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23131 [lbo-talk] DSA Youth -- rank: 1000

This afternoon I did a workshop on the state of the global justice movement at a Democratic Socialists of America youth conference. We chatted about agendas and organization, or the lack of both. Several points came up that deserve wider circulation: * A guy on leave from a National Guard posting in Iraq wondered what the left is doing to propagandize among his colleagues, whom he described as being seriously pissed off. Their lives have been completely disrupted, they're at constant risk of bei ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 22 15:36:30 PST 2004

23132 [lbo-talk] Ralph -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >All lefties of good conscience will now support Ralph, and insist that he be >allowed into the debates. Whether or not we change to the Kerry-bot at the >last minute is up to the Kerry-bot. There is no other principled position. Guess that makes me an unprincipled opportunist. Hope the checks and other perks are imminently forthcoming. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 22 15:26:44 PST 2004

23133 [lbo-talk] Ted Glick: Eight Questions for Ralph Nader -- rank: 1000

Future Hope column Feb. 22, 2004 An Open Letter: Eight Questions for Ralph Nader Dear Ralph, Now that you've now announced your intention to run as an independent for President this year, and as someone who supported your efforts in 1996 and 2000 and who was open to the possibility of your being the Green Party's Presidential candidate until about two months ago, I have a number of questions: 1) You have said repeatedly that you are running to contribute to the movement to get Bush out of office ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 22 13:38:32 PST 2004

23134 [lbo-talk] RE: sexual harrassment -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >"Both Doug and Joanna cite comments of the kind 'you're only here >because of your sex' at universities as evidence of sexual >harrassment." > >It is sexual harrassment. It is the assertion that you do not >deserve your appointment, that it was made solely because of your >sex. That wasn't my argument. I cited the story as proof that even white guys who think themselves enlightened, such as myself, still don't have access to the experience of p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 22 13:17:42 PST 2004

23135 [lbo-talk] Ralph -- rank: 1000

Good to see that Ralph, aside from running against the Communist tyranny in China, is also running against "corporate pornography directed at children." That nonsense aside, he did make some good points on MtP. But politics isn't just about making good points - you need institutions. But Ralph doesn't like those - they're corrupting. So another chimerical run.... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 22 09:26:11 PST 2004

23136 [lbo-talk] emergency contraception -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020902&s=pollitt20020829> An Open Letter About Emergency Contraception by Katha Pollitt and Jennifer Baumgardner The one thing that activists on every side of the abortion debate agree on is that we should reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies. There are 3 million unintended pregnancies each year in the United States; around 1.4 million of them end in abortion. Yet the best tool for reducing unwanted pregnancies has only been used by 2 percen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 22 09:15:21 PST 2004

23137 [lbo-talk] Confusion over harrassment -- rank: 1000

<heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >Wolf's actions in airing the allegations in the press are >outrageous. Bloom has no redress for the smear on his character. I don't know whether Wolf is telling the truth or not; it is odd to wait 20 years to make the accusation. But the specifics of her case aren't really relevant to the issue of sexual harassment in general, are they? >It is easy to make up stories about people. I could easily say that >on his visit to London Doug Henw ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 22 08:11:21 PST 2004

23138 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Former Dean Staff Launch DeaniacsForEdwards.com -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Feb 22, 2004 Contact: Eric Schmeltzer, 917-xxx-xxxx FORMER DEAN STAFF LAUNCH DEANIACSFOREDWARDS.COM NEW YORK -- Seeking to immediately make further impact on the 2004 Presidential campaign via the grassroots, a group of former staff and volunteers for Governor Howard Dean's campaign are today launching www.deaniacsforedwards.com - a website that will act as a coordination hub for the grassroots infrastructure for Governor Dean's campaign to support the candidacy of Senator ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 22 08:07:05 PST 2004

23139 [lbo-talk] Osama look-alikes fill lawless region of Pakistan -- rank: 1000

[via Michael Pugliese] <http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_580758,00050002.htm> Hindustan Times - February 21, 2004 Osama look-alikes fill lawless region of Pakistan Indo-Asian News Service Islamabad, February 21 Ask any farmer in Pakistan's Khyber tribal region, "Have you seen Osama bin Laden?" and you're likely to find a similar-looking, tall, bearded man at the restaurants of the area's main bazaar, reports UPI. Ask a tribesman in Darra Adam Khel, the region's largest arms ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 21 22:41:39 PST 2004

23140 [lbo-talk] ObL cornered? -- rank: 1000

Bin Laden cornered in Pakistan's northwest: report Sat Feb 21, 6:18 PM ET LONDON (AFP) - US and British special forces have cornered Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) in a mountainous area in northwest Pakistan, near the Afghanistan (news - web sites) border, it was reported. Quoting "a US intelligence source," the Sunday Express newspaper said bin Laden and "up to 50 fanatical henchmen" were inside an area 16 kilometres (10 miles) wide and deep "north o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 21 20:14:40 PST 2004

23141 [lbo-talk] Bush -- rank: 1000

Last night, in a debate with Gideon Rose of the Council on Foreign Relations, Tariq Ali said the defeat of Bush "would be viewed globally as a victory." Does this make Tariq a liberal now? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 21 08:37:56 PST 2004

23142 [lbo-talk] Re: oy...the polls, the polls -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >IINM, our g-spot became your prostate gland. our ovaries became your >testicles. (the kid always called them his eggs when he was 2!) That's the German slang word for testicles, isn't it? Eier, if I'm remembering right. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 21 08:36:28 PST 2004

23143 [lbo-talk] Taking Power -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >I was listening too much to liberals like Henwood You join an elite group that includes Alex Cockburn and Mrs Louis Proyect. At least the Sparts call me a "radical." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 21 08:34:15 PST 2004

23144 [lbo-talk] Re: wolf vs paglia vs yale -- rank: 1000

John Thornton wrote: >Maybe I'm missing some vital background information on Frank Scott >but how exactly does one "qualify" to make a judgement concerning >sexual harassment? Having had some experience of it, perhaps? Years ago, I had a chat with a Dominican woman who grew up poor in Brooklyn and had made it to the Harvard Law School. Her tales of what people said to her - "you're here only because of affirmative action" was the mildest form of racial taunting - sho ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 21 08:27:57 PST 2004

23145 [lbo-talk] Re: oy...the polls, the polls -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >how about this equally convincing poll, just arrived from, uh, some >other polling source with an equally scientific basis enabling it to >find out what it wants to prove: How's it unscientific to ask a sample of people what they believe and then compile the results? Sometimes you come off as a hybrid between a know-it-all and a know-nothing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 21 08:20:35 PST 2004