In the coming months New Age Citizen will be "retooling" both the website as well as the mission of the website.  Although Drug Reform Re-Legalization of Cannabis (e.g., MRP Project)  and other Drug Policy issues will remain, a broader number of issues will now be addressed under a framework that will be called "The Virtual Presidency" (VP) Project.   The Offshoring of American Jobs will become the first non-Drug Policy "plank" for the VP Project.

If you are from SE Michigan I invite you to attend my lecture, "Connecting the Dots Between the "Jobless Recovery" and the Offshoring of American Jobs" which will be held on 09/29/2003.  I am interested in sharing my views as well as hearing yours.  And if we get enough interested activists we may use the meeting to stage a protest against a Michigan company that has already offshored 60% of it's American jobs to India.

Click here to view and/or print the event flyer

Click here to read "Surviving the Great Global Brain Drain"

Lecture Overview:

The Webmaster for www.NewAgeCitizen.com will be arguing that the “jobless recovery” is a direct result of the offshoring of millions of white and blue collar jobs. This “jobless recovery” is fundamentally different from all past recessions because these jobs, that are being lost to offshoring, are NEVER going to come back. He will argue that the public’s complacency is a direct result of the fact that both media and government are now essentially controlled by the very multinational corporations that are benefiting from the elimination of
American jobs If you are interested in stopping the exodus of American jobs, to third world countries, then please consider attending. The meeting will end with a planning session to stage a protest against one of Michigan’s largest offshoring corporations.

New Age Citizen
P.O. Box 419
Dearborn Heights, MI 48127
www.newagecitizen.com
newagecitizenx@comcast.net
(313)563-3192
[Call to arrange interviews]

Sunday September 28th
5:30 PM
The Green House
22757 Woodward, Suite 210
Ferndale, MI 48220
Admission: Free
Southwest corner of 9 Mile & Woodward
Second floor, above Professional Guitars

Since 2001, America has lost 3.1 million private-sector jobs. Long-term unemployment is at its highest
level in a decade. Where have all the jobs gone? Overseas, in many cases. In addition to cutting jobs to
increase profitability, companies are looking overseas to save money in labor costs.

According to Forrester Research, over the next fifteen years over three million US service industry jobs
and up to $136 billion in wages will move overseas to countries including India, Russia, China and the
Philippines.

Forrester also notes that 88% of the firms said they got better value for their money overseas and 71%
said overseas workers did better quality work. A Deloitte Research survey reports that the world’s 100 largest financial-services companies expect to transfer about $356 billion of their operations and two million jobs offshore over the next five years.
“Offshoring is gaining momentum at a rapid pace,” says Christopher Gentle, a director at Deloitte
Research.

On a similar note, Gartner Inc. predicts that one of 10 jobs in the computer services and software
industry could move abroad by the end of 2004. It’s not just technology jobs that are leaving the United
States. Jobs in just about every sector are going abroad including mortgage processors, claims adjusters,
financial analysts, telemarketers and a variety of other job titles. A computer industry acquaintance told
me how his company had a office up and running in India in less than thirty days and how the salaries
they were paying overseas workers were averaging $20,000 a year compared to a $100,000 for a United
States employee.

Some of the companies moving jobs overseas include General Electric, Boeing, IBM, Microsoft,
Citigroup, Hewlett Packard and ATT. Sprint is considering outsourcing hundreds of jobs and sending
them offshore. It’s not only the private sector. Government agencies in 40 states and Washington, DC are
using foreign workers staffing help desks to handle customer service for food stamp inquiries.
[http://jobsearch.about.com/cs/careerresources/a/offshore.htm]