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17776 [lbo-talk] Uninsured only 12 million 'sez NR...oh really?! -- rank: 1000
Michael Pugliese wrote: >First, it is becoming increasingly clear that the uninsured are over >counted. For years, single-payer advocates have relied on the >statistic produced by the Census Bureau, which now stands at 45 >million uninsured. Yet a recent study by the Urban Institute - not >exactly the free market's best friend - claimed that the Census Bureau >number was overstated by 4 million. Another study by the Department of >Health and Human Services found it was too h ...
Document Size: 6584
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu May 12 12:23:53 PDT 2005
17777 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. Antiwar Movement -- rank: 1000
snitsnat wrote: >At 01:50 PM 5/12/2005, Carrol Cox wrote: > >>Demos are in any case primarily a way to count noses (whether the count >>be small or large is irrelevant). > >I think Doug, Liza, and Christian complained >about this in their article about activistism. Not exactly. Here's a relevant passage <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Action.html> - and given the decline of the antiwar and global justice movements, I think we were pretty prescient: >So wh ...
Document Size: 14412
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu May 12 12:13:40 PDT 2005
17778 [lbo-talk] Cointelpro -- rank: 1000
There's someone on the WBAI producers list denouncing me as a racist and a cop for suggesting that we need to broaden our audience a bit. He's invoked Cointelpro. As I recall, provocateurs were often the most hypermilitant, and often the ones who invoked race to set groups against each other. Do other people know more about this? Doug
Document Size: 4779
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu May 12 09:26:28 PDT 2005
17779 [lbo-talk] Why Not Unsubbed? -- rank: 1000
Michael Dawson wrote: >I tried to quit the list yesterday, but I keep getting mail. Dunno how he tried to unsub. He did post a message saying "peace out," which I just deleted for its contentlessness. > My theory is that you took my saying nurses are the pinnacle of >proledom as some kind of sneer, when, in fact, I was trying to say >what I believe my words mean: Nurses are now the top working-class >job, which means poseurs like Grace shouldn't be running around > ...
Document Size: 5924
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 11 21:12:28 PDT 2005
17780 [lbo-talk] Spanish PM blasts Catholic church -- rank: 1000
<http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?navpath=/channels/families&date=200> PlanetOut Network, May 11, 2005 SPAIN LEADER SLAMS CHURCH ON MARRIAGE BIAS Spain's prime minister fought back on Wednesday against the Catholic Church's condemnation of legislation that seeks to extend full marriage rights to same-sex couples. The measure was approved in the Spanish parliament last month, and Spain's bishops subsequently ordered the country's faithful to resist the legislation "in a clear a ...
Document Size: 6317
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 11 19:44:53 PDT 2005
17781 [lbo-talk] queers @ NYU -- rank: 1000
For Immediate Release April 26, 2005 "PANSY, DYKE, HOMO, FAG: 150 YEARS OF QUEER CULTURE" ON DISPLAY AT NYU'S FALES COLLECTION THRU SEPT. 15 The exhibition entitled "Pansy, Dyke, Homo, Fag: 150 Years of Queer Culture" focuses on primary research materials available in New York University's Bobst Library for the study of gender and sexuality in English and American culture. Free and open to the public, it is on display through September 15, 2005 in the Fales Collection, third ...
Document Size: 6985
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 11 16:14:34 PDT 2005
17782 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. AntiwarMovementfor UnitedDemonstrations in the Fall -- rank: 1000
Leigh Meyers wrote: >I disagree about messing up the supply chain... It's perhaps the >most effective >method of direct action, and worked like a charm for the Australian >dockworkers >to help crowbar Australia out of the Vietnam incursion. > >The SF Maritime Union was no slacker either, among others, like protesters >invading Dow Chemical... or freaks levitating the Pentagon (while the MOBE >marshaled)... those things also affected the military's ability to function. ...
