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31381 Fwd: VICTORY for the Charleston 5 -- rank: 1000

VICTORY FOR THE CHARLESTON 5 by Jane Slaughter It's over, Ken Riley told Labor Notes at 9:15am on Thursday November 8th. An hour before, attorneys for the Charleston 5 had agreed that the 5 would plead no contest to a minor misdemeanor, walking away from their long ordeal with $100 fines. Ever since South Carolina Attorney General Charlie Condon bowed out of the case a few weeks ago, hopes had been high that a negotiated settlement could be reached... "Its a tremendous victory, considering ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 8 15:26:30 PST 2001

31382 NYC peace event -- rank: 1000

caipirinha productions, in association with ocularis, presents CHASING WINDMILLS OF PEACE forum discussion #2 an evening with: *HAMID DABASHI, Ph.D.- columbia university professor *DOUG HENWOOD - journalist, editor of 'the left business observer' newsletter *MICHAEL GRIFFIN- author of 'reaping the whirlwind: the taliban movement in afghanistan' we invite you to a discussion on middle eastern culture and politics, with the hopes of shedding light on afghanistan's socio-political history and putti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 8 14:49:30 PST 2001

31383 bin Laden doesn't know the CIA -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >I get the feeling this is true. I can't paste the >article because of some funky characters in it but >here's the link. > >http://www.bahraintribune.com/middle.asp?Art_No=8210 Saudi intelligence, now there's a reliable source on bin Laden. Why do you get the feeling it's true? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 8 12:56:00 PST 2001

31384 Oden's travel agent -- rank: 1000

Just listened to Amy Goodman's interview with the now-infamous Nancy Oden <http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/exile/dn20011105.html>. Oden said she got her ticket from Priceline. Goodman asked her if she'd heard of any other Greens being harassed by airport security; she said no. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 8 12:30:10 PST 2001

31385 TradVals POV -- rank: 1000

Traditional Values Coalition PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release November 8, 2001 For more information contact: Steve Aiken, 202-547-8570 CDC Must Stop Funding Homosexual Agenda To Focus on Bioterrorism Washington, DC - Traditional Values Coalition Executive Director Andrea Lafferty is calling upon President Bush and Congress to force the Centers for Disease Control to stop funding sexually explicit workshops for homosexuals under the guise of fighting the AIDS epidemic. Tax dollars should be sp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 8 12:05:20 PST 2001

31386 Weigh-in on NY mayor elections? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >That was rogue operatives by every evidence (although they were just going >one stupid step over the negative line Green was laying with his negative >ads), It's always rogue operatives. Just like it was when Cuomo ran against Koch in the late 70s, and the sound trucks went around Queens blaring "Vote for Cuomo not the homo!" And just like it was rogues in the Bush campaign who gave us Willie Horton. >Politics in its concrete races is too odd to always ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 8 11:22:40 PST 2001

31387 Fwd: Rushdie's Article -- rank: 1000

[someone asked me to post this - I think it's from the NYT] This war is about Islam By SALMAN RUSHDIE Tuesday 6 November 2001 'This isn't about Islam." The world's leaders have been repeating this mantra for weeks, partly in the virtuous hope of deterring reprisal attacks on innocent Muslims living in the West, partly because if the United States is to maintain its coalition against terror it can't afford to suggest that Islam and terrorism are in any way related. The trouble with this nece ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 8 09:59:58 PST 2001

31388 A Cheval! -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >>Afghani > > >this was posted on another list. the rant gets on a roll toward the end ;) ><paste> > >The ending -i to form an ethnic designator is not a general production >in standard English, although a trend in colloquial English is to use it >for Hook-Nosed Evil Enemies. This trend is semi-literate, and although >we disagree about the need for literacy in a democracy, this is not a >matter of democracy but a matter of not appearing a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 8 09:57:43 PST 2001

31389 Weigh-in on NY mayor elections? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The Dems didn't lose due to a centrist message-- they lost because >progressives tore each others hearts out because different partisans each >had a candidate they thought worth killing each other over. And because Green used Al Sharpton to scare white voters. Lost more votes than he gained that way. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 8 09:54:09 PST 2001

31390 CDC on anthrax -- rank: 1000

At 10:25 AM -0500 11/8/01, MMWR Questions wrote: >* Update: Investigation of Bioterrorism-Related Anthrax > and Adverse Events from Antimicrobial Prophylaxis > http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5044a1.htm

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 8 07:46:05 PST 2001

31391 Weigh-in on NY mayor elections? -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >Hey New Yorkers -- want to give us a little LBO spin on what happened in >mayor's race Tuesday? Bob Herbert said it pretty well in his NYT column. Green is a prick who alienated lots of black and Latino voters - Bloomberg got about 25% of the black vote and almost half the Hispanic. The unions didn't like him much either. There wasn't enough of a policy difference between them to overcome Green's disadvantages. The NYC Dem party has a serious problem. Sorry to quote the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 8 06:48:51 PST 2001

31392 Norway -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address - please post from the address you're sub'd from please] Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 14:32:12 +0100 From: "Magnus Bernhardsen" <magnus.bernhardsen at nm.no> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: Norway is number 1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" : Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 00:25:13 -0800 : From: "Ian Murray" <seamus2001 at home.com> : Subject: Norway is number 1 : : < http://www.latimes.com/ > : : So, This ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 8 05:37:55 PST 2001

31393 Why the Taliban hate women... -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >>If socialism means "the ownership or control of the means of >>production by the workers, or by the people generally", it >>certainly starts with (economic) class. If it doesn't mean >>this, what does it mean? >> >>-- Gordon > >whathefuckever! if you can't figure out what i was saying, as long >as you've been on lists, then i can only conclude that you're aren't >as smart as i thought you were or you're trolling. not to m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 7 19:05:03 PST 2001

31394 horses v tanks -- rank: 1000

November 7 8:33 PM ET U.S. Says Anti-Taliban Mounted Forces Attack Tanks By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anti-Taliban forces on horseback attacked tanks in northern Afghanistan (news - web sites) as U.S. airstrikes hit caves and vehicles and fighting raged near the key crossroads city of Mazar-i-Sharif, the Pentagon (news - web sites) said on Wednesday. The month-old U.S.-led bombing campaign was focused on that patch of rugged terrain, where mounted cavalry charges by the Northern A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 7 17:52:31 PST 2001

31395 Marable weighs in -- rank: 1000

[apologies for the length] Along the Color Line October 2001 Terrorism and the Struggle for Peace By Manning Marable Part I It is still mourning time here in New York City. It has been weeks since the terrorist attack destroying the World Trade Center towers, but the real tragedy remains brutally fresh and terribly real to millions of residents in this over-crowded metropolis. The horrific sights of thousands of human beings incinerated in less than one hundred minutes, of screaming people free ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 7 16:35:03 PST 2001