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31981 BK on Identity -- rank: 1000

Dennis Breslin wrote: > > white workers of the USA, wise up! >> >Would that they could...and why won't they easily? It may be that in the very long run it would be in white workers' (narrowly defined material) interest to become antiracists, but that in the short to medium term they gain (in narrowly defined material terms), with the additional psychological bonus of membership in an alleged master race. Ditto men vs. women. The long term would require great risks associated with ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 2 13:13:15 PST 2001

31982 GDP Real and Otherwise -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >Yesterday's NYT reports that GDP rose 1.1%, a revision >to the previous figure of 2.2%. The report goes on to >say it is the lowest GDP growth since 1995. > >In the same edition, in the World Business section, the >NYT reports that Canada's just released figure for GDP is >2.6%. But it also warns that Canada's real GDP growth >is 0.6%. > >There is no mention of the US's "real" GDP, so what am >I supposed to think? That our GDP is n ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 2 10:23:04 PST 2001

31983 Japan (was Re: All that is solid melts into air -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Rather mildly put. > >Judis was a prime cause for Jan & me to drop our subscription to _In >These Times_. Before we had undergone sufficient Pavlovian conditioning >to always check the byline before reading ITT an identical outburst from >one or the other of us had occurred a number of times. We would both be >quietly reading, when one would burst out, "Who the hell wrote this? O, >Judis . . . ." Judis' politics are questionable, but he's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 2 10:14:39 PST 2001

31984 NYU union -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - March 2, 2001 NYU Becomes the First Private University to Recognize Collective-Bargaining Rights of T.A.'s By ANA MARIE COX New York University on Thursday became the first private university to formally recognize the collective-bargaining rights of teaching assistants. N.Y.U.'s announcement that it would begin bargaining with its teaching assistants followed a lengthy battle in which the university opposed unionization. In the last year, however, two ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 2 10:07:46 PST 2001

31985 The Thernstroms in Black and White. by Adam Shatz -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > >On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> > Shatz contributes to Lingua Franca and has been in New Politics as well. >> >> And, when he was at the New York Times Book Review, he assigned the >> hit job on Norman Finkelstein's book, the nastiest review I ever saw >> in that mild, largely tedious publication. > >I have to disagree, Doug. Bartov's review was not only just, it was kind. A Tale of Two Holocausts Date: ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 1 12:28:01 PST 2001

31986 tax cuts -- rank: 1000

American Prospect - March 12, 2001 - March 26, 2001. How Do You Spell Relief? Max B. Sawicky and Robert Denk Big tax cuts are in the offing. The high priests of fiscal discipline find their flocks deserting, egged on by President George W. Bush, the GOP, and the Janus-faced Federal Reserve Board chairman. But who will get the benefit? Critics of Bush's tax-cut plan in both parties appear to be at something of a loss to propose alternatives that aren't slightly souped-up versions of Vice Presiden ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 1 11:29:13 PST 2001

31987 Oregon protects sweatshops -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - February 27, 2001 Oregon Blocks Public Colleges From Enforcing Anti-Sweatshop Codes of Conduct By MARTIN VAN DER WERF The public hand-wringing at the University of Oregon over its membership in an anti-sweatshop group is apparently coming to an end. The Oregon State Board of Higher Education has adopted a policy that will effectively prevent the institution from enforcing its code of conduct or joining any other group that has one that tries to set rul ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 1 11:23:15 PST 2001

31988 SillyValley Asocialites -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >NETWORKED STRANGERS >One of the findings of the just-published Social Capital Community >Benchmark Survey, http://www.cfsv.org, is that Silicon Valley is a >community that is relatively backward socially compared to national >statistics: people in the Valley are 27% less likely than people >elsewhere to visit with relatives, and are not very inclined to >serve as community leaders, join clubs, or even attend public >meetings. But even nationally, says surve ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 1 09:26:00 PST 2001

31989 records -- rank: 1000

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31990 BK on Identity -- rank: 1000

Christopher Rhoades D˙kema wrote: >Joel Kovel's WHITE RACISM: A PSYCHOHISTORY lays out some of what went into the >process which assigned different values to different physical appearances, and >made light, European skin a paramount value. It is almost true that >this process >itself created races as social categories. Kovel's argument is primarily >psychological, but has political-economic implications, inasmuch as he links >racism to anality and to the process by which soc ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 1 07:05:50 PST 2001

31991 BK on Identity -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >There was an article in LBO a while back in an issue I have >unfortunately lost. (Maybe Doug can dig it out.) It made some strong >statistical arguments that -- in the case if racism anyway -- whites >gain more from racism than from a partial reduction in racism. It's an article by the excellent Heather Boushey, and it's on the LBO website <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Race_curve.html>, along with a longer, more formal version of the argument in MS Word form ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 1 07:10:47 PST 2001

31992 The Thernstroms in Black and White. by Adam Shatz -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Shatz contributes to Lingua Franca and has been in New Politics as well. And, when he was at the New York Times Book Review, he assigned the hit job on Norman Finkelstein's book, the nastiest review I ever saw in that mild, largely tedious publication. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 1 06:59:55 PST 2001

31993 Fwd: Shiva on the cow as "the mother of the prosperity of food systems" -- rank: 1000

[A shy person sent me this offlist. The "Kleinian view" on cattle refers to Melanie Klein's belief that they substitute symbolically for the mother's breast, her body, and its contents, and hoarding them is a defense against anxiety.] Shiva had an article in the Manchester Guardian in April consistent with a Kleinian view of the unconscious meaning of cattle. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4164222,00.html "In India, we hold cattle sacred, because without them we ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 30 13:06:11 PDT 2001

31994 sustainability science -- rank: 1000

"Sustainability Science" BY: ROBERT KATES Independent Scholar WILLIAM CLARK Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government ET AL (additional authors listed below) Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=257359 Paper ID: KSG Working Paper No. 00-018 Date: December 2000 Contact: WILLIAM CLARK Email: Mailto:William_Clark at harvard.edu Postal: Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 John ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 30 12:51:07 PDT 2001

31995 Lewontin on Shiva -- rank: 1000

[More of what Lewontin had to say about Shiva, from the NYRB review] The only recent book that deals with the effect of agricultural biotechnology in the third world and embeds it in a more general discussion of agricultural technology in general is Vandana Shiva's Stolen Harvest. [Note: 4 The classic work on the effects of biotechnology in the third world is Calestous Juma's The Gene Hunters (Princeton University Press, 1989), which remains the basic source for an economic and historical analys ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 30 10:41:22 PDT 2001