ><../secrets/shots.html> in the world of business. Retailers are now more
> >powerful than manufacturers, and they are forcing the decision to move
> >production offshore."
> >"Wal-Mart has reversed a hundred-year history that had the retailer
> >dependent on the manufacturer," explains Nelson Lichtenstein
> ><../interviews/lichtenstein.html>, a professor at the University of
> >California Santa Barbara. "Now the retailer is the center, the power, and
> >the manufacturer becomes the serf, the vassal, the underling who has to do
> >the bidding of the retailer. That's a new thing."
> >To understand the secret of Wal-Mart's success, Smith travels from the
> >company's headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., to their global procurement
> >center in Shenzhen, China, where several hundred employees work to keep the
> >company's import pipeline running smoothly. Of Wal-Mart's 6,000 global
> >suppliers, experts estimate that as many as 80 percent are based in China.
> >"Wal-Mart has a very close relationship with China," says Duke University
> >Professor Gary Gereffi <../interviews/gereffi.html>. "China is the largest
> >exporter to the U.S. economy in virtually all consumer goods categories.
> >Wal-Mart is the leading retailer in the U.S. economy in virtually all
> >consumer goods categories. Wal-Mart and China are a joint venture."
> >When trade agreements were signed between the U.S. and China in the 1990s,
> >bringing China into the World Trade Organization, American political and
> >business leaders embraced the idea <../china/trade.html>. China's 1.2
> >billion people were viewed as an enormous untapped market for American-made
> >goods. The reality, experts say, is the opposite. China's exports to the
> >U.S. have skyrocketed.
> >At a salary of only 50 cents an hour or $100 a month, Chinese labor is an
> >unbeatable bargain for international business. And the Chinese government 
> >is
> >doing everything it can to be sure the country's infrastructure supports 
> >the
> >export business. Ten years ago Shenzhen's main port did not exist. Today
> >it's on the verge of becoming the third busiest port in the world.
> >Wal-Mart estimates it imports $15 billion of Chinese goods every year and
> >concedes that the figure could be higher -- some estimates range as high as
> >$20 or $30 billion. Company executives are quick to point out they have
> >always scoured the globe for low cost suppliers to benefit the American
> >consumer.
> >"We do depend on products from around the globe to draw our consumers into
> >the stores," says Ray Bracy <../interviews/bracy.html>, Wal-Mart's vice
> >president for federal and international public affairs. "We feel they need
> >to have the best product, the best value, at the best price we can 
> >achieve."
> >Some experts contend Wal-Mart's "everyday low prices" are causing a clash
> ><../transform/isgood.html> between the interests of Americans as workers 
> >and
> >the desires of Americans as consumers.
> >"If people were only consumers, buying things at lower prices would be just
> >good. But people also are workers who need to earn a decent standard of
> >living," says economist Larry Mishel of the Economic Policy Institute. "The
> >dynamics that create lower prices at Wal-Mart and other places are also
> >undercutting the ability of many, many workers to earn decent wages and
> >benefits and have a stable life."
> >Economist Brink Lindsey <../interviews/lindsey.html> of the Cato Institute
> >sees it another way. "I think Wal-Mart is good for America," he says.
> >"Wal-Mart is doing what the American economy is all about, which is
> >producing things consumers want to buy ... offering consumers a wide range
> >of goods at rock-bottom prices. It is meeting the market test."
> >This is little consolation to the unemployed workers back in Circleville,
> >Ohio. Steve Ratcliff, a long-time worker at the Thomson plant puts it
> >simply: "If you want these low prices, then you go buy your products from
> >Wal-Mart. But what does that actually do for this country? It's putting
> >people out of work. And it's lowering our standard of living. That's the
> >bottom line."
> >Ironically, for Ratcliff and his former colleagues, there are new jobs
> >coming to town. In a patch of farmland right next to the vacant Thomson
> >plant, Wal-Mart has broken ground on one of its new Supercenters. But the
> >Wal-Mart jobs will represent a steep cut in pay from the $15 to $16 an hour
> >workers made at Thomson, and a far cry from the pension, health care, and
> >job security benefits that have long been the norm in manufacturing.
> > <<...OLE_Obj...>>
> >
> >
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