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31531 Fwd: (50 Years) WB cancels Barcelona meeting because of protests -- rank: 1000

From: Soren <Soren at afgj.org> Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 01:51:26 -0400 The World Bank announced on Saturday that it was cancelling its Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, due to be held in Barcelona in late June. It has chosen to do this rather than face large,well-organized protests and a counter-summit being organized by Spanish/Catalonian anti-globalization activists. Below are 1) an article from Reuters; 2) A statement from the Barcelona organizers; and 3) a statement fr ...

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Date:	Mon May 21 06:59:25 PDT 2001

31532 Fwd: Check Out www.Million4Roe.com -- rank: 1000

From: Katha Pollitt <kpollitt at thenation.com> Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 23:03:37 "GMT" Katha Pollitt sent you this message to tell you about www.Million4Roe.com: This summer, there's a strong possibility President Bush could appoint enough anti-abortion Justices to the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the case that legalized abortion in all 50 states. [Find out more at www.Million4Roe.com] Does the Possibility of a Return to the Days of Back Alley Abortions Scare You? -Sign ...

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Date:	Sun May 20 16:25:45 PDT 2001

31533 Working Families Party, refuge for hacks -- rank: 1000

[from City Limits Weekly] NO PARTY FOR WORKING FAMILIES When it comes to this year's endorsements, it's been far from a fiesta for the Working Families Party. As James Bradley reports in the June issue of City Limits, in an election year where dozens of City Council seats around the city are up for grabs, the fledgling political party is facing some tough choices between pleasing its members and staying friendly with the established powers-that-be. One such dilemma recently surfaced in a Brookly ...

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Date:	Sun May 20 13:30:30 PDT 2001

31534 Prescription For Fascism: Alternative Medicine and Right-WingPolitics -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >A good example >of rightist ideas being laundered and promoted to the left >in this arena is Gary Null and his program on WBAI. You have more on Null? Doug

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Date:	Sun May 20 11:23:56 PDT 2001

31535 WB cxls mtg -- rank: 1000

Saturday May 19 1:45 PM ET World Bank, Fearing Violence, Scraps Spain Meeting MADRID (Reuters) - The World Bank on Saturday said it had canceled a conference on how to fight poverty due to take place in Spain next month because of concerns anti-globalization groups would try to disrupt theevent. ``Despite our efforts to approach some of the groups that plan to demonstrate and include them in the conference, the intention of many of these groups...is to interrupt it,'' the World Bank said in a st ...

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Date:	Sat May 19 15:38:16 PDT 2001

31536 authorship -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec the entire digest was attached, pushing it over the length limit] From: "Patrick F. Durgin" <pdurgin at acsu.buffalo.edu> Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 08:45:45 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 yo, RE: Language Poets ... Bernstein & Silliman did not co-author the travelogue you're thinking of. It's was Silliman, Hejinian, Davidson, & Watten. The book's called Leningrad. Patrick F. Durgin

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Date:	Sat May 19 15:08:27 PDT 2001

31537 identifying with the enemy -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >First, the bartender in Toronto is not in the least weird. He She, actually. > is wrong, >very wrong, but he is as rational as those leftists who confuse being >wrong with being weird or irrational. The world is filled with >irrational acts and irrational conceptions and theories, but "irrational >person" simply makes no sense. This is my reason to begin with for >saying that Zizek's _question_ was silly. But as this thread tends to >show, th ...

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Date:	Sat May 19 09:40:09 PDT 2001

31538 high-tech on Bush energy plan -- rank: 1000

Industry Standard - May 28, 2001 Tech Plugs Into Bush's Plan By Aaron Pressman With blackouts looming, the president's free-market approach to energy could prove costly to industry. WASHINGTON - Just hours after President Bush unveiled his controversial national energy plan this week, Vice President Dick Cheney was on the phone, drumming up support from the technology industry. In a 30-minute call with Intel CEO Craig Barrett, newly retired Microsoft COO Bob Herbold and other tech leaders, Chene ...

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Date:	Sat May 19 09:27:43 PDT 2001

31539 Natural Capitalism -- rank: 1000

/ dave / wrote: >"Natural Capitalism" - phewy. Who are Hawken and Lovins, and what's >their game? Hawken, as in Smith & Hawken, catalog purveyors of teak-handled mulchers to the better classes, to quote Alexander Cockburn. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 18 14:28:33 PDT 2001

31540 W, language poet -- rank: 1000

[a friend writes...] This is a poem made up entirely of actual quotations from George W. Bush. These have been arranged, only for aesthetic purposes, by Washington Post writer Richard Thompson. Too good not to share, especially during National Poetry Month. "MAKE THE PIE HIGHER" by George W. Bush I think we all agree, the past is over ... This is still a dangerous world.. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty And potential mental losses ... Rarely is the question asked Is our childre ...

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Date:	Fri May 18 12:10:13 PDT 2001

31541 Weird behavior (was Re: Ashcroft's prayer circle) -- rank: 1000

Christopher Rhoades D˙kema wrote: >Not a convoluted one, but certainly an explanation that gets to the >question of why such self-damaging lack of class consciousness is so much >more prevalent in some places (e.g. the US) than others. > >Miles Jackson wrote: > >> >> Do we really need some kind of convoluted psychodynamic explanation >> for this? Isn't it reasonable to say that these are predictable >> results of socialization into a society in which ...

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Date:	Fri May 18 11:55:25 PDT 2001

31542 Restructuring, Default & Debt Reduction -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Meltzer seems to have forgotten that commitments are credible only >if you actually have the resources to carry them out if you need to. >If the IMF doesn't to have the resources--and I don't think it >does--to carry out the Meltzer plan, then its guarantee will not be >credible, and it has to buy them. According to its latest statement <http://www.imf.org/external/np/tre/liquid/2001/0401.HTM> the IMF has about $100 billion in "net usable uncommitted ...

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Date:	Fri May 18 11:53:45 PDT 2001

31543 Retructuring, Default & Debt Reduction -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>Meltzler's idea is that at the announcement of the default, the IMF announces >>that it will buy Argentinian bonds at 60 cents in the dollar. This >>removes the >>incentive to panic, because you now know the maximum extent of your loss. >>Anyone who wants to sell, sells to the IMF at 60c. That won't >>attract genuine >>vultures, so there's more of a chance of an orderly market. In fact, given a >>guarantee that there will be ...

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Date:	Fri May 18 08:03:25 PDT 2001

31544 Ashcroft's prayer circle -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >In unrelated news, a wonderful still of John Prescott, our >deputy prime minister, chinning a member of the Countryside >Alliance is available here: The accompanying article reports that "Jack Straw, the Home Secretary, was slow-handclapped by police officers." Is this a very British way of expressing disapproval? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 18 07:30:20 PDT 2001

31545 identifying with the enemy -- rank: 1000

/ dave / wrote: >Someday everyone, including me, will have a super-high-speed connection and >we'll be able to exchange such things routinely via Napster. Or not. Right. I've been trying to nab the video of Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey" - which I remember from the early MTV era as being very good - for days via Gnutella. "Server busy" and "Disconnected" have plagued me at every turn. It's almost done d/l'ing the in the background now, though I'm expecting ...

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Date:	Thu May 17 14:48:52 PDT 2001