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32926 Herman on Hitchens -- rank: 1000

Ed Herman wrote: >>(Louis Proyect's note to you deals with this quite well). Wow. Doug

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32927 stocks not overvalued in 1929! -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >But, he has some decidedly heterodox views on the 1930s Depression. >Basically, he takes the "neoclassical" view that it was, more or less, a >decade-long outbreak of collective laziness on the part of the working >class, and has pretty much said as much in this paper: > >http://research.mpls.frb.fed.us/research/qr/qr2312.pdf > >y'see it's all the fault of the government, which did something, we know >not what, which removed the incentiv ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 4 11:16:36 PST 2001

32928 West Coast Chinese Restaurant Workers, Unions -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Perhaps someone on this list could inform me on this >matter. Have there been any succesful attempts in >recent history to unionize Chinese restaurant workers >on the West Coast...particularly here in the San >Francisco Bay Area? I don't know anything about the West Coast, but you might want to compare notes with the folks at the Chinese Staff & Workers Association in NYC <http://www.cswa.org>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 4 10:42:54 PST 2001

32929 Blum on rebuilding Afghanistan -- rank: 1000

Mina Kumar wrote: >I'm in the awkward position of also doing some work for you, and I >know dangerous it is for someone waiting for paymet to be truthful >about these things. Hell, not only do I pay people who insult me, I even pay for a forum in which people insult me. Dimissiveness takes many forms. Your responses to people on this list have often been made in the tone of someone too impatient to explain to the irredeemably dull or blinkered. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 4 10:39:39 PST 2001

32930 D2 report -- rank: 1000

[the NYT's resident libertarian reports] New York Times - December 4, 2001 THE BIG CITY Better Leave the Marching to Marxists By JOHN TIERNEY A NEWS release last week announced that a group of New Yorkers would be marching up Fifth Avenue on Sunday to celebrate the first Capitalism Day, part of a global rally in more than 100 cities. In the wake of Sept. 11, the organizers explained, "we need to defend the values and economic systems that have produced untold wealth for the Western world an ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 4 09:28:51 PST 2001

32931 Fw: Why I'm leaving the NY Coalition for Peace and Justice -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >A pretty good summary of why the NYC Coalition against the war has lost most >of the mass participation is started with. A lot of folks said- hey, we >started small in Vietnam and look how big we are starting now! But the >reality is that, like during the Gulf War, the mobilizations started >moderate sized and shrank. > >That has been the pattern of antiwar organizing-- appeal to the converted to >get a big initial turnout and then see the movement ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 4 09:26:46 PST 2001

32932 Dash of realism -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Congressman Ron Paul, House of Representatives, November 29, 2001 Anyone want to start a Leftists for Ron Paul PAC? We could overlook his prolife Christian fundamentalism. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 4 07:35:58 PST 2001

32933 the view from SC -- rank: 1000

New York Times - December 4, 2001 Conservative City Draws a Line, Too By PETER T. KILBORN EAUFORT, S.C., Dec. 3 - In this conservative waterside town, people go along with letting President Bush relax some constitutional freedoms in a period of terrorist threats. But just about everyone draws a line somewhere, and most often it involves investigators' eavesdropping on suspects talking to their lawyers. Calling in young Middle Eastern men for interviews, "I'm all for," said Dee Hryharro ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 4 07:20:51 PST 2001

32934 AFL-CIO membership drive -- rank: 1000

[maybe it'll work this time!] Tuesday December 4 7:41 AM ET AFL-CIO Asked to Increase Membership By LEIGH STROPE, AP Labor Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) - The AFL-CIO's 66 member unions are being asked to increase their membership by 10 percent and to devote at least 30 percent of their budgets to organizing to help boost organized labor's numbers. The resolutions that will be voted on this week by nearly 1,000 delegates at the AFL-CIO's biennial convention here come as union membership has declined or ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 4 07:02:06 PST 2001

32935 Blum on rebuilding Afghanistan -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Mina's point seems about as unobjectionable as a statement that most >children under 16 attend school. Years ago, I had a conversation with a Dominican woman who was a student at Harvard Law School. Her tales of how racist and patronizing her fellow students were shocked me, and changed the way I saw the world. Most white folks, like me, have no direct experience of what that's like. To a white observer, day-to-day racial tensions in NYC are much less severe than they we ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 4 06:25:40 PST 2001

32936 breaking news: stocks were undervalued in 1929! -- rank: 1000

<http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8622> The Stock Market Crash of 1929: Irving Fisher Was Right! Ellen R. McGrattan, Edward C. Prescott NBER Working Paper No. W8622 Issued in December 2001 In the fall of 1929, the market value of all shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange fell by 30 percent. Many analysts then and now take the view that stocks were then overvalued and the stock market was in need of a correction. Irving Fisher argued that the fundamentals were strong and the stock mark ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 4 06:19:01 PST 2001

32937 NYC pro-Palestinian demo -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 20:27:05 -0500 From: Bilal El-Amine <belamine at digitas.com> Al-Awda/ The Palestine Right to Return Coaltion of New York City will hold an Emergency Demonstration Tuesday, December 4 @ 5:00 P. M. At the Israeli Consulate 42ND STREET AND 2ND AVENUE *Speak out against Israel's war on Palestine *Speak out against Israeli occupation of Palestine For updates www.electronicintifada.org Israel steps up air strikes (Filed: 03/12/2001) ISRAELI jets attacked the West Bank tow ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 3 17:53:36 PST 2001

32938 Sweeney hits Bush for waging war on workers -- rank: 1000

[What's gotten into him? Class war, or bluster?] Monday December 3 8:32 PM ET AFL-CIO Chief Says Bush Waging War on Workers By Peter Szekely LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - AFL-CIO President John Sweeney urged union leaders on Monday to ``take the offensive in a war here at home'' against the president, congressional Republicans and corporations who he accused of waging a war on workers. Walking a fine line between support for President Bush (news - web sites)'s response to the Sept. 11 attacks and condem ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 3 17:49:09 PST 2001

32939 Israel & Hamas -- rank: 1000

My pal Joel Schalit, an Israeli-American student of nationalism who's also one of the editors of both Bad Subjects and Punk Planet, said this about Israel & Hamas a couple of weeks ago: >However, there is a very strong consensus amongst progressive Israeli >journalists and historians that this is the case. > >In Righteous Victims, historian Benny Morris (Ben Gurion University in Beer >Sheba) explains that up through the late eighties, the Israeli military and >government al ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 3 14:01:10 PST 2001

32940 omigod -- rank: 1000

Awful news... At 12:55 PM -0500 12/3/01, Yahoo! Alerts - Breaking News wrote: >JERUSALEM _ Prime Minister Sharon declares ``war on terror,'' blames >Arafat for terrorism.

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Date:	Mon Dec 3 09:58:45 PST 2001