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18991 [lbo-talk] Zizek Documentary -- rank: 1000

Hello everyone, I am writing about an independent feature documentary I am just finishing about the Slovenian theorist Slavoj Zizek. The documentary is part primer on Zizek's philosophy and part personal portrait. I am including a brief synopsis below. You can also visit http://documentarycampaign.org/zizek.html (a more thorough website, www.zizekthemovie.com, is a work in progress). The film has not been released yet or publicly screened. I am posting because I am looking to set up campus event ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 20 07:44:14 PST 2005

18992 [lbo-talk] Re: boycotting the unorganized -- rank: 1000

John Thornton wrote: >Most people in this country cross picket lines every day. That might have something to do with our low rates of unionization, low levels of social benefits, and very large low-wage work force. Ah, but The Freedom of crossing a picket line on individual whim. I'm proud to be an American, because at least I know I'm free!!! Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 20 07:37:52 PST 2005

18993 [lbo-talk] frontiers of financial innovation -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Did I see an article somewhere about groups of people who take out >credit cards together, live it up, and take turns declaring >bankruptcy. Justin may jump on me for practicing law without a license, but be very careful about doing that. It's bankruptcy fraud, and you can do serious time for it. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 20 07:30:31 PST 2005

18994 [lbo-talk] Boycotting the unorganized? -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I've stated many times that big unions are the left wing of capital. >I don't feel the same way about small unions, which includes the one >that I'm currently a member of. How can small unions possibly fight big capital? Stuff like this is why it's easy to see anarchists as living in a dream world. >Crossing picket lines is odious? I have no recollection of saying >something that generalized. I pointed out that there are gray areas, >such as stupid pickets, and a ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 20 07:20:55 PST 2005

18995 [lbo-talk] Patti Waldmeir: Wal-Mart women take to class war -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Gosh, what's FT got against WallMart? You spell it like Paris Hilton understands it! But the piece is actually sympathetic to Wal-Mart, so I guess the FT has nothing against it. You may have noticed that Liza Featherstone has a book on this topic that makes for far better reading than Waldmeir's crappy column. >One only wishes that its Chinese suppliers do the same. > >Of course, it's all to be decided in the Anglo-Saxon era law courts. >Yeah right. When was the ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 20 07:07:10 PST 2005

18996 [lbo-talk] Communism: an art project -- rank: 1000

>From bounce-eflux-76406 at krsna.srvmail.com Thu Jan 20 02:26:10 2005 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:56:51 -0800 Subject: Project Arts Centre presents 'COMMUNISM' To: "dhenwood at panix.com" <dhenwood at panix.com> From: "e-Flux" <info at e-flux.com> Reply-To: "e-Flux" <service at e-flux.com> 01/19/05 <http://www.e-flux.com> Project Arts Centre <http://www.project.ie> COMMUNISM 20 January - 27 February Project Arts Centre 39 East Essex S ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 20 07:02:11 PST 2005

18997 [lbo-talk] frontiers of financial innovation -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Why filing for bankruptcy if you do not have any assets to protect? To get out of credit card debt. Everyone should do it while it's still an option! Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 19 17:47:05 PST 2005

18998 [lbo-talk] Boycotting the unorganized? -- rank: 1000

Ditto to you. Chuck0 wrote: >John Lacny wrote: > >>Yes, asshole, you ARE supposed to be following requests for solidarity from >>workers in struggle -- that's what union picketlines are. You think it's a >>matter of individual choice; it's not. It's at moments like this that you >>reveal yourself for what you are: nothing but a liberal (if that!) with an >>admixture of meaningless militant rhetoric. > >Whatever. You are predictable monkey. > >Jump! ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 19 16:15:11 PST 2005

18999 [lbo-talk] Boycotting the unorganized? -- rank: 1000

Look, boys, put a cork in it. This isn't a spectator sport. Michael Dawson wrote: >How drunk are you, Lacny? > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] >> On Behalf Of John Lacny >> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 2:50 PM >> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org >> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Boycotting the unorganized? >> >> Michael Dawson: >> >> > Technical ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 19 16:14:58 PST 2005

19000 [lbo-talk] frontiers of financial innovation -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Also: if there was a signifcant default rate on these >things, the banks wouldn't underwrite them. Gee, you mean that because IPOs have a shitty record going back decades, that means people won't buy them, and investment banks won't underwrite them? You have a touching faith in the rationality of financial markets. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 19 15:29:38 PST 2005

19001 [lbo-talk] Boycotting the unorganized? -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: > > You are within your rights to argue with them to the effect that a >> particular tactic may be counterproductive or not well-thought-out. But >> once they make the decision to take that tactic, you do not have the right >> to break solidarity with them. That's just the way it is. >> >> And if I seem a little irritated at the fact that I have to explain this >> in the first place on a list like this one, well, so be it. > ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 19 15:01:04 PST 2005

19002 [lbo-talk] Re: lefties, fulfillment -- rank: 1000

Turbulo at aol.com wrote: >Yes, but aren't you forgetting something? The old man also held that >we live under a mode of production that is based upon alienated >rather than self-fulfilling activity. We are suspended between the >poles of possessing rather than enjoying and consuming passively >rather than creating. This dilemma can't be solved primarily on an >individual basis, i.e. through a choice of lifesyle. It requires a >collective i.e. revolutionary political solutio ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 19 14:50:32 PST 2005

19003 [lbo-talk] happiness -- rank: 1000

Message on today's AOL sign-on screen, as "news": "Happy Women Follow This Plan: Laugh at His Jokes, Talk About Sports."

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Date:	Wed Jan 19 14:28:32 PST 2005

19004 [lbo-talk] House Reps say SS reform "doomed" -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >Is anybody making serious noise about uncapping FICA? Seems some Reps are. This is the second report of such an idea I've read. I'm stunned.

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Date:	Wed Jan 19 13:58:48 PST 2005

19005 [lbo-talk] our latest SOB -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>] DUBIOUS GUY FOR AMERICANS TO DIE FOR OF THE DAY SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - A former Jordanian government minister has told The New Yorker that an American official confirmed to him that the Iraqi interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, executed six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station last year. The claim is in an extensive profile of Dr Allawi written for this week's issue of the magazine by an American journalist, Jon Lee And ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 19 13:57:02 PST 2005