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33166 Fwd: New Journal: Deal with it! -- rank: 1000

[Never saw a copy - just passing along.] DEAL WITH IT DEAL WITH IT is a journal currently put out by anti-sexist, anarchist men in support of the struggle to end sexist oppression, deconstruct gender, overthrow patriarchy, and achieve total liberation. As men, we have had to face the fact that we are sexist, having been socialized into sexist society. If we are serious about struggling for total liberation, we must begin the process of understanding how sexism and male domination have affected a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 6 19:08:29 PDT 2001

33167 Fw: [IMF-WB-Protest-Announce] AFL-CIO announces call to action for fall mobilization -- rank: 1000

Mark Rickling wrote: > > AFL-CIO Announces Call to Action for Fall Mobilization >> > > http://www.globalizethis.org/s30/feature.cfm?ID=32 >> >> http://www.aflcio.org/globaleconomy/global_justice.htm Hmm - in addition to the standard calls to oppose Fast Track & the FTAA, there's also this: >Support for the call to unconditionally cancel the debts owed by the >poorest countries to the IMF and the World Bank, using the >institutions' own resources. Gla ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 6 16:04:12 PDT 2001

33168 Zionism vs. Black Nationalism -- rank: 1000

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? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 6 14:59:22 PDT 2001

33169 Zionism vs. Black Nationalism -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Is Doug proposing that the _legal_category of race be rejected ? >But why would he propose this to Black or other racially oppressed >groups ? Black people do not have the power to obliterate or reject >the _legal_category. Black people don't have the power to change the >law, do they ? I'm not proposing it to anyone specifically - I'm proposing it to everyone. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 6 12:08:14 PDT 2001

33170 first ladies -- rank: 1000

[from Chris Caldwell's column in the August 1-7 New York Press] The Bitch Is Back That does not mean I'm losing patience with polls. I was having dinner two weeks ago with a French journalist who, apropos of a Franco-American couple we know whose marriage is exploding, made a midway-through-the-Calvados pontification: "AhŠ," he sighed. "No one should ever marry a French man or an American woman." I signed off on part one, disagreed on part two. If I'd read the revealing poll ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 6 11:34:05 PDT 2001

33171 Fwd: Re: protectionism -- rank: 1000

[Rakesh asked me to forward this.] Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 11:14:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: protectionism From: "Mr. Rakesh Narpat Bhandari" <rakeshb at stanford.edu> It bothers me that the discussion about Farrakhan seems focused on whether he poses a threat to jews and whites, not on the real danger he has always posed to black women (remember a black woman's guide to black men--see Angela Davis), the black poor (his blaming of the victim is indistinguishable from Gingrich's, pl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 6 11:25:12 PDT 2001

33172 Why Boomers suck, or, commodify your self-loathing -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >This could be due to the notion common among young people that the >Gov. is a badly run $1.8 trillion corporation that co-ordinates the >transfer of wealth for rich folks and their corporations while >treating the rest of us like 12 year olds and, well, proletarians. And this is a view uncommon among boomers? > Now >the boomers are worried about social security--go figure- It seems more salient as an issue as you approach 50 than when you're merely approachi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 6 10:48:30 PDT 2001

33173 quotable -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 12:02:55 -0400 . . . The Democrats can argue -- and do -- that the tax cut has put the government back in a fiscal bind that threatens all manner of worthy undertakings, from adding a drug benefit to Medicare to building up the defense budget to increasing aid to education. But that turns out to be a greater constraint on them than on the president. They favor a generous drug benefit; Mr. Bush favors ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 6 10:42:38 PDT 2001

33174 Australia vs. California -- rank: 1000

[speaking of Australia...] <http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8408> Australian Growth: A California Perspective Ian W. McLean, Alan M. Taylor NBER Working Paper No. W8408 Issued in August 2001 ---- Abstract ----- Examination of special cases assists understanding of the mechanics of long-run economic growth more generally. Australia and California are two economies having the rare distinction of achieving 150 years of sustained high and rising living standards for rapidly expanding population ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 6 10:39:33 PDT 2001

33175 Why Boomers suck, or, commodify your self-loathing -- rank: 1000

David Hearne wrote: >Here's a bit of self-criticism which probably won't become trendy >among baby-boomers. It's provided by William Finnegan in his book >"Cold New World" -- > >"But for those of us who grew up during the long postwar boom, it is >easy to forget just how large a role government programs played in the >spread of mass prosperity -- starting with the New Deal and including, >crucially Social Security, the Federal Housing Administration's home ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 6 08:05:49 PDT 2001

33176 Zionism vs. Black Nationalism -- rank: 1000

Art McGee wrote: >"We" is African descendents, idiot. Hip-Hop didn't just >start yesterday you stupid fuck, so stop being disingenous >and pointing to your contemporary observations. Just what is this level of hostility meant to accomplish? > > From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >> >XIII. We will struggle to build multicultural solidarity and >> >alliances among all people of color. > >What the fuck does this have to do with the p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 6 07:12:16 PDT 2001

33177 Zionism vs. Black Nationalism -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >Art is doing what Tom Wolfe, in an immortal essay of that title, >called "Mau-Mauing the Flak-catchers," Justin, quoting Tom Wolfe is scary. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 6 07:00:10 PDT 2001

33178 WSJ on Genoa -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - August 6, 2001 G-8 Protesters Say They Were Beaten, Deprived of Rights by Police in Italy By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV and IAN JOHNSON Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Just before midnight on July 21, Miriam Heigl, a political-science student from Munich, was figuring out a way to get home after three days protesting the Group of Eight summit in the Italian city of Genoa. As she scanned train schedules posted in the Armando Diaz school complex, some 70 members of an Itali ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 6 06:28:47 PDT 2001

33179 RES: RES: RES: Goldman Sachs: scrap the strong dollar policy -- rank: 1000

Alexandre Fenelon wrote: >-Ahhhh!!! I didnīt understand well the net debt. In Brazil we probably >donīt have too much debt owed to us. I will try to find this data, but >I would estimate our net debt in 35% at least. During the 80s it was said that thanks to capital flight, a lot of big LatAm debtor countries were actually creditors, if you factored in all the secret foreign holdings by the local rich. Dunno if that's still true, but it seems like a possibility. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 5 08:06:27 PDT 2001

33180 Oz & oppression -- rank: 1000

Joanna Sheldon wrote: >Doug... > >> >if you overlook the Aborigines and the folks in the immigrant >>>detention centers. > >What a joke. Why should we overlook these folks?! You shouldn't overlook them. It was a joke, a serious joke. For an American leftist in the habit of thinking this place the most brutal and racist on earth, it was quite enlightening to hear tales of Australian history - and contemporary tales of Australian treatment of immigrants and refugees ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 5 08:01:36 PDT 2001