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35206 Fwd: NYC-wide organizing meeting for RNC MON. 17 -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:35:09 -0400 From: hadas thier <hadas17 at hotmail.com> Subject: NYC-wide organizing meeting for RNC MON. 17 ***PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY**** On July 8th a coalition was formed in order to mobilize forces to protest against the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. At our first coalition meeting over 40 people showed up, representing many different organizations including United Students Against Sweatshops, UNITE, Direct Action Network, Refuse and Resist, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 13 16:50:17 PDT 2000

35207 The heart of a leftist/Last time -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Justin. Wonderful joke. Justin - <JKSCHW at aol.com> - signed off, saying he could no longer have a rational discussion with his interlocutors. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 13 08:21:55 PDT 2000

35208 Stiglitz -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Some real loopity loop anti-communism here. Stiglitz, an >anti-communist ,wants to have his cake and eat it too. Communism is >dead, the Bolsheviks long gone. Oh , except the failures of one of >the ultimate institutions of capitalism , the IMF, can't be >criticized as capitalism. Capitalism must be portrayed as good no >matter what. Lets pin it on Bolshevism ! .Stiglitz of Bullshitism. 10 or more years ago, Boris Kagarlitsky used the phrase "m ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 13 11:00:20 PDT 2000

35209 GOP House Rejects Debt Relief for Poor Nations -- rank: 1000

[posted from unsub'd address] From: Soren <Soren at afgj.org> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:27:52 -0400 Nathan and others similarly tempted to get all in a lather when a group of Democratic members of Congress put out a press release would probably do well to institute a policy of counting to ten and checking the facts. I would think that the fact that Larry Summers is speaking in support of this would be sufficient to raise even the most naive LBO'ers' antennae. Apparently not. I was at the ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 13 12:10:59 PDT 2000

35210 IMF to Fed: raise rates -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - July 13, 2000 IMF urges Fed to raise rates By Gerard Baker in Washington The US Federal Reserve needs to raise interest rates further to slow the economy and ensure that inflation remains under control, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday. The fund's economists, in the conclusion of their annual consultation exercise with the US authorities, said the central bank had not done enough to slow the rapid pace of demand growth. They warned that a delay in raising inter ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 13 08:59:55 PDT 2000

35211 R2K stuff -- rank: 1000

[R2K info in Acrobat form at <http://www.columbia.edu/~eo48/broadsheet.pdf> Convergence at Republican Nat'l Convention Philadelphia July 29 to Aug. 4: TICKETS NYC-PHILLY: 212/854-9046 jks95 at columbia.edu (CSSN) Mon. July 24 - 30 Convergence starts Sat. July 29 - Universal Health Care March Sun. July 30 - Unity 2,000 March; Million Billionaire March Mon. July 31 - March for Economic Human Rights Tu. Aug. 1 - Direct Action - Criminal In-Justice System Wed. Aug. 2 - Direct Action messing w ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 13 08:53:48 PDT 2000

35212 PR snoops -- rank: 1000

USINESSWEEK ONLINE: DAILY BRIEFING - July 7, 2000 PRIVACY MATTERS BY MARCIA STEPANEK Now, Companies Can Track Down Their Cyber-Critics A new service allows corporate spinmeisters to retaliate against outspoken citizens with "reeducation" efforts -- or worse Marcia Stepanek is BW's Technology Strategies editor. She closely follows online privacy issues Beware the public relations person with a modem. Now corporate spinmeisters, too, can go online to track customers -- especially the dis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 13 08:27:59 PDT 2000

35213 Anticommunism Web Site (re: anticommunism -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >hmmm. is this along the lines of the thatcher quote: society >doesn't exist? sorry for way over quota but this is bugging crap >outta me. probably b/c i have a deadline. Not Maggie's quote: "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then to look after our neighbour." (Ma ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 16:10:51 PDT 2000

35214 Anticommunism Web Site (re: anticommunism -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >JESUS. did you read this bit of absolutely positively nothing? check it out: > > >"If you have ever wondered why the Left (including American >Liberals) are slow to condemn Communism's atrocities, it is because >they share a fundamental belief in human nature and the role of >institutions in shaping human attitudes and behaviors. " > >i'm sorry, but i don't believe this says anything does it? what >exactly are these beliefs and institutio ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 15:40:52 PDT 2000

35215 Anticommunism Web Site (re: anticommunism -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >See http://www.anticommunism.org/ Wow. Geraldo Rivera's a Commie. I had no idea. Does Jack Welch know? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 14:35:50 PDT 2000

35216 NYC protest against GWB -- rank: 1000

Protest serial killer George W. Bush!!!! Friday, July 14th, 11:30am at the Sheraton New York Hotel, 7th Ave at 52nd St. The conservative party is hosting a "victory luncheon" for Bush and Rick Lazio. What's the "victory"? Getting away with killing an innocent man, Shaka Sankofa? Let Bush know that this was not a victory, but in fact the costliest mistake he's ever made. We will continue expose him as the murderer he is. Please come out to protest Bush. He is anti-choice, oppo ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 13:23:45 PDT 2000

35217 Naomi Klein: "The Vision Thing" -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Actually, isn't capital becoming more centralized ? Ownership is; production isn't. > Monopolies are centralization , and today the monopolies are >transnational rather than national. Pretty soon there will be one , >big company running the whole world, the ultimate centralization. No, that will never happen. Which is why it's wrong to use the word "monopolies" to describe very big companies. GM, Ford, and Toyota are all very big, but they compete ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 10:24:30 PDT 2000

35218 Lessig: patent laws vs. innovation -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - July 12, 2000 Europe's 'me-too' patent law: Copying US legislation on intellectual property rights threatens to inhibit software innovation, warns Lawrence Lessig The Americanisation of European patent law continues apace, with Germany's Supreme Court moving closer to the US practice of granting patents for software. This autumn, the European parliament will consider a proposal to extend the rule to the European Union as a whole. If the measure is approved, software in Europe, ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 10:03:24 PDT 2000

35219 Fwd: NEW SE: Lies Across the South -- rank: 1000

From: "Chris Kromm" <chris at southernexposure.org> Subject: NEW SE: Lies Across the South Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:32:49 -0400 Dear Friend, The Spring/Summer 2000 issue of Southern Exposure -- "LIES ACROSS THE SOUTH: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong" -- has just hit the stands, with an eye-opening investigation from best-selling author James Loewen about the half-truths, sins of omission, and outright lies that skew our public history. Every day, we encounter monumen ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 10:12:20 PDT 2000

35220 Fwd: [fc.network] FC Sporadic for Wednesday, July 12, 2000 -- rank: 1000

The FC Network - http://www.fuckedcompany.com Hey, I don't know why I think this is so funny: http://www.fuckedcompany.com/dorks.html So today is a big day -- 5 new inductees into the FC hall-of-fame (which you will actually be able to see one of these days...) and a bunch more teetering on the edge of destruction. Let me know if you want to advertise on the site or in this newsletter: pud at fuckedcompany.com And without further ado, here are some of today's featured fucks: Porn good, credit ca ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 07:15:40 PDT 2000