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38896 mobilizing against globalizing -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >Attention all >midwives of hope and courage: bring your brain and your heart to Seattle, >we've got work to do. We've secured several large venues for for folks to >speak about the future of: democracy, ecology, industrial and >post-industrial organization, women, children, race, trees, cells, genes, >money, weapons, hope, hate, power and peace. All voices welcome! Come and >help us learn to dance with evolution.... I'm pretty sure I want to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 20:35:54 PDT 1999

38897 KPFA -- rank: 1000

mike wrote: >So let Berry, Chadwick and the other generals have their radio station. KPFA >really consists of its listeners. Have a big fund drive called "Starting >Over" and buy another frequency and another transmitter and start over. >Maybe buy a couple of each. Leave the Pacifica board holding an empty bag. Do you know how much it costs to buy a radio license in the Bay Area or NYC? $75-120 million. That would have to be a very big fund drive. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 18:24:12 PDT 1999

38898 Hiro on Iran -- rank: 1000

[When I interviewed Hiro last night, he emphasized the class conflict between the young Westernized bourgeois of North Tehran and the religious poor and working class residents of South Tehran.] Wall Street Journal - July 14, 1999 ANOTHER IRANIAN REVOLUTION? NOT YET By Dilip Hiro, author of "Dictionary of the Middle East" (St Martin's Press, 1996) and "Sharing the Promised Land: A Tale of Israelis and Palestinians" (Interlink Publishing Group, 1999). Watching on television th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 17:49:37 PDT 1999

38899 Fwd: SPECIAL REPORT FROM IRAN -- rank: 1000

[This is very different from what Dilip Hiro wrote in the Wall Street Journal, and what he said on my radio show last night. I'll forward Hiro's article next.] Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:52:17 -0700 To: merip at igc.org From: Middle East Report <merip at igc.apc.org> Subject: SPECIAL REPORT FROM IRAN MIDDLE EAST RESEARCH AND INFORMATION PROJECT (MERIP) PRESS INFORMATION NOTE #5 SPECIAL REPORT FROM IRAN By MERIP's Special Correspondent in Teheran International press reports have not done jus ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 17:43:07 PDT 1999

38900 [FAIR-L]: Pacifica Leadership Should Step Down -- rank: 1000

[KPFK in LA just cut off FAIR's Counterspin show because it was about the Pacifica crisis.] Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 17:35:09 -0400 From: FAIR <FAIR-L at USA.NET> Subject: [FAIR-L] NEWS RELEASE: Pacifica Leadership Should Step Down for Good of Network FAIR-L Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting Media analysis, critiques and news reports FAIR NEWS RELEASE: July 16, 1999 Pacifica Leadership Should Step Down for Good of Network As a media watch group supportive of independent voice ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 16:04:01 PDT 1999

38901 more KPFA, plus WBAI's saviors -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Two questions. With all the community support for the staff, wouldn't the >PacMan feel a bit isolated. I have not heard many people coming out in favor >of them. I suspect they may be going after a new & different audience, so they don't care much about alienating the present audience. I just got back from the Save WBAI demo. There were about 20 or so folks circling and chanting. How to put this gently - they were not the most dynamic-looking crowd. If thi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 16:01:08 PDT 1999

38902 Contact Pacifica Affiliates and ask for support -- rank: 1000

From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 10:51:14 -0700 Reply-To: freepacifica at recordist.com Pacifica National sells its newscast and other programs to more than 60 community and college stations throughout the country. Some of these stations have already, over the years, acted in solidarity with the movement for a free and democratic Pacifica. [In 1996-1997 several of these stations: KOOP Austin , TX, KBOO Portland, Oregon and WORT Madison Wisconsin engae ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 13:37:33 PDT 1999

38903 More KPFA -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick quoted The Economist: >But if Pacifica's programming has remained defiantly the same, its >potential audience has been changing, especially in San Francisco. The >number of Latinos, Asians and South Americans in the region has grown >markedly, while the white population has declined. At the University of >California's Berkeley campus, white, middle-class radicals have long >since been supplanted by diligent middle-class students, largely of >Asian descent. All th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 13:35:21 PDT 1999

