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21916 [lbo-talk] activists & Nader -- rank: 1000

Ok, so my friend Ken Sherrill of the Hunter poli sci department, my guru on all things relating to gay politics (and gossip), says almost no gay/lesbian activist is behind Nader. So we've got almost no labor activists, no black activists, no G/L activists, and, judging from yesterday's demo in NYC, no antiwar activists. So, Yoshie, who are all these pro-Nader activists? Where are they hiding? Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 21 20:51:33 PST 2004

21917 [lbo-talk] March 20, 2004, Columbus, OH: A Day That Will Live In Infamy -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >Mike Larkin wrote: > >>... Among labor and African American organizers I know, if you >even mention Nader's name, you are toast. The man is loathed... > >Three questions: > >1.) What minority group in the US population is most persecuted >by government and victim of most hate crimes in the current >political climate? > >2.) What is *their* attitude toward Nader--and how many of >their "organizers" do you know? > >3.) Wh ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 21 07:27:43 PST 2004

21918 [lbo-talk] re: Chomsky, Nader, and the Green Party -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >Yoshie, I'm glad that 7 months before the US electiosn >you'e "confident" that Bush will be voted out. Of >course, that's no thanks to people like you. Some of >us in the red states aren't so confident. One month >ago, your choice for President, Ralph Nader, spoke at >a large community college campus here in Dallas, where >he reassured conservatives he has several things in >common with them (at least "4 major issues," he said), >includin ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 21 07:26:32 PST 2004

21919 [lbo-talk] March 20, 2004, Columbus, OH: A Day That Will Live In Infamy -- rank: 1000

Tom wrote: >--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> We didn't see a single Nader button or sign at >> today's antiwar demo in NYC. > >Lots of Kucinich though. True, but he lost big. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 21 06:23:54 PST 2004

21920 [lbo-talk] Chomsky, Nader, & the Green Party -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >Yoshie: >> I'm interested in making >> sure that John Kerry will not win by a > landslide > >This is a rather amazing goal! Can you say "ultra-leftism?" Wake up and >smell reality, friend. A landslide dumping Bush, as unlikely as it is, >would be a huge victory, the Kerrybot nothwithstanding. "The defeat of Bush would be regarded globally as a victory." - Tariq Ali in NYC, Feb 20 2004

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Date:	Sat Mar 20 18:05:59 PST 2004

21921 [lbo-talk] March 20, 2004, Columbus, OH: A Day That WillLive In Infamy -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Doug reported that there were no Nader buttons at the New York >demos, as though this is the only indicator of opinion about Nader. Huh? It's an indicator, not "the only indicator." Scores of thousands of left-of-center people gathered together and not a single Nader button. Don't you find that interesting? Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 20 18:04:35 PST 2004

21922 [lbo-talk] March 20, 2004, Columbus, OH: A Day That Will Live In Infamy -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >Yes, this is a dispatch from Planet Bonkerism. Among >labor and African American organizers I know, if you >even mention Nader's name, you are toast. The man is loathed. We didn't see a single Nader button or sign at today's antiwar demo in NYC. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 20 17:05:43 PST 2004

21923 [lbo-talk] March 20, 2004, Columbus, OH -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The Anybody But Bush pundits who -- rather than simply advocating >voting for John Kerry -- ask Americans not to cooperate with Ralph >Nader and the Green Party are a vocal and yet tiny minority among US >leftists; they are mainly sectarian intellectuals, few of whom are >movement organizers and activists. Do you have any evidence for this claim? I doubt more than a handful of union organizers support Nader. I guess you could call Noam Chomsky a "sect ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 20 09:06:54 PST 2004

21924 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Re: Critique of Null -- rank: 1000

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 03:41:53 -0800 (PST) From: One World Living <oneworldliving at yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Critique of Null To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: You are truly an idiot. I've never been to med school, to start with. Nor am I a representative of the "corporate world," as even the most cursory research could tell you. So if this is the quality of analysis your gang works with, I'm confirmed in my suspicio ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 20 08:53:36 PST 2004

21925 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: March 18, 2004 Luciana Castellina on Italian politics - government, parties, popular movements * Ruth O'Brien, editor of Voices from the Edge: Narratives About the Americans With Disabilities Act, on the ADA, the workplace, and the courts, and Leonard Kriegel, one of the contributors to the collection, on getting around NYC in a wheelchair it joins: -------- March 11, 2004 Robert Fatton, author of Haiti's Pred ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 19 15:17:06 PST 2004

21926 [lbo-talk] Orwell -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Michael Dawson writes: > >> Hitchens > >Who? > >Oh, is that that guy who wrote that funny book on Mother Teresa, but >nothing else of interest? No wonder he likes Orwell. One-hit wonders >should stick together, I guess. Hey that's not fair. I don't like what Hitch has become, but he used to be very good. And a likeable human being too. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 19 15:09:04 PST 2004

21927 [lbo-talk] christer propaganda (was: really bad political music) -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >I'm not exactly sure what Doug meant by "really bad political >music," but one reason I avoid it like the plague is the feeling >that I'm getting lectured at by some pious leftish version of a >corrupt televangelist. Exactly that. Or music that you'd never listen to if it had nonpolitical lyrics. Not true of the Clash, or Gang of Four, or The Coup. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 19 14:26:42 PST 2004

21928 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Company offers 'Jesus' Dress Up' with Satan clothes -- rank: 1000

From: American Family Association <actionalert at lists.afa.net> Subject: Company offers 'Jesus' Dress Up' with Satan clothes Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:55:29 -0600 NOTE: If you have the option to do so, please add us to your 'approved', 'buddy', 'safe' or 'trusted sender' list to prevent your ISP's filter from blocking future email messages from us. Thank you. Company offers 'Jesus' Dress Up' with Satan clothes Dear Friend of the Family, Urban Outfitters is offering a refrigerator magnet s ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 19 12:34:47 PST 2004

21929 [lbo-talk] Huntington's new fear: brown people from the south -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - March 15, 2004 On the border of disaster? Dan Glaister In 1993, Harvard academic Samuel Huntington controversially identified Islam as the biggest danger to global stability. Now he is arguing that Latino immigration into the US is destroying the American way of life. Dan Glaister reports Samuel Huntington is a man with a history. In 1993, the Harvard academic and one-time member of the US national security council published an essay entitled The Clash of Civilisations. In it ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 19 10:26:03 PST 2004

21930 [lbo-talk] the ruling class considers the crisis in transatlantic relations -- rank: 1000

NEWS RELEASE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS Transatlantic Alliance Remains Vital to U.S. and Europe in Post-9/11 World, Concludes Council Task Force Led by Henry Kissinger and Lawrence Summers Task Force Report: http://www.cfr.org/publication.php?id=6871 March 19, 2004 -In the year that has passed since the war in Iraq, the United States and its European allies have done much to repair their relations. Nonetheless, the partnership is still at risk. To revitalize the Atlantic alliance, Europe and A ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 19 10:13:35 PST 2004