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31711 Student Protests Against Horowitz Ad] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >As I said earlier invoking the 1st amendment in this context evidences >either slovenly thinking or racism. Can you disagree with someone without turning to character assassination? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 28 10:00:39 PST 2001

31712 Fwd: {FP} New Audio On-line -- rank: 1000

From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:33:08 -0500 Dear All, There are quite a few new files on line. Subsequent to Pacifica CEO Wash's repeated interruption of programming on Monday, let us hope that we do not in the future hear excuses about the gag rule being in support of "good radio". Recent events have clearly made the point: the gag rule is to prevent views contradicting the management position from being aired. Period. While producers h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 28 09:45:38 PST 2001

31713 National Sleep Foundation -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans are suffering from a serious sleep >>deficit ... > >... which certainly helps to account for that just-released >Conference Board survey that showed surprisingly high U.S. consumer >confidence - i.e., delayed reaction time. Hmm, so how do you explain the previous sudden drop in confidence? Hypnagogic hallucinations? Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 28 06:46:26 PST 2001

31714 Student Protests Against Horowitz Ad] -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: >I'm sure the ad misrepresents all sorts of things (a Horowitz specialty), >but is the "basic concept of reparations" really "gaining diverse support >around the country"? Somehow I don't get that impression. Poll numbers, >quotes and the like would be helpful. There are no polls, as far as I can tell (I searched a poll database yesterday). The closest polls are ones on whether the U.S. should apologize officially for slavery. There's an enormous cha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 28 06:45:42 PST 2001

31715 student debt -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - March 28, 2001 Report Says Congress Must Act to Minimize Students' Mounting Loan Debt By STEPHEN BURD Washington Students are going deeper and deeper into debt each year to pay for college, and most of them do not realize how much they will owe after they graduate, according to a report released on Tuesday by the State Public Interest Research Groups' Higher Education Project. The report, "Big Loans Bigger Problems," calls on Congress to inc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 28 06:38:58 PST 2001

31716 myth of upward mobility -- rank: 1000

John Gulick wrote: >Do you/we really want to make the argument that Society A is better >than Society B b/c there is a higher degree of inter-generational mobility in >Society A ? Can't speak for the others constituting this "we," but my interest in (im)mobility is to counter the standard American myth of classnessness - the shoeshine boy rising to magnate, the grandson of a Triangle Shirtwaist survivor becoming a Hollywood mogul - and the equally standard myth that allegedly ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 28 06:17:04 PST 2001

31717 nation gone Mad -- rank: 1000

Art Spiegelman, quoted in a New York Times piece on the sagging fortunes of Mad magazine: "Over the last 50 years, that voice has become pervasive to a fault. The irony in Mad was a useful device to screen and protect oneself from a deadening mass culture. Now the deadening mass culture uses the weapons of satire and irony to immobilize us. We live inside the ironic spin room watching ourselves get shafted by our politicians, who use the same techniques once effective as a distancing device ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 28 06:10:52 PST 2001

31718 Doug(Re: Money Trickling Down) -- rank: 1000

matt hogan wrote: >Doug--are you a supporter of trickle down economics now? I am >wondering if this is so after reading the most recent Left Business >Observer. Uh, no. Why do you ask? Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 27 13:34:32 PST 2001

31719 Bessie Wash Statement - Interruption on 3/26/2000 -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: >And what is Marc Cooper's take on all this? <mcooper at thenation.com>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 27 13:21:52 PST 2001

31720 myth of upward mobility -- rank: 1000

Gareth Gaston wrote: >What strikes me about these statistics is the degree to which they >confirm income mobility (in both directions). I don't think anyone >believes that there is no correlation between parental income and >the income of the next generation. The claim is that in America >it is not as high as it is elsewhere. This study shows that 31 percent >(100-40-29) of people born into the bottom quartile end up in the >top half. And conversely that 42 percent of pe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 27 13:19:06 PST 2001

31721 Fwd: {FP} Smoking Gun on Government-Directed Political Censorship at Pacifica -- rank: 1000

From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:18:29 -0500 "I was also told by the executive director to tone down the news coverage. CPB wanted me to tone down the news coverage, to be more "balanced" as they put it. Especially this was at the time of the war against Yugoslavia, and they didn't want to hear, as the present management of Pacifica used to tell me, "about 'our boys' dropping bombs and killing babies in Iraq. We don't want to he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 27 12:58:08 PST 2001

31722 Bessie Wash Statement - Interruption on 3/26/2000 -- rank: 1000

[Here's the transcript of Pacifica executive director Bessie Wash's eruption yesterday morning. She interrupted Democracy Now! to deliver it. As far as I know, none of this is true. The WBAi general manager wasn't attempting to "interview a congressman" - she was trying to stop the host of a show she subsequently canceled from interviewing Rep. Major Owens.] From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:02:14 -0500 Transcript: Bessie Wash Statement - ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 27 12:57:08 PST 2001

31723 "gloom" on new WTO round -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] GLOOM DESCENDS ON PROSPECTS FOR NEW WORLD TRADE ROUND. Senior officials from up to 20 countries will meet in Geneva today in an atmosphere of some gloom, to discuss prospects for the launch of new global trade liberalization talks this year, reports the Financial Times (p.4). WTO Director-General Mike Moore this month stressed the need for "95 percent" of the agenda to be agreed by the end of July if WTO members were to launch global nego ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 27 08:13:53 PST 2001

31724 "nodes in a common struggle" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >This kind of kickback is about 5000 years old -- as old as class society >-- but I fail to see its political relevance. If anything it may >discourage political struggle, since it is a way to vent irritation in a >purely personal way. The IWW, correctly, condemned such merely >individualistic expressions or acts of sabotage. But wouldn't it be nice to connect all those individual acts of resistance and politicize them? And wouldn't it be nice if they were seen a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 27 07:38:46 PST 2001

31725 Fwd: {FP} From the Horse's mouth -- rank: 1000

From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:53:50 -0500 Below is a post from the alleged assailant Edwin Johnson, responding to Bessie Wash's claims. Lyn ---- Original Message ----- From: Edwin Johnston <edi at hal-pc.org> To: <plu-kpft at yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 12:36 PM Subject: [plu-kpft] Pacifica Radio attacks Johnston in national broadcast Feel free to forward. Pacifica Foundation Executive Director, Bessie Wash, interrupted ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 26 14:16:37 PST 2001