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31726 DN Redux -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >Is this the same Jack O'Dell who was prominent in SCLC and CP circles, and >who was, along with Stanley Levison, the focus of charges that MLK and the >civil rights movement were Communist dominated? I believe so, yes. About 10 years ago, the late Samori Marksman, long-time program director at WBAI, told me that there was a group of "God that failed types" on the Pacifica National board that was behind the rightward move. I think that former PNB cha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 26 11:54:02 PST 2001

31727 DN Redux -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >Did others hear Bessie Walsh's interruption of the Democracy Now broadcast >this morning? From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:31:48 -0500 Bessie Wash interrupts 3/26 Democracy Now Broadcast to portray activists as violent ------------ Pacifica executive director Bessie Wash, known as "the censor" for her repeated actions in removing programs covering the Pacifica crisis from the air, broke in on Democracy N ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 26 10:57:45 PST 2001

31728 paying off ex-slaves -- rank: 1000

Justin & Leo, please put a cork in the personal stuff. Disagree all you want, but the mutual character assassination isn't a spectator sport. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 26 08:26:31 PST 2001

31729 paying off ex-slaves -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >Moreover, if I read >Randall Robinson's case for reparations correctly, a case which I think is >more compelling than any other I have come across, he would reject the >paradigm of individual compensation which is inescapable in legal, class >action remedies, and in existing examples of reparations. I read a bunch of Robinson's book last night. Almost all of it is devoted to making the case that the U.S.'s treatment of African Americans has been one lon ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 26 06:36:52 PST 2001

31730 Shiva on globalization -- rank: 1000

[Globalization is responsible for school shooting and the deaths of Iraqis - though I thought it was Iraq's exclusion from world trade that was really doing the damage.] The Hindu - March 25, 2001 (http://www.the-hindu.com/stories/1325061g.htm) Violence of globalisation WE thought we had put slavery, holocausts and apartheid behind us - that humanity would never again allow dehumanising and violent systems to shape the rules by which we live and die. Yet globalisation is giving rise to new slave ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 25 10:14:24 PST 2001

31731 Lessig -- rank: 1000

<http://www.business20.com/content/magazine/indepth/2001/03/12/28366> The Accidental Activist Lawrence Lessig infuriates Microsoft, Hollywood, and AOL with ideas that are making an impact across the digital world. March 20, 2001 issue Brendan I. Koerner Your first thought is, "Can this be the scourge of Microsoft (MSFT, info)?" Lawrence Lessig lopes into the Stanford Law School cafeteria wearing a shirt-and-sweater ensemble straight out of the J. Crew catalog, circa 1994, and wir ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 25 09:55:31 PST 2001

31732 Bankruptcy grace period -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >It's difficult to create a debtors' cartel, in the Global North or South. Especially since the ruling class of the South has no real desire to, since that would undermine their status as junior partners of the world bourgeoisie. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 24 14:18:08 PST 2001

31733 Kyoto minus the US -- rank: 1000

[from the excellent Tom Athanasiou] <http://www.fpif.org/commentary/0103climate.html> Climate Change: Europe at the Crossroads Tom Athanasiou It's hard for Americans, even progressive Americans, to imagine a future in which the U.S. is no longer the "indispensable country." This is as true when it comes to climate politics as it is in any other area, and for much the same reason: the U.S. looms so large that it simply cannot be ignored. We emit, in particular, such a high share o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 24 10:35:01 PST 2001

31734 neoclassical logic (Brad on - Jim O'Connor) -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >More generally, weren't Suharto and his friends at the World Bank >found guilty of cooking the Gini coefficient books to make it appear >that Indon had achieved growth with equity? I recall this became an >issue around mid-1998 when real information emerged to show >extraordinary inequality, against the Suharto/WB claims of the >previous decade or so. (Don't have a cite...) You referring to Jeff Winters' discovery of the source of the WB's absurdly low figu ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 24 10:09:32 PST 2001

31735 Anti-Semitism and Anti-Globalization -- rank: 1000

Shane T Taylor wrote: >I wholeheartedly agree. My interest, which I should have worded more >clearly, was not "Should we take our ques from Tonelson?" but "Why is >Mark Cooper taking his ques from Tonelson?" Marc is very sympathetic to working-class nationalism. In Seattle, he was very taken with Mike Dolan's formulation that there's no left and right anymore, only pro- and anti-corporate. > The only reason I even think >that's a question worth asking is bec ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 24 09:59:48 PST 2001

31736 Fwd: {FP} LA Forum filled to capacity -- rank: 1000

From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 00:42:49 -0500 This just in ... A Los Angeles forum at which the Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez and Bernard White are speaking tonight is filled to capacity; every seat in the 1200 seat venue is occupied. An intense lobbying effort by both KPFK staff and management, as well as Pacifica management, attempted to derail the event. This included pressuring panelists and sponsors to withdraw. This is by far the most well-attend ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 24 09:57:45 PST 2001

31737 Bankruptcy grace period -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >No smell in the wind, there, of mass bankruptcy as organising >strategy? Like El Barzon, Mexico in 1995-97? South African townships >when interest rates soared on housing loans? Patrick, this is America! We do things as individuals. Bankruptcy is a personal choice, arrived at by expensive consultations between self and attorney. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 24 09:49:43 PST 2001

31738 Fwd: Two Speakers Withdraw from Anti-Pacifica Event -- rank: 1000

[Like I did during the Yugo war, I'm forwarding all kinds of stuff on the Pacifica fight, whether I agree with it or not.] Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:50:17 -0800 From: Marc Cooper <mcooper at thenation.com> For those who are interested (and believe me I understand if you are NOT).. Two of the key speakers scheduled to speak at the March 23 L.A. Anti-Pacifica Rally which was called to promote an economic boycott of the five sister stations have now withdrawn from the event. Local radio hip h ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 24 09:45:23 PST 2001

31739 putting the vagina into perspective -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - March 24, 2001 BODY AND MIND: Monologue on a gynaecological taboo TOP TO TOE: No other part of the body is so loaded with meaning. Jerome Burne puts the vagina into perspective By JEROME BURNE If you were compiling a list of totally impossible topics to put on the stage, the vagina would have to come near the top. Yet on St Valentine's day last month a staggering 18,000 people gathered in New York's Madison Square Garden tosee The Vagina Monologues. The play is based on more th ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 24 09:08:48 PST 2001

31740 myth of upward mobility -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - March 24, 2001 The myth of upward mobility: America's rich believe in meritocracy, but the poor know better.Victoria Griffith looks at the US's rigid class system and how it stifles rags-to-riches rises By VICTORIA GRIFFITH For as long as I can remember, I have had a story in my head about a shoe-shine boy who rises from desperate poverty to become head of a large corporate empire. I grew up in the US and have always believed it is faith in this rags-to-riches tale - placed in ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 24 09:07:08 PST 2001