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35296 California: white minority -- rank: 1000

New York Times - July 4, 2000 Shift in the Mix Alters the Face of California By TODD S. PURDUM LOS ANGELES, June 30 -- At some unknown moment between now and July 1, 2001, if demographers are right, California will become the first big state in the nation in which non-Hispanic whites are officially no longer a majority. Or, to put it another way, California will become by far the largest proving ground for what it may eventually be like to live in a United States in which no one racial or ethnic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 4 08:34:00 PDT 2000

35297 NYC sublet -- rank: 1000

Interrupting the discourse for a commercial message: Room available in highly appealing East Village (NYC) apartment, at least month of August, possibly beyond. Rent, $750. Contact Heather Boushey, 212-674-3161 or hboushey at csi.com. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 4 08:23:48 PDT 2000

35298 Bacon on PAN -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 13:00:33 -0700 From: David Bacon <dbacon at igc.org> THE NEW INDIAN FACE OF INSURGENT POLITICS IN BAJA CALIFORNIA By David Bacon THE VALLEY OF SAN QUINTIN, BAJA CALIFORNIA (7/3/00) - If you think the National Action Party, which won Sunday's national presidential election in Mexico, represents political change, look no further than Baja California, where it has governed for ten years. Just eight months ago, 38-year old Celerino Garcia and his older brother were sittin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 3 13:37:39 PDT 2000

35299 Poddy, patriot -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 3, 2000 Patriotism and Its Enemies By Norman Podhoretz. The Fourth of July is hard upon us once again. But does this annual commemoration of the day in 1776 on which the Declaration of Independence was adopted still inspire the sentiment described by the Virginia Gazette on its first anniversary? "The face of joy was and gladness was universal," the paper reported. "Thus may the 4th of July, that glorious and ever memorable day, be celebrated through Ame ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 3 12:11:59 PDT 2000

35300 DP & innocents -- rank: 1000

[Excerpt from a letter from one Warren Tranquada, Westfield, NJ, in today's Wall Street Journal:] Death penalty opponents should stop defending the innocence of death row inmates and accept that most are guilty as charged. Those who tout the "innocent man" argument change the debate from one of morals to one of facts and set themselves up for articles that damage their credibility.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 3 12:15:48 PDT 2000

35301 Choctaws, tax rebels -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 3, 2000 Mississippi's Choctaw Indians Find An Unlikely Ally In a GOP Stalwart By JIM VANDEHEI Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL PHILADELPHIA, Miss. -- Jack Abramoff, a Washington lobbyist, and Phillip Martin, a Choctaw chief, roll along in the chief's Lincoln Town Car toward the fruits of their investment in conservative politics. Soon, a towering casino complex will rise over the forests that cover this swath of ancient Choctaw land. A 125-acre lake and recrea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 3 11:59:09 PDT 2000

35302 Mexico -- rank: 1000

Any thoughts on Fox's win in Mexico? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 3 11:57:15 PDT 2000

35303 Fwd: NYC Organizing for Republican Convention Demos. -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 12:22:44 -0500 From: Leslie Cagan <lesliecagan at igc.org> PLEASE SHARE THIS AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Organizing Meeting to Protest the Republicans at their National Convention!! Saturday, July 8 at 5pm at NYU Tisch Business School - located at 40 East 4th Street, Room UC-52 (in the basement) The United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is organizing this meeting and invites everyone intere ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 3 11:08:10 PDT 2000

35304 Socialism & Ecology in Japan-Look back to '47 -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Of course I support the broad outlines of U.S. occupation policy in >Japan. It appears to have worked damned well--unless you think >freedom of speech, regular elections, and material prosperity are >bad things. So a "liberal" order always rests on a founding coercion? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 3 11:06:57 PDT 2000

35305 Fw: Bill 602 -- rank: 1000

Paula Smalarz wrote: >Greetings LBO'sters. IS this for real? It's not for real. They don't number bills 602P, to start with. They're all S __ or HR ___. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 2 14:22:15 PDT 2000

35306 Conf Board on living standards -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Not flawed, exactly, but incomplete. It speaks to the distribution >of market income, and forgets that we do have a feeble and >anemic--but effective (even if in some ways less effective than it >used to be)--social insurance state. You mean the EITC? But, as the article went on to say, the poverty definition also excludes payroll (and sales) taxes. And as the article didn't say, the poverty line is an absolute rather than relative one, and so reports absurdly lo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 1 11:35:27 PDT 2000

35307 Conf Board on living standards -- rank: 1000

[better late than never...] Wall Street Journal - June 29, 2000 Despite Economic Boom, More Americans Are Likely to Fall Below the Poverty Line By JACOB M. SCHLESINGER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- The long economic boom has pushed unemployment to its lowest level in decades, but more jobs don't necessarily mean higher living standards. A new report shows that an American holding a full-time job in the late 1990s was still as likely to fall below the official poverty li ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 1 10:37:32 PDT 2000

35308 Questions for you Nader Fans -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >An individual of virtue would be preferred as the leader of >a movement, assuming she could do as good a job. But >we seldom have the luxury of choice in the matter. So Max, does this mean you're going to vote for Ralph? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 1 10:09:05 PDT 2000

35309 Questions for you Nader Fans -- rank: 1000

Tim Shorrock mentioned Nader's silence on foreign policy. He's come around on the sanctions issue, hasn't he? But here's a weird passage from his acceptance speech: > Much of our foreign policy is driven by unsatiable corporate >pressures to sell military hardware to both the Defense Department >and directly to foreign dictators. This happens even if it goes >against the interests of our country, taxpayers and the principle of >prudently allocated public budgets. Weapons manufact ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 1 10:08:17 PDT 2000

35310 Questions for you Nader Fans -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Well for one thing, there's his past enthusiasm for deregulation as a >panacea in trucking, airlines, etc., which didn't seem to show any >sensitivity to the union-busting dimension. Actually, about 10 years ago I read some of the original Nader's Raiders reports, Not that I trust my powers of memory any more, but as I recall they were quite explicit in treating the transportation unions as regulation-protected monopolists, who needed a good dose of competition. M ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 1 09:51:09 PDT 2000