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31891 reparations & exploitation -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >At 04:04 PM 3/10/01 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: >>>If I'm a black woman who makes 15% less than a white man who does >>>half the work I do (is productivity in the equation anywhere?), >>>he's not "less exploited by 15%" . . . I'm not even sure I could >>>do the math to figure this one out. >> >>Standard wage equations, in which pay is dependent on an array of >>attributes, like age, experience, occupation, education ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 10 14:21:59 PST 2001

31892 reparations & exploitation -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > White male workers' income advantages only mean that they are on >> the average 10-15% less exploited by the ruling class than their >> black and/or female co-workers are. > >What I want to know is where these people find pairs of people >whose only difference is their whiteness or their maleness. > >If I'm a black woman who makes 15% less than a white man who does >half the work I do (is productivity in the equation anywhere?), > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 10 13:04:14 PST 2001

31893 tax cut -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>Christian Gregory wrote: >> >>>As for Bergsten, I wonder about the "national savings" argument. The U.S. >>>has been running current account deficits for 20 years, with and without a >>>fiscal surplus, and thru the Plaza accord and the reverse Plaza. What good >>>will savings do when the dollar tanks? Wouldn't it matter more what form >>>they're in than that they are there? >> >>These guys are a b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 10 08:44:07 PST 2001

31894 ooops -- rank: 1000

[oops chopped the second paragraph] Inside.com - March 8, 2001 'TAKE BACK THE NET' DAY SET ASIDE FOR SHOPPING AND INVESTING Can a one-day online buying spree save the struggling Net economy? That's the hope of a new grass-roots movement which has declared April 3 "Take Back The Net" day, and is encouraging Internet users to demonstrate their dedication to the Internet by shopping online and avoiding offline retail stores on that day. The movement also encourages people to buy 10 share ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 16:48:15 PST 2001

31895 take back the net -- rank: 1000

[gosh, isn't this a neat idea? grass-roots movements are so diverse these days!] Inside.com - March 8, 2001 'TAKE BACK THE NET' DAY SET ASIDE FOR SHOPPING AND INVESTING Can a one-day online buying spree save the struggling Net economy? That's the hope of a new grass-roots movement which has declared April 3 "Take Back The Net" day, and is encouraging Internet users to demonstrate their dedication to the Internet by shopping online and avoiding offline retail stores on that day. The mo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 16:46:01 PST 2001

31896 Fwd: PRESS RELEASE -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 19:09:10 -0500 From: Eileen Sutton <efsutton at earthlink.net> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MARCH 9, 2001 Place: Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, 568 Broadway, Room 702A (Prince and Broadway) in Lower Manhattan Time & Date: Monday, March 12th, 11:00 a.m. Contact: Concerned Friends of WBAI: Ursula Ruedenberg, 917-913-0752; www.wbaiaction.org Pacifica Campaign, (646) 230-9588 Background: www.savepacifica.net CENSORED CONGRESSMAN AND ELECTED OFFICIALS TO HOLD PRESS ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 16:36:03 PST 2001

31897 tax cut -- rank: 1000

Christian Gregory wrote: >As for Bergsten, I wonder about the "national savings" argument. The U.S. >has been running current account deficits for 20 years, with and without a >fiscal surplus, and thru the Plaza accord and the reverse Plaza. What good >will savings do when the dollar tanks? Wouldn't it matter more what form >they're in than that they are there? These guys are a bit coy about admitting it, but I bet a lot of fiscally orthodox Dems - like Bergsten - wouldn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 16:06:51 PST 2001

31898 reparations & exploitation -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Yeah, but what about the men who don't have to swab the toilet? >> >> Doug >> > >Yes, systematic, institutionalized sexism. No doubt about it. >But if we say "second shift = men exploiting women", I still >think we're missing an important aspect of the exploitation that's >going on here. But isn't that a form of uncompensated labor. It's not mediated by money, but men sure ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 15:09:02 PST 2001

31899 reparations & exploitation -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >To conceptualize the second shift as men exploiting women encourages >us to overlook what is to me the important economic arrangement >here: the more valuable labor done in the household, the lower >the wages on which workers can survive. In the end, who really >benefits from the second shift? It is not men as a group; rather, >it is the capitalist class that can shunt the costs of reproducing >the labor force back onto the workers' households. Yeah, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 14:32:51 PST 2001

31900 NAM workers -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - March 9, 2001 Something Borrowed, Something Blue Memo Enlists Lobbyists to Trade White Collars for Hard Hats at GOP Tax Cut Rally By Juliet Eilperin and Dan Morgan On most days, the political director of National Association of Manufacturers dons a suit and tie. But at a GOP tax cut rally outside the Capitol yesterday, Fred Nichols was sporting a faded blue "Farm Credit" hat, a striped rugby shirt and olive-green slacks. The sartorial switch was not accidental. Nichol ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 14:30:11 PST 2001

31901 numbers -- rank: 1000

[also from Smith's PR] Percent of whites who have a favorable view of Clinton: 45% Percent of blacks who have a favorable view of Clinton: 87% Percent of whites who think Clinton was a bad president: 31% Percent of blacks who think Clinton was a bad president: 3% [WEB Du Bois Institute]

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 13:37:58 PST 2001

31902 tax cut -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >He said it on the phone to me yesterday. I had the same reaction. He >acknowledged that the Fed would likely raise rates to stem the dollar's >fall, which really would make things nasty. But his point was that that's >not a necessary result of an exchange rate collapse. He said if the Fed was >willing to accomodate some extra inflation, then the only damage to domestic >output would come from the "secondary effects" of an adjustment to changes &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 13:34:55 PST 2001

31903 Speaking for Myself [Was Re: Horowitz/Reparations for slavery] -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of attached html, which pushed it over the length limit] From: LeoCasey at aol.com Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 16:27:16 EST Damn, Kelley. Everytime I climb into your virtual car on the promise of a simple little lift from here to there [not even the grander prospect of a peaceful ride in the country], I find myself in a vehicle careening this way and that way all over the road, bouncing off buses and missing head-on collisions with tracker trailers by 1/2 inch. No matter how much I resolv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 13:37:29 PST 2001

31904 CIA and Pakistan "created Taliban" -- rank: 1000

Times of India - March 7, 2001 "CIA worked in tandem with Pak to create Taliban" LONDON: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) worked in tandem with Pakistan to create the "monster" that is today Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, a leading US expert on South Asia said here. "I warned them that we were creating a monster," Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars said at the conference here last week on "Terrorism and Regional Securit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 13:27:21 PST 2001

31905 Ted Turner, atheist -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] WASHINGTON TIMES: [Ted Turner] showed up for a staff meeting prior to a retirement party for anchor Bernard Shaw, and noticed that a few of his employees had ash marks on their foreheads. It was Ash Wednesday. The New York Post, citing anonymous sources, said Mr. Turner stared at one of the staffers and said: "I was looking at this woman and I was trying to figure out what was on her forehead. At first I thought you were in the earthquake" in Seatt ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 13:24:00 PST 2001