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11911 [lbo-talk] AIDS in the USA, AIDS in the World -- rank: 1000

On Feb 13, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > But one of your articles, which discusses this very action, also > suggests that the Mbeki government failed to take the opportunity > created by international activism (cf. > <http://www.zmag.org/bondsaaids.htm>). Really, ACT UP, et al. can't > be expected to fix the SA government. Could you, just once, admit you were wrong about something, instead of digging in ever-more stubbornly? Doug

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11912 [lbo-talk] Rove the hipster -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0207/2732.html> "I went out there and made speeches about how we've kept discretionary domestic spending underneath inflation, but the average cat out there saw high-profile things about spending that just sunk in," he [Karl Rove] said.

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11913 [lbo-talk] AIDS in the USA, AIDS in the World -- rank: 1000

On Feb 13, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > I'm not claiming it should -- I'm saying it can't. Is it so > controversial to point out the model of identity politics doesn't work > for the poor? First of all, as has been pointed out, first by my own weak memory then by Jim Straub's more vivid experience, some chapters of ACT-UP did do a lot for the poor. Second, it's reductive to call ACT-UP identity politics; they represented a group of people facing an imminent horrible ...

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11914 [lbo-talk] a little of everything on Iraq -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] USA Today's Susan Page reports on the latest USA Today/Gallup poll, which reveals 63 percent of those polled calling for a timetable for troop withdrawal by the end of 2008 and 57 percent who want a cap on troop levels while 58 percent oppose cutting off funding for troops.

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11915 [lbo-talk] AIDS in the USA, AIDS in the World -- rank: 1000

On Feb 13, 2007, at 9:36 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Global AIDS drug prices have much more to do with struggles over > patent than with ACT UP and other US AIDS activist orgs, just as big > race and class gaps in infection rates, mortality rates, etc. in the > USA have much more to do with economic inequality, lack of > single-payer health care, the "war on crimes" (which has led to > "[r]oughly one-fifth of black adult males in the United States" having ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 13 07:29:25 PST 2007

11916 [lbo-talk] Anti-Globalization and Anti-War Movements in the USA -- rank: 1000

On Feb 12, 2007, at 7:22 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > What has worked for the top half of ACT-UP's domestic constituency > doesn't work so well to achieve international debt cancellation, let > alone close the economic gap between the North and the South. Whaddya expect? ACT-UP had a relatively narrow set of issues that the system could accommodate without bending itself out of shape; debt cancellation and closing N-S gaps are completely different matters. Why even bring it up? ACT- ...

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11917 [lbo-talk] AIDS, Race, and Class -- rank: 1000

Yoshie wrote: > AIDS activism such as that of GMHC, ACT UP, etc. has changed the lives > of the richer half of white gay men for the better, but it doesn't > work as a solution for poorer men and women, especially poorer people > of color, and statistics shows it[....] It's been a long time, but as I recall, ACT-UP did a splendid job of making the transition from activism on behalf of relatively well-off white men to not-at-all-well-off people of color, at least in NYC. Of course, ...

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11918 [lbo-talk] neoliberalism & pharmaceuticals -- rank: 1000

New York Times - Feburary 11, 2007 Spain Says Adiós Siesta and Hola Viagra By DAN BILEFSKY MADRID A few months ago a man walked into a pharmacy in Madrid, pulled out two toy guns and told the attendants to hand over all the Viagra in stock. Two hours later, in what was perhaps a show of gratitude, he returned with two bouquets of roses, before being arrested. Such are the extremes to which men in this famously macho country will go to obtain the male impotency drug nicknamed sexo azul, ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 12 12:05:13 PST 2007

11919 [lbo-talk] Noam on intellectuals -- rank: 1000

On Feb 12, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > leftists fantasize extravagantly about US workers and bitterly > demean political engagement with them from where they're actually > at as acts of running dog collaborationism Since I suspect this is directed at least in part at me, let me say: 1) I'm hardly one to idealize the consciousness of the American working class; 2) on the particular issue of health insurance, I don't think the consciousness of the working class is at its most ...

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11920 [lbo-talk] Noam on intellectuals -- rank: 1000

On Feb 12, 2007, at 12:29 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > question: what's at stake here? why does anyone care what an > intellectual > is? has someone claimed that we can't get anywhere without them? has > someone claimed we can't get anywhere with them? why harm do they > do? what > good do they do? are we supposed to want more or fewer > intellectuals? has > someone claimed that anti-intellectualism is the problem? is there > general > agreement or sharp di ...

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11921 [lbo-talk] Noam on intellectuals -- rank: 1000

On Feb 12, 2007, at 7:11 AM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > But Chomsky gets a lot nastier, I think. In a passage Tayssir quoted > approvingly, he paints intellectuals as engaged in mutual circle > jerks. I'm > sure people are like this, but I can't imagine it's all of them. Is > he just > talking the Ivies and the big three? Because the intelligent people at > universities and colleges across the country don't act like this. And a lot of them at the Ivies don't either. N ...

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11922 [lbo-talk] Anti-Globalization and Anti-War Movements in the USA -- rank: 1000

On Feb 12, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Chuck wrote: > As I see it, > the anti-globalization movement was successful because it mostly > relied > on anarchist organizational methods and practice. How was it successful? Seattle was loads of fun, one of the most exciting weeks of my life, but I don't see how it or its spawn changed much in the real world. Have capital or trade flows been altered? Have property relations changed? Is the working class any better off or more secure? Is the clim ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 12 08:13:58 PST 2007

11923 [lbo-talk] damned intellectuals -- rank: 1000

[from Peter Appelbome's column in the NYT] Then, in a decidedly less consequential matter, Yale hit an unwanted news jackpot after a blog called IvyGate reported on a titillating, if somewhat inscrutable, e-mail message sent by the master of Yale's Calhoun College to its residents. Under the subject line "Shower Stalls Are for Showering," he gently took an unidentified couple to task for repeatedly using the showers for more intimate acts than applying soap to wet skin. "Last ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 11 21:09:53 PST 2007

11924 [lbo-talk] Noam on intellectuals -- rank: 1000

On Feb 11, 2007, at 6:45 PM, B. wrote: > Mikhail Bakunin: "The aristocracy of the intellect is > the most hateful, scornful, insolent, and oppressive > of all aristocracies that have, each in its turn, and > all at once, oppressed human society. The modern > universities of Europe ... perform for the bourgeois > class the same services the Church once rendered the > aristocracy of nobles; this new sacerdotal caste [of > intellectuals], a church of bourgeois learning, ...

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11925 [lbo-talk] the most politically charged band of the moment.. -- rank: 1000

On Feb 11, 2007, at 8:53 PM, Nicholas Ruiz III wrote: > One knows the world is awry, when the NYTimes refers to the Dixie > Chicks as > the 'most politically charged band of the moment...' So much for the Right Brothers <http://www.myspace.com/ therightbrothers>, makers of "In Luv With Ann Coulter." Doug

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