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34261 words -- rank: 1000

Maureen Therese Anderson wrote: > >Can anyone name this author? > >That would be Saskia Sassen. Bingo. It's from the paper she's giving to the panel I'm on at the anthro meeting in SF in two weeks. >Still, my impression is that Sassen is on your page, Doug. Dunno if I'd say that, but gawd what prose! As far as I can tell, the 25 pages I read after posting that early paragraph boil down to: "Global? National? Local? Kinda hard to tell. But there's some heavy shit going down h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 5 12:41:09 PST 2000

34262 What Do Unions Get for Helping Dems? -- rank: 1000

Newsday - November 2, 2000 What Do Unions Get for Helping Dems? By Robert Fitch. Robert Fitch, an adjunct professor at LaGuardia College, is author of "The Assassination of New York." He is working on a book about unions. 'EVERY FOUR years," complained one of the two main candidates excluded from the presidential debates, "both of these parties are going to get worse, more corporatized, more homogenized." Ralph Nader's assessment is hard to dispute. What's happened to Am ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 5 12:35:15 PST 2000

34263 words -- rank: 1000

Can anyone name this author? And can anyone tells me if this passage means anything? Doug ---- >The multiple processes that constitute economic globalization >inhabit and shape specific structurations of the economic, the >political, the cultural, the subjective. In so doing, new >spatialities and temporalities are produced. These new spatialities >and temporalities of the global do not stand outside the national. >They are partly inserted in the national and hence evince compl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 4 16:43:09 PST 2000

34264 Heroic Myths of Defeat? -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >I just want to avoid more defeat -- and if that >means taking a rather meager victory, sign me up. > >Leo Casey >United Federation of Teachers >260 Park Avenue South >New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869) > >Power concedes nothing without a demand. >It never has, and it never will. >If there is no struggle, there is no progress. >Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who >want crops withou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 4 13:55:35 PST 2000

34265 Fwd: Vanishing Voter Weekly Update -- November 4, 2000 (fwd) -- rank: 1000

Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 14:09:40 -0500 From: Vanishing Voter <vanishingvoter at ksg.harvard.edu> To: vanishingvoter at ksg.harvard.edu Subject: Vanishing Voter Weekly Update -- November 4, 2000 AMERICANS WHO SAY THEY WILL VOTE ON TUESDAY SHARE MANY OF THE SAME ATTITUDES AS LIKELY NON-VOTERS November 4, 2000 from the Vanishing Voter Project http://www.vanishingvoter.org =============================== Americans are so thoroughly disenchanted with electoral politics that the lines separating ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 4 12:28:14 PST 2000

34266 Gore spoke at anti-gay school too -- rank: 1000

National Review, November 3, 2000 215 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10016 (E-Mail: letters at nationalreview.com ) ( http://www.nationalreview.com ) http://www.nationalreview.com/nr_comment/nr_comment110300c.shtml Gore's Own Bob Jones The press misses Gore hypocrisy; gay group dismisses. By Kathryn Jean Lopez, NR associate editor, lopezk at ix.netcom.com On Friday morning, Gov. George W. Bush spoke to a crowd of some 20,000 at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a school th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 4 12:13:46 PST 2000

34267 youth vote & Nader -- rank: 1000

<http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/2000/11/03/index.html> WHO'S SUPPORTING NADER: It's Not Just Liberals Could Nader Supporters Defect to Bush's Campaign? Micah Sifry <mailto:msifry at publicampaign.org> is the author of a forthcoming book on third parties. It will be published next year by Routledge. A vote taken away from Ralph Nader is not necessarily a vote for Al Gore. Liberal Democrats who have turned their disappointment at Al Gore's trailing showing in the polls into fury at Ra ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 4 12:06:04 PST 2000

34268 Why I Decided Not To Vote For Nader In A 'Safe' State, And How LBO-Talk Helped -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Or praise him. Leo's doing a fantastic job of moving nearly >_everyone_ at _every_ point of the LBO political spectrum _to the >left_. Thank you Leo. We're going to be presenting you with the Order of Lenin medal - or the Order of Kropotkin, take your choice - any day now. Sandra and Randi would be proud of your political work! Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 4 11:35:58 PST 2000

34269 Open Letter to Women, by Barbara Ehrenreich -- rank: 1000

[Evidently Barbara Ehrenreich didn't check with Leo Casey first, so she doesn't realize she's acting like an unruly adolescent male.] Press Release November 3, 2000 CONTACT: Jake Lewis or Stacy Malkan, (202) 265-4000 IN OPEN LETTER TO WOMEN, LEADING FEMINIST SUPPORTS NADER Clinton-Gore leveled blow to women by ending welfare Dear sisters, As the election grows closer, I am increasingly dismayed by the nasty rhetoric deployed by some feminists against Ralph Nader and his supporters, of whom I am ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 3 15:50:28 PST 2000

34270 (no subject) -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >If there is an old piece of smelly shit around >the American left today, it is partaking in the male adolescent joys of >"kicking butt" by running through the streets with black flags and masks, >busting Starbucks' windows, and proclaiming that you have invented some new >form of revolutionary politics Two questions, Leo: 1) why can't women play this game too, and 2) what does this lurid scenario have to do with a sobersides like Nader? Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 3 15:47:01 PST 2000

34271 a view of Kosovo -- rank: 1000

The eXile's Mark Ames reports from Kosovo <http://www.exile.ru/ames/ames102.html>: >The province is filthy, ugly, completely polluted by NATO ordinance, >run by half-wits and thugs, soaked in blood and doomed to be the >permanent asshole of Europe, a stain on the Balkans. > >I can't wait to get the fuck out. > >It's incredible to me that so much blood and so much bile could be >spilled over such a pile of shit that passes for a province. But >Europeans are like t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 3 14:52:39 PST 2000

34272 voting preferences by car make -- rank: 1000

One of the silliest surveys of all time: <http://www.kbb.com/kb/ki.dll/kw.kc.sp?kbb&&215&survey_vote_results>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 3 12:42:53 PST 2000

34273 Why I Decided Not To Vote <...> -- rank: 1000

snit wrote: >christ, purple text for your sig? in humongo 18 pt font too? let's >try using ascii plain text FOR ALL OF IT. k? go into your AOL >preferences to fix this. if you want someone to read you, you're >going to have to present your text in readable form--this ain't it. >some people can't even read it be/c it comes out all gobbledygook on >their unix machines. Are you sure you want Leo's mail to be readable? That 6-point Times makes the delete button irresistible! D ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 3 11:42:10 PST 2000

34274 iToke -- rank: 1000

Need weed? <http://www.itoke.co.uk>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 3 11:40:36 PST 2000

34275 Nader: Unsafe At Any Speed (2) -- rank: 1000

...and if they're this long, please just supply a URL and a lead. It's annoying to have to pay for the transmission of crap. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 3 09:37:38 PST 2000