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14236 [lbo-talk] doom -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Really, it's the same people putting resources into the single payer >campaigns who would be the supply of funds from the incremental reforms. >And there's just not that much. SEIU alone spent $36 million on John Kerry and the Dems; labor spent $61 million all together, and they've already spent $21 million on the 2006 election cycle. America Coming Together spent $76 million in 2004. There's money there - it's just a matter of what to spend it on. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 21 09:19:51 PST 2006

14237 [lbo-talk] Big Is No Longer Beautiful in Global Water Policy -- rank: 1000

IRN op-ed piece (*): Big Is No Longer Beautiful in Global Water Policy The high-tech approach to water supply has failed to reduce global poverty. Small-scale water projects can reduce poverty more effectively, and at a lower cost. All that is lacking for the much-needed change in global water policy is political will. By Peter Bosshard, Policy Director, International Rivers Network March 20, 2006 - Thousands of experts from industry, governments and civil society are currently meeting in Mexico ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 20 13:44:15 PST 2006

14238 [lbo-talk] Hobsbawn and Attali on Marx -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >I got a better idea. Lets globalize the current South American process. Good idea! Can you get it going in Detroit? You'd think the current state of the US auto industry might be good material to work with. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 20 08:30:17 PST 2006

14239 [lbo-talk] Antiwar Protests Fizzle -- rank: 1000

Wendy Lyon wrote: >We're no longer allowed to put up posters advertising >demonstrations Huh? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 20 08:12:30 PST 2006

14240 [lbo-talk] Antiwar Protests Fizzle -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >A rather misleading headline. Not really. With the US public now disapproving of the war, and a majority wanting the troops out of Iraq within a year, why can't we do better than this? Has the old protest strategy lost its magic? Are people burned out on massive street demos? Does it seem too after-the-fact? Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 20 05:47:15 PST 2006

14241 [lbo-talk] John Dolan summons his literary hero -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Perhaps Wordsworth goes well with age. For some 50 years I saw found his >work quite easy to ignore, but eight years ago on a whim I picked up the >Norton edition of The Prelude off the shelf a Barnes & Noble, and on >another whim two years ago began to read that poem in the 1805 text. I >was and remain enraptured. You're inspiring me to go back. I loved The Prelude when I read it in college, but I've barely looked at it in 30 years. I think I will now. Beat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 19 07:01:15 PST 2006

14242 [lbo-talk] doom -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: > >>> dhenwood at panix.com 03/17/06 5:13 PM >>> >There's still some time though: given the current rate of decline, >private sector union density won't hit 0 until sometime in late 2030 >or early 2031; at 7.7% in 2005, it's falling at the comfortable pace >of just 0.29 percentage points a year. >Doug ><<<<<>>>>> > >how does abve % change if former confederate states are not >included, washington ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 18 10:15:01 PST 2006

14243 [lbo-talk] product placement -- rank: 1000

[from the Cultural Studies list] Hi folks, Please excuse me tooting my own horn for a moment: I've just launched an online critical resource on product placement in the movies called Brand Hype (<http://www.brandhype.org>). It's been a couple of years in the making, so please take a look around and let me know what you think, and by all means spread the word. The main feature is a publicly accessible product placement database called Movie Mapper that can be searched by brandname, movie ti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 18 10:11:09 PST 2006

14244 [lbo-talk] Hobsbawn and Attali on Marx -- rank: 1000

[via Debate - I'm leaving Sean Jacobs sig quote intact at the bottom because it's so excellent] New Statesman - March 13, 2006 <http://www.newstatesman.com/200603130018> Eric Hobsbawm and Jacques Attali In the past week Eric Hobsbawm, the pre-eminent historian and avowed communist, debated the role of Karl Marx in the 21st century with the one-time international banker Jacques Attali. They came to some unlikely conclusions Hobsbawm: Here we are, paying our respects to Karl Marx. Jacques At ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 18 10:07:30 PST 2006

14245 [lbo-talk] John Dolan summons his literary hero -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >And that, of course, is why Byron was adored in Europe >but snubbed in England and America. He was everything >Wordsworth's gang was not. They were utterly >humorless-a Romanticist once told me that "there are >three jokes in Wordsworth, or so they say:but I can't >recall them." I think Geoffrey Hartman found one in The Prelude, around the crossing of the Alps passage, but now I can't recall it. Oh, and The Leech Gatherer is pretty funny. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 18 10:03:31 PST 2006

14246 [lbo-talk] Nation-Verso spat makes Page Six -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - March 18, 2006 BOOK'S TOO HOT FOR LEFTY MAG CHOCOLATE-smeared performance artist Karen Finley isn't so sweet on liberal political weekly The Nation these days. Finley - the art world provocateur whose Tawana Brawley-inspired chocolate-smear piece, "We Keep Our Victims Ready," was shot down by the National Endowment for the Arts back in 1990 - claims The Nation is too squeamish to interview her about her new book, "George & Martha." Finley's publ ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 18 09:22:26 PST 2006

14247 [lbo-talk] doom -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Great, so tell us how the fuck to take some big steps. >Shall I wave the red flag in front of the Federal >Building on Dearborn Street? Shall I go down to the >Ford Stampung Plant on the South Side and tell the >workers of the fucking world to unite? I dunno, I was kinda thinking single-payer was sort of a big deal, even if it isn't like the expropriation of the expropriators and stuff, you know? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 21:01:26 PST 2006

14248 [lbo-talk] more WBAI -- rank: 1000

For the record... The story told in the email from Steve Brown, which was posted here the other day, describing an alleged fit allegedly thrown by WBAI program director Bernard White has been denied by White, as well as arts director Janet Coleman, whom Brown cited as a witness. Coleman, in fact, wasn't in the building, and she was quite upset to be implicated in the story. Brown's language, including "South Bronx" and "aped," has been rightly condemned by people around the s ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 17 16:18:16 PST 2006

14249 [lbo-talk] doom -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Doug Henwood: > >> The sort of union-based realpolitik that Nathan Newman & >> John Lacny are defending is a perfect example of why >> density is going to zero. > >Oh fuck off. You can't have a serious discussion about strategy here without >you bringing in this motive-mongering horseshit. > >Abstraction and formalistic, irrelevant position-taking rule the roost with >you, while people who want to talk about, you know, facts, ar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 15:09:17 PST 2006

14250 [lbo-talk] Wal-Mart & Part D -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >I heard from a friend who said that a pharmacist in Mississippi told >him that small pharmacies are going out of business there because of >Part D. The feds aren't paying them for drugs in a timely manner so >they must put out more money than they can afford. There was a piece about this in the NYT the other day. Some Texas pharamacists had a sit-down with Rove over the issue. This scheme isn't playing out like the Reps had hoped. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 17 14:23:25 PST 2006