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37006 Fw: anti-racist group quits campaigns against "free trade" -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >De Fabel is a radical-left organization working from grassroots level. We >strife for a socialist and feminist society. Strife indeed. See, Martin, everything worthwhile is at least a little divisive! Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 21 11:00:25 PDT 1999

37007 weeding out criminals -- rank: 1000

Martin Schiller wrote: >b. The issue has been a divisive issue. No group has managed to use it as >a galvanizing issue. Uh, you mean feminists haven't used free abortion on demand as a galvanizing issue? Or that feminists don't count? Sure it's a divisive issue. Lots of issues are divisive and rightly so. The critique of capitalism and imperialism are divisive issues. The abortion issue divides people with different views about the social role of women. >d. Defining the issue in a way t ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 21 10:26:06 PDT 1999

37008 Dennis, Alex, Bill, Stephen -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >Want an acceptable formula for 'too many people'? Try 'too many cars'. >That neat sublimation of your anti-mass intent will disguise the >misanthropic meaning, just enough to allow you to communicate your >hatred of working people to your fellows. Not at all. I'm militantly anti-Malthusian. I like people. I like big cities where lots of people are collected, which is why I live in one. I hate cars though. They foul the air, kill lots of people, and lead to the ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 21 10:10:03 PDT 1999

37009 car-free Europe -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >Not necessarily, but it would go a long way. Incidentally, giving >working class people cars is not some fantastic notion plucked out of a >future socialist programme. It's what is happening, in Britain at least, >and I suspect in the US, right now. Working class people are buying >cars. Middle class people resent that, and wish that they could take >them away from the working class people. James, sometimes you say things that leave me almost speechless. ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 21 10:03:09 PDT 1999

37010 Fw: anti-racist group quits campaigns against "free trade" -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >[what do you make of this? one in a series of articles i can fwd to >people offlist if they're interested. - Angela.] > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Fabel van de illegaal <lokabaal at dsl.nl> > >In June 1999 De Fabel van de illegaal decided to quit with the campaigns >against "free trade". After taking a closer look we concluded that to >take "free trade" as a primary target is not a logical choice based on a >radical ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 21 09:46:04 PDT 1999

37011 East Timor, Kosovo, and Kuwait -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Indeed to stay in pure isolation on the sidelines is one of the best ways >to leave imperialism to have a free run. It is much better to challenge it >as to whether it means its fine words. That in practical terms is much more >effective anti-imperialism. Chris, your idea of challenging imperialism is to engage with those prime agents of imperialism, NATO and the IMF. That's a very weird sort of anti-imperialism in my book. Are you a member of a party that think ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 21 09:02:12 PDT 1999

37012 more trouble for Schroder -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - September 21, 1999 Schröder under pressure as Greens rock coalition By Haig Simonian in Berlin Germany's embattled Red-Green government faced fresh strains yesterday after the Green party called for sweeping changes to distance themselves from the Social Democrats, the senior partners in the coalition. The Greens' plans are a further test for Gerhard Schröder, chancellor, whose government has suffered a string of crushing regional election defeats culminating in last Sunday's d ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 21 07:15:26 PDT 1999

37013 pot a British plot -- rank: 1000

More from the LaRouche paper. A little item on p. 3 reports that British Columbia has now become the leading North American marijuana producer. The paper comments: "Canada, of course, has been a spawning-ground for British operations against the U.S. since the time of America's War of Independence." Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 21:51:21 PDT 1999

37014 criminalizing youth -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >I am quite uneasy with explanations of economic, social or >political phenomena based fundamentally on changes in the size and/or >composition of the population. But have never thought out what my >criticism really is. Any suggestions? Dunno, maybe because demographics are a substitute for explanations based on class and the dynamics of capitalism? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 21:26:18 PDT 1999

37015 car-free Europe -- rank: 1000

[bounced for an address oddity] Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 00:01:09 -0400 From: Enrique Diaz-Alvarez <enrique at ee.cornell.edu> Stephen E Philion wrote: > > I think perhaps James is relying on the common senseical working class > response to questions like, "Would you like to own a nice new car?"...But > if they are asked if they would like efficient, comfortable, and cheap > public transportation, even those who think of themeselves as 'middle > class' will be qui ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 21:28:02 PDT 1999

37016 LaRouche -- rank: 1000

Adam Stevens wrote: >Well, it's your show, but I think you should let him on. It sounds >like you're deciding to censor him for political reasons (not wanting to >give him publicity) and that strikes a bad note with me given all we've been >through here in Berkeley these past few months. An editor/producer is under no obligation to offer balance. I make political judgments all the time in over content. I have on a lot more centrists & rightwingers than centrists & rightwinge ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 15:47:44 PDT 1999

37017 Wiranto sings -- rank: 1000

[bounced for an address oddity] From: jeff.downing at harcourt.com Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:04:54 -0500 >From Greil Marcus' column in today's Salon: Associated Press, "Music, the Universal Language," Sept. 13 "After a week of chaos and terror in East Timor, Indonesia's powerful military boss sang 'Feelings' yesterday to show why he can't walk away from the independence-minded province. "To cheers from retired military officers at a party, Defense Minister Gen. Wiranto ded ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 11:27:49 PDT 1999

37018 manna for bears -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > >From the FT: > > > The biggest culprit in the current account deficit was a continuing > > imbalance in goods and services, as a hoped-for increase in exports > > to recovering Asian economies failed to materialise. > >Which says quite a lot about the weakness of the Asian recovery, no? Business Weak says that the recovering Asian economies aren't showing much interest in imports so far, preferring local products. Who knows if that's tru ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 10:10:08 PDT 1999

37019 East Timor, Kosovo, and Kuwait -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > The real issue in Kuwait was not Kuwait >but Saudi Arabia. It is fairly clear that Saddam's >original plan was not to stop at the borders of >Kuwait but to keep going on down the coast >of the Persian Gulf to get the really big pools of >oil such as al-Ghawar in Saudi Arabia[....] How do you know that? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 10:02:51 PDT 1999

37020 LaRouche -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > Hmmm. This looks like the post that >convinced Doug not to have La Rouche. >So, Doug, get somebody more worthwhile. >Otherwise, you're just a scaredy-cat, :-). Ha, no, it wasn't fear of a future smear. It's really the "there's no such thing as bad publicity" adage applied to LaRouche. I don't want to give the guy any publicity. When I interview bourgeois apologists, at least I can figure I'm not adding to their exposure. LaRouche, though ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 10:00:13 PDT 1999