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32221 NEA -- rank: 1000
[this is from Ken Sherrill, a professor of poli sci at Hunter] This comes to me by a person well-positioned to know exactly what transpired at the NEA meetings. I must protect the person's anonymity but I will vouch for the reputability of the source. Ken -----Original Message----- - - - - - The National Education Association is holding its 80th annual Representative Assembly in Los Angeles this week. The 2.6-million member NEA has a number of issues to deal with, but one of them is gay and les ...
Document Size: 7852
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jul 6 13:14:55 PDT 2001
32222 DLC's Progressive Policy Institute supported by Bradley Foundation -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >Again, from the Media Transparency site, found out that the DLC's >Progressive Policy Institute think tank got financing from the Bradley >Foundation, which has given $125,000 in recent years, with indications that >Bradley and Olin Foundations gave a total of $300,000 to PPI over its >history. That sure is interesting. Publicly, the DLC/PPI distances itself from the rights; their daily bulletins are pretty critical of W's right-wing policies and appointments ...
Document Size: 5521
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jul 6 12:46:08 PDT 2001
32223 Charlie & Fred on globo -- rank: 1000
<http://www.theglobalist.com/nor/readlips/2001/01-30-01.shtml>
Document Size: 4534
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jul 6 12:06:52 PDT 2001
32224 Fwd: NEW DEM DAILY: A New Economy Labor Movement -- rank: 1000
[Today's bulletin from the Satan-worshippers at the DLC. I didn't know SDUSA was still around - didn't they go the way of the USSR? Anyone know anything about all this?] ================================== NEW DEMOCRATS ONLINE -- NEW DEM DAILY -- Pithy news and commentary from the DLC. ================================== [ http://www.ndol.org ] 06-JUL-2001 Idea of the Week: A New Economy Labor Movement It's no big secret that the two most dynamic elements in the Democratic Party, the New Democrat ...
Document Size: 11332
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jul 6 11:02:42 PDT 2001
32225 Fwd: Imm: Say No to Guest Workers -- rank: 1000
[Max mentioned Michael Lind. This was circualted today by the anti-immigrant folks Negative Population Growth. The next post will be WSJ editorial page editor Robert Bartley's call for opening the border.] Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 12:19:00 -0400 (EDT) From: npg at npg.org Commentary: Say no to guest-workers Michael Lind United Press International July 6, 2001 With the election of Mexico's president Vicente Fox, a dynamic and charismatic reformer, a new era in U.S.-Mexican relations has begun. To re ...
Document Size: 14269
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jul 6 09:44:14 PDT 2001
32226 Bartley: open the border! -- rank: 1000
Wall Street Journal - July 2, 2001 Thinking Things Over Open Nafta Borders? Why Not? By ROBERT L. BARTLEY Reformist Mexican President Vincente Fox raises eyebrows with his suggestion that over a decade or two Nafta should evolve into something like the European Union, with open borders for not only goods and investment but also people. He can rest assured that there is one voice north of the Rio Grande that supports his vision. To wit, this newspaper. We annually celebrate the Fourth of July wit ...
Document Size: 11460
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jul 6 09:44:45 PDT 2001
32227 Christian love -- rank: 1000
Kelley Walker wrote: >but, in this case, to claim that what happened in this incident can >be chalked up to the s-m tendencies of christianity just doesn't >stand up to scrutiny. Let's see. The central myth of Christianity is that god took human form, and in that human form was tortured, crucified, and buried, and he resurrected several days later. Through suffering there is redemption, forgiveness, rebirth. If there's nothing sadomasochistic about that, then I'm Marie Queen of Romania. ...
Document Size: 4836
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jul 6 09:39:06 PDT 2001
32228 Christian love -- rank: 1000
Kelley Walker wrote: >that's not what was said. what was said that it wasn't surprising >that X happened and that's because christianity is sado-masochistic. >that's making one big grand stereotyping explanatory statment that >has little evidence to support the assertion. > >i call that bigoted thinking. worse, it's bigoted because it >authorized itself by appeal to a discourse that is supposed to be >taken seriously because it calls itself scholarship. So there's no cons ...
Document Size: 5023
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jul 6 08:41:10 PDT 2001
32229 Christian love -- rank: 1000
Michael Pollak wrote: >Nope, it's a creed, as in "no discrimination on the basis of race, color >or creed." You've never heard of anti-religious bigotry? Not hiring someone because s/he's a Christian would be discrimination; saying that Christianity is a crock isn't bigotry. Doug
Document Size: 4610
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jul 6 07:52:06 PDT 2001
32230 Christian love -- rank: 1000
Chip Berlet wrote: >Your bigotry could be cured with a little reading. Chip, you can criticize Christianity as an ideology, an institution, or a set of social practices without being a bigot. Yeah, the Berrigans are groovy, but it and lots of other religions have a lot to answer for. Doug
Document Size: 4596
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jul 6 07:48:46 PDT 2001
32231 Fwd: (50 Years) IMF fines Ghana $39 million -- rank: 1000
From: soren at igc.org Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 04:19:31 -0400 To: stop-wb-imf at 50years.org Here's a good indication of where the IMF's priorities lie. A few days after disbursing $46 million in new loans to Ghana, it fines the country $39 million for providing misleading financial information. Now, we're all for accurate information disclosure (an area in which the IMF's track record is quite limited), but is the most appropriate punishment for failure on this score to take away 85% of the mon ...
Document Size: 8255
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jul 6 07:40:20 PDT 2001
32232 whites deny racism; others disagree -- rank: 1000
<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010706.asp> July 6, 2001 Blacks and Whites Differ About Treatment of Blacks in America Today Two-thirds of whites say they are satisfied with the way blacks are treated, while only 39% of blacks agree by Lydia Saad and Frank Newport GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- With the theme "Speaking Truth to Power," the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) plans to use its upcoming annual convention, being held in New ...
Document Size: 7341
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jul 6 07:36:30 PDT 2001
32233 "American Nationalism," was Re: Fascism & Monopoly Capitalism -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >These suggestions fall under one of the many legitimate usages of the >word "ideology." I was using it in another sense however -- in the sense >of the more or less spontaneous common sense understanding of reality >(appearances). The Constitution, and even more the Federalist Papers, >are apt to be cited by relatively sophisticated, or at least >self-conscious, efforts to define "What America Means" explicitly. You're probably right about ...
Document Size: 7571
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jul 6 07:05:19 PDT 2001
32234 "American Nationalism," was Re: Fascism & Monopoly Capitalism -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >Just what constitutes the core of "America" ideologically (in the >ideology of American patriotism)? The Constitution, of course. Doug
Document Size: 5048
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jul 5 15:36:40 PDT 2001
32235 Caldwell on Slobo -- rank: 1000
[from Chris Caldwell's column in NY Press - first part of the column is a longish meditation on David Brock - too long to post, but worth checking out <http://www.nypress.com/14/27/news&columns/beans.cfm>] Serb over Ice As American diplomats pat themselves on the back for having tightened the screws enough to bring Slobodan Milosevic before the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague, it may be worth asking why it is that the European powers (except Britain) are more muted in th ...
Document Size: 9937
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jul 5 11:09:18 PDT 2001
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