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20776 [lbo-talk] Class Action: The Million Worker March, October 17 -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi quoted: >The Black commentator Who, by the way, thinks that voting for Kerry is an imperative, expressed in very very strong terms <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#040930>. Doug

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20777 [lbo-talk] Class Action: The Million Worker March, October 17 -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >On Monday, October 18, 2004, at 09:21 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>As for the turnout, I'd say that the police officer quoted by Manny >>Fernandez and David Nakamura in their Washington Post article is >>accurate: "Million Worker March in the Washington Post" (October >>18, 2004, >><http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20041018/023530.html>). >>It was in the same league as the first anti-war mar ...

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20778 [lbo-talk] Alternative Voices in the Middle East -- rank: 1000

IMPASSE? Alternative Voices in the Middle East A One-Day Conference Saturday November 20th, 2004 Auditorium, International Affairs Building, Columbia University 118th Street and Amsterdam Ave 9:30 - 6:00 Speakers: Ziad Asali Yossi Beilin Jessica Benjamin Phyllis Bennis Steven Bronner Diana Buttu Leena Dallasheh Yoav Elinevsky Jad Isaac Micheline Ishay Yoav Peled Eyad Sarraj Sponsored by the Columbia University Department of English and Comparative Literature, the Logos International Foundation, ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 18 07:23:57 PDT 2004

20779 [lbo-talk] Stern to endorse Kerry -- rank: 1000

Washingtonian - Octobrer 15, 2004 Washington Buzz Harry Jaffe National editor, The Washingtonian Washington Post vs. Howard Stern-Whose Endorsement Counts More? You are John Kerry. An aide tells you that you are about to get a key media endorsement the weekend before the election. You are ecstatic because it is: a. Washington Post b. New York Times c. Howard Stern d. Jon Stewart. Answer: c. Howard Stern. The shock jock's 9 million loyal listeners, who might not think about the election until aft ...

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20780 [lbo-talk] Class Action: The Million Worker March, October 17 -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >"In my view, 10,000 Black and Black-led rank-and-file labor >activists organizing on their own initiative are more worth knowing >and supporting than 500,000 random whites" So those are the only two choices? What about a multiracial gathering of 250,000? And what union-organized march would ever consist of a 100% white crowd? Do you know anything about the demographics of American unions? Doug

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20781 [lbo-talk] another small demo -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - October 18, 2004 Conference of Pro-Palestinian Student Groups at Duke U. Ends Peacefully By ELIZABETH F. FARRELL Conference of pro-Palestinian student groups at Duke U. ends peacefully Durham, N.C. A small group of pro-Israeli demonstrators converged Sunday on Duke University to protest during a rally concluding a three-day conference of the Palestinian Solidarity Movement, an umbrella organization for about 80 student groups that have endorsed a five- ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 18 07:08:37 PDT 2004

20782 [lbo-talk] Class Action: The Million Worker March, October 17 -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >But what are two measly zeroes vis a vis the faith of a true believer! It just occurred to me that a lot of American leftists share Bush's preference for faith-based to reality-based politics. Doug

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20783 [lbo-talk] kerryforpresident.it -- rank: 1000

[via nettime - I know that in some quarters it's far more important to build the Green Party by voting for the guy who isn't running as a Green - but here's a view from abroad - as for the home front, Bush is quoted as promising to get started right after the election on privatizing Social Security and "reforming" the tax system, which means ending progressivity and largely exempting capital from taxation] please stop this war We European citizens (Italians, Germans and Britons) want t ...

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20784 [lbo-talk] Anyone see Jon Stewart on Crossfire? -- rank: 1000

Adam Souzis wrote: >well, from time immemorial, when people can't speak their minds it is >the jester who speaks the truth. It was a nice touch, though, when Stewart said he wouldn't be Crossfire's "monkey." Sure, Stewart's criticisms were "mild" by the standards of ravers like us, but when is the last time you saw someone on Crossfire denounce the hosts as partisan hacks who perpetuate The System - and call one host in particular a dick? Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 18 06:40:30 PDT 2004

20785 [lbo-talk] Associated Press: undreds of Workers at MWM -- rank: 1000

So Carrol & Yoshie - was it still a success with a turnout in the "hundreds"? Or was the capitalist hyena press lying about the numbers? Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 17 14:50:32 PDT 2004

20786 [lbo-talk] Class Action: The Million Worker March, October 17 -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Yahoo News photos, opening pg. >"Hundreds..." Hmm, no story, just some photos of tiny grouplets? Hundreds? Really? Doug

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20787 [lbo-talk] LaDuke endorses Kerry, among other things -- rank: 1000

Future Hope column, October 17, 2004 Cobb, Kerry and Nader By Ted Glick I was struck by two emails that came my way a few days ago. One was an endorsement of John Kerry by Winona LaDuke. The other was a press release from the N.Y. Independence Party announcing that, this coming week, Ralph Nader will "campaign in the Black community with Independence Party leader and activist Dr. Lenora Fulani." Winona LaDuke, of course, was Ralph Nader's Vice-Presidential running mate in both 1996 and ...

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20788 [lbo-talk] Arrighi on the emergence of China, etc. -- rank: 1000

[longish but still interesting - via the Debate list] CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM AND UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT Giovanni Arrighi My observations at the Workshop on "Africa: the Next Liberation Struggle" will focus on two related statements contained in papers pre-circulated by John Saul. The first is what Saul calls Adam Przeworski's "chilling utterance" to the effect that "Capitalism is irrational, socialism is unfeasible, in the real world people starve ... the conclusions we have ...

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20789 [lbo-talk] Class Action: The Million Worker March, October 17 -- rank: 1000

So how was the MWM turnout? A Google news search reveals nothing, as does the WashPost site. Doug

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20790 [lbo-talk] Anyone see Jon Stewart on Crossfire? -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >At 07:39 PM 11/15/2004, Stephen Philion wrote: >>Stewart totally set up Begala and Carlson today by coming on the >>show and in all total seriousness asking them to stop it >>with the fake debate, spin,...They were totally caught off guard by >>his seriousness. >>And, to top it all off, he told Carlson he was a 'dick'!! >>___________________________________ > > > ><http://go.fark.com/cgi/fark/go.pl?IDLink=1170246&locatio ...

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