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20416 [lbo-talk] Update on Plaza Hotel banner group -- rank: 1000

[this is from the group that hung a banner from the Plaza Hotel during the RNC and are facing felony charges because a cop cut his leg chasing them] Thanks to all of you for the tremendous outpouring of support you sent over the last few days. I shared your words with our climbing team when they got out of jail and they were happy to know that so many people believed in our message and stood with us. An update: All of our climbers and spotters were released on personal recogniznance (no bail) on ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 15 10:28:50 PDT 2004

20417 [lbo-talk] Re:the market that dares not speak its name? -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >I suppose there are traces of that in Stalin's belief >that homosexuality was "bourgeois decadence." Yup, which is also the view of some of the "Marxist" sects like the RCP and PL. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 15 10:24:48 PDT 2004

20418 [lbo-talk] Re: Powerless Religious Right? -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Nader's campaign is an example of "politics as theater." It is >getting radcial and progressive ideas into circulation, albeit not >as effectively since the corporate-controlled Democrats have been >fighting Nader tooth-and-nail (which shows in Kerry's falling poll >numbers). > >I'll just out that most people on this list would be supporting >Nader's campaign if this was 2000. His campaign then was just as >much about injecting ideas and issues ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 15 10:23:54 PDT 2004

20419 [lbo-talk] Re:the market that dares not speak its name? -- rank: 1000

John Kozak wrote: >Doug Henwood writes: > >> There's a myth, going back to Roman times, that gay men are >> affluent. > >Really? Was there even a social role equivalent to our "gay man" back >then? I lifted that from Badgett. I suppose the appropriate way of phrasing it was that men having sex with men was framed as a vice of the upper classes. Obviously there weren't "gay men" in the sense we think of it now. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 15 06:31:34 PDT 2004

20420 [lbo-talk] Re: Jeff Davis Won In The End ? -- rank: 1000

Tommy Kelly wrote: > >>From: Doug Henwood >>and the global hierarchy can be traced to the Confederacy. >> > >How so? That's not my argument - that seems to be the boneheaded argument of the Counterpunch writer that Brad M has a crush on. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 20:13:05 PDT 2004

20421 [lbo-talk] Multitude -- rank: 1000

I'm interviwing Michael Hardt next week - recording on Tuesday for broadcast on Thursday - mainly about Multitude. Any questions you'd like me to ask? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 16:34:00 PDT 2004

20422 [lbo-talk] Ballot Statuses: Nader vs. Cobb -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >To a lot of people, it seems bizarre and confusing. How's that different from the rest of American life? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 15:45:50 PDT 2004

20423 [lbo-talk] categories -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >Doug said: > >>Man, now I feel like a failure. > >But there are people who love you (and those who fear you), regardless . . . . Hey that was a joke, not a fishing expedition for praise. Not that it isn't appreciated, though. Thanks. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 14:33:06 PDT 2004

20424 [lbo-talk] I am therefore I Ism -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >Thank the dead guy on a stick that the media didn't seem as obsessed >with it as they have in the past. The Daily News headline was "REMEMBER" - as by way of command against mass amnesia. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 14:04:59 PDT 2004

20425 [lbo-talk] ex-naderites for Kerry -- rank: 1000

Nader 2000 Leaders United To Defeat Bush We, the undersigned, were selected by Ralph Nader to be members of his 113-person national "Nader 2000 Citizens Committee." This year, we urge support for Kerry/Edwards in all swing states, even while we strongly disagree with Kerry's policies on Iraq and other issues. For people seeking progressive social change in the United States, removing George W. Bush from office should be the top priority in the 2004 presidential election. Progressive vo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 13:22:45 PDT 2004

20426 [lbo-talk] Re:the market that dares not speak its name? -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >getting rid of capitalism will not stop racism, either, and that is a >far bigger problem, though thousands of blacks - oops, african americans >- are also doing quite well economically, though on a per capita basis, >not as well as gays...the most important part of that wall street >journal excerpt seems to have escaped the consciousness of sufferering: > >"The driver, of course, is that advertisers are increasingly attracted >to gays >who sp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 13:07:35 PDT 2004

20427 [lbo-talk] Wallerstein on US & Iraq -- rank: 1000

Commentary No. 145, Sept. 15, 2004 "What Has the U.S. Achieved in Iraq?" Most of the world think that the U.S. policy in Iraq has been a political failure. Even a majority of the U.S. electorate seems to think so, according to the latest polls. This does not seem to faze the Bush regime, which argues (and may even really believe) that its policy has been a great success. So, let us review the situation. First, let us look at what the present U.S. government most loudly claims as a succ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 12:35:15 PDT 2004

20428 [lbo-talk] ABL '08 -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >i crap you negative, good buddies! > >honestly. i am sick to fucking death of this nonsense! Between >working, I kid you not, over 100 hrs last week, and prepping for and >waiting for these #&%^(!@%& horriblecanes, my nerves are just shot! > >and it must really suck to try to watch the news. _I_ am sick of the >Hurricane News NEtworks, I'll just bet everyone else is! > >http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_astorm11+shtml/141753.shtml? & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 12:27:30 PDT 2004

20429 [lbo-talk] Modanna (Esther) coming to visit for Rosh Ha'shanah...plans to do pilgrimage to Rachel's Tomb in Israeli occupied portion of Bethlehem -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >Good luck with this. Kaballah is an IQ test. If you believe it, you fail. Compared to what? The doctrine that god had a sone who came down to earth, born of a virgin, was crucified only to rise from the dead and be taken bodily into heaven, while commanding his followers to eat his symbolic flesh and drink his symbolic blood? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 12:12:36 PDT 2004

20430 [lbo-talk] Jeff Davis Won In The End ? -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >Doug, do you hate literary prose? Not at all - nor poetry either - as long as it doesn't make analytical claims. The piece in question acts as if Jefferson Davis is responsible for the capitalist world system. A lot of the CP stuff seems, consciously or not, bent on exonerating the U.S. for its crimes: our foreign policy is the fault of Israel, and the global hierarchy can be traced to the Confederacy. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 12:05:54 PDT 2004