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15496 [lbo-talk] Munich -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >David Wojnarowicz, The Waterfront Journals, edited >by Amy Scholder Scholder is now the US editor for Verso.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 14 13:56:51 PST 2006

15497 [lbo-talk] oooh, the vulgarity! -- rank: 1000

[I've never seen The Vagina Monologues, but from what I've heard of it, it seems kind of bad. But this is a hilarious reaction.] <http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=12272> Vulgar 'Women's Movement' Disguised as Workshop by Monique Stuart Shocking "V-Fests" and "C-Fests" -- with both letters representing different terms used to describe the female sexual anatomy -- have been taking place on college campuses around the country. After watching V-Day and " ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 14 13:55:08 PST 2006

15498 [lbo-talk] Dems force Hackett out of race -- rank: 1000

[Anyone know more about this? Was he too rudely antiwar? Why is Sherrod Brown so sacred? Because he writes for The Nation?] New York Times - February 14, 2006 Popular Ohio Democrat Drops Out of Race, and Perhaps Politics By IAN URBINA Paul Hackett, an Iraq war veteran and popular Democratic candidate in Ohio's closely watched Senate contest, said yesterday that he was dropping out of the race and leaving politics altogether as a result of pressure from party leaders. Mr. Hackett said Senators Ch ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 14 13:50:58 PST 2006

15499 [lbo-talk] exchange -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Sam Smith for transcribing this exchange from last night's Daily Show. Now that the guy has suffered a heart attack, it's a little less funny, but...] Rob Corddry: "Jon, tonight the vice president is standing by his decision to shoot Harry Wittington. According to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the brush. Everyone believed at the time there were quail in the brush. And while the quail turned out to be a 78-year-old man, even knowing that today, Mr. Ch ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 14 13:48:19 PST 2006

15500 [lbo-talk] Lies about Union Corruption -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > > >Nathan Newman wrote: >>Well, a new corporate outfit has launched an anti-union site called >>unionfacts.org -- and quotes by Robert Fitch are featured >>prominently on the front page. Go Fitch. > >-Yes, duty commands us not to talk about the history of organized >-labor in the US over the last century. Some bad people might use the > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 14 13:46:28 PST 2006

15501 [lbo-talk] Illinois as model for Democratic agenda -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Since this started with accusations of corruption against SEIU, what mob >violence has been involved in their organizing the hundreds of thousands of >janitors and nurses in the last decade or so? Fitch credits Stern for having cleaned up SEIU, though faults him for not having mentioned that that was what he was doing. But under Sweeney, corruption was pervasive in the union - most notoriously, Gus Bevona's 32BJ local. I don't have the book with me here, so I can't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 14 13:04:09 PST 2006

15502 [lbo-talk] Chicago Reader looking for web geeks -- rank: 1000

>From: Mike Lenehan <mlenehan at chicagoreader.com> >Subject: Web Team Wants You? > >Dear Reader people, > >As you may have heard, we're going to be increasing our focus on the >Web in the months ahead. As a consequence, we're looking for people >to occupy two positions on our "Web team," one for the production >department and one for editorial. Below is a brief sketch of each >position. > >Production: >We're hoping for someone with design a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 14 10:41:45 PST 2006

15503 [lbo-talk] union money -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >To rule out the spuriousness of the second kind, you need a longitudinal >panel data for individuals to show what comes first, union membership or >voting Democratic. Such data may not be available for individual elections, >but they surely must exist for general party preference. This is not really >my field so I do not know what data are available, but can somebody with >expertise in that field shed more light on this subject? A data geek could wor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 14 08:43:35 PST 2006

15504 [lbo-talk] Lies about Union Corruption -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Well, a new corporate outfit has launched an anti-union site called >unionfacts.org -- and quotes by Robert Fitch are featured >prominently on the front page. Go Fitch. Yes, duty commands us not to talk about the history of organized labor in the US over the last century. Some bad people might use the truth to bad ends, so best to ignore it and keep cheerleading! The collusion between the Hawaii Public Workers Union leaders and the corporate thief Peter Wong is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 14 08:35:22 PST 2006

15505 [lbo-talk] Lies about Union Corruption -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But let's look in more detail at what counts as >"labor racketeering" by readng the most recent >"<http://www.oig.dol.gov/public/semiannuals/54.pdf>Semi-Annual >Report to the Congress" by the Office. It's a >PDF so scroll down to page 33 where the Labor >Racketeering part starts. Some of the problems >are very real, including fighting crime >influence on the east coast longshoremen union, >but when you get to the money fi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 14 08:23:08 PST 2006

15506 [lbo-talk] Illinois as model for Democratic agenda -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >Have you had or are you planning any on-air discussion >pointing in this direction? Any other public voices leaning this way? I haven't explicitly, no, but I think I will. It's the strategy of the Working Families Party in New York, and after initial skepticism about them, I've become a total fan. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 13 16:29:55 PST 2006

15507 [lbo-talk] Illinois as model for Democratic agenda -- rank: 1000

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: >On 13 Feb 2006 at 17:22, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Some attributions aside, I'm not an ultraleftist. > >Where do you separate ultra-left from left? >I'm sure Bill O'Reilly would consider you an ultra-leftist but what >does that designation mean to you in terms >of what you support or oppose? >I hope this doesn't look like a snide question because it isn't >intended to be. Not snide - it's a term of art among the hard left (of whi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 13 16:25:39 PST 2006

15508 [lbo-talk] Illinois as model for Democratic agenda -- rank: 1000

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: >I have no children nor do about 40% of the couples I know. All I see >in this program is that someone making >$60,000 in Illinois gets their kid insured for a fraction of what it costs me It's a great thing to insure poor kids, don't get me wrong, but kids are a great risk from an insurance POV. They rarely get sick, and when they do, it's usually minor. Grownups get seriously and expensively sick. But there's a lot of political points to be earned by i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 13 16:18:41 PST 2006

15509 [lbo-talk] more on Frank & Bartels -- rank: 1000

The Chicago Reader's cover story is on the Frank-Bartels controversy: <http://www.chicagoreader.com/pdf/060210/060210_cover.pdf>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 13 15:55:07 PST 2006

15510 [lbo-talk] Illinois as model for Democratic agenda -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >I don't know whether you are moving towards the Green party on the basis of >your above comment and other recent ones. Some attributions aside, I'm not an ultraleftist. I do recognize that there are differences between D and R (and similar party structures around the world), and they can be nontrivial. And yes there are some good people in the Dem party, esp at the local level. My personal congressman, city council rep, state assemblyperson and senator, are all prett ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 13 14:22:50 PST 2006