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33151 AFL-CIO: enemy of caribou -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> >Nathan Newman wrote: >>Hey, union density fell by 23% in the Reagan years - but a mere 16% >>during the Clinton era! > >Which considering the massive job increases in the last decade is actually >relatively impressive. Unions were actually organizing - unlike in much of >the previous decade - but jobs were growing faster than unions could >organize them. > >I remember at th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 7 15:11:37 PDT 2001

33152 AFL-CIO: enemy of caribou -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> > > >>Yes, but they also gave pretty good support to local and state public >>employees unions fighting privatization. . . . > >-How? The only thing I know of was blocking >-then Gov Bush from privatizing Medicaid & >-Food Stamps. Not a small thing, but was there >-anything else? > >Along that lines, Clinton officials refused to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 7 14:17:48 PDT 2001

33153 Zionism vs. Black Nationalism -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: This is the issue discussed earlier on this thread. The thing is >to undo the racist _social relations_. The categories are not the >main thing. Undoing the categories is misplaced emphasis. In fact, >it may be that the categories must be retained and repeated in order >to most effectively undo the actual social relations. > > >(((((((((( > > >Capitalism isn't natural - it's a social construction. Money isn't >natural - it too is a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 7 13:22:02 PDT 2001

33154 Zionism vs. Black Nationalism -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Well if you insist it was Doug. That's >why Art blew a gasket. Or at least it >was a contributing factor. > >I can identify w/Doug's sentiment, but I >have to say it is unrealistic. Maybe >'idealist' is the right term, for all >you dialecticians. Nothing idealist about it. "Race" is produced through social practices and perpetuated through them, and also through ideology, language, symbols. Those are pretty tenacious things - they're how w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 7 12:55:17 PDT 2001

33155 Pay -As-You-Write-E-Mail? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >My bet is it's a hoax. > >max > > >Does anyone know anything about it? > >wojtek > >>> > >> VOTE NO ON Bill 602P!!!! An ancient hoax. One of the oldest I think, going back almost as far as the "modem tax." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 7 12:49:23 PDT 2001

33156 eco-optimism -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >The first thing >that comes to mind is that, unlike other leftish concerns, >environmentalism is cool with upper- and middle-class people, >so the bourgeois practice of constantly lying about everything >may have come into play. Though I wouldn't go all the way with him, I think James Heartfield (and his former comrades in LM) have a point when they argue that environmentalism appeals to an upper class contempt for the workers, and fits nicely with financiers' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 7 12:47:41 PDT 2001

33157 Fwd: New Journal: Deal with it! -- rank: 1000

Alec Ramsdell wrote: >kelley wrote: > >> At 09:56 PM 8/6/01 -0700, Alec Ramsdell wrote: >> >Is this supposed to be ironic? It is utterly >> cynical. >> > >> >Alec >> >> i saw wimmin and i lost my lunch and didn't read any >> more. carrol's rubbing >> off on me. > >Yeah, even if it is a spoof, one wonders why it was >done. Why do you think it's a spoof? There are really people who talk like that, no? Even peopl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 7 12:19:07 PDT 2001

33158 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4706 -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: > > >so the whole thing about praxis is b.s. eh? >> >> Everything is self-evident. What must be done is clear. The >> imperatives glisten on the horizon; all we must do is march towards >> them. >> >> Doug >============== >Can't we dance and fuck our way there? It might be a little more fun >or have I neglected the joys of marching? No, this is a deadly serious business. There will be much blood and destruction along th ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 7 12:12:16 PDT 2001

33159 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4706 -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >At 01:21 PM 8/7/01 -0500, Carrol Cox wrote: > >>Fuss over communication seems to be derivative from fuss over >>epistemology -- and epistemology is pretty clearly a pseudo-science. >> >>Carrol > > >so the whole thing about praxis is b.s. eh? Everything is self-evident. What must be done is clear. The imperatives glisten on the horizon; all we must do is march towards them. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 7 11:44:19 PDT 2001

33160 Zionism vs. Black Nationalism -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: > >>> dhenwood at panix.com 08/06/01 05:59PM >>> >Charles Brown wrote: > >>CB: I agree with Max on this and that some seem to use "socially >>constituted" as if it means "easily disconstituted" > >I don't know anyone who does. Do you? > >(((((((((( > >CB: Yes, many posts I have read have this implication. No, I think you provided that interpretation. It means possible to de- or re-constitute, but ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 7 11:30:55 PDT 2001

33161 AFL-CIO: enemy of caribou -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >We have to recognize that supporting enviro measures that >destroy jobs and provide a "just transition" is asking to >get kicked in the teeth. Drilling in Alaska is about new jobs, not destroying old ones. And just because transitional assistance has sucked in the past doesn't mean that fighting for the real thing isn't a good idea. Protect the worker not the job, I say. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 7 10:14:11 PDT 2001

33162 AFL-CIO: enemy of caribou -- rank: 1000

AFL-CIO Takes Big Leap Backwards Abandons Environmental Allies to Line Up With Big Oil, Car Companies-and Bush By Bill Onasch <http://www.kclabor.org/aflenergy.htm> I've been around the block a time or two and am not easily stunned. But I have to admit to a gut reaction of shock and despair when I heard the news that the AFL-CIO gave indispensable assistance to saving Bush's energy bill in the House. They performed this service by pressuring Democrats to vote against amendments that would ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 7 09:12:42 PDT 2001

33163 Why Boomers suck, or, commodify your self-loathing -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >Who's Mike Males? Males writes lots of articles & books, most of which are devoted to rightly denouncing the war on youth and the demonization of their bad habits. Unfortunately, though, he's also denounced overspending on the elderly, as if every dollar spent on geezers is taken from the kids. Claims like "the Feds spend $7 on seniors for every $1 they spend on kids and youth" feed right into the generational warfare paradigm. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 7 07:03:23 PDT 2001

33164 Brazil, Big Pharma, and the WTO -- rank: 1000

[this may be the longest abstract in history] "Brazil, Pharmaceutical Industry and WTO" BY: DAYA SHANKER University of Wollongong Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=272208 Contact: DAYA SHANKER Email: Mailto:ds20 at uow.edu.au Postal: University of Wollongong Northfields Avenue Wollongong 2522, New South Wales AUSTRALIA ABSTRACT: This article is an in depth analysis of Brazil-USA dispute and has concluded t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 7 06:58:02 PDT 2001

33165 eco-optimism -- rank: 1000

[this one's going out to the recently returned James Heartfield - and this from a left-wing vegetarian!] New York Times - August 7, 2001 Bjorn Lomborg: A Chipper Environmentalist By NICHOLAS WADE The news from environmental organizations is almost always bleak. The climate is out of whack. Insidious chemicals taint food and drink. Tropical forests are disappearing. Species are perishing en masse. Industrial poisons pollute air, earth and water. Ecosystems are being stressed to the breaking point ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 7 06:32:54 PDT 2001