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37456 ignore this, it's about women and sexism ...]] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Emphasizing only the obnoxious >uses of biology leaves too much room for the obnoxious uses >of ignoring biology. How much of a risk is that these days, when journalists are busily following scientists who are allegedly tracking down "gay" genes and "fat" genes, the ideologues of bionomics are telling us capitalism is a natural process, and employers are looking to test workers for genetic vulnerabilities rather than cleaning up workplaces? Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 26 11:08:04 PST 1999

37457 Fwd: deindustrialization. -- rank: 1000

[Michael Perelman is away from his regular email account, but asked me to forward this.] X-From_: MPerelman at exchange.csuchico.edu Fri Nov 26 13:17:50 1999 From: "Perelman, Michael" <MPERELMAN at csuchico.edu> To: "'dhenwood at panix.com'" <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: deindustrialization. Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 10:17:44 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: MPerelman at exchange.csuchico.edu Doug, I cannot get to my regular account until Monday. I am looking at ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 26 10:49:13 PST 1999

37458 what is globalization, anyway? -- rank: 1000

Adam Stevens wrote: >But couldn't the rise of the service economy itself be PARTIALLY responsible >for the post '73 decline in real wages, since service jobs on average pay >less than manufacturing jobs? "The service economy" is a complicated thing - it includes bedpan cleaners and neurosurgeons, and unionization and better laws could raise the wages at the low end. (Nothing "natural" about low wages in the service sector, is there?) And its rise is also a complicate ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 26 10:39:42 PST 1999

37459 Fwd: WTO Satellitecast - Showdown in Seattle -- rank: 1000

From: Michael Eisenmenger <eisenmen at rci.rutgers.edu> Please distribute widely - then duck and cover! This promises to be an exciting series and something of a first for the alternative media community. Sorry in advance for the long cc list. Michael Eisenmenger 646 245-3491 *********************************************************************** DEEP DISH TELEVISION & THE INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER - SEATTLE in collaboration with Paper Tiger TV, Freespeech TV, Whispered Media, Changing ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 26 10:41:07 PST 1999

37460 [Fwd: Re: ignore this, it's about women and sexism ...] -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >This is like trying to refute idealism by kicking a stone. Ooops. Sorry to have used exactly this image. This is what happens when you read posts out of order. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 26 10:16:29 PST 1999

37461 WSJ on WTO: agenda, primer, hilarious editorial -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - November 26, 1999 Global Trade Talks Are Almost Certain, And Their Success May Be Set in Seattle By BOB DAVIS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- Trade ministers are almost certain to launch a global round of trade talks next week in Seattle, but they face many obstacles before their conference can be labeled a success. U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky says that 90 of the 134 nations in the World Trade Organization already have agreed to par ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 26 10:05:02 PST 1999

37462 [Fwd: Re: ignore this, it's about women and sexism ...] -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: > this weird fear het men have that we're advocating >androgyny or some such nonsense What's wrong with androgyny? It apparently makes that charming old Stalinist Mark Jones - a walking embodiment of the neoconservative Marxist - very nervous, especially if they're "ludic" androgynes. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 26 10:07:56 PST 1999

37463 [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: ignore this, it's about women and sexism ...]] -- rank: 1000

Katha Pollitt wrote: >But she never shows that physical sex >is discursive in the first place. By the way, I think it's interesting that this thread got started in part because of Rob's invocation of the selfish gene to explain social behavior. I'm guessing that you (Katha) wouldn't support invocations of biological determinism to justify the oppression of women, or similar invocations used to justify competitive individualism (aka capitalism). In practice, then, you have a fairly discursi ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 26 09:53:35 PST 1999

37464 family in the U.S. -- rank: 1000

[The full study is at <http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/online/emerge.pdf>. I wonder if the AFL-CIO has this in mind when it speaks of "working families" rather than "working people."] <http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/99/991124.family.shtml> UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO News Nov. 24, 1999 Contact: William Harms (773) 702-8356 w-harms at uchicago.edu Marriage wanes as American families enter new century, University of Chicago research sho ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 26 08:55:26 PST 1999

37465 [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: ignore this, it's about women and sexism ...]] -- rank: 1000

Katha Pollitt wrote: >Again, it >really is a lot like Freud, another great mental manipulator: yes means >yes and so does no. Everything the patient says merely confirms the >doctor's theory, because "there is no NO in the unconscious." Ah, so now we can begin! Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 26 08:34:49 PST 1999

37466 FWD: NYC WTO Demo, 11/27 at Times Square -- rank: 1000

[old Bad Subjectians might be titillated by the sender's name] Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 01:25:59 -0500 (EST) From: ricinger at inch.com (Richard Singer) Subject: FWD: NYC WTO Demo, 11/27 at Times Square Sender: reclaimthestreets-return-339-1692495 at listbot.com Reclaim the Streets NYC - http://reclaimthestreetsnyc.tao.ca >X-Sender: wnu at pop.igc.org >To: (Recipient list suppressed) >From: Weekly News Update <wnu at igc.org> >Subject: NYC WTO Demo, 11/27 at Times Square >X-UI ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 25 22:28:19 PST 1999

37467 Chossudovsky on Seattle -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray forwarded a piece by the irrepressible Michel Chossudovsky on disarming the New World Order which bounced for excessive length. It looks not only overlong but overwrought in Chossudovsky's usual way, but I'll forward it to anyone who wants it. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 25 20:08:00 PST 1999

37468 [Fwd: The power of the Internet] -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec stuff attaches to Carrol's forwards] Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 13:07:49 -0600 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> I can't remember whether the Emperors-clothes web site has been mentioned on lbo or not. It is a magnificent source for news on Yugoslavia and other hot spots. This post mentions some interesting news from Bulgaria. Carrol From: Borba100 at aol.com Received: from Borba100 at aol.com by imo-d03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v24.4.) id a.0.4b5132aa (4309) for <marxism at li ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 25 20:03:56 PST 1999

37469 [Fwd: Re: ignore this, it's about women and sexism ...] -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: > >the brain research that > >shuggests that the brain changes under social conditions ? > >Look, I didn't mention I saw a dirty great Tiger Snake yesterday, either. >But I sure as hell wasn't ignoring it. Yeah you were kind of by turning to selfish genes, not the tiger but what Kelley said in the quoted snippet. Biology is often invoked to put an end to debate or analysis. Even such raw biological facts as childbirth and lactation take on very different ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 25 19:52:16 PST 1999

37470 Mugger writes... -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Russ Smith and Cockburn have been treating statements on LBO like any >personal comments people might make at a meeting or a room. I see that Mr Cockburn made a Nation column out of James Warren's Chicago Tribune piece on Richard Nixon's bigoted ravings, and that Counterpunch published Michael Yates's fine piece on teaching in prison, also posted here (and to several other lists). Perhaps Alexander Cockburn Omnimedia (TM) might consider a contribution to help defray t ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 25 09:03:25 PST 1999