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37021 car-free Europe -- rank: 1000

[a celebration that James Heartfield will sit out, no doubt!] "Car-free day" highlights Europe's desperation over auto problems PARIS, Sept 20 (AFP) - The continent that invented the car will turn its back on its creation on Wednesday, with the staging of a "car-free day" in more than 150 European towns and cities, many of them grappling with major problems of pollution and congestion. Towns across France and Italy, as well as in the Swiss canton of Geneva, will launch initia ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 09:21:51 PDT 1999

37022 anti-WTO boot camp -- rank: 1000

[Kevin Danaher is not a dead-ringer for Kojak; can't imagine where that came from.] Wall Street Journal - September 20, 1999 ACTIVISTS' BOOT CAMP TEACHES HOW TO CONFRONT TRADE LEADERS By Helene Cooper Staff Reporter Of The Wall Street Journal "They're tryin' to take control To do as they please Globalizing power For their Corporate Sleaze So WTO Your plan has got to go Take back the power! End Corporate Greed! (Refrain)" PRAGTRI FARM, Wash. -- It starts as a low rumble, buzzing through ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 06:41:08 PDT 1999

37023 impossibility of soc dem in U.S. -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >ok, so in effect, leaving aside what might well be important details, >people are more or less saying that the degree to which capital is >concentrated in ownership, brought together through credit, or at least >where credit takes on the role of setting the terrain for individual >capitals, capital is 'socialised', in the sense of allowing capital and >labour (say, as represented by unions) to confront eachother within a >certain bargaining framework, more pron ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 19 20:48:50 PDT 1999

37024 'Alienation' & Translation (was Re: Adorno & Translation) -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >As a rule, Entfremdung means alienation; Entaeusserung means >concretization, disclosure, with the connotation of a >subjectively-mediated objectification. But Entäusserung also carries the other English meaning of "alienation" - parting with property, right? Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 19 20:32:38 PDT 1999

37025 City on Fire: Comments by Lou Proyect -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >For those unhappy souls who couldn't go listen to Michael Hoover & Lisa >Stokes in New York, here's Lou's report. Fore more on HK cinema, read >_City on Fire_. Yoshie Responding to Lou's post I wrote: > >Oh, I laughed between squirms too. The violence was so extraordinary > >it was hard to know how to take it. The gender politics of the movie > >were quite strange - there were only two women of any consequence in > >the cast, and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 19 20:08:23 PDT 1999

37026 Fwd: KLA units "specialised in hunting down Serbs" -- rank: 1000

[from mai-not] Agence France Presse KLA units "specialised in hunting down Serbs" PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Sept 19 (AFP) - The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which officially disbands Sunday, had special "Serb-hunting" units operating even after international peacekeeping troops arrived here in June, according to two KLA members. The special KLA units "forced the Serbs out of their homes and took them off to kill them in discreet places as far as was possible," said one ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 19 19:57:07 PDT 1999

37027 criminalizing youth -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >"Curfews sound tough and win votes and please anxious adults. But do they >work? Vincent Schiaradli of the Centre on Juvenile and Criminal Justice >(CJCJ), a non-profit group in Washington, points out an irony that >suggests otherwise. The crime that children are most often arrested for >in America, he notes, is curfew violation. In 1996, police reported some >140,000 cases of juvenile curfew arrests, more than double the figure in >1994." ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 19 19:53:05 PDT 1999

37028 no LaRouche -- rank: 1000

Thanks for all the advice. I think I'm not going to put Lyndon LaRouche on the radio. Following that old and largely accurate dictum, there's no such thing as bad publicity, I think even a hostile interview would be a net gain for him. Not that the potential audience is large or mighty, but I don't want to contribute anything to the revival of a fading star. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 19 08:15:20 PDT 1999

37029 Breakfast of Champions -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The difference between these two films is the >presence in _Nashville_ of a perspective that questions men's and the total >lack thereof in _M*A*S*H*_. And it's not the antiwar movie it's cracked up to be. Slavoj Zizek says of M*A*S*H: <quote> Let us further illustrate this gap between an explicit texture and its phantasmic support with an example from cinema. Contrary to its misleading appearance, Robert Altman's MASH is a perfectly conformist film - for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 19 08:12:18 PDT 1999

37030 weeding out criminals -- rank: 1000

Martin Schiller wrote: >Improving the >population is in my mind equivalent with improving society. "Improving the population" can be a very scary concept. If it means feeding, clothing, and housing people who are already alive, I'm all for it. If it means using some sort of social or genetic criteria to control reproduction, you really are on the road to Auschwitz. Don't forget that the American eugenecists - who practiced their craft on black Americans and inferior sorts of Euro ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 19 08:05:07 PDT 1999

37031 humanitarian imperialism -- rank: 1000

Dennis Breslin wrote: >Hmmm, did the CIA get the better end? I'll bet those that signed on >feel satisfied. They were fighting the good fight, in their terms. Let's see. The CIA got several million dead Indochinese and, not long after, the effective end of revolutions in the so-called Third World. The social democrats got...to convince themselves and try to convince others that all these deaths were necessary to fighting the Soviet menace (isn't Russia today a model of what the anti-Comm ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 19 07:56:34 PDT 1999

37032 Russian incomes -15%; wages -36% -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] RUSSIANS' REAL INCOMES DOWN 14.8% OVER YEAR - GOVERNMENT MOSCOW. Sept 17 (Interfax) - Russians' real incomes fell 14.8% over the past year, the government said, comparing statistics for the first eight months of 1998 and 1999. Real wages have plummeted 35.9%, the Russian Statistical Agency said in a report made available to Interfax. Calculations based on International Labor Organization methods put the number of unemployed in Russia by September at 9.1 milli ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 19 07:44:46 PDT 1999

37033 East Timor, Kosovo, and Kuwait -- rank: 1000

[bounced because of an attachment - that infernal winmail.dat] From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan.newman at yale.edu> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 06:26:56 -0400 To avoid a bit of the beating the dead horse thing, I will try to be as unpolemical as possible in this post and hope for the same in the responses. With East Timor, Kosovo and Kuwait, we have three key situations of a larger local power seeking to dominate a smaller region with aspirations of independence, followed by some sort of ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 19 07:43:23 PDT 1999

37034 Caffentzis & Federici speak NYC Oct 1 -- rank: 1000

RPA members George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici will speak at the Brecht Forum/Marxist School on Friday, Oct. 1, at 7:30PM on: "OIL, PENSIONS & NEOLIBERALISM: A CLASS ANALYSIS of the NATO WAR ON YUGOSLAVIA." Many of you will have seen their piece "The War in Yugoslavia: NATO's Real Agenda" in the most recent RADICAL PHILOSOPHY REVIEW. For further info, contact: The Brecht Forum/Marxist School,122 W. 27th St., 10th floor, NYC 10001, phone: (212) 242-4201; www.brechtfo ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 19 07:20:59 PDT 1999

37035 weeding out criminals -- rank: 1000

Martin Schiller wrote: >How could that (free abortion and contraception) not do both? And is >there something wrong with a position that improves the population? That way lies Auschwitz, comrade. Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 18 19:53:40 PDT 1999