Politics and Economics - period ended 1.15.2006

Politics and Economics/Protest///My fear for Kate at hands of hooded gunman/Telegraph.co.uk/London/England/UK/1-Jan-2006//... Wildwood said. "As a family we have all been fairly politically active. I am a Quaker and get involved in Quaker campaigns. We have ...

Politics and Economics/Monopoly/Magie, Lizzie J./Union leader's blog draws scrutiny/St. Petersburg Times/St. Petersburg/FL/USA/12-Jan-2006//... On Jan. 5, Carr posted an item about the history of the board game Monopoly.

"On this date in 1904 Lizzie J. Magie, a young Quaker woman living in Virginia, received a patent on a board game she had invented as an easy, fun-filled method of teaching the evils of land monopolism," Carr wrote in a five-paragraph account of the game's history.

That paragraph and two others were nearly verbatim from a 1976 article in the San Francisco Bay Guardian that was posted on a Web site. The rest of Carr's posting was copied from the Wikipedia, an Internet encyclopedia, but he did not attribute it.

Carr's credibility is important because his union has been in contract negotiations with the FAA. ...

Politics and Economics/Labor/Safety//Appalachian Hardship/Atlantic Online/New York/NY/USA/6-Jan-2006//… In the wake of the Sago mining tragedy, a look back at an 1861 tale that brought the plight of impoverished West Virginia workers to national attention.

........ Ultimately, Deborah takes to heart the touching words of a Quaker visitor, who suggests that the Appalachian range itself can serve as her refuge. ...

The tragic events this week at West Virginia's Sago Mine have thrown into relief the risky, arduous work that Appalachian coal miners undertake each day to put bread on the table. For many, the region has long proved a difficult place in which to eke out a living—a place where thankless, difficult work of various kinds has offered the best hope of support over the years....