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36316 FW: Racial Blind Spot Continues to Afflict Greens -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >So what if Gore has impure motives , on this specific issue ? I was wondering, though, just how loud a noise Gore & Co. have made about the harassment of black voters. My impression is that he/they hasn't/haven't made much of one. I'm open to correction though. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 1 13:52:26 PST 2000

36317 FW: Racial Blind Spot Continues to Afflict Greens -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >So you thought the abuses suffered by white folks in places like Wisconsin >and Oregon were likely to be similar to those faced by blacks and latinos in >Florida. Fuck no. This is one of the things that make you such an excellent propagandist - you attribute ludicrous positions to people you're arguing with and then mount a high horse to denounce them. This will probably make you a very good lawyer too. The bit you quote from me was when we were talking about all t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 1 13:43:19 PST 2000

36318 FW: Racial Blind Spot Continues to Afflict Greens -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >We would like to see Al Gore >make black voter disenfranchisement an enduring issue >and fight for permanent remedies. But we know that's >not who he is. Where were Gore & Co. on this before the election? Have the Dems ever made a significant issue of this? I sure haven't heard a peep. After all, if your strategy is to court white southerners - and wasn't that a good deal of the DLC was all about? remember how Gore was supposed to sweep Super Tuesday in '88? ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 1 12:38:50 PST 2000

36319 Fwd: NEW DEM DAILY: Idea of the Week: Multilateral Promotion of Workers' Rights -- rank: 1000

================================== NEW DEMOCRATS ONLINE -- NEW DEM DAILY -- Pithy news and commentary from the DLC. ================================== [ http://www.ndol.org ] 01-DEC-2000 Idea of the Week: Multilateral Promotion of Workers' Rights This week the International Labor Organization (ILO) imposed unprecedented penalties on member-country Myanmar (formerly Burma) for a persistent and widespread pattern of abuse of workers. It's an important international development because it shows th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 1 11:36:46 PST 2000

36320 Amazon union effort -- rank: 1000

The horse's mouth: <http://www.washtech.org/day2/index.html>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 1 11:14:34 PST 2000

36321 Jesus on the recount -- rank: 1000

[Forget all those nasty rumors about Harris: she's really a god-fearing Christian!] Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 11:50:56 -0600 Subject: [afalert] Presidential Prayer 2000 To: "AFA Action Alert" <afalert at lyris.afo.net> From: AFA Action Alert <afalert at afa.net> AFA Action Alert American Family Association Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, President Tim Wildmon, Vice President Buddy Smith, Editor P.O. Drawer 2440 Tupelo, MS 38803 Phone (662) 844-5036 Fax (662) 842-7798 URL: http://www.afa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 1 10:58:17 PST 2000

36322 FW: Racial Blind Spot Continues to Afflict Greens -- rank: 1000

Oh yes. Has Gore or any prominent Dem said a word about the even more repulsive scandal - that so many ex-cons are disenfranchised? Several hundred thousand in Florida alone, right? Many of whom were put in jail by the drug war and the rest of the crime crackdown that Gore & Co. enthusiastically support. Not a peep about that, of course. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 1 10:51:59 PST 2000

36323 FW: Racial Blind Spot Continues to Afflict Greens -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: > Shame on Ralph. Shame on the Greens. True, absolutely true. But what have the Dems done about harassment of black voters lately? Is it part of the post-election lawsuits? Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 1 10:46:07 PST 2000

36324 Drug War & Conservatives (Re: Charlatans Left & Right -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Carroll, seriously, what gives you the arrogance to claim so much more >virtue and progressive commitment than someone like Maxine Waters? I am >sure you have done lots of good work in your life, but do you really think >you have done so much better work that you can libel Waters as a self-aware >and dedicated "servant of Imperialism"? There's no denying that there are fine people who are Democrats. My Congressman, Jerry Nadler, is a pretty good gu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 1 10:42:43 PST 2000

36325 Amazon.com speaks -- rank: 1000

Anyone written to feedback at amazon.com to protest their unionbusting stance? You get this canned letter in response: At 3:24 AM -0800 12/1/00, <feedback at amazon.com> wrote: >Dear Doug, > >Thank you for writing to Amazon.com. > >As you may be aware, there have been media reports that a union has >recently had discussions with some Amazon.com customer service >representatives regarding unionization in Seattle. > >Amazon.com recognizes that its employees have th ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 1 10:25:35 PST 2000

36326 Digest Viewer -- rank: 1000

Don't know if there are any comparable Windows products, but the update of this Mac program just came in on today's VersionTracker: >Digest Viewer 3.0b8 (Beta - 11/30/00) >tool to provide an easy way to read email list digests >http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=1219

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 1 09:29:40 PST 2000

36327 Marcos on Fox -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - December 1, 2000 Rebel Steals Mexican's Spotlight By Kevin Sullivan MEXICO CITY, Nov. 30 -- The Mexican guerrilla leader known as Subcommander Marcos has surfaced on the eve of President-elect Vicente Fox's inauguration, blasting outgoing President Ernesto Zedillo as a "nightmare" and threatening to provide Fox with the first major challenge of his presidency. In an open letter to Zedillo written from Marcos's hideout in "the mountains of southeast Mexico," ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 1 09:23:07 PST 2000

36328 Emulex -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >Well they caught the guy that did the fake press release which >caused the 60% decline in its stock price last week. The CBS >radio news report said that the prank "almost caused the company >to fail". Now I don't know what kind of shape that company is >in to begin with (I used to be a customer back in my VAX/VMS >days -- I didn't know they were still in business) but how would >the stock price tanking put them in real jepordy if they were > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 31 15:53:36 PDT 2000

36329 Reed on Nader -- rank: 1000

[An unedited draft of Adolph Reed's forthcoming column in The Progressive.] Here we are again. It's the quadrennial presidential charade. Every four years progressives, leftists or whatever we are - you know, the people who read the Progressive, the Nation, In These Times and such publications, who go to political forums and demonstrations, who advocate and work for social justice -- debate seriously, sometimes heatedly, among ourselves about which of the two major evils is really lesser. Of cou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 31 10:05:17 PDT 2000

36330 The word "ilk" and its abuses -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >Doesn't the wrong version become the right version if it is >embedded? "Specious" meant "plausible" in Hume's English, but it >acquired the meaning of " . . . but false: in ours. So Ilk means >"same" in Scotland but"kind" in America. --jks Says the American Heritage Dictionary, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98: >ilk (îlk) noun >Type or kind: can't trust people of that ilk. See synonyms at type. > >pronoun &g ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 31 09:24:22 PDT 2000