38904 Fwd: {FP} EMERGENCY - GET TO THE TRANSMITTER! -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 11:24:10 +0100 From: Jeffrey Blankfort <jab at tucradio.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freepacifica at penguin.josephson.com, savekpfa at DeLong.SJ.CA.US, savepacifica at peacenet.org, freepac at recordist.com Subject: {FP} EMERGENCY - GET TO THE TRANSMITTER! Sender: owner-freepac at recordist.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: freepacifica at recordist.com I HAVE JUST LEARNED THAT PACIFICA IS PLANNING TO INSTALL A LINE TO THE TRANSMITTER WHICH WILL ENABLE PACIFICA TO BROAD ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 14:30:46 PDT 1999

38905 KPFA -- rank: 1000

mike wrote: >A good talk; an important issue. Would do well to be broadcast again and >again. Made me think that however destructive their tactics and narrow their >perspectives, the Pacifica board can still lay a claim to being progressive >even though it may not be my style or the uncompromising style of others on >this list. In the prerecorded broadcasts, they do permit Cockburn to attack >the CIA, Angela Davis to attack racism, Gloria Steinem to attack sexism. >Much bett ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 13:57:13 PDT 1999

38906 more KPFA -- rank: 1000

[bounced for a taboo word in the now-excised footer] Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 20:56:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at tsoft.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: More KPFA Here's the KPFA UPDATE bulletin. If this is considered tedious to lbo-talk, let me know and I won't forward this stuff. Chuck Grimes ---------------------------------------------------- UPDATE: PROTESTS CONTINUE AT KPFA, PACIFICA DENIES EXPULSION OF STAFF IS A LOCKOUT LEADING CALIFORNIA LEGISLATORS ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 13:52:20 PDT 1999

38907 mobilizing against globalizing -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 16, 1999 GLOBALIZATION FOES PLAN TO PROTEST WTO'S SEATTLE ROUND TRADE TALKS By Helene Cooper Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal SEATTLE -- Mike Dolan is mobilizing against globalizing. Descending in a flurry of leaflets on a meeting of the People of Color Against AIDS Network, he gives the activists a quick speech about the evils of drug-company greed and global trade. But Mr. Dolan can't stay long. He still has to hit a gathering of representatives from Friends ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 07:47:02 PDT 1999

38908 crony capitalism in the five -- rank: 1000

W. Kiernan wrote: >Where they speak of a "free trade relationship," are they not talking >about a state of affairs where Yugoslavia just boards up their bombed >car factory (which they bought off of Italy, by the way, an American >"Yugo" is an old model Fiat) forever and resigns itself to importing >cars and exporting, I don't know what, something cheap, simple and low, >like the pork they used to export a century back... Their planned destiny is suggested b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 08:50:21 PDT 1999

38909 Another Famous Black Goalie -- rank: 1000

Eric Beck wrote: >Minnesota is widely acknowledged to have the best primary and secondary >education system in the country (Iowa is its biggest contender). This fact, >coupled with your stat, makes me want to utter some bold, unsubstantiated >(and perhaps irrelevant) claim like: If black children are given a decent >system to work in they can outperform white students. Instead, I'll just >say that this is a plausible counter-argument to the racist stereotypes. The excellent eco ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 08:38:44 PDT 1999

38910 Colombia gets IMF loan -- rank: 1000

[Meanwhile, on the counterrevolutionary front - from the World Bank's daily clipping service for the media] COLOMBIA ACCEPTS $3 BILLION LIFELINE FROM IMF. Colombian Finance Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo said yesterday Colombia had accepted an IMF loan offer for $3 billion to shore up its macroeconomic program to fight its worst recession in more than half a century, Reuters reports. It marks the first time Colombia has agreed a contingency loan from the IMF and will mean that the international ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 09:52:11 PDT 1999