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31921 reparations & exploitation -- rank: 1000

Yoshie, I'm also puzzled by how you resist applying the term exploitation to race relations, yet support reparations. Presumably the reparations would be compensation for several centuries of superexploitation, and not nonexploitative maltreatment. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 8 15:18:29 PST 2001

31922 World 'equity culture' at risk -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >We ask all our readers to observe a one-minute silence on March 10th >to mark the first anniversary of the Nasdaq peak. Which LBO will celebrate by launching - finally - the leftbusinessobserver.com domain! Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 8 14:59:44 PST 2001

31923 a chat with Phil Knight -- rank: 1000

From: LIVINGWAGES at aol.com Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 16:33:28 EST Jim Keady and Leslie Kretzu, Directors of the Living Wage Project had a chance meeting with Phil Knight yesterday at the Nike Campus Office Complex in Beaverton, Oregon. While he sat eating lunch with a friend in one of the several campus restaurants, Keady and Kretzu approached him to discuss the plight of Nike's Indonesian workers with whom the lived this past summer. Below is a transcript of the videotaped conversation filmed by ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 8 14:28:12 PST 2001

31924 Horowitz/Reparations for slavery -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >To paraphrase Art, the _nature_ of the _idea_ of "the white working >class" (with its own "group interests" to be protected from black & >other discriminated-against workers) _is_ ignorance, backwardness, >treachery, and reaction. This is what I meant by racism without racists. How can an idea be ignorant or treacherous? It's because people who hold that idea - consciously or not - act ignorantly and treacherously (though like I keep s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 8 14:24:54 PST 2001

31925 Horowitz/Reparations for slavery -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >So, how does an Asian Marxist & feminist woman fit into the above >picture? What happens in a debate between an Asian woman and a >white woman, an Asian woman and a black man, etc. on questions such >as racism & sexism? Hard to say, esp if the Asian woman were Elaine Chao, and the black man were Thomas Sowell. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 8 12:59:37 PST 2001

31926 Fwd: {FP} Automated Letters to the Pacifica Board -- rank: 1000

>X-From_: owner-freepac at recordist.com Thu Mar 8 15:01:38 2001 >X-Authentication-Warning: recordist.com: majordom set sender to >owner-freepac at recordist.com using -f >From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> >To: freepac at recordist.com >Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:24:10 -0500 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Subject: {FP} Automated Letters to the Pacifica Board >Sender: owner-freepac at recordist.com >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: freepacifica at recordist.c ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 8 12:14:48 PST 2001

31927 JEC hearing on IMF -- rank: 1000

[press release from the Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress] HEARING: IMF AND WORLD BANK REFORM -- Opening Statement of Chairman Jim Saxton -- I would like to welcome Dr. Meltzer and fellow witnesses before the Committee this morning. Dr. Meltzer served as Chairman of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, and the other witnesses before us were also associated with the Commission as well. I would like to take this opportunity to compliment Dr. Meltzer and the Commission ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 8 10:02:07 PST 2001

31928 New Issue of POLITICS & CULTURE -- rank: 1000

POLITICS AND CULTURE: AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF BOOKS edited by Amitava Kumar and Michael Ryan <<http://politicsandculture.neu.edu>http://politicsandculture.neu.edu> Issue One (2001) The Empire of Wealth by Michael Ryan Letters and Bombs by Amitava Kumar What's Wrong With Cultural Studies by Michael Denning Reflections on the Rethinking Marxism conference, September 2000 by Caren Irr Marxism 2000: The Party’s Not Over by Michael Rothberg Reviews of: Robert S. Chang, Disoriented: Asi ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 8 10:00:32 PST 2001

31929 Fwd: sp!ked launches today: 08/03/01 -- rank: 1000

[for all you LM fans out there!] From: sp!ked-central <spiked-central at spiked-online.com> To: sp!ked-central <spiked-central at spiked-online.com> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 13:22:36 -0000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - sp!ked launches today - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://www.spiked-online.com Thursday 08/03/01 spiked launches today: Thursday 8 March 2001 Get the latest spiked stories at: http://www.spiked-onlin ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 8 09:55:00 PST 2001

31930 Horowitz/Reparations for slavery -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>Part of that's the same old story: the ignorance, backwardness, >>treachery, and reactionary nature of the white working-class. >> >>Your JOB, if you really want to be USEFUL, is to go about >>dealing with THAT, instead of trying to lecture Blacks about >>what we should or should not be doing. > >I'm trying, here & elsewhere, for what it's worth. Wait a minute. I thought you said it was all wrong to say such terrible things ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 8 09:46:01 PST 2001

31931 Exploitation (was Re: BK on Identity) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >>>>yes, i'm frustrated because trying to talk about structural >>>>oppression is like banging your head against the wall and i see >>>>the same problems on LBO -- people are much more interested in >>>>locating racism solely in the individual, etc. the whole B&K on >>>>identity thread was pretty clear evidence of that, to me. >>>> >>>>kelley & ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 8 09:35:19 PST 2001

31932 Horowitz/Reparations for slavery -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Art McGee wrote: >> >> >Yes, and Reed, as with so many other things, is in the >> >microscopic minority with his view. On this issue, he >> >is ignorant, and if "whiteness" is defined by your >> >disconnectedness from "Blackness," ala Clarence >> >Thomas, well... >> >> Is "blackness" defined ideologically? Since about 90% of black >> ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 8 09:22:55 PST 2001

31933 Fwd: {FP} Houston Report -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 18:31:22 -0500 From: Pacifica Campaign <pacificacampaign at yahoo.com> Dear Friends, I am pleased to report that I returned several days ago from a weekend of inspiring protest and national organizing at the Mar. 2-Mar. 4 Pacifica National Board meeting in Houston. More than 100 listeners flew into Houston from all around the country to join with hundreds of Houston-area residents in what turned into a terrific three days of resistance against the corporate clique no ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 8 08:50:36 PST 2001

31934 Glass resurfaces -- rank: 1000

Inside.com - March 7, 2001 STEPHEN GLASS, MASTER OF INVENTION, HAS A NEW GIG The Washington City Paper published a story on its Web site today revealing that former New Republic writer Stephen Glass, whom colleague Ruth Shalit once described as the "Milli Vanilli of journalism," has obtained a clerkship with the D.C. Superior Court after graduating Magna Cum Laude from the Georgetown University Law Center. The author of the story, City Paper staff writer Jason Cherkis, says he decided ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 8 07:34:38 PST 2001

31935 BK on Identity -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Since the white workers do not do the hiring and firing, it is >the racism of the bosses , who do, that creates discrepancies >between white and black employment. The white workers have no >"rational" need to be racist themselves. Any advantage can be had by >only the bosses being racist. So why have the printing and building trades unions been so horribly sexist and racist over the years? Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 7 13:23:30 PST 2001