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38911 More KPFA -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >After watching Lynn Chadwick's slimy performed assurances on tonight's >news, I have absolutely no doubt about what she and Pacifica >represent. She is neo-liberal tolerance sold as a commodity. Pacifica management - PacMan to its friends - has been utterly cynical about using "diversity" to disarm its critics. The previous Pacifica top, Pat Scott, would denounce her critics as racists, sexists, and homophobes (she's a black lesbian). They're also using Ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 09:13:56 PDT 1999

38912 Monbiot on GM foods -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >It's a mistake to romanticize peasant life. But in focusing on the >labor-intensive aspect of the natural methods Monbiot favors to increase >agricultural productivity, you ignore the positive aspect of the >trade-off he posits, viz: "[These methods] require lots of labour, *no >debt,* and *no help from predatory corporations.*" Not being in thrall >to debt and predatory corporations can outweigh the burden of manual >labor. Hey, watch those ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 09:57:47 PDT 1999

38913 Burchill on the rancid middle -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - July 16, 1999 A CLASS ACT So, John Prescott is miffed with his father for reminding him of his proletarian roots. Julie Burchill, working class girl made good, wonders why the deputy PM is so keen to join the middle classes I've wanted to be many things in my life. I've wanted to be a Jew, a lesbian, a slut and even, for six weeks when I was 10, a horse. One day, when I grow up, I hope to be a writer. But I have never, ever wanted to be middle-class. And I fail to understand ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 15 19:42:59 PDT 1999

38914 Fwd: UPDATE ON EMERGENCY BROADCAST ON PACIFICA -- rank: 1000

[Anyone with any pull at a local community station...] Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:45:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeremy Weir Alderson <radio at lightlink.com> To: freepacifica at recordist.com Subject: UPDATE ON EMERGENCY BROADCAST ON PACIFICA Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-progressive-radio at tango.rahul.net Guests alread confirmed for this broadcast (see below) include fired KPFA programmer Larry Bensky, media critic Norman Solomon and former Pacifica President Peter Frank On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 15 16:01:37 PDT 1999

38915 Creation myth of the "geo-architect" -- rank: 1000

Le Monde diplomatique ----------------------------------------------------- July 1999 PAEON OF PRAISE TO GLOBALISATION Creation myth of the "geo-architect _________________________________________________________________ Books celebrating the current economic system and the growing power of the markets are on the increase. Rarely however have their authors shown as much zeal as Thomas Friedman, one of the New York Times' star writers. Apart from its impact, his book expresses in an almost e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 15 11:55:21 PDT 1999

38916 Fwd: The protectorate, a way to dominate -- rank: 1000

Le Monde diplomatique ----------------------------------------------------- July 1999 BUILDING PEACE IN THE BALKANS The protectorate, a way to dominate _________________________________________________________________ Just as they did in Bosnia after the Dayton Agreements, the Western powers are getting ready to place Kosovo under their guardianship, with the declared aim of restoring peace and democracy. Yet the protectorate, a modern form of colonialism, risks putting a seal of approval on the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 15 12:00:25 PDT 1999

38917 Fwd: {FP} Demonstration at WBAI - Friday July 16 -- rank: 1000

From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 03:53:32 -0700 An emergency demonstration has been called in solidarity with the people of KPFA and to give notice to Pacifica's Board of Directors that WBAI IS NOT FOR SALE Friday, July 16 5:30 PM In front of WBAI 120 Wall Street New York, NY ________________________ http://www.radio4all.org http://www.radio4all.org/freepacifica Public PGP Block: http://www.radio4all.org/pgp/ - /*This message comes via the freepac lis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 15 11:44:02 PDT 1999

38918 Pacifica petition -- rank: 1000

[Berry's email account is blocked, so don't try that route.] July 14, 1999 Non-Profit Corporation Stifles Free Speech--Return the Airwaves to the Community! One notable exception to the frenzy of corporate media mergers in recent years is non-commercial Pacifica Radio, which owns five listener-sponsored stations around the US and syndicates to over one hundred more. But recent actions by the Executive Director and the Board of the non-profit Pacifica Foundation threaten this precious resource. I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 15 08:34:52 PDT 1999

38919 KPFA rally -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >Since I was remiss and did not follow the recent history, it seems to >me a problem of communication. How would I characterize the core >issue, in a coherent and meaningful way, without any of the history, >complexity and ingrown minutia? What's the sound bite? As the teach-in >from last week (which I missed) said, this is about corporatizing >grassroots media. WBAI's late and badly missed program director, Samori Marksman, started telling me about the plan ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 15 07:39:23 PDT 1999

38920 WSJ on Scurry -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 14, 1999 Goalie's Curse? Ms. Scurry Blocked A Big Shot, but Others Got Air Time By JONATHAN KAUFMAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL As America's soccer team defeated China on Saturday in the Women's World Cup, the Richards house in upstate New York, like millions of others, exploded in happy bedlam. "Yeah, they did it! They did it!" shouted 11-year-old Jonah, an avid soccer player and the only black member of his team. Half an hour later, as the cel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 14 16:24:59 PDT 1999

38921 Arrighi on Balkan war -- rank: 1000

[From the MLG list; apologies for the length but it seems worth it.] THE BALKAN WAR AND US GLOBAL POWER by Giovanni Arrighi It will take time before anyone will be in a position to draw a minimally reliable balance sheet of the Balkan War that has just ended. From the point of view of the humanitarian objectives for which it was ostensibly fought, all we can do for now is to join Pope John Paul II in declaring its outcome an unmitigated "defeat of humanity." Beyond that, any kind of ba ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 14 12:27:45 PDT 1999

38922 Kosovo deaths -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >not counting the inevitable increase in >death rates that will come from the environmental and infrastructural >devastation caused by two months of terror bombing of civilian targets. Speaking of which, front-page news in today's NYT. Doug ---- New York Times - July 14, 1999 SERBIAN TOWN BOMBED BY NATO FEARS EFFECTS OF TOXIC CHEMICALS By Chris Hedges PANCEVO, Yugoslavia -- On the edge of town, in a sprawling industrial park that held an oil refinery, a petro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 14 10:34:12 PDT 1999

38923 KPFA rally -- rank: 1000

Folks in the Bay Area, there's going to be a rally in front of KPFA's studio, 1929 Martin Luther King Way, Berkeley, today (Wednesday), 5 PM, to protest the armed takeover of the station by Pacifica management. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 14 09:46:27 PDT 1999

38924 Definition of crisis -- rank: 1000

I agree with most of what you say, Chris, except for a couple of reservations. Chris Burford wrote: >I see this as the US managers cleverly ensuring that when "a" mass of >productive forces needed to be destroyed, it was Asian, especially >Japanese. There was some destruction in the imperialist heartland but very >little. Considering that Japan is routinely spoken of as being in some kind of depression, a look at the actual numbers doesn't match the tone of alarm. GDP growt ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 14 08:52:38 PDT 1999

38925 culture & poverty again -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >Why do you post this shit? Because it's symptomatic of where rightwing thought & propaganda are going; they've left the Bell Curve way behind. As Angela noted, the author was careful to put his argument partly in the mouths of members of maligned groups. It's also an example of the way that pseudo-scientifice racism has moved out of biology and into culture. You can bet that a lot of centrists and liberals who'd be nervous about embracing biological theories of povert ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 14 08:27:07 PDT 1999