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32266 Empire: Hardt responds -- rank: 1000

John Gulick wrote: >every little tiny "subversive" gesture >(shoplifting, sick-ins, jaywalking, grafitti, etc.) is imbued with >revolutionary consciousness Potential revolutionary consciousness, don't you think? Isn't the job of the disciplined professional autonomist revolutionary to make these sentiments and practices conscious, link them up with each other, and just give a big collective Fuck You to capital, instead lots of little, essentially harmless ones? Of course, H&am ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 30 16:38:55 PST 2001

32267 Who Is a Seminole, and Who Gets to Decide? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >A classic case of Divide & Rule. Yoshie Who's doing the dividing, and who's doing the ruling? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 30 15:35:39 PST 2001

32268 delinking -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Time to "de-link" through a movement to refuse the socialization of >losses? :) And write "Non serviam" on your VISA bill. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 30 14:48:40 PST 2001

32269 demons did Gore in -- rank: 1000

Paging through the Jan 30 ish of the Weekly World News, with its irresistible cover story on the second great depression (coming this March to an economy near you!), I learned that "a renegade priest says Al Gore blew the presidential election because he's possessed by a host of demons." The priest, Aristotle Gavalis of Providence, who was defrocked for performing unauthorized exorcisms, says that psychiatrists who pronounced the former VP to be suffering from multiple personality diso ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 30 14:43:26 PST 2001

32270 media/labor -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The UAW monthly >magazine is actually not too bad Really? You mean Solidarity? Aside from the financial statements, with their mysterious $1 billion in assets, I find it mainly a snooze. Maybe I'm spoiled by Vanity Fair. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 30 14:34:33 PST 2001

32271 Union Democracy [was: former Teamster "boss" Carey indicted] -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Group hug :) Or at least group target practice on the corporate elite :) Yes, let's be constructive. As the man said, for some people, four walls are three too many. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 30 14:25:57 PST 2001

32272 media/labor -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >You mean, "leave it to the private sector?" Sometimes I wonder how far >you've gotten from the Party of the Right. I meant me and some of my friends. Can't you tell a self-serving joke when you see one? >In any case, union publications suck not by virtue of being union >publications but because they reflect the bland (possibly bought-off) >conformity of the leadership. Well of course. Which is why I said "A conservative undemocratic culture produc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 30 13:26:45 PST 2001

32273 delinking -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >By `socialize the utility losses' do you mean a bail out through state bonds, >rate hikes, and taxes to share the pain (costs) below and save the neoliberal >sky above--a string out of state producers, holding companies, and unregulated >energy speculators? Yup, exactly. Losses are socialized, profits are privatized. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 30 13:04:40 PST 2001

32274 Union Democracy [was: former Teamster "boss" Carey indicted] -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >BTW, Nathan and Doug, I don't think you generally get to choose who ends up >in a foxhole with you. So get ready to hug. True. I'd be happy to shoot someone who was trying to harm Nathan, too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 30 12:09:31 PST 2001

32275 churches & the poor -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010130.asp> GALLUP NEWS SERVICE January 30, 2001 Though Very Religious, Americans Have Said Government is Responsible for the Poor Nonetheless, Americans have significantly more confidence in organized religion than in federal government by Wendy W. Simmons PRINCETON, NJ -- The Bush administration announced on Monday that it plans to create a federal office -- the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives -- that will be charged with ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 30 10:08:58 PST 2001

32276 media/labor -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >All this is an argument that the unions need to develop their own sources >of information, pundits, media outlets etc. just as they did at the >beginning of the century. > >They have the money to do it, that they have not is an indication that >they have internalized the attitude of their class enemies that labor >doesn't merit inclusion in the national debate. Ever read any union publications? God, do they suck. A conservative undemocratic culture produce ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 30 10:05:18 PST 2001

32277 creative anti-immigrant legislation -- rank: 1000

[free-market.net, via Declan McCullagh] Sleeping on the couch would be a crime ---------- A bill that would let Fairfax County, Virginia, prohibit its residents from sleeping in rooms other than a bedroom has won approval in the state senate. The measure is intended as a weapon against immigrants who save money by sharing homes. (01/29/01) http://www.dallasnews.com/national/273958_bedroom_29nat..html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 30 09:33:10 PST 2001

32278 financiers -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: > > Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:11:34 -0500 >> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >> >Do I hear the distinction between 'bad' speculative capitalists and 'good' >> >productive capitalists? >> Leave it to an industrialist to try to make it. > >Ah, you tease. But with a purpose. Leave it to an industrialist to try to disguise the essentially money-grubbing nature of his superficially virtuous pursuits! ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 30 09:05:31 PST 2001

32279 Empire: Hardt responds -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Doug the Cynic Cynicism, to quote Horkheimer, is the worst kind of conformity. I don't think I'm a cynic. If I thought the Democrats were the best we could do in U.S. politics, that the AFL-CIO shouldn't be criticized, that there was some hope to "reform" the IMF - that would be cynical. I'm trying to figure out how to get out of this box we're in. If I were a cynic, I'd have applied for a job at Goldman Sachs long ago. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 30 09:10:55 PST 2001

32280 former Teamster "boss" Carey indicted -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > > >Justin Schwartz wrote: >>Doug, please. The old Teamsters were run by the mob. So are the >>Laborers. Carey's Teamsters were not, except in locals where the old >>guard was entrenchedl. He _did_ break the law, but it wasn't very >>awful as these things go--it didn't touch what Milken did, for >>example, whom you have been defending--and ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 30 08:45:40 PST 2001