REPORT CARD
Johnston, A. J.
REPORT CARD A.J. Johnston Pilgrim's Progress NATURE'S UNRULY MOB: Farming and the Crisis in Rural Culture by Paul Gilk North Country Anvil, P.O. Box 37, Millville, MN 55957. 75 pp. $4.00 plus...
...population, lost jobs to the Pentagon...
...While the focus of this report is narrow, it offers another good reason to pull the financial plug on the Pentagon...
...Government's decision to divert Federal funds from civilian economic activities to military build-up, claims this report...
...Unrestrained technological growth will ultimately lead us to a nuclear Armageddon, he warns...
...General Dynamics, the second-largest contractor in 1985, actually received $135 million in tax refunds from the Government from 1981 to 1985...
...Committee for Refugees, 815 Fifteenth Street NW, Suite 610, Washington, DC 20005...
...Seeking to unveil the ideological bias determining which aliens are granted protection, author James Silk explains how asylum laws—created to institutionalize this country's tradition of a safe haven-have discriminated against refugees fleeing from "friendly"—that is, noncommunist— governments...
...Also examined are relevant Supreme Court decisions and INS tactics which deny asylum seekers due process and permission to work...
...48 pp...
...The report also discloses the profits generated by the largest military contractors and the paltry share of taxes paid by these firms...
...Free with $2.00 postage...
...in an industrial wasteland deluded by conceptions of sterile progress," he writes...
...The study found that thirty-five states, accounting for 70 per cent of the U.S...
...In a similar vein, Paul Gilk asks in this report that we rethink and, ultimately, redirect the path of so-called progress...
...Dim Beacon DESPITE A GENEROUS SPIRIT: Denying Asylum in the United States by James Silk U.S...
...We exist...
...Jobs, Not War THE EMPTY PORK BARREL: The Employment Cost of the Military Build-Up, 1981-1985 by Marion Anderson, Michael Frisch and Michael Oden Employment Research Associates, 474 Hollister Building, Lansing, MI 48933...
...He recommends solar- and wind-powered ships, the reintroduction of horses and mules for pulling wagons, and the rediscovery of human feet...
...The rest were returned to their country aboard Coast Guard ships...
...17 pp...
...The states of Texas, Illinois, New York, Michigan, and Louisiana were the hardest hit...
...In the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling ordering a relaxation of standards for deciding which refugees are eligible for asylum, this report provides a timely reminder of our Government's "generous" spirit...
...Aldo Leopold's land ethic called for a change in people's attitudes...
...Leopold believed establishing a code of ethics to guide people's interactions with the natural world was the only way to protect our environment from encroaching industrialism...
...Gilk, who makes his living in northern Wisconsin by farmwork, carpentry, woodwork, and writing, thinks our obsession with consumerism and industrialism has left us culturally and spiritually deprived...
...To reverse this trend, he proposes that we deliberately limit the scale of industrialization and use technology in ways that are compatible with our environment...
...Between 1981 and 1986, only two of the 9,146 Haitians stopped on the high seas were allowed to pursue asylum in the United States...
...The United States suffered a net loss of 1,146,000 jobs between 1981 and 1985 because of the U.S...
...The treatment of Haitians is but one example of the Immigration and Naturalization Service's discriminatory policies detailed in this report...
...4.00 plus $2.00 postage...
...Potential jobs were denied in the areas of public education, health, welfare, and fire and police services...
Vol. 51 • May 1987 • No. 5
