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36196 Hot to Trot -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >What kind of speakers' platform? If it is a platform that implies agreement >on strategies, anyone has the right to refuse such a joint appearance. It was a predominantly union rally against the first Dinkins austerity budget, with 1199 in the lead. 1199 president Dennis Rivera has a pink past, but that's long gone. The basic message was tax the rich to preserve public services. Another distinguished quote around that rally: then-president of Teamsters local 237 Barr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 19 09:54:41 PST 2000

36197 Fwd: ICFTU OnLine: Asia (IV) -- rank: 1000

INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS (ICFTU) ICFTU OnLine... 281/191200/SG Asia's road to recovery leaves many on the wayside (IV) Throughout the world, new economic, political and social challenges are emerging for 2001 against a backdrop of constant and therefore unpredictable human change. This year, the ICFTU has again attempted to draft an overview of these questions with the help of a network of regional journalists. This prospective analysis is in four parts: Asia, Latin Ameri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 19 08:15:03 PST 2000

36198 Hot to Trot -- rank: 1000

Leo Casey wrote: >Furthermore, the day when labor solidarity depends >upon shutting down open debate over strategies, on >muffling criticisms and differences When Sandra Feldman refused to appear on a speakers' platform with "avowed Communists," was she violating this rule? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 19 08:12:59 PST 2000

36199 Argentina's $40b rescue -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] ARGENTINA UNVEILS $39.7 BILLION FINANCIAL RESCUE. Moving decisively to avert an economic meltdown that threatened to spill over into the rest of South America, the Argentine government announced today that it had put together a $39.7 billion financial rescue package that would give it the money to avoid defaulting on its loans and the time to restore confidence of foreign investors, reports the Washington Post (p. E1). The package was almost twice ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 19 07:30:38 PST 2000

36200 Gore: WWJD? -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] GOD AND GORE ON MSNBC [From the Media Research Center comes this transcript of a live Chris Matthews report at around 1:12 AM eastern time. Sally Quinn, incidentally, is the writer who told Larry King last year, "We were talking about - speaking for all women, if I may - Toni Morrison wrote in The New Yorker that Clinton was our first 'black President,' and I think, in a way, Clinton may be our first 'woman President.' And I think that may be one of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 19 07:13:58 PST 2000

36201 Fwd: {FP} WBAI Teach-In and Demo Update -- rank: 1000

From: Bob Lederer <ledererbob at usa.net> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:03:03 -0800 For on-air updates on the WBAI/Pacifica crisis, listen to "Wake Up Call" on WBAI, 99.5 FM, every weekday morning from 7:00 to 7:15 a.m. A teach-in on the air about the struggle will occur this Sat., December 23, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Remember: Station Manager Valerie van Isler has been terminated as of December 31. After that, only we, the grassroots community movements, can stop the Pacifica ju ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 18 09:27:29 PST 2000

36202 World Bank bond boycott -- rank: 1000

Please return signatures with name, title, and educational institution to <tnt at econjustice.net>. Open letter in support of the World Bank Bonds Boycott December 2000 We write today as members of the academic community in support of the World Bank Bonds Boycott. A worldwide movement has brought the World Bank under increasing scrutiny in recent years. As the head of the World Council of Churches explained in a June 1999 letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, "Their [IMF and Worl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 18 07:51:02 PST 2000

36203 selling out -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >What I am deeply suspicious of is the reverse of the activist fetish, namely >those who sit in airchairs and accuse activists of "selling out" when such >intellectuals' work by its nature is free of the compromises necessary to >most day-to-day activist work. Two responses to this. First, one of the dangers of activist work is that people don't think critically enough about the cumulative effects of all those day-to-day compromises, or even about what ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 18 07:01:54 PST 2000

36204 Hard work -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >I was in a weird mood when I responded to Doug and Yoshie over Oscar >Wilde. Doug was thanking god, whom of course he couldn't care less >about in terms of approval, and Yoshie was yukking it up about how >Doug reminded her of Wilde. A very flattering association, I've got to say, though I'm still a bit disturbed (and mystified) about the "backhanded" part of it. You're right about the god part; if there is a god, or gods, then I'd like his, her, or the ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 18 06:40:53 PST 2000

36205 Hard work -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >What's funny is you sure can tell who has worked for a >living and who hasn't, can't you? There are probably very few people on this list who don't work for a living - or did, and are now retired. Lots of us work very hard. The controversy is over whether intellectual labor is a lesser form of work, somehow less authentic, less useful, less moral. Manual work, especially the kind done by men, gets set up as "real" work, and everything else is done by spoiled ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 18 06:31:10 PST 2000

36206 scabs -- rank: 1000

The Stranger, the Seattle alternaweekly, published a list of scabs in that city's newspaper strike <http://www.thestranger.com/2000-12-07/other_news.html>. The union had asked them not to, saying it would look like they were going negative, but the Stranger did it anyway, denouncing the union a week later as a bunch of wimps (and their strike paper for sucking) <http://www.thestranger.com/2000-12-14/city.html>. What do folks think of this? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 17 20:08:14 PST 2000

36207 Legitimation Crisis Strong- Bush presidency judged as "not legitimate" by minorities, Dems. -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >This guy is probably >alot like Nathan and the other intellectual liberals on this list. He's >never been an activist. That certainly doesn't apply to Nathan, who's got plenty of activism to his credit. Whenever I hear this sort of thing, I think of the Heinrich Boll story in which a guy gets a job where his responsibility is to take phone calls and answer them by saying either "Action has been taken," "Action is being taken," or "Action will be t ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 17 09:31:23 PST 2000

36208 LBO a comedy free zone? -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >No offense was intended, period. > >Is humor becoming totally illegitimate to "the left" Not to this outpost, I hope. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 17 09:26:13 PST 2000

36209 Wall Street in China for Privatized Companies -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >See attached article on Wall Street's Excellent Adventure in China. Ah, excellent timing for the Chinese edition of my little book Wall Street, which has just appeared from Economic Sciences Press, Beijing. Apparently it's seen as a weapon - a modest one, for sure - against the marketizers by a hardy band of anti-marketizers. I've got about 10 copies of the Chinese edition, which I certainly can't read, so if anyone wants one, contact me offlist. Ditto the Korean edition ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 17 09:22:03 PST 2000

36210 O Happy Day -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >catherine and i and doug and yoshie and carrol have all had to >consider the varieties of definitions of work. Don't forget Oscar! >It is clear, then, that no Authoritarian Socialism will do. For >while under the present system a very large number of people can >lead lives of a certain amount of freedom and expression and >happiness, under an industrial barrack system, or a system of >economic tyranny, nobody would be able to have any such freedom at >all. ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 16 11:20:32 PST 2000