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14431 [lbo-talk] a teacher in trouble, reply to Nathan -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >On Mar 5, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Googling "Colorado TABOR" doesn't show a heckuva lot of interest >>from left-liberal sources - most of the top hits are from >>right-wing and legislative wonk sources - meaning that lots of >>people missed this "arguably" great victory. > >Which proves absolutely nothing and suggests two things: First, the >right wing understands the issue better than the left. Secon ...

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14432 [lbo-talk] happy birthday... -- rank: 1000

...to Pier Paolo Pasolini, who would have been 83 today

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14433 [lbo-talk] eminent domain -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >ah yes, here's what i wrote about nafta all those years ago... mh >http://www.greens.org/s-r/06/06-13.html Good piece, so apologies for focusing on something I have a problem with: >Today, the globalization of capital is creating an international >working class-albeit, one that is stratified in complex ways and is >characterized by both an active and a reserve army of labor. The >development of an international middle-strata for example, has >helped ...

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14434 [lbo-talk] a teacher in trouble, reply to Nathan -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> >>Spending money defeating TABOR and its variants is far more >>important for the broad public interest than defending the rights of lefty >>intellectuals to spout off in the classroom. > >-Right. And one can't walk and chew gum at the same time, right? >-Mental powers are limited. > >Apparently, since a google search reveals not a single mention of the >Colorado struggle ove ...

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14435 [lbo-talk] a teacher in trouble, reply to Nathan -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Which is why from the left and the right there is no much political energy >spent on shaping curricula in the classroom. And schools have the legal >right to discipline any teacher who deviates from the approved curriculum. >Most towns don't exercise that power completely and give teachers some >flexibility, but if teachers think their purpose is to slip in information >outside "mainstream US political discourse", they should be campaigning for ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 5 09:01:55 PST 2006

14436 [lbo-talk] WH crackdown on press -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - March 5, 2006 White House Trains Efforts on Media Leaks Sources, Reporters Could Be Prosecuted By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer The Bush administration, seeking to limit leaks of classified information, has launched initiatives targeting journalists and their possible government sources. The efforts include several FBI probes, a polygraph investigation inside the CIA and a warning from the Justice Department that reporters could be prosecuted under espionage laws. In r ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 5 08:56:16 PST 2006

14437 [lbo-talk] the Red States Academy Awards -- rank: 1000

[from the right-wing PR firm Special Guests] From: "Special Guests" <gerald at riverview.net> To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: Red States' Movie Awards/ Interview Opportunity X-Return: 168265_844800_700155_598270 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Length: 12004 Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary Content-Type: text/html <http://specialguests.com/guests/viewnews.cgi?id=EEuEVFEuyuBdeNcMct&style=PrintFull&tmpl=print>Printer Friendly RED CARPET RED STATES' AWARDS Oscar ...

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14438 [lbo-talk] a teacher in trouble, reply to Nathan -- rank: 1000

Michael Hirsch wrote: >On 3/4/06, Doug Henwood <<mailto:dhenwood at panix.com>dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >>It's a polemical reduction, of course, but it's pretty broadly >applicable, don't you think? Which is pretty good for a theory<< > >It doesn't matter what I think or you think in this case, but what >Fitch thinks, and he's proclaimed no "law" that says unions by >definition care only about dues. He said almost exactly those words ...

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14439 [lbo-talk] Arundhati Roy -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >FWIW, the most vicious attack on her i've seen was in >the eXile. Yikes. That's too harsh for me. Doug

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14440 [lbo-talk] a teacher in trouble, reply to Nathan -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Spending money defeating TABOR and its variants is far more >important for the broad public interest than defending the rights of lefty >intellectuals to spout off in the classroom. Right. And one can't walk and chew gum at the same time, right? Mental powers are limited. Doug

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14441 Union criticism versus Union Bashing/Snobbery (Re: [lbo-talk] a teacher in trouble and the union -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I basically agree with Carrol on this description of why labor criticism on >this list feels like "bashing" rather than dissent. Politics truly makes strange bedfellows. Now I'm waiting for Carrol to say that only Democrats should feel free to criticize Hillary Clinton. >And Labor Notes does not have the repeated references to "this is why people >feel it's okay to cross picket lines" that appear on this list. Repeated? Just how many have you ...

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14442 [lbo-talk] a teacher in trouble and the union -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I think the word "criticism" (as a political term) is regularly misused >on this list, and is being misused here. Criticism in Labor Notes is >FROM THE INSIDE, while the tone of alleged criticism on this list always >has the tone of external carping. It's only this morning that I finally >found the word to describe that tone: Snobbery. "I am not as others are; >I'm above that; I'm not part of 'That Left Out There' or 'That Union >Movement Ou ...

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14443 [lbo-talk] let the rich spend! -- rank: 1000

<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060304/ap_on_bi_ge/wall___main> [...] Another argument is that the wealthiest 20 percent of American families account for roughly 40 percent of consumer spending, spending roughly 4.5 times as much as the lowest 20 percent, something Citigroup's chief U.S. equities strategist Tobias M. Levkovich pointed out in a recent report. The implication: This group isn't going to run out of money anytime soon. If a healthy economy depends on the wealthiest Americans cont ...

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14444 [lbo-talk] a teacher in trouble and the union -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: > union bashing Would you give this formula a rest? It's a propagandistic way of deflecting well-earned criticism. >There is more union bashing on this list than any other >"progressive" forum I am part of. No more than in a typical issue of Labor Notes. Doug

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14445 [lbo-talk] a teacher in trouble and the union -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >left 'anti-union' views of type expressed on this list I don't know who expresses anti-union, or even "anti-union," views on this list, unless, like Nathan, you think that criticism is the same as opposition. My beef with American unions is that they do a piss-poor job of organizing and representing the working class, and it shows in the material insecurity and political underdevelopment of so many American workers. If that's anti-union, sorry. Doug

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