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32206 What Kind of Socialist Are You? Take the Test -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Great. I got a different classification for >each answer, incl Stalinist/Maoist, Castroite, DeLeonist, >Kimist, Bookchinite, Schachtmanite, and Leninist/Trotskyist, >etc. I came in as a Schachtmanite. I hope this doesn't mean I'm going to become a neocon in a few years. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 9 10:26:17 PDT 2001

32207 Tammy Faye, rhymes with gay -- rank: 1000

Tampa Tribune - July 8, 2001 Tammy Faye Messner, Once Bakker, Keynotes Tampa Gay PrideFest TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The keynote speaker at Tampa's annual PrideFest party may have opened some eyes, but many gays and lesbians have long known Tammy Faye Messner, who used to be Tammy Faye Bakker, as a supporter. She embraced them at a time when the rest of America was fearful of AIDS, say activists who asked her to speak to them Friday night. The documentary "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" chronicles h ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 9 10:25:02 PDT 2001

32208 Fwd: Conspiracist Jim Marrs Revealed -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:10:49 -0400 From: Eileen Sutton <efsutton at earthlink.net> Subject: Conspiracist Jim Marrs Revealed ...WBAI producer Bill Weinberg offers this excellent analysis of right-wing conspiracist, Jim Marrs, whose book was recently offered by Marjorie Moore as a premium in WBAI's last fund drive. The use of the Marrs material to fund the station is seen by many as strong evidence of the ideological shifts taken place at WBAI, despite protests from management that change ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 9 08:37:33 PDT 2001

32209 [ASDnet] Social Democrats USA] -- rank: 1000

Christopher Rhoades D˙kema wrote: >To clarify. The Little Red Schoolhouse is the primary school for Elizabeth >Irwin HS. Right. Not sure which Abrams went to - I'll have to ask my friend who went there. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 9 07:56:56 PDT 2001

32210 [ASDnet] Social Democrats USA] -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >side, first off. Abrams went to the same school in NYC, that Angela Davis >did in the late 50's. Yeah, he went to the Little Red Schoolhouse on Charlton St, which is visible from the windows of LBO world HQ. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 9 07:28:38 PDT 2001

32211 Hitchens on the Public Intellectual -- rank: 1000

From: s-t-t at juno.com Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 21:31:37 -0500 Sorry to submit this from an un-subbed address, Doug. Hitchens makes the same point presented by Jim Farmelant about the derisive use of term "intellectual" dating back to the Dreyfus affair. He also echoes many of the points in the article Ian fwd'd about the disparagement of intellectuals on egalitarian grounds. This is from the February 12, 2001 edition of _the Nation_, and is a transcript on a forum on the "The Fu ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 8 20:14:56 PDT 2001

32212 Moore: dot.com types = black bloc -- rank: 1000

Excerpt from a speech by WTO boss Mike Moore <http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/spmm_e/spmm67_e.htm>: Our owners jealously defend their rights and prerogatives. Even having these symposia is controversial and not universally supported. Let me share why. Many Ministers and Ambassadors say it is not the job of the WTO to embrace NGOs and civil society. They say that should be done at the national level in the formation of national policy positions. They are correct but only 90% correct. Now, ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 7 11:16:22 PDT 2001

32213 [ASDnet] NEW DEM DAILY: A New Economy Labor Movement -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I imagine the list could be extended. Such brief suggestions (as yours >or mine) have all the validity of throwing darts at the dictionary. Mine weren't suggestions, they were questions directed to Max or any other listmembers who might have a clue about real answers. I know questions annoy you, but I do lots of interviews, and find that asking questions and listening to the answers can be very enlightening. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 7 11:09:40 PDT 2001

32214 Adelaide globo conf -- rank: 1000

[anyone near Adelaide on the 28th, please stop by....] Adelaide Research Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences globalisation series <live & online> July 13 - August 10 <online> July 26-29 <live> draft program June exhibition openings 28 June 'thrash' @ Experimental Art Foundation 29 June 'Hossein valamanesh' @ Art Gallery of South Australia 12-15 July Festival of Ideas: Vandana Shiva; Naomi Klein; Saskia Sassen Fri 13 July Conference goes online: key papers, schedules, ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 7 10:18:37 PDT 2001

32215 Madonna: Third Way icon -- rank: 1000

The conclusion to Peter Apsden's amusing pan of Madonna's London show in today's FT <http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?id=010707001262&query=madonna#docAnchor010707001262>: >The finale could not be more telling. "Holiday", from all those >years ago, is bouncy, clean, carefree, and you can't help but think >of the slightly plump girl who started this remarkable story; but it >is followed by "Music", lean, robotic, utterly soulless. W ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 7 09:31:47 PDT 2001

32216 [ASDnet] NEW DEM DAILY: A New Economy Labor Movement -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I remember all the angst when Junior Hoffa won the >Teamster election; the AFL was going to be taken over, >the dinosaurs were coming back, etc. etc. It was all >bullshit. The 'right-wing' AFL unions are often more >progressive on economic issues than some of their >bretheren. Yeah, and Gus Bevona got great contracts for his members - much better than the progressive icons trying to organize janitors in LA, for example. So why is this? Do they have to prov ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 7 09:18:51 PDT 2001

32217 classical rekkids doomed? -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] IT AIN'T OVER UNTIL THE TALL, THIN BLONDE WITH THE HIGH CHEEKBONES AND THAT VANITY FAIR LOOK HAS SUNG OPERA NEWS: It's no longer enough to have a sexy, romantic voice, filled with artistry and musical allure. The visual criteria in opera have become almost as stringent as those of musical theater. Rare voice types, such as dramatic sopranos and Verdi mezzos, are allowed some leeway and some girth. But if you're a lyric mezzo or a Mozart baritone, you'd bette ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 7 09:12:13 PDT 2001

32218 "American Nationalism," was Re: Fascism & Monopoly Capitalism -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >Yes, but... I don't think such "patriots" know the Constitution >beyond the 2nd amendment, which they quote like Scripture. There >is a vague acquaintance with the 1st, a distaste for the fifth, >which far righties consider a cop out plea, and little or none >with the other amendments. The 14th Amendment is also sacred. Your average libertarian hates this part: >Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and >subject to t ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 6 15:43:10 PDT 2001

32219 economists do art -- rank: 1000

[Any art connoisseurs want to do to this what Leo did to the teacher crap?] <http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8368> Young Geniuses and Old Masters: The Life Cycles of Great Artists from Masaccio to Jasper Johns David W. Galenson, Robert Jensen NBER Working Paper No. W8368 Issued in July 2001 There have been two very different life cycles for great artists: some have made their greatest contributions very early in their careers, whereas others have produced their best work late in their lives ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 6 15:05:00 PDT 2001

32220 discipline and punish (was: Christian love) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I have never seen any serious statistics on how youths 8 to 18 spend >their time, but my own guess is that they are as overworked in various >ways as are adults. Recess in schools was, I believe, long ago replaced >by "physical education." But charter schools, Liza Featherstone tells me, often give the kids neither recess nor phys ed - not cost-effective, you know - so the poor students just fidget all day, so overflowing they are with energy. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 6 13:38:21 PDT 2001