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23101 [lbo-talk] White trash -- rank: 1000

Arash wrote: >I just wanted to point out that >that's not true, hip-hop seems to have a very widespread following all over >Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. And even unto the streets of Hobart, Tasmania, where Liza & I saw a kid carrying a boombox listening to hip-hop in July 2001. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 24 13:14:27 PST 2004

23102 [lbo-talk] gentrification -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >That is not what I observed in Baltimore. Baltimore has tried to gentrify and mostly failed, no? Under the Yalie mayor Schmoke? Inner Harbor and all that? The problem with American cities, exaggerating slightly, is that they're either ravaged dumps or playgrounds for the rich (to quote Iggy Pop). It's the urban physical manifestation of the polarization in the U.S. socioeconomic structure. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 24 11:28:06 PST 2004

23103 [lbo-talk] Nader & the gay vote -- rank: 1000

Nader Seeks To Attract Gay Voters by Paul Johnson 365Gay.com Newscenter Washington Bureau Chief Posted: February 23, 2004 (Washington, D.C.) The entry into the 2004 presidential campaign of Ralph Nader gives LGBT voters a broader choice, but many gay civil rights groups are concerned it could result in another term for George W. Bush. Nader announced Sunday he would make a fourth run for the White House, this time as an independent, four years after his populist Green Party bid helped tip the pr ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 24 11:12:17 PST 2004

23104 [lbo-talk] gentrification -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > >>RE: [lbo-talk] "The City" Lectures: NEIL SMITH - "The Gentrified >Future: New Globalism, New Urbanism" >>> > >Can anyone explain to me why the US leftoids are so afraid of urban >development? It depends on what you mean by development. I doubt that Neil would oppose improving the urban physical infrastructure or raising the income of city residents. The problem is that "gentrification" usually displaces poo ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 24 09:34:54 PST 2004

23105 Sharpton (was: [lbo-talk] Hard-right,Scaife-owned newspaper) -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >I was wondering what reactions to the Village Voice piece on >Sharpton's relationship with Roger Stone: > >A Bush Covert Operative Takes Over Al Sharpton's Campaign It really put me off the Reverend, for sure. I was thinking of voting for him in the NY primary, but now I don't think I can. Stone is a creep (though I've sure heard some fascinating sexual gossip about him, which fear of litigation inhibits me from repeating). Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 24 09:31:03 PST 2004

23106 [lbo-talk] re: Naomi Wolf v Harold Bloom -- rank: 1000

paul childs wrote: >Some foaming at the mouth reaction from the Great White North: > >http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040224/COWENT24/TPComment/Columnists >The incident, she writes, "devastated my sense of being valuable to >Yale as a student rather than as a pawn of powerful men." But Ms. >Wolf (who, it must be noted, is ravishingly beautiful) is getting >precious little sympathy from the sisterhood. "It's a desperate >powe ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 24 09:21:59 PST 2004

23107 [lbo-talk] Hard-right, Scaife-owned newspaper urges people to donate to Nader -- rank: 1000

[love the remark about Edwards' ingratitude - it's accurate besides being funny] Wall Street Journal - February 24, 2004 REVIEW & OUTLOOK Ralph Rides Again Ralph Nader is always entertaining, and his just-announced repeat campaign for the Presidency doesn't disappoint. Start with the over-the-top reaction from Democrats. The Kerry and Edwards campaigns instantly condemned Mr. Nader's entry as an independent. Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe showed rare self-restraint in ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 24 08:58:53 PST 2004

23108 [lbo-talk] DSA Youth -- rank: 1000

bradhatch wrote: >Doug, what other connections do you have with DSA? I joined DSA over 8 years >ago because I thought they provided some theoretical backing for the >activist community I was involved in. After reading your editorial you wrote >with Christian Parenti, I thought that DSA would be an organization you'd be >involved with. Are you a member? No, ain't a member of nuthin' except the National Writers Union, URPE, the American Association of Public Opinion Research, and th ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 23 17:32:34 PST 2004

23109 [lbo-talk] the other L word -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion wrote: >doug, i'm wondering what you think of the contention by Nader, as he >put it today on Dem.now to A. goodman, that he's basically running to >keep the fire on the dem candidate(s) kerry/edwards (presuming edwards >gets the vp slot). it seems that his candidacy, if you can call it >that, is not really geared to winning lots of votes as opposed to >simply keeping the heat on Kerry to not move to the right over the >campaign. How does he keep the heat u ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 23 16:47:16 PST 2004

23110 [lbo-talk] apartheid thugs working for U.S. in Iraq -- rank: 1000

>Apartheid Enforcers Guard Iraq for the U.S. >Marc Perelman, Forward >18 Feb. 04 >http://forward.com/main/article.php?ref=perelman20040218608 > >In its effort to relieve overstretched U.S. troops in Iraq, the Bush >administration has hired a private security company staffed with former >henchmen of South Africa's apartheid regime. > >The reliance on apartheid enforcers was highlighted by an attack in Iraq >last month that killed one South African security officer ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 23 13:15:15 PST 2004

23111 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: February 19, 2004 Sara Roy, senior research scholar at the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, on the social crisis among Palestinians in the occupied territories and Israel's intentions behind building the wall * George Soros, speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations, on the Bush administration and the Bubble of American Supremacy * Christian Parenti on his January in Iraq, spent with the 82nd airb ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 23 13:07:25 PST 2004

23112 [lbo-talk] Re: Rwandan massacres not racist? -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >The racialist point of view sees a deep, biological >and cultural chasm between myself and a Japanese man >for example. From this POV, the supposed biological >rift determines the cultural divide. If either I or >the Japanese fellow, or both of us, believe ourselves >to be superior to one another based upon our 'racial' >characteristics we can properly be called racists. Balibar and others have argued that there's a "new racism," which is de ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 23 12:40:41 PST 2004

23113 [lbo-talk] Fwd: <nettime> tomorrow: grey tuesday -- rank: 1000

[via nettime - I nabbed a copy the other day - it's pretty good stuff] "Grey Tuesday" Civil Disobedience Planned February 24th Against Copyright Cartel DOWNHILL BATTLE (February 18, 2004) -- A coalition of websites will join in an online protest to offer free downloads of a critically acclaimed album that is being censored by a lawsuit threat from EMI Records. The action is an act of civil disobedience against a copyright regime that routinely suppresses musical innovation. The Grey Al ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 23 12:26:32 PST 2004

23114 [lbo-talk] the other L word -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Angela Davis, >Tim Wise, the sons of the Rosenbergs, Manning Marable, ex-Maoist >Carl Davidson and many other left luminaries... >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/portside/message/4812 >Bush Can Be Stopped: A Letter to the Left You gotta be a member of Portside to read that. What's it say? Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 23 11:36:37 PST 2004

23115 [lbo-talk] US Green Party candidate Ralph Nader courts Buchanan supporters -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: ><URL: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/jun2000/gp1-j27.shtml > > Well that was 4 years ago. What's he up to now on this front? Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 23 11:18:59 PST 2004