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34231 Ralph in Harlem -- rank: 1000

<http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0045/ridgeway1.shtml> villagevoice.com exclusive Green Party Candidate Starts Northeast Swing in Harlem Nader Reaches Out to Sharpton and the Black Vote by James Ridgeway November 6-In a final campaign swing through the Northeast, Ralph Nader went to New York City this afternoon for a 3:30 rally at Al Sharpton's National Action Network headquarters in Harlem. Sharpton has been encouraging followers to hold their votes.Though he has reportedly endorsed Go ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 15:36:28 PST 2000

34232 petition vs Univ of Chicago union-busting seminar -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 14:02:56 -0600 (CST) From: Jamie Owen Daniel <jdaniel at uic.edu> dear mlg, gsc, radical caucus and w-c studies comrades: i hope you will consider signing on to this--sorry for the length of the explanation. folks have already pointed out that the petition i ask you to consider signing on to is somewhat wimpy--we'll be formulating a tougher version tomorrow and sending it along as soon as its finalized. i thought this might be esp. timely, given our common interest i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 15:27:35 PST 2000

34233 Gramsci says: vote Gore! -- rank: 1000

VOTING FOR PRESIDENT: BEYOND THE "LESSER OF TWO EVILS" DILEMMA 30 October 2000 John Brown Childs Professor, Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz, 95064 jbchilds at cats.ucsc.edu (Affiliation for identification only) Voting for Gore, the Democratic Party candidate,can make a difference, but in a way that is more complex in its possibilities than simply going for "the lesser of two evils." In suggesting this I am drawing on the work of Antonio Gramsci. Antonio Gramsci ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 15:17:39 PST 2000

34234 Sarah Jessica Parker pressed into service -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >But let me put in a plea for a system that would have Mary Jo Bane >playing a major role in setting up our social insurance system Remember David Himmelstein's anecdote about his conversation with Hillary on single payer? Himmelstein, a tireless and excellent promoter of a civilized national health insurance scheme, pointed out to Hillary that with 70% popular support and strong presidential leadership, they could pass a singe-payer plan. Hillary dismissed this, saying, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 15:21:18 PST 2000

34235 election demographics -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >My God! He's actually gonna do it! He's going to do to Gore what >Buchanan and Perot did to Bush the First in 1992! Bush pere:Reagan::Gore:Clinton - the weak, charmless heirs to political phenomena. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 14:52:52 PST 2000

34236 Fwd: FW: Vote 2000: Here are the winners -- rank: 1000

In case you don't want to wait till tomorrow night, you can look at the (almost) final predictions of two major polls which provide state-by-state breakdowns (both use innovative web methodology; don't confuse these with the junk web polls where anyone can participate): Knowledge Networks Tracking poll: http://jackman.stanford.edu/papers/writeup.pdf Harris Interactive: http://chooseorlose.excite.com/ The first provides a summary table for all 50 states plus DC, the second a clickable map which w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 14:48:07 PST 2000

34237 Katha v Yoshie -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >[Well, Doug, what's this subject line!] I was under the influence of all these judicial citations. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 14:05:18 PST 2000

34238 Sarah Jessica Parker pressed into service -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Why people like Doug have an inability just to concede the Gore has a good >position on abortion is beyond me. Why not just argue that there are other >reasons to vote Nader. 1) I have conceded that Gore's stated position on abortion is better than Bush's; I'm not of the "there's no difference" position. 2) I have also pointed out that this is a relatively recent development in Gore's political history. 3) I've argued that the Gore apologists have overemp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 13:17:27 PST 2000

34239 more from Katha -- rank: 1000

X-From_: kpollitt at thenation.com Mon Nov 6 15:10:01 2000 Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 15:07:19 +0000 From: Katha Pollitt <kpollitt at thenation.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: could you post? Hi Justin, actually I knew this, and had said this in a much ,longer version of the post I sent the list which I cut because it was too long. Casey was where the rot set in. But I think the dissenters in Carhart wanted to go a step further. they wanted to say: even if your he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 12:22:03 PST 2000

34240 Fwd: [Press]RALPH NADER ON THE LOSS OF DAVID BROWER -- rank: 1000

November 6, 2000 RALPH NADER ON THE LOSS OF DAVID BROWER AN ENVIRONMENTAL CHAMPION David Brower was the greatest environmentalist and conservationist of the 20th Century. He was an indefatigable champion of every worthwhile effort to protect the environment over the last seven decades. His death is a tremendous loss. The monuments to his work dot the landscape of the nation's environmental movement. He founded Friends of the Earth along with the League of Conservation Voters and initiated the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 12:19:52 PST 2000

34241 Katha v Yoshie -- rank: 1000

X-From_: kpollitt at thenation.com Mon Nov 6 14:47:14 2000 Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 14:47:19 +0000 From: Katha Pollitt <kpollitt at thenation.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: HI doug, Can you post/ Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > It is true that a health exception is not a trivial detail, for once > a health exception is allowed, it can be _very broadly_ interpreted, > so much so that the "ban" may come to naught. > > That said, election ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 12:09:34 PST 2000

34242 Sarah Jessica Parker pressed into service -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >That said, elections are only a minuscule part of politics, and we >need to win in the court of public opinions & (more importantly) >mobilizations; otherwise, _access_ to abortion _will_ continue to >erode, regardless of whoever will be in the White House. I wish >that the NARAL, etc. had challenged Nader & the Green Party & >extracted a promise that they _will_ mobilize manpower on this >issue, instead of trying to scare potential Nade ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 11:58:18 PST 2000

34243 anti-Ralph petition -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: > > ---------- >> From: Doug Henwood[SMTP:dhenwood at panix.com] >> Reply To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 12:51 PM >> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >> Subject: RE: anti-Ralph petition >> >> But the maintenance of the capitalist social relation (by the >> capitalists) is ultimately about profit maximization, no? Why else >> are capitalists interested in controlling the wo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 6 11:59:36 PST 2000

34244 election demographics -- rank: 1000

The rest of the demographic breakdown in the final pre-election poll is at <http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr001106b.asp>. Gore Bush Nader total 43 47 5 men 38 53 5 women 48 43 4 white 39 52 4 black 89 3 2 Hispanic 54 36 6 $75,000 and over ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 6 11:53:32 PST 2000

34245 U.S. concentration of wealth -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >A new Federal >Reserve Board study (Oct 25, 2000) of the growing >concentration of wealth in the United States is at ><http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/oss/oss2/method.html> >The top 1% now own 34% of total national wealth, up from >30% in 1992. The top 1% now own more than bottom 90%. >This study is the basis for an article in the November >6, 2000, American Prospect magazine, "A Better Kind of >Wealth Tax." New? The most recent ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 6 11:26:44 PST 2000