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35881 more sweatshop actions -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] STUDENT PROTESTS EXPLODE WISCONSIN BADGER HERALD: On Feb. 3, 1999, a group of UW-Madison students began a 96-hour sit-in in Bascom Hall to protest the manufacturing of UW apparel in sweatshops. Just over one year later, the protest continued as a group of over 70 students stormed Chancellor David Ward's office Wednesday and began a second sit-in for the same cause. A rally endorsed by several student groups was held on Library Mall at 2:30 p.m. The rally qui ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 07:56:51 PST 2000

35882 bonds -- rank: 1000

[Didn't forward this & the next yesterday bec Rakesh had already had his daily 3.] Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:11:02 -0500 (EST) From: Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: NYT/WSJ on bonds today Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10002171407070.17235-100000 at yuma.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Seth has pointed out to me privately that it seems contradictory that I take both deficits (Japa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 07:34:47 PST 2000

35883 class struggle -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:20:47 -0500 (EST) From: Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: class struggle In-Reply-To: <002301bf7973$d6158e00$6396aec7 at chrisgroup> Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10002171414080.17235-100000 at yuma.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Christian wrote: > Sure, but the debt/GDP measure doesn't say anything about Japan's ability to > pay its debts. ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 18 07:35:20 PST 2000

35884 life in Rudytown -- rank: 1000

X-From_: ARTISTpres at aol.com Thu Feb 17 15:12:13 2000 From: ARTISTpres at aol.com Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:04:26 EST Subject: Giuliani Orders Artist Arrested For the 41st Time MIME-Version: 1.0 To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Giuliani Orders Artist Arrested For the 41st Time by Robert Lederman 2/17/2000 I just got home from a 24 hour stay in the dungeon-like Manhattan Criminal Courts' Central Booking, popularly known as The Tombs. My crime? Selling postcard versions of my portraits of Mayor Gi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 17 12:45:51 PST 2000

35885 Sweeney Defends Gore Endorsement -- rank: 1000

Dace wrote: >The "blue-green" alliance is a wonderful thing. But just as importantly, we >need a North-South alliance. Sweeney stands with Clinton and Gore, not with >the primary victims of global capital. Sweeney isn't identical with organized labor, and even the organization he heads is doing a lot more to solidarize (gag, what an awful word) with unions in the South. Any generalization about U.S. labor, other than that it's full of contradictions and internal conflict, se ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 12:41:47 PST 2000

35886 class struggle -- rank: 1000

Christian A. Gregory wrote: >What needs explanation is the inability of fiscal spending--even such as it >is--to stimulate demand. One problem may be what they spend money on - pointless infrastructure projects, bridges to nowhere, etc. Japan is woefully under-housed, isn't it? Why don't they subsidize better housing? Anyone know? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 10:49:05 PST 2000

35887 "New Class"? Weber Redux! (was Re: whatever [something about objectivity]) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The concept of the 'New Class' is obscurantist; it has more to do with >Weber than Marx, and it helps to perpetuate the empiricist denial of the >primary contradiction of capitalism: capital versus labor. Most people >whom social scientists classify as 'New Class' are simply white-collar >workers. Many empirical and subjective divisions & hierarchical relations >exist within the working class, but they have to be analyzed as >contradictions _wi ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 10:31:01 PST 2000

35888 UNDP -- rank: 1000

John Gulick wrote: >This is probably neither here nor there, but for quite some time >the UNDP's line has been "ecologically sustainable"/"socially equitable" >development, where enlightened servants in the multilateral agencies >broker beautiful "win-win" alliances among regional development banks, >transnational investors, local capitalists, and hand-picked delegates >from so-called "civil society." You know the score -- the contradicti ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 10:28:14 PST 2000

35889 Nairn on Indo -- rank: 1000

[Seth posted the whole of this, but it bounced because it's too long (47k, vs. 35k limit). Anyone who wants the rest, Seth's address is in the header.] From: Seth Ackerman <SAckerman at FAIR.org> To: "'lbo-talk at lists.panix.com'" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: RE: Chomsky speaks Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:21:15 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bi ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 09:35:55 PST 2000

35890 Robinson -- rank: 1000

[Didn't she say elsewhere that a rising real wage was one of the things that proved Marx wrong?] Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:15:43 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: bhandari at mmp.princeton.edu Message-Id: <v02130502630bf0f15b88@[128.112.71.24]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-mailer: Eudora Pro 2.1.3 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: bhandari at mmp.Princeton.EDU (Rakesh Bhandari) Subject: Joan Robinson >Wasn't her wording more like, "Under capita ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 09:20:48 PST 2000

35891 banana republic without bananas -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] the eXile Welcome to the Banana Republic By Boris Kagarlitsky (This article was originally published in Novaya Gazeta.) Why have American leaders fallen in love with Putin? Instead of the planned forty minutes, Madeline Albright chatted with him for three hours and left completely charmed. In fact, Ms. Albright was so charmed that she managed to forget to bring up the issue of the missing journalist Andrei Babitsky with our leaders during the conversation, even thoug ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 08:53:52 PST 2000

35892 eXile press contest -- rank: 1000

[From Johnson's Russia List. There's about 30k more; this is only the lead. Anyone who wants the rest, email me offlist.] From: Matt Taibbi <exile.taibbi at matrix.ru> Subject: march madness continued Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 the eXile March Madness Continues! Press Review By Matt Taibbi Welcome back, sports fans! In case you missed the gala kickoff last issue, the eXile is holding its first annual March Madness Worst Journalist Contest. We bracketed 32 of the city's leading hacks into pairs ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 08:47:32 PST 2000

35893 class struggle -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:29:05 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: bhandari at mmp.princeton.edu Message-Id: <v02130500630bdf8b4519@[128.112.71.41]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-mailer: Eudora Pro 2.1.3 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: bhandari at mmp.princeton.edu (Rakesh Bhandari) Subject: Re: the class struggle First to Roger, I am sorry for not replying yet to your imp. arguments. Christian writes: >Yeah, yeah, yeah. Keynesianism is dead. Long l ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 08:39:44 PST 2000

35894 class struggle -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:29:47 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: bhandari at mmp.princeton.edu Message-Id: <v02130501630be21fe038@[128.112.71.41]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-mailer: Eudora Pro 2.1.3 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: bhandari at mmp.princeton.edu (Rakesh Bhandari) Subject: Re: the class struggle In that sense, there could >be a kind of perverse rightness to Krugman's suggestion to start the >printing presses--although the owner ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 08:40:22 PST 2000

35895 Wallerstein: Camdessus the radical -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Steve Sherman for pointing this out.] <http://fbc.binghamton.edu/34-!en.htm> Comment No. 34, Feb. 15, 2000 "The Head of the IMF: A Secret Radical?" Sometimes, when important persons take leave of their public life, they feel the need to make a bow to historical truth and seek to be remembered for more virtuous analysis than they normally had made earlier. This was the case when the last military man to be a president of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower, gave his fa ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 08:13:41 PST 2000