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28066 Living with the Holocaust: The Journey of a Child of Holocaust Survivors -- rank: 1000

Bryan Atinsky wrote: >Hi all, > >I thought this an interesting article. > >Here are some excerpts, but it is worth reading the whole essay. > >Bryan >---------------------------------- > ><http://www.ipsjps.org/jps/125/roy.html>http://www.ipsjps.org/jps/125/roy.html > >From the Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol XXXII, No. 1, Autumn >2002, Issue 125 > >Living with the Holocaust: The Journey of a Child of Holocaust Survivors > >Sara Roy > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 23 12:15:35 PST 2002

28067 Contact Information, Etc. Re: Corn transcript -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >(Lynne Stewart >seems a bit wacko too). So what? The government spied on her, which is a total fucking outrage. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 22 16:12:09 PST 2002

28068 addition to radio archive -- rank: 1000

Newly added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: November 21, 2002 show * Alexandra Robbins, author of Secrets of the Tomb, an investigation into Yale's Skull & Bones, talks about the world's most famous secret society * Linda Greuen, ex-Wal-Mart worker turned union organizer, talks about the UFCW's National day of Action against the world's largest corporation * Amy Caiazza, project director of the Institute for Women's Policy Resarch survey of the sta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 22 16:09:53 PST 2002

28069 Fwd: 'WWJD? Protest Wal-Mart!' from The Nation -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021209&s=featherstone20021122> WWJD? Protest Wal-Mart! by Liza Featherstone QUOT-Wal-Mart is going to take your job," speaker after speaker told the crowd of mostly African-American unionists assembled in Grace Cathedral, an evangelical church in Uniondale, Long Island. Like workers and other activists in more than 100 cities nationwide participating in a "Day of Action" initiated by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 22 15:50:55 PST 2002

28070 H. Rap Brown (was Re: Corn transcript) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I know little about the case ...but that won't stop you from holding forth, right? Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 22 09:47:18 PST 2002

28071 Harvard -- rank: 1000

[bounced because of technical difficulties] To: <dhenwood at panix.com> From: "Matt Pico" <matt.pico at alamedanet.net> Re: The Chronicle of Higher Education story by Piper Fogg > In April, the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram Weekly published an > interview with Mr. Paulin which quoted him as calling Israel "an > historic obscenity" and said he had "never believed Israel had the > right to exist at all." Actually Al-Ahram's online version see ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 22 08:30:17 PST 2002

28072 Fwd: Marc Cooper's Latest Nation Article -- rank: 1000

The Nation - December 9, 2002 Antiwar Labor Pains by MARC COOPER This article inaugurates a new series, "Waging Peace," covering the movement that is emerging across America--in union halls, in churches, on campuses, on the streets, even in some corporate and government quarters--to oppose war on Iraq. --The Editors In a letter to both houses of Congress in early October, AFL-CIO president John Sweeney broke what had been Big Labor's public silence on a possible war with Iraq when he w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 22 08:12:22 PST 2002

28073 Extreme Makeover! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.realitytvworld.com/index/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=754&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0> ABC's 'Extreme Makeover' plastic surgery reality TV show rescheduled for December 11th ABC has announced that the one-hour special, "Extreme Makeover," has moved to WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11 at 9:00-10:00 p.m., ET/PT. The special was originally set to air on Thursday, November 21. In the program, three people, Stacey, Stephanie and Luke, wer ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 22 08:04:58 PST 2002

28074 Corn transcript -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I'm reading fragments again in isolation if that bothers anyone, delete. If you're going to accuse people of slander, then tell them how to think and act, while announcing that you haven't read what they've said, then you should delete yourself. Why should anyone have expend the energy of hitting the <cmd>-D key combo when you refuse the basic conventions of civilized discourse? And it's not just your cataract surgery problem - you're like this all the time. "Oh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 22 07:34:50 PST 2002

28075 Bush = moron? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >"Moron" is too of a generic term that does not give a justice how modern >authoritarian states operate. A "Brezhnev" or a "Reagan" would be a >better term. But Clinton ran the U.S. for 8 years, and he was a very smart, informed, and articulate guy. Had Gore won, he'd have been rather similar, minus the scampish charm. So are you outlining a general principle, or just explaining accidents of history? Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 22 07:26:45 PST 2002

28076 Steve Perry: forget the Dems! -- rank: 1000

<http://citypages.com/databank/23/1147/article10891.asp> Why We Should All Give Up on the Democrats: A Polemical Essay Spank the Donkey By Steve Perry Another election day, another set of blown hopes for Democrats everywhere. This is mainly an essay about the national Democratic party, which ought never be confused with real people, but in this one instance what I mean by Democrats are the real people who continue to place their faith in the party and to hope it can be made into more than ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 21 15:45:02 PST 2002

28077 Contact Information, Etc. Re: Corn transcript -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Not yet good enough. If you want to help out NION and United for >Peace (or any other organization for any other purpose), you want to >move from simple reporting to "advocacy journalism." Stay in close >contact with their national organizers, get to learn about their >upcoming actions way ahead of time, do write-ups about each upcoming >action at least twice (first at least a couple of months ahead of >time, second a reminder shortly bef ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 21 15:38:24 PST 2002

28078 41 -- rank: 1000

A choice parenthetical sentence from Alexandra Robbins' Secrets of the Tomb, a new book about Skull & Bones: "On the strength of 1948 Bonesman George Bush's debating performance in this arena [the S&B "tomb"], Bonesman and former Ohio congressman Thomas Ludlow "Lud" Ashley reportedly asked him upon his appointment as United Nations ambassador: 'George, what the fuck do you know about foreign affairs?'"

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Date:	Thu Nov 21 13:16:46 PST 2002

28079 Bush = moron? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=1785209> OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, attempting to head off an embarrassing spat with Washington, has quickly distanced himself from a senior official who reportedly called U.S. President George W. Bush "a moron". Opposition legislator Jason Kenney told parliament he believed the comments -- which were reported by several newspapers on Thursday -- had been made in Prague by Chreti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 21 15:25:27 PST 2002

28080 mea culpa over pic of goofball-in-chief -- rank: 1000

[Thie pic is at <http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/showcase/chi-021113bush,0,1033562.photo>.] Chicago Tribune - November 21, 2002 A picture tells a thousand words on a front page Don Wycliff Sometimes the readers say it best. "I am neither a Democrat or Republican but--I am an American and therefore am very offended and so very disappointed by your lack of discretion and sensitivity in choosing to print that picture." That message, sent by Olivia Pfenning of Glenview to the publ ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 21 09:42:54 PST 2002