Document Size: 5842
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 11 16:12:04 PDT 2005
17783 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. AntiwarMovementfor UnitedDemonstrations in the Fall -- rank: 1000
Thomas Seay wrote: >--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >>it's bold, it's radical, it's >> not for pussies. >> But give some examples of some actions that could >> accomplish >> something other than making the actors feel tough & >> revolutionary. > >One word: Seattle Yeah. I was there. It was really exciting. And did it cause capitalism to wobble for more than an instant? It was a beautiful overture, but then the movement ...
Document Size: 5794
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 11 15:53:00 PDT 2005
17784 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. AntiwarMovementfor UnitedDemonstrations in the Fall -- rank: 1000
Nice to see a testosterone-fueled exchange over the best strategy for stopping a war! Thomas Seay wrote: >--- John Lacny <jlacny at earthlink.net> wrote: >and if slapping such >> fools upside the head >> would get them to stop being so dumb, I would >> definitely do it. So in that >> sense, yes, I AM in favor of violence. > >I wish that you would try to slap me up side the head. >Hate to use this quote but "make my day". > >-Thomas
Document Size: 5541
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 11 15:43:16 PDT 2005
17785 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. AntiwarMovementforUnitedDemonstrations in the Fall -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >Of >course Stalin's proposition does provide the rationale for shooting >everyone involved in a losing battle. I think Uncle Joe said something like, "It takes a brave man to be a coward in my army." Doug
Document Size: 5140
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 11 15:27:37 PDT 2005
17786 [lbo-talk] more on Graeber -- rank: 1000
ravi wrote: >and that's what differentiates us (the left) from the right... ;-) Yup. The right insults its enemies - we insult our friends! Doug
Document Size: 4562
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 11 15:02:40 PDT 2005
17787 [lbo-talk] Jon Stewart's dog house -- rank: 1000
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >In terms of pornographic value, pretty naked girls happily smoking >marijuana (a recent object of LBO-talk controversy) pale in >comparison to this. How about the fact that the loft was previously the home to a thousand turtles? That's about $6,000 of prime urban real estate per turtle. Wow. Doug
Document Size: 4852
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 11 14:53:44 PDT 2005
17788 [lbo-talk] more on Graeber -- rank: 1000
Miles Jackson wrote: >On Wed, 11 May 2005, Chuck0 wrote: > >>I do, but nobody wants to listen to me. If I speak up on this list, >>people insult me personally. > >Chuck, don't feel bad: I think everybody who posts to this list has >been personally insulted at one point or another. (It's not because >you're an anarchist.) I don't agree with Chuck on a lot of things, but I take his point of view seriously and am glad he's here. I don't approve of personal insults, ei ...
Document Size: 5173
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 11 14:44:00 PDT 2005
17789 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. AntiwarMovementfor UnitedDemonstrations in the Fall -- rank: 1000
Chuck0 wrote: >As far as I'm concerned, the answers to the anti-war movement's >failure are right in front of our noses. I'm really struck by how similar this is to what Michael Pug just posted: >Choice quote from Stalin, taken from an early chapter on , "cadres >and heretics, " from Lewin, which highlights Uncle Joe's early >Orthodox seminary training. Pg. 33, "For us objective difficulties do >not exist. The only problem is cadres. If things are not progressing ...
Document Size: 6393
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 11 14:41:21 PDT 2005
17790 [lbo-talk] Ridge: terror alerts raised on flimsy evidence -- rank: 1000
[they're too discreet to suggest it was all a political sham] USA Today - May 11, 2005 Ridge reveals clashes on alerts By Mimi Hall, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The Bush administration periodically put the USA on high alert for terrorist attacks even though then-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge argued there was only flimsy evidence to justify raising the threat level, Ridge now says. Ridge, who resigned Feb. 1, said Tuesday that he often disagreed with administration officials who wanted to elevate ...
Document Size: 7526
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 11 12:55:07 PDT 2005
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