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23146 [lbo-talk] NYC demo March 20 -- rank: 1000

ACTION ALERT * UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE http://www.unitedforpeace.org | 212-868-5545 To subscribe, visit http://www.unitedforpeace.org/email =========================================== Good news! We have just finalized an agreement with the NYC Police Department for a permitted march and rally in New York City on Saturday, March 20th. Here are the details: - 12 noon: ASSEMBLE on Madison Avenue from 23rd Street heading north alongside Madison Square Park. As we gather, a brief rally we be hel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 20 15:17:09 PST 2004

23147 [lbo-talk] Arthur Levitt, Jr. & the Carlyle Group -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/022004_levitt.html > >WHY I JOINED THE CARLYLE GROUP AND OTHER REVELATIONS FROM FORMER SEC >CHAIR ARTHUR LEVITT, JR. - by Suzan Mazur >– Two and half years after September 11 th and a year and half after >a series of corporate accounting scandals which destroyed hundred of >billions in shareholder and pension equities, the man regarded as a >paragon of virtue discloses in a semi-private talk why he chose to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 20 14:48:08 PST 2004

23148 [lbo-talk] Taking Power -- rank: 1000

dredmond at efn.org wrote: > > More importantly, why stand aloof and say that the Green Party didn't >> do this or do that or do other things, rather than get involved and >> help build the party, which you say you are in favor of? > >Activism isn't like a Model-T, which comes in one variety. Everyone should >contribute what they can, and that transcends a particular party-structure or >campaign. I spend a lot of my life writing economic analysis for far-below ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 20 14:37:00 PST 2004

23149 [lbo-talk] Re: wolf vs paglia vs yale -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >the choice is even easier than bush-kerry...my vote is for paglia...as >to this breathtaking excerpt: > >"...the fact that there is a systemic problem at Yale University... " > >duh? it's a helluva lot bigger than hand-on-thigh sexism... Maybe you're not the most appropriate person to pass judgment on the severity of sexual harassment as a social problem. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 20 14:04:14 PST 2004

23150 [lbo-talk] conservatives after the Cold War -- rank: 1000

Very interesting piece by Corey Robin on U.S. conservatives after the cold war: <http://bostonreview.net/BR29.1/robin.html>. An excerpt: >For conservatives, who yearned for and then celebrated socialism's >demise, Clinton's promotion of free trade and free markets was >anathema. Though conservatives are reputed to favor wealth and >prosperity, law and order, stability and routine-all the comforts of >bourgeois life-they hated Clinton for his pursuit of these very >virtues ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 20 13:36:04 PST 2004

23151 [lbo-talk] faith-based prison and belief in miracles -- rank: 1000

<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040217/lo_wpbf/2011353> Faith-Based Prison Raises Hope, Questions There's no other prison in the country like it: a correctional institution based on faith, where men who committed crimes must commit themselves to a higher power while they do time. Lawtey Correctional Institution combines religious groups and public institutions which opponents believe violates separation of church and state rights. But religious leaders and Gov. ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 20 13:23:48 PST 2004

23152 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Pew Research Center Commentary -- rank: 1000

DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY CAMPAIGN IMPRESSES VOTERS Bush Personal Image Tumbles The presidential primary campaign has been very good for the Democratic Party. Public interest in the race has been relatively high. Americans have a much better impression of the Democratic field than they did just a month ago. And an increasing percentage believes a Democratic candidate will win in November. The latest Pew Research Center national survey, conducted Feb. 11-16, shows that 45% of Americans have a positive v ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 20 12:05:13 PST 2004

23153 [lbo-talk] Taking Power -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >You see, you just revealed yourself, as well as other ex-Green >voters in the Anybody But Bush camp, to be lacking in patience, by >simply saying that the Green Party presidential campaign in 2000 >"didn't work." The campaign "didn't work" only if you look at >nothing but the proportion (2.7%) of the total votes that went to >the Green Party and conclude that, since it didn't amount to 5%, >unable to secure federal matching funds ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 20 11:57:06 PST 2004

23154 [lbo-talk] McEntee: Dean is "nuts" -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: > > Why the fuck is a union spending $1 million on party politics instead of >> on organizing workers? >> >> McEntee is the crazy piecard here. >> >> Chuck0 > >That's the way they ALL work, Chuck. I've seen it at close range for 15 >years. Sick-ass shit, isn't it? Last I looked, the UAW (which I belong to via the National Writers Union) had $1 billion in cash on its balance sheet. People say it's for a strike fund, but ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 20 11:50:00 PST 2004

23155 [lbo-talk] Chicago cops spied on antiwar movement -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>] CHICAGO POLICE SPIED ON QUAKERS http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-spy19.html FRANK MAIN, CHICAGO SUN TIMES - Chicago Police officers infiltrated five protest groups in 2002 and launched four other spying operations in 2003 -- actions that civil rights activists are calling outrageous. The investigations have come in the wake of a court decision that expanded the department's intelligence-gathering powers. In 2002, undercove ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 20 10:12:36 PST 2004

23156 [lbo-talk] Wolf v Bloom -- rank: 1000

<heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> quoted: >The professor, who has been described as "destructively seductive", Further proof, to quote a British novelist from a very different context, that it's a man's world. To put it kindly, the man is not pleasing to the eye, and wasn't 30 years ago either. One of my college roommates took a seminar with Bloom. One day, he described a dream he'd had the night before in which he was walking down a hallway lined with doors. Each successive on ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 20 10:20:25 PST 2004

23157 [lbo-talk] Re: RIP, Dr. Fraud -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > > > Trilling even impressed me in his use >> >of Freudian concepts. What started me being suspicious was _exactly_ >> >arguments like this: i.e., psychoanalytic arguments were never about a >> >shared world but about _you_. >> >> That's just not true. The "you" - or "me" - is formed by one's >> personal history, especially early history with one's parents. > >What are you talking about. I h ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 20 09:28:11 PST 2004

23158 [lbo-talk] Harold Bloom and Naomi Wolf -- rank: 1000

[don't have the exact cite for the first - came from my Yale '75 class listserv] Re. Camille Paglia from The Observer... And now a word from The Observer culture reporter. Naomi Wolf is back in the news. Nearly two decades after graduating from Yale, Ms. Wolf is taking on her alma mater and the patriarchy, in the form of eminent literary scholar Harold Bloom. According to sources at New York magazine and Yale University, in the course of reporting an article slated to run in next week's issue, M ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 20 09:21:35 PST 2004

23159 [lbo-talk] Not Burnout - Bush Out -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Hoo Hoo, Hey Hey. >Bush aggression cannot stay >Imperial conduct? But Chip, don't you understand? Kerry's a Republican too! Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 20 09:16:22 PST 2004

23160 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Watch Ralph Nader Announce His Decision on Meet The Press -- rank: 1000

>Date: 20 Feb 2004 16:54:39 -0000 >To: <updates at lists.naderexplore04.org> >From: "Nader 2004 Presidential Exploratory Committee" ><info at naderexplore04.org> >Subject: Watch Ralph Nader Announce His Decision on Meet The Press > >Watch Ralph Nader Announce His Decision on the 2004 Presidential Race this >Sunday morning, February 22, on NBC's Meet the Press. Click on >http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/ or check local listings for >showt ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 20 09:13:56 PST 2004