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34696 Congratulations on Doug's counterspin appearance -- rank: 1000

Trevor Desjarlais wrote: >Great appearance on CNC counterspin with Avi Lewis. Your opponents >were a bit tongue tied to say the least. Why thanks. Wasn't sure how I did, though it helped to have the host on my side. The E*Trade woman was pretty weak, and they could have gotten a much more wacko New Economy raver than Daniel Pink, for sure. Like Larry Kudlow, who was their second choice. It's extremely odd to sit in front of a camera in a small studio with only the woman behind the camera f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 24 09:11:21 PST 2000

34697 working class civil society (wasRe: Class Ceiling--Ehrenreich) -- rank: 1000

Barbara Ehrenreich writes well and very intelligently, has a class critique of bourgeois feminism (as well as a feminist critique of nonfeminism), and has enjoyed some degree of popular success. I'd say that makes her someone to be cherished, but I guess to some it's proof she's just not hardass enough. Ah well, to each his or her own. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 23 17:09:37 PST 2000

34698 Outlawing fascist speech -- rank: 1000

Curtiss Leung wrote: >Don't the right wingers, racists, and wingnuts over at >freerepublic.com scream that they're the targets of >hate speech? Not only that, their ilk has been the target of the state's weaponry. Ask Randy Weaver. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 23 16:07:26 PST 2000

34699 Summers on Meltzer -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Unfortunately, the EU has some free-trade stormtroopers in the >erstwhile "workerist" camp which runs South Africa's trade ministry: >the EU-SA free trade deal recently signed promises to have >devastating impacts on Southern African output as a whole, via an >SA-led Southern Africa Development Community trade zone now coming to >fruition. And a US-Africa free trade deal has been on the cards for a >couple of years, just awaiting approval from ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 23 15:44:18 PST 2000

34700 [Fwd: THE TEARS OF THE MIGHTY] -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: When fascistic racists make a speech at a rally or to any >audience , their purpose is to persuade the audience to act >according to what they are saying, n'est-ce pas ? Actually, don't most "fascistic racists" these days try to act respectable, and deny they're flaming bigots? Most of them want to separate the "races," not elminate the "inferior" ones. They've learned the langauge of multiculturalism very well. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 23 12:48:12 PST 2000

34701 China & the AFL-CIO -- rank: 1000

[This comes from a friend who wishes to remain anonymosu who's covered the AFL-CIO/China stuff. Persuades me.] Yes, absolutely I'm nervous about this, on three fronts. First, the Trumka/Patterson strategy on using 'working capital' to influence how funds invest their money has been very slow to get off the ground because of the AFL's top-heavy centralized management style, where everything is decided by Sweeney's central committee. Plus Patterson himself is one of these control freaks who can't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 23 12:45:10 PST 2000

34702 Outlawing Fascistic Racist Speech: Biblio-fetishism -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >I sure like the record of the USSR better than that of the USA. >Americans who think they are so free are so self-deluding. Let's not re-fight the either/or's of the Cold War. Nothing would be more tedious. >I own a copy of Mein Kampf. I quoted from it in Wall Street. I would >be very pissed off if someone tried to deny me the right to read it. > >___________ > >CB: Sorry. Your not being pissed off about owning a copy of _Mein >Kampf_ is not as i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 23 12:43:03 PST 2000

34703 drug dealing & pluck -- rank: 1000

[Back during the Reagan years I had a chat with a street-corner pot dealer who used all the entrepreneurial lingo that was getting fashionable at the time.] "Drug Dealing and Legitimate Self-Employment" BY: ROBERT W. FAIRLIE University of California at Santa Cruz Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University Joint Center for Policy Research, University of Chicago Paper ID: UCSC Department of Economics Working Paper No. 453 Date: November 1999 Contact: ROBERT W. FAIRLIE ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 23 11:36:55 PST 2000

34704 Outlawing Fascistic Racist Speech -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >However, that book on "the coming race war", I can't remember the >name right now, would probably be banned. Or republications of _Mein >Kampf_. or _The Birth of a Nation_ A limited number of copies might >be kept in a special secure library, like the Labadie Collection at >the University of Michigan or something, sort of like keeping copies >of the DNA sequences of the small pox virus, but destroying all the >existing viruses. I want fascist ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 23 11:19:16 PST 2000

34705 Marx and Woman (was Re: Gender & Free Speech) -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >Birth is the line that most of us intuitively draw, but it makes no >logical sense. Why should it matter which side of the cervix the >fetus/baby is on? The problem is that that seems like just a matter >of physical location. If it is a person outside the woman at 9.02, >why isn't it a person inside her at 8.58? But we're not talking about an infant seconds from birth - we're talking about the difference between a 2 or 3 month old fetus and a 9-month one ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 23 11:10:46 PST 2000

34706 rudy sez: you're nuts -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >I usually consider Newsday a snooze But don't overlook its often-excellent books section. A lot less of a snooze than the NYTBR, for example. The Sunday opinion pages, edited by Baffler contributor Chris Lehmann, are pretty good too. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 23 11:04:38 PST 2000

34707 Fwd: NYU Conference Schedule (April 7-8) -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 10:52:10 -0500 (EST) From: andrew ross <ar4 at is.nyu.edu> Labor's Next Century: New Alliances, Sweatshops and the Global South An international conference at New York University on the future of post-Seattle alliances, international organizing and the struggle for human rights April 7-8 at Judson Memorial Church, Washington Square South and Thompson Street Organized by the NYU Program in American Studies Co-sponsors: United Students against Sweatshops and the Worker ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 23 11:00:56 PST 2000

34708 Summers on Meltzer -- rank: 1000

[Larry "Africa is vastly underpolluted" Summers weighs in on the Meltzer report. I love the "anti-elitist" defense of the IMF. "Transparency" is the polite way of saying other countries should adopt U.S.-style financial and governance structures. Word is that Summers writes these things all by himself.] Financial Times - March 23, 2000 PERSONAL VIEW: THE TROUBLING ASPECTS OF IMF REFORM Allowing the institution to serve only an elite club of nations would be a mistak ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 23 10:58:25 PST 2000

34709 Fwd: 2000-03-22 Fact Sheet on Trafficking of Women and Children in South Asia -- rank: 1000

[speaking of Bangladeshi children] THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (Agra, India) ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release March 22, 2000 FACT SHEET Combating Trafficking In Women And Children in South Asia The Clinton Administration is leading key international efforts to stop the trafficking of women and children around the world. The State Department and the U.S. Agency for International De ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 23 10:48:22 PST 2000

34710 Alan's dilemma -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >The Bubblemeister's constant protestations of impotence are particularly >interesting: can't do anything about margin debt, can't do anything about >derivatives, can't do anything to control who the banks lend >to...Seems to be a >standard reaction in very powerful institutions l;d by very >incompetent people: >pretend you are powerless, and that way you won't be expected to act. Incompetence - or fear? Fear of what happens if/when the bubble bur ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 23 09:46:25 PST 2000