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23716 [lbo-talk] KPFA Staff Open Letter to the Local Station -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >The community is the community of left-thinking people. >The left-thinking people define the community. >Those who are not left-thinking people are excluded from the community. >The criterion of membership is to be a left-thinking person... But a lot of "left-thinking people" don't see themselves as a member of the Pacifica community. Which to me is part of the problem. But only part, since it'd be nice if a lot of non-left-thinking people (but thinking ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 15:27:22 PDT 2004

23717 [lbo-talk] KPFA Staff Open Letter to the Local Station -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >no one is 'excluded', except people who exlude themselves So if the programming drives listeners away, the last survivors get to run things? This gives new meaning to the finance term "survivorship bias." Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 15:15:24 PDT 2004

23718 [lbo-talk] KPFA Staff Open Letter to the Local Station -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >You have no respect for the very fact that KPFA is a community institution. Let me try this with you. What is "the community"? Who defines it? Who is excluded from it? What are the criteria of membership? Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 13:38:30 PDT 2004

23719 [lbo-talk] KPFA Staff Open Letter to the Local Station -- rank: 1000

Sasha Lilley wrote: >I do think the bylaws are a disaster. As I've said before, I was surprised at the lack of thought behind them. All WBAI producers were supposed to do segments about the by-laws rewrite. For mine, I interviewed national interim chair Leslie Cagan and local board member Ray LaForest. I asked them how they defined the constituency, beyond the ritual invocations of "the community" - who identifies them and by what criteria. They didn't really have an answer. And the ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 12:30:10 PDT 2004

23720 [lbo-talk] Bush good for The Nation -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >comment from national review guy is most important portion of article, >reminds of how >'well' some environmental, women's, civil liberties, civil rights groups >did re. fundraising and membership during reagan 80s, says little about >actual political directions/ Yup. There's a lot of cheap anti-Bush agitation going on, a lot of it pretty content-free. (There's that Jim Hightower book cover that has him standing next to a pic of Bush on which he's just drawn ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 11:03:19 PDT 2004

23721 [lbo-talk] musical interlude -- rank: 1000

Low, cheap humor at W's expense, set to a NOFX song: <http://www.ericblumrich.com/idiot.html>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 09:51:42 PDT 2004

23722 [lbo-talk] Bush good for The Nation -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - August 20, 2004 HOT TYPE Paul D. Colford The Nation leads mags race As the nation awaits the formal start of the presidential race on Labor Day, The Nation has picked up the most support among political magazines. Circulation of the liberal journal, a weekly voice of opposition to George W. Bush, has risen 71% during his presidency so that it's now the top seller in the field of opinion mags. At 165,000 copies, The Nation's circ is still dwarfed by the size of The New Yorke ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 07:52:09 PDT 2004

23723 [lbo-talk] listmembers in the news -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/20/nyregion/20protests.html?pagewanted=print&position=> Chuck Munson, a 39-year-old anarchist in Kansas who runs the anarchist site infoshop.org, said he has observed more young people, particularly those once drawn to the "do-it-yourself politics'' of the punk movement, drawn to anarchism after the first Persian Gulf war and the fall of the Soviet Union. After those events, "people saw the traditional radical left as not as relevant any more,' ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 07:25:39 PDT 2004

23724 [lbo-talk] Re: Left/Venezuela -- rank: 1000

Laurence Shute wrote: >One always gains a reputation for political sagacity by dumping on >the "trots" while bemoaning the quadrennial parlor game of the >"lesser of two evils." Bemoaning? I'm not sure what you're referring to here. I have a lot of respect for Trotsky, and even some Trotskyists. The whole New Left Review posse, one of the major influences on my political thinking, emerges from a brand of Trotskyism. But, as Tariq Ali's analysis of the U.S. election s ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 07:04:14 PDT 2004

23725 [lbo-talk] KPFA Staff Open Letter to the Local Station Board -- rank: 1000

John Thornton wrote: >This may seem like a dumb question but in what are you allegedly >overlooking the roll of the Vatican Bank? The listener's fantasty structure, I think. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 19 21:05:59 PDT 2004

23726 [lbo-talk] Venez exit polls -- rank: 1000

[this was posted to the AAPOR listserv by Warren Mitofsky, often credited as the inventor of the exit poll] <http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1248> Venezuela's Opposition Resorts to Phony Exit Polls Sunday, Aug 15, 2004 By: Jonah Gindin - Venezuelanalysis.com In the wealthy Caracas neighborhood of Altamira would-be voters are experiencing extended delays, and some have spent as much as 12 hours waiting in line. Across town in the working-class neighborhood of Petare, peo ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 19 15:34:07 PDT 2004

23727 [lbo-talk] KPFA Staff Open Letter to the Local Station Board -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion wrote: >doug wrote: >If those are the wrong kind of folks, who are the right kind? >People who suffer dark obsessions about the Vatican Bank? > >--what, holy moses, the vatican bank is after me again???? That was a reference to an actual listener call (on one of the rare occasions I took listener calls). It went something like: "All that financial analysis is very nice, but aren't you overlooking the role of the Vatican Bank?" Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 19 15:28:54 PDT 2004

23728 [lbo-talk] KPFA Staff Open Letter to the Local Station Board -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Doug wrote: "While we were in Calif, I asked a bunch of people if >they listened to the station - not one said yes. I've had very >similiar experiences with WBAI - people who should be listening >aren't. Why? The answers typically run like this: "Too amateurish." >"Ranting." "Uninformative." "Conspiratorial." Etc. > >Joe W: Clearly you were talking to the wrong kind of folks. Political activists and thoughtf ...

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23729 [lbo-talk] Re: KPFA etc. -- rank: 1000

Since you think my 15 years around WBAI aren't enough to know what's going on, how are these three people, who don't even live in a Pacifica station's signal area, qualified to comment? And how are the listeners qualified to vote for the local station boards if it requires deep immersion in the history and minutiae? Doug Joseph Wanzala wrote: >http://www.radio4all.org/fp/heroes.htm > >Noam Chomsky, Ed Herman and Howard Zinn to Pacifica Board: >Reject Corporate Models, Commit to Democ ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 19 12:28:08 PDT 2004

23730 [lbo-talk] Petrelis: another gay gov? -- rank: 1000

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