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35746 brand bombing -- rank: 1000

alex lantsberg wrote: >To understand how branding drives the global market, you couldn't ask for a >better guide than Toronto writer Naomi Klein. >No Logo: Taking Aim At The Brand Bullies (Knopf Canada, $35.95), is a weighty >tome, almost 500 pages of facts, charts and passionate argument. >Klein, 29, admits she didn't understand branding herself when she started the >book four years ago. Soon to be on my radio show...either this week or the next. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 28 18:06:52 PST 2000

35747 Gore on Diallo -- rank: 1000

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Vice President ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release February 25, 2000 STATEMENT BY THE VICE PRESIDENT The shooting of Amadou Diallo, an innocent man, stunned New York City and the nation. I join in urging calm in the wake of the verdict. Following the shooting, the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department opened an investigation and the facts will now be reviewed to de ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 28 18:03:42 PST 2000

35748 Global Exchange and Window Breaking -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >From what I've heard, the mom-and-pop shops were spared property >destruction. One coffeeshop stayed open the whole time and gave out free >coffee and water to demonstrators. The same goes for a mom-and-pop >grocery which sold tons of camera supplies. Yeah, I didn't see any m&p shop windows broken at all. Just the brand names. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 28 17:54:12 PST 2000

35749 For Richer *and* Poorer (was Re: Liberal Democracy) -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >For the AFL-CIO to >demand universal labor standards, while at the same time pledging to lower >other countries' trade barriers, is social imperialism. How exactly have they done this? Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 28 17:50:54 PST 2000

35750 Kinko's Anarchists (was Re: IMF/WB and the WTO ruling) -- rank: 1000

W. Kiernan wrote: >Yeah but when you walk up to them in their black shirts in the store (at >least they're too cool to run away when they see you coming, like the >guys in the red shirts at CompUSA do) and ask for service, say to look >up a particular book on that computer thingy and see if it's in stock, >first they don't change facial expression, not a bit, and second and >most important they pause for just an instant before they turn to the >keyboard or cash register or w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 28 17:46:11 PST 2000

35751 German & French unions on finance -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] GERMAN, JAPANESE TRADE UNIONS PROPOSE WORLD FINANCE REFORMS. The German and the Japanese trade union confederations on Friday launched a joint initiative for reform of world financial markets and structures, particularly criticizing the IMF, AFP reports. "Reform of the IMF and a reorientation of its policies are of top priority," the trade unions-known as the DGB and the Rengo-said. They called for greater democratic control and accounta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 28 17:42:23 PST 2000

35752 list protocols -- rank: 1000

A listmember writes... >can you periodically encourage contributors to 1) eliminate all parts of >replies that they are not directly engaging, and 2) check the subject >line to make sure it corresponds with what they want to talk about? >This would make life simpler for those of us who engage this list >through the digest. Not just digest subscribers, but list moderators would appreciate that too. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 28 17:22:49 PST 2000

35753 China WTO-PNTR -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >The Foo >Long Goong show The what? Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 28 05:52:00 PST 2000

35754 Fwd: Democratic National Convention-August 2000 -- rank: 1000

From: sekler at labridge.com (Joan Sekler) ate: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:03:23 -0800 Hello to all mediamakers and media activists in print, radio, video, and internet publishing around the US and the globe: A new ad-hoc coalition of many community based organizations, activist groups, alternative parties, etc. is being created in Los Angeles to organize the various demonstrations, protests, press conferences, street theatre, etc. which will take place during the Democratic National Convention, Mon Au ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 28 05:39:50 PST 2000

35755 IMF/WB overhaul; US tax breaks violate trade rules; post-N30 middle class anarchists -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I was talking to him this morning, since I brought him out for the >"Rebellious Lawyering" conference here at Yale to talk about the whole >anti-corporate agenda. And we privately happened to discuss all the left >attacks on Medea. I think he justifiably thinks the critics are a bunch of >macho, sexist sectarians who choose to trust the New York Times and libel a >committed left activist because it makes them feel so superior. It was sad to see ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 28 05:36:26 PST 2000

35756 NYC WB/IMF event Friday -- rank: 1000

>3/3 IMF/World Bank Teach-In > Judson Memorial Church > 55 Washington Square South, > between Thompson and Sullivan. > Speakers include: Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director > of UNIFEM; Doug Henwood, Editor of the Left Buisness > Observer, Andrew Kliman, Prof. of Economics at Pace > University; Njoki Njoroge Njehu, Director of 50 Years > is Enough, Soren Ambrose, Alliance for Global Justice, > and others. > For more information, contact Students For Solidarity > ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 28 05:30:25 PST 2000

35757 question -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >Of course, I know it's election time in the >US and all, so claims to representation are par for the course for those >with an interest in a certain outcome; but Ken Sherrill's response left me >asking who did he mean by "we". No doubt people with credentials - professor, author - who are called for quotes by journalists, who lobby elected officials, and who serve as expert witnesses in trials (all of which Ken does). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 28 05:20:24 PST 2000

35758 Garden State revolutionaries -- rank: 1000

To: NYC DAN <NYC-DAN at topica.com> From: Christopher Whalen <clw12xu at earthlink.net> Subject: [NYC-DAN] www.heckle.net Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 20:41:44 -0800 Reply-To: clw12xu at earthlink.net MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Loop: 700004200 Sender: list-errors.700004200.0.701190078 at boing.topica.com I'd just like to formally announce the launching of www.heckle.net, a new website temporally devoted to the M30,31 and A1 World Bank/IMF events in NJ. The effectiveness of this site is dependent ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 27 21:36:37 PST 2000

35759 IMF/WB overhaul; US tax breaks violate trade rules; post-N30 middle class anarchists -- rank: 1000

John Gulick wrote: >My harsh remark about Global Exchange is based on 1) Medea Benjamin's >controversial comments in the NYT in which she suggested the cops should >have been cracking skulls of (OK, arresting) property-destroying anarchists >in Seattle (while I don't think vandalizing and looting Starbuck's >was terribly >politically constructive, Medea's remarks were inexcusable, trying to >build up the credentials of the "responsible left" by slagging a few >r ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 27 21:30:59 PST 2000

35760 capitalism explained -- rank: 1000

Also from the International Political Economy list, another market fundamentalist, Mark Frost, explains the beauties of capitalism: >Capitalism, is an institutional arrangement wherby winners and losers are >placed in juxtaposition, and in the macro sense, provide paraeto "signaling" >to individuals regarding risk vs safety optimality decisions. Those who >choose well prosper, those who choose poorly, suffer the indignation of >poverty. Thus it is a "carrot and st ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 27 21:07:05 PST 2000