From gimenez@csf.Colorado.EDU Wed Nov 12 11:05:12 1997 Received: from localhost (gimenez@localhost) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.4/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with SMTP id LAA11270 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 11:05:11 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 11:05:10 -0700 (MST) From: Martha Gimenez To: ppn@csf.Colorado.EDU Subject: Birth control Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear PPNers, I need your help in locating references about birth control policies in the U.S. , Europe and the developing countries; I also need references about birth control, the workers movements and the women's movement. I have been away from teaching population for several years and lost touch with the literature. I am also PPN's organizer and I would like to bring it back to life! :) Despite the silence there are 168 members of this list waiting silently for something to happen. I assume most of you see yourselves as holding "progressive" views on population issues, meaning you agree with the views expressed in the Welcome message when you joined. We could start exchanging views about your perspectives on population and how they inform your teaching and research. Alternatively, we could start getting to know each other by responding to scholarly SOS messages like this one and by sending brief commentaries on current news about population issues. I intend to do that from now on and hope others will join me. For example, I was reading today in the local paper an editorial by Molly Ivins about an ammendment to the Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill that would "cut off all funding for family planning services all over the world if the organizations that provide family planning also provide abortion services or do any kind of advocacy concerning abortion, even when the money for such activities comes from other sources entirely. This includes multilateral family planning groups and private organizations." This is really appalling, for if this ammendment succeeds, it would have the effect of curtailing contraception programs if they also give information about abortion or if they fund abortions with funds from different sources. This would strengthen the reproductive oppression of women through more unwanted pregnancies and more poorly performed, illegal abortions and more abortion caused deaths. It could also result in higher fertility and even more hardships for the poor for these policies affect only those who lack the means to purchase contraception and obtain safe, albeit illegal abortions. Theoretically, how would we analize the significance of these policies? Looking forward to your views and, hopefully, some references! Cordially, Martha *************************** Martha E. Gimenez Department of Sociology Campus Box 327 University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, Colorado 80309 Voice: 303-492-7080 Fax: 303-492-5105 From cincotta@popact.org Thu Nov 13 09:34:01 1997 Received: from popact.org (popact.org [205.197.158.2]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.4/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with ESMTP id JAA02429 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 09:33:59 -0700 (MST) Received: from cincotta.popact.org (dyna181.popact.org [205.197.158.181]) by popact.org (8.8.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA14462 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:36:53 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19971113113415.013d0d64@popact.org> X-Sender: cincotta@popact.org Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:34:17 -0500 To: ppn@csf.colorado.edu From: Richard Cincotta Subject: PAI Web site Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" For those interested in the 'goings-on' of Congress on the matter of US funding for international family planning and reproductive health, please see the following web site: http://www.popact.org/politics/political.htm The site provides a recent history of efforts to constrain/de-fund/shut down the flow of US funds to organizations overseas that provide reproductive health services. The homepage ( http://www.popact.org ) also features links to population policy factsheets and publications. Our site is relatively new. Hopefully it will feature more "downloadable publications" in the future. From cincotta@popact.org Thu Nov 13 09:38:24 1997 Received: from popact.org (popact.org [205.197.158.2]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.4/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with ESMTP id JAA02699 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 09:38:20 -0700 (MST) Received: from cincotta.popact.org (dyna181.popact.org [205.197.158.181]) by popact.org (8.8.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA14488 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:41:19 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19971113113842.013d0aec@popact.org> X-Sender: cincotta@popact.org Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:38:42 -0500 To: ppn@csf.colorado.edu From: Richard Cincotta Subject: Population "central" homepage Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The Population Reference Bureau maintains a wonderful central homepage called POPNET that was designed to help students and researchers find their way to other population-related sites. It can be found at: http://www.popnet.org/ From donchism@ican.net Sun Nov 30 09:11:22 1997 Received: from mail0.tor.acc.ca (mail0.tor.acc.ca [204.92.54.110]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.4/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with ESMTP id JAA10967 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 09:11:21 -0700 (MST) Received: from donchism.ican.net (ppp-024.m2-8.tor.ican.net [142.154.22.24]) by mail0.tor.acc.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA17133; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 11:11:14 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19971130161228.006f53c4@ican.net> X-Sender: donchism@ican.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 11:12:28 -0500 To: gaiapc@envirolink.org From: Don Chisholm Subject: Re: Pimentel at Press Club Cc: David Pimentel , >X-From_: dp18@cornell.edu Tue Nov 25 11:57:15 1997 >>From 1 Tue Nov 25 11:57:15 1997 >Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 11:50:24 -0500 (EST) >X-Sender: dp18@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu >To: Don Chisholm >From: David Pimentel >Subject: Re: Pimentel at Press Club > >Dear Don: > >Thank you for your note. Please feel free to use the material on the GPC >web page. > >Best regards, >David Thanks, Dave. My webbing skills are slowly improving. Your complete article; -U.S. Food Production Threatened by Rapid Population Growth- is at http://www.envirolink.org/orgs/gaia-pc .... and is one of the opitions on the GPC opening page, so if anyone needs a copy, it's available. Don Chisholm ////////\\\\\\\\ Don Chisholm 416 484 6225 fax 484 0841 email donchism@ican.net The Gaia Preservation Coalition (GPC) http://www.envirolink.org/orgs/gaia-pc "There is an almost gravitational pull toward putting out of mind unpleasant facts. And our collective ability to face painful facts is no greater than our personal one. We tune out, we turn away, we avoid. Finally we forget, and forget we have forgotten. A lacuna hides the harsh truth." - psycholgist Daniel Goleman \\\\\\\\\/////////