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30256 report from DC -- rank: 1000

rickling at softhome.net wrote: >Doug Henwood writes: > >>Lots of people we talked with in DC over the weekend said the >>100,000 claim was wildly exaggerated. And I believe our own Chuck0 >>confirmed this. > >100,000 is my estimate. The DC Metro Police, as reported by the >Washington Post, put the number at 75,000. The march from Freedom >Plaza on Pennsylvania Ave. to the west side of the Capitol on >Saturday started around 1:30 pm. At 3:00 pm, people from ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 23 07:33:55 PDT 2002

30257 Lenni Brenner: Catch-up on the sociology of American Zionism -- rank: 1000

[the latest from the inimitable Lenni Brenner] From: BrennerL21 at aol.com Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:51:41 EDT Subject: Lenni Brenner: Catch-up on the sociology of American Zionism Catch-up on the sociology of American Zionism by Lenni Brenner The results are in for the latest American elections to the World Zionist Congress. They show the continuation of the steep decline of Zionism within the country's Jews. According to the 4/19 Forward: "The Reform movement finished first in this year's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 22 18:04:20 PDT 2002

30258 canned Reagan tribute -- rank: 1000

Most of this has been taken down or blocked, but some of it's available. Embargoed until RR's death: <http://207.49.114.8/reagan/index.shtml>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 22 17:58:22 PDT 2002

30259 report from DC -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>"It's not about accuracy. It's about politics. It's not about >>counting," said ANSWER's Tony Murphy. "It's us vs. them. [The >>pro-Israeli] demonstrators had 100,000 here last week." > >What I want to know is (1) whether the pro-Israel demo really >attracted 100,000; and (2) whether it was larger than A20, as NYT, >etc. claim. Lots of people we talked with in DC over the weekend said the 100,000 claim was wildly exagger ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 22 17:36:02 PDT 2002

30260 Disaster in France-What Must Be Done Now -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >the working class and the left are not weak because they are >divided, they are divided because they are weak Isn't it hard to tell which comes first? Weakness & division kind of travel together. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 22 10:56:28 PDT 2002

30261 Fwd: AIPAC, Saudi events today -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] From: "Tim Shorrock" <tshorrock51 at hotmail.com> Subject: AIPAC, Saudi events today Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:56:14 -0400 From today's AP daybook - AIPAC meeting uptown, conference on Saudi Arabia downtown. Note nice bipartisan lineup at both events. TS UPTOWN DC... April 21 - 23. ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS_The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, America's Pro-Israel Lobby, holds a Policy Conference Program. Highlights: 8:30 a.m. Morning plenary, w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 22 08:50:53 PDT 2002

30262 Disaster in France-What Must Be Done Now -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Pushing through a 35-hour work week is neolib? Jospin has been promoting >strong social clauses in the EU-- that's neolib? > >The reality is that the left parties actually did better than in the last >election, but the vote was so splintered that they allowed a conservative >and a fascist to go to the run-off. The far Right is taking power across >Europe and the US over the splintered factions to their left. Moral: Gore in '04! Right? Nathan, the splin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 22 08:30:20 PDT 2002

30263 report from DC -- rank: 1000

>And while the separation of the morning anti-war rallies may have >looked petty and sectarian from the outside, it made complete sense >to me once I witnessed the thuggish behavior of ANSWER organizers at >the Capitol rally. "I'll make a deal with you," said one ANSWER >organizer to Terra Lawson-Remer of Students Transforming and >Resisting Corporations (STARC), who was coordinating media outreach >for the NSYPC event. "We won't play the Mumia tape again" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 22 08:15:54 PDT 2002

30264 confronting special bodies of armed men -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >On the other hand, nobody should expect the nature of Saturday's protest >to become the norm at future large mobilizations. I talked to many >activists this weekend and I get the sense that many want to be more >confrontational. It seems that those who wish to harness the growing wave >of dissent are about to lose any control they may have had. Even the >"moderate" protesters are sounding like the black bloc! What does this mean exactly? Can demon ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 22 08:06:46 PDT 2002

30265 Chicago boy's repentance? -- rank: 1000

"Democracy and the Variability of Economic Performance" BY: HEITOR ALMEIDA New York University Stern School of Business, Finance DANIEL FERREIRA University of Chicago, Department of Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=303285 Date: March 5, 2002 Contact: HEITOR ALMEIDA Email: Mailto:halmeida at stern.nyu.edu Postal: New York University Stern School of Business, Finance Room 9-190 44 West 4th Street N ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 21 11:38:53 PDT 2002

30266 the official blather -- rank: 1000

<http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2002/pr0222.htm> Press Release No. 02/22 April 20, 2002 International Monetary Fund 700 19th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20431 USA Communiqué of the International Monetary and Financial Committee of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund 1. The International Monetary and Financial Committee held its fifth meeting in Washington, D.C. on April 20, 2002, under the Chairmanship of Mr. Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Uni ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 21 09:47:03 PDT 2002

30267 200,000 Protest the "War Without End -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >I am sure the DC police prefer good little boys and >girls who sing Peace songs but dont cause any real >trouble like those ne'er-do-wells in Seattle ;) Yup. Overheard some beat cops yakking a few hours ago who loved how smoothly everything went yesterday. You should have seen the mobilization to defend the WB/IMF delegates from the ne'er-do-wells this morning, though. Saw some Darth Vader-style riot cops emerging from armored personnel carriers parked right in front ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 21 09:42:04 PDT 2002

30268 200,000 Protest the "War Without End" -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Doug, what is your estimate of the count? I didn't get to DC til late yesterday afternoon, so I missed the march. But over 50,000 is reasonable, according to what I've heard. Look for some fine reporting on the math (and events in general) by Liza Featherstone on The Nation's website, sometime in the next several hours. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 21 09:37:30 PDT 2002

30269 20,000 march in s.f. -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Frankly Michael, I think there were more than >20,000...I am willing though to compromise and say >that the numbers were somewhere between 20,000 and the >number offered by IAC of 35,000. Kopkind's law: average(2*20000,35000/2) = 28,750 Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 21 09:35:40 PDT 2002

30270 200,000 Protest the "War Without End -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >but Washington, D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey--smiling and joking with >passersby in a park off Pennsylvania Avenue--told this writer at >approximately 3:30 p.m. that the crowd was well in excess of 100,000. Other >sources said the crowd exceeded a 250,000. > >Ramsey agreed with activists' assessment of the atmosphere and peaceful >nature of the march, calling the rally "an outstanding event." Chatter among some journos on the scene this morning s ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 21 09:28:45 PDT 2002