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26311 NYT and Washington Post -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Thanks. Do the editorial lines / biases of the NYT and the WP differ? My perception is that the NYT is more "liberal" than the WP, but I don't read the Post all that often. Anyone else? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 4 10:11:06 PST 2003

26312 O'Reilly vs the thumpers -- rank: 1000

AFA Action Alert! Fox News threatens to sue Christian evangelist for criticizing Bill O'Reilly "We will vigorously defend Stephen Bennett against any lawsuit brought by Fox News or Bill O'Reilly." - AFA CL&P Senior Litigation Counsel January 3, 2003 In October, we asked you to take action after Fox News' <http://www.afa.net/activism/aa090502.asp> Bill O'Reilly grilled former homosexual Stephen Bennett about his belief that homosexuality is a sin. During the September 3, 2002, ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 3 15:48:33 PST 2003

26313 Myth of the GOP Working Class (Re: Color of Anarchism Re: Protest ISO... -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Ridiculous. Look at the actual exit polls over the years up to the >2000 elections ( the 2002 exit polls were botched so no solid data) >at http://members.cox.net/fweil/ExitPolls7200.html > >The numbers don't break out by income crossed with race, but >there aren't enough blacks to cancel the fact that those making >less than $15,000 per year went 57% for Gore, while those making >over $75,000 went 53% for Bush. At worst, the white working class &g ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 3 15:43:46 PST 2003

26314 NYT and Washington Post -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >The International Herald Tribune, which I get in London, announces >that it is no longer going to be published by a syndicate of these >two papers, but is being wholly taken over by the NYT. > >Is this a good thing or a bad thing? What changes should I be wary of? There's going to be much less content from the WP and other sources, and more "repurposed" material from the NYT. It will also be more current; NYT reporters will file directly to the IHT; ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 3 13:43:15 PST 2003

26315 NYC antiwar week -- rank: 1000

From: "Mobilize New York" <info at mobilize-ny.org> To: <mobilize-ny at mediajumpstart.net> Subject: Anti-War Alert, January 3-10 Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 15:04:28 -0500 **MOBILIZE NEW YORK** one short email per week > many ways to oppose the war TO JOIN, write to subscribe at mobilize-ny.org or click here: <mailto:mobilize-ny-request at mediajumpstart.net?subject=subscribe> ================================= Anti-war activism is intensifying: The week surrounding Dr. ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 3 12:07:05 PST 2003

26316 Color of Anarchism Re: Protest ISO... -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >These endless why questions are for three-year olds. Any parent >remembers that "phase" in child dvelopement. Sometimes I wonder why I even bother to read you, much less answer you, since you spend so much time being an asshole. But: 1) I ask questions because I'm the moderator of this list and try to stimulate discussion, and 2) unlike you and neoclassical economists, there are a lot of things I don't know the answer to, and genuinely wonder what other people ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 3 11:38:05 PST 2003

26317 Color of Anarchism Re: Protest ISO... -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >These endless why questions are for three-year olds. Any parent >remembers that "phase" in child dvelopement. And happy new year to you too! Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 3 11:23:22 PST 2003

26318 Electoral Dilemmas Re: Color of Anarchism -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Though my real point was that the Southern Strategy >had to do with fear, not pride. White supremacists are proud of being white. They think their skin color marks them as the bearers of civilization (even though they're generally poor advertisements for their cause). Surely you're not denying that? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 3 09:53:23 PST 2003

26319 grim times -- rank: 1000

These are the top 5 Reuters breaking news headlines on My Yahoo! right now: >* Marines to Deploy for Possible War with Iraq >* U.S. Dismisses North Korean Call for Peace Pact >* Israeli Army Destroys Militant Leader's Home >* U.S. Army Says Has Right to Cross Into Pakistan >* UN Inspectors Search in Iraq, Bush to Rally Troops Happy New Year! Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 3 09:38:51 PST 2003

26320 quote of the day -- rank: 1000

[from the front-page NYT article by David Sanger in today's NYT] "We will be facing considerable skepticism on the question of how we can justify confrontation with Saddam when he is letting inspectors into the country, and a diplomatic solution with Kim when he's just thrown them out," one senior diplomat acknowledged today. "And we're working on the answer."

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Date:	Fri Jan 3 08:30:28 PST 2003

26321 Color of Anarchism Re: Protest ISO... -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >'People of Color' is a phrase that obscures the specific history of slavery >in the Americas, so if we're going to use it we should understand that it has >this weakness, although it has other strengths. What are its strengths? Sometimes it just seems like a white racist's view of the world with the moral valorization reversed. It divides the world into white people and everyone else, with everyone else constituting about 90% of the human population. It's i ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 3 08:26:54 PST 2003

26322 Electoral Dilemmas Re: Color of Anarchism -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >At 9:03 PM -0500 1/2/03, Doug Henwood wrote: >>The Reps are the party of white pride! > >That may be in part a function of the first-past-the-post system. >The absence of proportional representation means that the far right, >rather than organizing their own parties a la Jean-Marie Le Pen's >National Front, mainly remain within the Republican Party. I was a bit surprised to see Justin going on about how races don't really exist. Of course they don ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 3 08:10:37 PST 2003

26323 Color of Anarchism Re: Protest ISO... -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Anarchism is fundamentally opposed to the state. It advocates direct >action and non-compliance with authority. It is anti-capitalist and >socialist/communist in a libertarian sense, which means that >anarchism can be close to leftism, but I would argue that anarchism >is not part of leftism. I just read this in a piece on the European Social Forum by Linden Farrer: >Instead, the ESF and WSF should see >themselves as an embryonic form of direct, grassroots > ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 3 07:57:37 PST 2003

26324 Color of Anarchism Re: Protest ISO... -- rank: 1000

David Schanoes wrote: >Watch that harsh language, or you won't get a piece of Lugar's lemon flip >cake. Bye. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 2 21:20:35 PST 2003

26325 Color of Anarchism Re: Protest ISO... -- rank: 1000

David Schanoes wrote: >Don't you think that split between young whites=GOP, African-Americans=Dems >is a rudimentary index to economic status? Not exactly. Many young whites aren't very well off. There's certainly a racial angle to affiliation with the Reps, but it's not entirely explicable by income. The Reps are the party of white pride! > And if a common point among revolutionists is to actually develop a >process, method, program, activity for revolution, doesn't that process ne ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 2 18:03:31 PST 2003