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31966 Fwd: [bank-boycott-students] WBBB Posters Available! -- rank: 1000

From: Todd Tucker <tnt at econjustice.net> Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 17:42:02 -0500 WBBB POSTERS NOW AVAILABLE Come one, come all! The long awaited BOYCOTT WORLD BANK BONDS posters are finally here, and available for use by your student group! They are printed on a heavy cardstock, in full color. The image is of a World Bank pig smothering a globe. Students and activists are scrambling down the pig's back and up the globe. The "Boycott World Bank Bonds" slogan is prominent, and is f ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 5 08:13:25 PST 2001

31967 Fw: IS WAR IMMINENT? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >The Pentagon, a Satanic symbol, will make an ideal >target. The only bit of sense in the whole damn screed. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 4 13:30:48 PST 2001

31968 Calif's grid - Tradegy of the Commons -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > People in the South aren't paying >> $1000 for a dinky one bedroom apartment, are they? > >(you can get a 1br for $1k?!?) Yeah. I'm sitting on one right now. But the stats I'm basing that on come from Branko Milanovic at the World Bank, who used purchasing power parity exchange rates, which attempt to equalize buying power across national borders. At market exchange rates, the numbers would have been even more extreme. Here are some factoids from Milan ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 4 13:22:47 PST 2001

31969 New Balance -- rank: 1000

Business Week - February 26, 2001 LOW-SKILLED JOBS: DO THEY HAVE TO MOVE? By Aaron Bernstein; Bernstein writes about labor markets and social issues from Washington. Stroll through New Balance Athletic Shoe Inc.'s factory in Norridgewock, Me., and you will see workers using high-tech skills to make a low-tech product. Well-trained, $ 14-an-hour employees work in small teams, perform a half-dozen jobs, and switch tasks every few minutes. Some operate computerized equipment with up to 20 sewing-ma ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 4 12:53:45 PST 2001

31970 reparations -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an address oddity] Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 20:03:15 -0500 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Raphael Allen <rcda at duke.edu> Subject: Re: David Horowitz/reparations for slavery In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0103031611500.13928-100000 at socrates.Berkeley .EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Randall Robinson's the president of TransAfrica, a Washington think tank. He wrote a book called The Debt: What America Ow ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 3 17:24:44 PST 2001

31971 BK on Identity -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I think that the U.S. working class don't benefit from imperialism. >They just bear the costs of imperialism. A poverty income in the U.S. is at something like the 90th percentile of the world income distribution. Isn't there some imperial advantage behind this fact? Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 3 17:22:12 PST 2001

31972 BK on Identity -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Loss of vision is surely a chief factor in the such-as-it-is quality >of the left today. I agree with this. I think the best way to fight working class racism is by appeals to universality and justice, emotional appeals to human solidarity, and not by appeals to some vague unprovable long-term material self-interest. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 3 17:20:27 PST 2001

31973 Lenin in Essen -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Kevin has a book, "Lenin, Hegel & Western Marxism." Good read. Has >written some others I should get to. "Marx on Suicide, " esp. would motivate >me to read Durkheim on same. He called me an "antiglobalization activist"! I should sue!! Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 3 17:07:48 PST 2001

31974 'Development' question -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >Now, it occurs to me that capitalist development 'take-off' moments are >marked by an appropriation of something - enclosure, and/or privatisation, >and/or commodification of something (often a whole way of life) not >formerly commodified. That means 'economic growth' can't help but be >dramatic, as stuff without formal market value, and/or without formal >profits, and/or without any recourse to market transactions at all could >well equal zero on the nat ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 3 15:00:34 PST 2001

31975 BK on Identity -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I think white workers benefit from racism _neither in the short nor >in the long run_, for they don't become less exploited by capital by >practicing racism. How many workers *feel* this systemic exploitation? They may have a gripe about the boss, or wish they could pay the kid's orthodontist bills more easily, but you're assuming a sophisticated political economy analysis that right now only left-wing intellectuals can articulate. But even among those who might ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 3 11:47:53 PST 2001

31976 BK on Identity -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Let's set aside the long run for the moment. Do white workers gain >_increases in real wages & social programs that outpace rises in >productivity_ by practicing racism _even in the very short term_? People perceive their well-offness in relation to their peers. A "poor" person in the U.S. is rich by global standards, but we still think of that person as poor. So a white worker who enjoys material and psychological advantages over a black workers ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 3 11:45:04 PST 2001

31977 BK on identity -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >Yoshie Quotes Boushey: > >>Boushey's numbers don't demonstrate the above, since according to her >own findings "[i]ncreases in unemployment for discriminated-against >workers lowers all earnings" (p. 6). > >You are absolutely right. She says several other placers on that same >page that unemployment of any segment lowers wages for all segments -- >just not as much. The "just not as much" is important to her argument. The conclus ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 3 11:59:09 PST 2001

31978 BK on Identity -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Doug pooh-poohs protectionist critics of NAFTA, etc. who say that >free trade agreements have had a negative impact upon American >workers Not exactly. I think the effects of trade are generally exaggerated, but they're appealing because they locate the source of trouble abroad instead of within our own economy and poliitcs. Besides, it's an empirical fact that the U.S. working class did better in terms of both employment and earnings in the 7 years since NAFTA ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 3 11:54:32 PST 2001

31979 BK on Identity -- rank: 1000

Dennis Breslin wrote: >Or to put a spin on >Keynes' remark that in the long run we're all dead But, to be fair to Keynes, he used that remark to condemn orthodox economists who thought that a depression will cure itself with time, i.e., in that long run in which we're all dead. It's from his Tract on Monetary Reform: "But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous se ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 3 11:37:07 PST 2001

31980 David Horowitz/reparations for slavery -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: >All the above is a long-winded way of saying that the right is easy to >debate. Most of them are idiots. In my experience, the most frustrating thing about debating them is that they'll just lie outright. It's pretty hard to debate opponents like that. If you call them the liars that they are, you risk alienating the audience. If you correct them, you risk sounding like a dweeb. They'll say things like "A flat tax wouldn't be a giveaway to the rich," and you say, & ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 3 11:20:57 PST 2001