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23056 [lbo-talk] Tim Wise sez... -- rank: 1000

...possible courses of action re: the previous outrage. >below are two weblinks about the case with sections about what >people can do. Among those things is a petition, though it was not >clear to whom the petition is being sent, ultimately. > ><http://www.actforjustice.com/>http://www.actforjustice.com/ > ><http://www.helpmarcus.com/>http://www.helpmarcus.com/ > >My suggestion, and what I am recommending to people is that they >write to the Governor of ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 3 09:44:35 PST 2004

23057 [lbo-talk] sex across the color line -- rank: 1000

<http://www.blackcommentator.com/71/71_wise_sex.html> "Sex across the Color Line" by Tim Wise This is the story of a real American tragedy. The kind they make movies about. The victim - and let there be no mistake that is the only word that fits here - is Marcus Dixon: a young man who was an 'A' student in high school, a member of the National Honor Society, one of the best defensive football players in the United States, who scored above a 1200 on his SAT, and had signed a lette ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 3 09:43:10 PST 2004

23058 [lbo-talk] productivity and profits -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I'm not sure whether "relentless commodification" is such an explanation >or only a further description of the facts to be explained You're right that it's more description than explanation, but I think the explanation is this: that process of commodification is driven by capitalists who want to make a buck. So they see existing areas that are already commodified as ripe for a new kind of commodification (e.g., Martha Stewart cuts a deal with KMart to turn ordi ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 3 08:43:52 PST 2004

23059 [lbo-talk] Ralph & the Greens -- rank: 1000

------- Forwarded message ------- From: Ted Glick <indpol at igc.org To: "Ted Glick" <indpol at igc.org Subject: [ufpj-news] Green Party Steering Committee answers Nader letter Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 16:05:50 -0500 For those interested, below is the response of the Steering Committee of the Green Party of the United States to the letter Ralph Nader sent out just before Christmas explaining his plans not to contest for the Green Party Presidential nomination. Below it is Nader's le ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 2 14:32:35 PST 2004

23060 [lbo-talk] Let a Thousand Factions Bloom (Pacifica-WBAI-FM) -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Yes, I can understand why WBAI is a fat target for different >factions, but why can't they band together to fight for *more* >stations in the New York area to air progressive news and >programming? Because we can't run even one! And do you have any idea how expensive radio is? WBAI is run on a shoestring, and it still takes $4-5 million a year. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 2 14:09:02 PST 2004

23061 [lbo-talk] productivity and profits -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >What is the explanation for that historical fact? Or is it merely a >fact, and expectations are based merely on the premise that what has >been and is will be? (That is a good rule of thumb, but subject to all >the hazards of any rule of thumb.) Relentless commodification of everything - and as Ursula Huws argues, the commodification of the domestic sphere has been a rich playground for capital over the last century - means more paid workers. It's been a while, but ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 2 14:07:40 PST 2004

23062 [lbo-talk] productivity and profits -- rank: 1000

Gregory Geboski wrote: >NIPA stats aside, I read the basic SF Chron contention--essentially, >intensive exploitation and suppression of real job growth now will >lead to job growth in some happy future--as ridiculous on its face. >Why should the bosses change? The long sweep of capitalist history is to bring more & more people into paid work - never as many as would like paid work, and often under appalling conditions, but why is there any reason to assume that this long-term tre ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 2 13:17:03 PST 2004

23063 [lbo-talk] Let a Thousand Factions Bloom (Pacifica-WBAI-FM) -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: > Why fight over WBAI when we could aspire to something bigger and better? Because it's a 50,000 watt station in the middle of the FM dial in the biggest metro area in the U.S.? How much bigger can you realistically get than that? Better, well yeah, there's lots of room for improvement. But bigger? It's a damned outrage that while The Nation's circ is at record levels and leftish books (other than mine) clog the bestseller lists, WBAI's listenership is shrinking. And unlike pri ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 2 13:13:37 PST 2004

23064 [lbo-talk] Krugman is a cutie: Guardian -- rank: 1000

Simon Huxtable wrote: >According to the style section of the Guardian Weekend >magazine, Paul Krugman is, like, a total hottie. Standards are dropping everywhere. He looks like a dorky economist to me, and a not-very-charming one at that. Maybe his ex-college-roommate Jim Devine has another perspective. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 2 12:48:12 PST 2004

23065 [lbo-talk] Doug in London - map -- rank: 1000

John Kozak wrote: > > Any London readers wanting to show up at Doug's (sole?) London >gig might find >> this map useful; the address of the University of Delaware Centre >>is 49 Doughty >> Street. Nearest tubes are Holborn or Russell Square. > >Ah - handy for The Spectator's offices. Another nearby pub, OK in a >shabby way, is the Yorkshire Gray at the junction of Gray's Inn Road >and Theobald's Road. I'll defer to the wisdom of the locals on this cruc ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 2 12:44:23 PST 2004

23066 [lbo-talk] productivity and profits -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >In a recent SF Chron article on productivity, the author wrote: > >"Such fast-growing productivity is a tremendous boon for society, >economists stress. While jobs might disappear in the short run, >higher output per worker spurs growth that in the long run creates >more opportunity. > >Higher productivity generates profit that is often reinvested in new >job- creating activities, they note." Often, maybe, but the productivity boom in rec ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 2 12:33:17 PST 2004

23067 [lbo-talk] U.S. terror watch list: a dozen incompatible, archaic databases -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - January 2, 2004 U.S. 'Terror' List Still Lacking Inability to Distinguish Friend From Foe Called Embarrassment By ROBERT BLOCK, GARY FIELDS and JO WRIGHTON Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Three days before Christmas, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's attache at the American Embassy in Paris gave French police a list of six names and information gleaned from U.S. intelligence intercepts, indicating that terrorists linked to al Qaeda were planning to hijack an ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 2 10:42:12 PST 2004

23068 [lbo-talk] great moments in homeland security -- rank: 1000

["[O]ne of the Air France passengers singled out by the FBI was a child whose name happened to be the same as a wanted Islamic extremist from Tunisia. The others on the list were an elderly Chinese lady who had at one time run a restaurant in Paris, an insurance salesman from Wales and three French nationals...."] French flights to US cancelled due to case of mistaken identity PARIS (AFP) - US investigators wrongly identified six Air France passengers as potential terrorists, leading t ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 2 10:19:36 PST 2004

23069 [lbo-talk] art notes -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - January 2, 2004 PAINTER SHOWS MIKE THE MAT ANGRY-man artist Scott LoBaido is once again turning his paintbrush on his nemesis, Mayor Michael Bloomberg. LoBaido, who protested the shuttering of a Williamsburg firehouse last August by painting a mural of a smiling mayor shooting a man in the back, has been asked by the National Arts Club to show his latest Bloomberg-bashing - a rendering of a cigarette-puffing Frank Sinatra giving him a bloody beating. The painting, titl ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 2 07:55:06 PST 2004

23070 [lbo-talk] Puck's Rap -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >There is a passage in the play where Puck (Oberon's trouble maker) >introduces himself and I thought that a rap song would be more fun >for the kids than Elizabethan double-entendres. I admire your restraint in writing a rap about "Puck" without making the obvious rhyme. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 2 07:52:43 PST 2004