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36706 Klein on A16 -- rank: 1000

[via Sid Shniad] <shniad at sfu.ca> The Globe and Mail (Toronto) - April 19, 2000 VICTORY! The World Bank and the IMF were shaken to their very core By Naomi Klein I admit it: I slept in. I went to Washington, D.C., for the protests against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, but when my cellphone rang at some ungodly hour with word that the new plan was to meet at 4 a.m. Monday morning, I just couldn't do it. "Okay, meet you there," I mumbled, scribbling street i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 19 14:00:13 PDT 2000

36707 Castro Speech to South Summit -- rank: 1000

[via Michael Eisenscher] <meisenscher at igc.org> Castro's address to the South Summit Complete text of President Castro's speech at the opening session of the South Summit, April 12, 2000 Excellencies, Distinguished delegates and guests, Never before did mankind have such formidable scientific and technologic potential, such extraordinary capacity to produce riches and well-being but never before were disparity and inequity so profound in the world. Technological wonders that have been sh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 19 14:49:41 PDT 2000

36708 Fwd: U.S. MARKET ALERT: Nasdaq Posts Biggest Point Gain -- rank: 1000

U.S. MARKET NEWS from The Wall Street Journal at WSJ.com. April 18, 2000 Nasdaq Composite Tops Biggest point Gain as Techs Recover By David Runk Interactive Journal Stocks rallied Tuesday for a second-straight day, rebounding from last week's heavy losses as renewed demand for technology shares led the Nasdaq Composite Index to another record point gain. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 184.91 points, or 1.75%, to 10767.42, adding to Monday's 276.74-point rise as support was seen from ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 18 16:31:35 PDT 2000

36709 More police abuses -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >I saw Doug in the Black Bloc, charging a police brigade and shouting >"Down with efficient market theory!" Ha. I actually marched next to them for a bit, though I wasn't dressed in black. Followed them over to the GW campus where a bunch of them knocked over some police barricades. The cops just calmly put them back up; no gas or truncheons invovled. Some asshole fratboys at GW hung an "American capitalist and damn proud of it" sign from the front of ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 18 16:21:29 PDT 2000

36710 Help needed quick on garden variety "unfunded liabilities" -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >PS I hope Doug gets the list server working again. Hmm? What's the problem? No sign of problems from this end, but I was in DC for the last couple of days and am just catching up. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 18 14:49:41 PDT 2000

36711 Today's Stock Market Swoon -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I heard it mentioned a few other places >too. Though assertion is not the same >thing as demonstration, and the rational >is not always the real. > >uncharacteristically philosophic, >mbs > > >Yesterday's Wall Street Journal coverage agreed that cashing in to pay taxes >was a significant cause of Friday's swoon. For what it's worth, this is Jude Wanniski's explanation. But to Jude, taxes explain just about everything. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 18 14:50:28 PDT 2000

36712 WB on protests -- rank: 1000

[Just catching up... from the World Bank's daily clipping service] IMF, WORLD BANK CARRY ON MEETING EVEN WITH PROTESTS. The Washington Post (p.A07) reports that conferring in a third-floor room at the barricaded Fund headquarters on 19th Street on Sunday, the International Monetary and Finance Committee put the stamp of approval on steps the IMF contends will address many of the concerns of poverty that its critics raise. The committee also urged member countries and governments to speed up the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 18 14:26:15 PDT 2000

36713 Hundreds arrested -- rank: 1000

M A Jones wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky at epinet.org> > >>a surprisingly conciliatory >> column by Summers, > >Why surprising? Isn't he a big pal of Bradford deLong? Read the report of my impromptu interview with Larry Summers last Saturday night in the forthcoming LBO #94! Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 18 13:33:18 PDT 2000

36714 Interest and inflation -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >OT2H, the trigger was a report of accelerating >inflation, the very existence of which supports Enrique's oft-repeated >point that five quarter point hikes have had zero effect so far -- both >inflation and growth are as high or higher as they were when the Fed >started tightening. It's long been known that monetary policy takes a lot of time to work, even in the Old Days of the Old Economy. An economy with this much momentum will probably take quite a few m ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 18 13:29:18 PDT 2000

36715 Lagavulin was Re: Hundreds arrested -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Did Max turn a bet into some kind of Ponzi scheme? If so, he has only gone >up in my estimation. As for you, I'll sub you and I'll send you an old >slipper into the bargain. Mark Jones > > >I securitized the case of Lagavullin, got Henwood >to underwrite, and he sold bonds to frail pensioners. >We cleaned up. But I still haven't gotten my Lagavulin. And I've really developed a taste for the stuff, sipping it at $9 a shot at what's informally known ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 18 14:35:03 PDT 2000

36716 cops -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >"Max B. Sawicky" wrote: > >> . . . Protesters' Headquarters Raided, Shut Down >> >> Incredible. > >What's incredible about it? It seems quite ordinary to me -- >but I suppose it depends on one's assumptions about >capitalist democracy. Yeah, the DC cops acted just like special bodies of armed persons are supposed to act - they defended the property & procedures of the bourgeois state against popular disruption. And they did i ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 18 14:49:41 PDT 2000

36717 Fwd: RE: Powell's Books, Local 5 -- rank: 1000

[via Michael Eisenscher] Dear Community Supporters, The April 24th edition of The Nation magazine has a petition ad signed by over 250 Powell's workers calling for a fair, first contract for Powell's Books. The placement of this ad is in the middle of the cover article, called "Raising a Ruckus for Global Justice." Please take a look. Unfortunately, the ILWU phone number in the ad is wrong. Our number is 503-223-6057. Thank you again for all the emails & phone calls to Michael Powe ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 18 15:41:46 PDT 2000

36718 Fwd: [nyc-dan] Call DC now! to get arrestees released -- rank: 1000

To: NYC-DAN at topica.com From: EileenC349 at aol.com Subject: [nyc-dan] Call DC now! to get arrestees released Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:14:26 -0700 Reply-To: EileenC349 at aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Loop: 700004200 Sender: list-errors.700004200.0.701190078 at boing.topica.com Many, many arrestees are still in jail and having a bad time of it. Many of them have been held in very poor conditions without food and water and been denied access to lawyers. They need your pressure from the outside ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 18 16:16:40 PDT 2000

36719 my report from DC -- rank: 1000

David Jennings wrote: >Overall, my impression is that this movement is turning more >revolutionary, popular, and international, and less green-malthusian, >local-fetishistic, and reformist. Yes, seems that way to me too, and it brings a tear to my eye. The green-malthsuian, local-fetishistic, and reformist folks in the International Forum on Globalization still run the teach-ins though. Kevin Danaher's list of the "leaders" of the movement basically sounded like a run-down of ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 13:49:31 PDT 2000

36720 left doesn't meet right: WSJ -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - April 19, 2000 Left and Right Converge On Economic Globalization [by Gerald Seib] YOU'D THINK PAT Buchanan and the protesters in Washington's streets this week would feel some real bonds, given that they share a hatred for runaway economic globalization. You would be wrong. Consider Brendan O'Sullivan, who should be Pat Buchanan's kind of guy. He's deeply suspicious of big international financial organizations, leery of free-trade rhetoric and wary of trade deals with China ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 14:47:59 PDT 2000