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18946 [lbo-talk] State of the Union -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >And like most religious rituals it is only consumed willingly by those >who are seriously into masochism. And is that a critique?

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18947 [lbo-talk] SEIU vs WMT -- rank: 1000

From: "Andy Stern, SEIU PurpleOcean.org" <info at purpleocean.org> Subject: "Nibbled To Death By Guppies" Dear PurpleOcean.org member, We've been pretty quiet lately, and it's because we've been working on something big. You're the first to hear. Today, I'm asking you to join me in launching a nationwide, grassroots campaign to spread the real facts on Wal-Mart, person-by-person and city-by-city. No huge ad budgets or television commercials-just the facts about Wal-Mart ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 24 08:30:06 PST 2005

18948 [lbo-talk] qualifications for service in the House of Lords -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - January 24, 2005 N.Y.'S FIRST 'WOMAN' GOVERNOR WHAT a drag! The New-York Historical Society is covering up the identity of cross-dressing colonial governor Lord Cornbury. The NYHS has a famous oil portrait of the gender-bending Cornbury, who was appointed governor of New York and New Jersey in 1701. But you wouldn't know it from the plaque mounted next to the painting, which identifies New York's original transvestite as an "unidentified woman." Lila Luce, wi ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 24 07:51:01 PST 2005

18949 [lbo-talk] Goldin & Katz on Summers -- rank: 1000

[This could win an award for bad headlines.] Boston Globe - January 23, 2005 Summers is right By Claudia Goldin & Lawrence F. Katz HARVARD University President Lawrence Summers has been roundly criticized for his recent remarks on diversity in the science and engineering workforce. Far from expressing unseemly sentiments, however, Summers was properly calling attention to a troubling social phenomenon: the stalling of the quiet revolution that has transformed women's education and employment ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 15:17:12 PST 2005

18950 [lbo-talk] Re: lefties, fulfillment -- rank: 1000

amadeus amadeus wrote: >The South was utterly destroyed. Well not exactly, from the looks of the federal gov't. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 15:11:09 PST 2005

18951 [lbo-talk] threats against Walden Bello, among others -- rank: 1000

<http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/2366.php> In solidarity with the Filipino progressive and revolutionary movements by Pierre Rousset Friday, Jan. 21, 2005 at 7:43 PM What is at stake? The security and the lives of many activists, who are going to be forced into exile or killed if nothing is done. The future of the whole Filipino Left, which remains quite rich and active in spite of past and present odds. The dynamics of the international movements we are engaged in, laying new foundat ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 14:53:28 PST 2005

18952 [lbo-talk] Boycotting the Unorganized? -- rank: 1000

Eubulides wrote: >Don't even get me started on what Boeing workers *don't* strike over! :-) > >Are Boeing workers in China, Japan, Israel etc. crossing a picket line when >they continue to work while their brothers and sisters in Puget Sound are on >strike? Or is that just retrograde nationalism? Both sides should honor the other's strike, no? We're a long way from that in the real world, but it'd be a nice idea. >This whole discussion concedes too much to the business unionism ...

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18953 [lbo-talk] Boycotting the Unorganized? -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >if the organization picketing discriminates against people like me, >i may feel no solidarity with them I see your point, but in most cases, unions are better for people who are discriminated against than non-unions. Why the impulse to find reasons to cross a picket line when labor is on the ropes? Yeah American unions are fucked up but they're American, so what else do you expect? They're a lot better than most of what we've got going here. Doug

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18954 [lbo-talk] "Authoritarian" -- define, please -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >But "authoritarian" has a very different functional definition among some US >leftists (I have rarely seen it used in the sense I'm about to describe by a >leftist from outside the US). It's basically some leftists' equivalent of >saying "anti-American." They know that "anti-American" is not an appropriate >term of derision -- since the right uses it to attack leftists in general, >including putative "anti-authoritarians&quo ...

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18955 [lbo-talk] Boycotting the Unorganized? -- rank: 1000

Eubulides wrote: >So we should engage in solidarity when Boeing workers hop in bed >w/management to fleece the working class in WA to the tune of $3.2billion, >engage in large scale misogyny, keep right on supplying the war machine >[still more fleecing of the working class..] yada yada. There are scores of >other examples people on this list could cite just from the last decade As >if the politics of solidarity ultimate ritual was the picket line; that's >narrow minded pur ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 09:42:50 PST 2005

18956 [lbo-talk] Credit Where Credit is Due -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >On the other hand, there's the real possibility (about which I am >highly skeptical) that advances in technology make it possible to >remove some of those constraints, especially as they apply to >non-hierarchical organization. That's an anarchist position, too, >which takes material constraints into account. Yeah, but what about the CIA trying to overthrow you? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 09:39:18 PST 2005

18957 [lbo-talk] Boycotting the Unorganized? -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >And once again, people are making this issue far more complicated than it >is. Yeah, I agree. I think someone brought up the old aphorism that hard cases make bad law, and it seems that everyone is looking for the hard cases here. I don't really understand why. Doug

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18958 [lbo-talk] Credit Where Credit is Due -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Dennis Redmond wrote: > >>The world-system puts real limits on what human beings can do at any given >>point in history. It's our job to think through that world-system -- what >>is it, how does it work, how can we change it. I think anarchism >>concentrates too much on the political structures of domination, and >>ignores the whole economic issue. You end up blaming everything on this >>mythical, fantasmic Bigness -- when in fact local st ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 09:09:59 PST 2005

18959 [lbo-talk] Nation readers struggle with humor -- rank: 1000

{Cartoon at <http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050124&s=grossman>.] exchange | Posted January 21, 2005 'Babe Lincoln' Stirs Things Up We received many letters from readers offended by Robert Grossman's "Babe Lincoln" (Jan. 24). His cartoon was intended as a comment on the controversy stirred by C.A. Tripp's new book, The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, in which Tripp argues that Lincoln was homosexual. We leave historians to debate Tripp's thesis, as we leave readers ...

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18960 [lbo-talk] Re: boycotting the unorganized (middle class) -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >now, some people have a problem with idealism. if'n y'ask me, it's >idealism to think that simply uttering the phrase, middle class, is >the problem. Bingo. But we're dealing with people who thought the 5,000 turnout for the million worker march was a triumph, that allowed "us" to take a census of "our" numbers. That may be true, but that Party of "Us" isn't going anywhere. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 08:49:16 PST 2005