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30976 No subject -- rank: 1000

[better late than never...] Financial Times - October 10, 2001 12:17GMT Clamour against capitalism stilled by James Harding Four weeks ago, Kevin Danaher was one of a group of activists preparing for a march on Wall Street. Danaher and other anti-globalisation protesters across the US were emailing each other that Monday morning with ideas for a mass demonstration in New York's financial centre. Using the now well-honed tactics of human blockades, banner hangs and street theatre, while also turn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 14 06:47:15 PDT 2001

30977 20,000 + demonstrate in London -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Police estimates are usually low, but were given as over 20,000. The organizers said 50,000, so by Andy Kopkind's rule that: 2 x 20,000 = 40,000 50,000/2 = 25,000 average of 25,000 and 40,000 = 32,500 Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 13 16:08:56 PDT 2001

30978 "Hate America" Left -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: "Dennis" <dperrin13 at mediaone.net> >> >>My fav misanthrope is Florence King. She wrote a book about the subject, >>"With Charity Toward None." Funny and well-written, if politically >>wrongheaded. > >One of her best lines: "Familiarity doesn't breed contempt. >Familiarity is contempt." Or, as Slavoj puts it, "Love your neighbor? No, thanks!" Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 13 14:47:47 PDT 2001

30979 the softer side of international relocation -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Like that GM exec said last year, soon the guys in the plaid coats will be a >thing of the past. I got a chill from "the true cost of employees" thing. >With the inflation in health care costs who's gonna hire anyone over 40? Challenger Gray & Christmas, the headhunting firm that puts out the widely quoted monthly downsizing counts, says that older employees will be at a premium - employers want experience and stability in their workers. For what that's worth. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 13 14:26:49 PDT 2001

30980 Cockburn: Our Anthrax? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> And Tom Brokaw and Judith Miller - does this work for them? > >Nope, not on any level -- different place, different type. But to fair to >Cockburn, he wrote this before that had happened. And the two incidents >could be unrelated. Just goes to show you how risky it is to quote "experts" who are picking thoughts out of the air, or even less ethereal places. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 13 14:15:32 PDT 2001

30981 Fwd: Termpapers Get High-Tech -- rank: 1000

X-From_: artem at fruitnet.inso.ru Sat Oct 13 10:17:48 2001 From: "Artem Orel" <artem at fruitnet.inso.ru> To: "GetPapers" <info at getpapers.net> Subject: Termpapers Get High-Tech Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 18:07:57 +0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 For Immediate Release FROM GETPAPERS.NET INFO at GETPAPERS.NET TO THE EDITORS Dateline: October 13, 2001 Contact Name: Will Liller, Co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 13 13:45:21 PDT 2001

30982 Western funding of Islamicists -- rank: 1000

Mina Kumar wrote: >(An Indian reader can't read this without thinking of Bhindranwale!) More please... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 13 13:24:49 PDT 2001

30983 Cockburn: Our Anthrax? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > > The New York Press > October 10-17 > Alexander Cockburn > WILD JUSTICE > ><begin excerpt> > > Terror at Home > > I may be confounded by some atrocity in the next 24 hours but all this > talk about the 100 percent likelihood of another terror attack on > American soil seems overblown, though no doubt explicable as a way of > maintaining citizen vigilance and hastening the terror package through &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 13 13:04:30 PDT 2001

30984 talking within & without -- rank: 1000

Could we keep other list business off here? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 13 12:58:06 PDT 2001

30985 Cockburn: Can war save the economy? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > That 10% greater job market participation -- does >it reflect the fact that so many households are now dependent on two >incomes? That raises questions, I think, that I don't even know how to >ask. In the '50s even in quite a few grad student families the spouse >didn't work. The short answer is women. The male employment/population ratio has fallen a bit over the decades, especially among older men (who can now retire instead of working themselves to death), ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 13 11:09:39 PDT 2001

30986 underestimates? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >In addition, as in contemporary America, the new "intellectual" >efforts were designed to cater to the masses, until intellectual >life was brought down to the lowest common denominator. Oh come on. The American poopulation isn't anywhere near as dumb as the bourgeoisie thinks it is. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 13 10:52:51 PDT 2001

30987 The state of the union -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >That the right can whip itself into a rage about an American left so >small and marginalized suggests that it, too, is unhinged by fear, >and can only displace it by a knee-jerk refighting of yesterday's >cold war culture wars. Hmm, yes, but I also like the Workers Vanguard line that this fear is justified - that the bourgeoisie lives in perpetual terror of the possilility the masses will revolt, and so they must police the ideological borders vigorously. It's a s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 13 10:38:24 PDT 2001

30988 academic chill -- rank: 1000

This article was sent to you by someone who found it on SF Gate. The original article can be found on SFGate.com here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2001/10/12/national1417EDT0692.DTL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, October 12, 2001 (AP) College faculty, staff find chilling new climate for free speech on campus ARLENE LEVINSON, AP National Writer (10-12) 11:17 PDT (AP) -- Around the country, college faculty and staff w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 13 10:36:32 PDT 2001

30989 Cockburn: Can war save the economy? -- rank: 1000

Randy Steindorf wrote: >Are you saying there was a net gain of 24.4 million jobs. If so, it >was have to be offset by the new entries into the workforce. Just >roughly, divide 24.4 million by 10 years. That's 2.5 million per >year. If 2.5 million new workers (teenagers, graduates, housewives, >former aid recipients, etc) per year were entering the work force it >would be a wash, year to year. Frictional unemployment would have to >be factored in, as well as workers leavi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 13 10:30:26 PDT 2001

30990 talking within & without -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Social movements grow by one-on-one >recruiting. So their growth depends on the recruitment of those who are >already recruited to start talking to friends, co-workers, etc. By the way, if I didn't know you, and you talked to me the way you write on this list, I'd just say "Fuck you" and move on. Maybe you're more effective in real life. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 12 16:00:16 PDT 2001