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39541 Money talks- including anarchists money -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I am all for nuking the distortions of democracy due to foundation funding >in the progressive movement, but replacing it with privileged self-funding >by anarchists is a piss-poor replacement. Nathan, why the either/or here? And why are the self-funding "anarchists" privileged? How much money does it take to buy a bus ticket and sleep on someone's floor? Workers of the world, unite. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 16 09:06:09 PST 1999

39542 Fwd: 1999-12-15 Statement by the President on Charles Schulz -- rank: 1000

[Clinton never stops. What will he do after noon on 1/20/01?] THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release December 15, 1999 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT Like all readers of "Peanuts," I was saddened by the news that Charles M. Schulz will retire his beloved comic strip on January 4. But every one of his fans understands that this difficult decision is the rig ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 16 08:57:55 PST 1999

39543 Adventures in efficient markets -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez quoted: >"In all, investors will likely pay $77 billion this year in commissions >and dealer spreads buying S&P 500 companies that will collectively >generate between $200 billion and $300 billion in net income for them." Who wrote this? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 16 08:55:40 PST 1999

39544 RadioHenwood -- rank: 1000

Today, Thursday, 5-6 PM EST, on my radio show - WBAI, 99.5 FM (New York) and, if the link is working, via RealPlayer 5.0 or higher at <http://www.wbaifree.org>: * Dean Baker on the Social Security commission's new, even wackier cooked numbers. * Supply-side guru Jude Wanniski on Seattle and his newfound love for the Buchanan-Fulani connection. * Brooke Lehman, a New Yorker who spent several months in Seattle working with the Direct Action Network, on the theory and practice of DA, prospect ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 16 07:22:36 PST 1999

39545 Great Cockburn/St. Clair piece on Seattle -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >We know -- not just from that Economist article but from real life -- >that the reforms have co-opted NGOs. Insider strategists have had >a nice time. But on the ground, BWI conditionalities associated >with stingy debt relief packages actually make matters far worse >(I'll be happy to document this in great detail if you like, using their >"best case," Mozambique). > >So now the battle lines are indeed clearly drawn. The more that >Oxfam ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 16 07:06:08 PST 1999

39546 Seattle in German left-wing press -- rank: 1000

Johannes Schneider wrote: >Doug really seems to be an authority for the German left-wing press Gosh. They should get out & around a bit more. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 16 06:58:33 PST 1999

39547 productivity -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >It's not Kinkos that skews this number; it's Merill Lynch. > >"Exempt" employees are reported as "40 hours" -- which if you can >find an exempt employee working at an investment bank who works >40 hours, I'll give you my hat. Yeah, but 80% of the U.S. private sector work force consists of "nonsupervisory" or "production" workers. There are only 700,000 people - 0.5% of total employment - working for "security and co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 16 06:57:28 PST 1999

39548 Mazzocchi in Seattle -- rank: 1000

LABOR PARTY NATIONAL ORGANIZER TONY MAZZOCCHI SPEAKS OUT AGAINST WTO (Note: Following is the presentation by Tony Mazzocchi, national organizer of the Labor Party, to the November 28 Labor Party reception held in Seattle just prior to the WTO Ministerial meeting.) Dear Sisters and Brothers: I am glad to bring greetings from the national Labor Party to all the sisters and brothers from the world over who have united, probably for the first time in a very long time, to attempt to prevent this apoc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 16 06:49:41 PST 1999

39549 Groundhog's Day -- rank: 1000

Pahtoo at aol.com wrote: >I don't know. How many people are you feeding and clothing right now? Is >writing articles and running websites doing the trick? And how many people are you feeding & clothing? Is filling the street in defense of the turtles doing the trick? >All I know is we said we'd shut down the WTO and we did! Now everyone has >heard about it when before it was under the radar. Yeah, wonderful. What's next on your agenda? Tell me about the world trading system you e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 20:10:33 PST 1999

39550 Groundhog's Day -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >i think jeff is right to point to the divergence between the >'fix it' and 'nix it' sections is important; but i wouldn't say this is a >question of which actions or sections were authentic or no. what's >becoming more than apparent is that the attempt to 'fix it' will not >produce those elements of social democracy that we might like and support: >basic incomes, welfare reforms, labour rights, not to mention >redistribution in any serious sense, etc. the on ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 19:38:27 PST 1999

39551 Groundhog's Day -- rank: 1000

Pahtoo at aol.com wrote: >You guys are right, I don't know as much of as you. I was in the streets of >Seattle because of the forests, the dolphins, the turtles and opposed to >World-Wide corporate slavery and environmental degradation in general. > >That was enough to get me in the street. What will it take to get you guys in >the street? So you're in the street. Tell me, how will you protect the forests, dolphins, turtles, etc., and oppose corporate slavery etc., and still fe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 18:05:02 PST 1999

39552 Groundhog's Day -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey St. Clair wrote: >This is fairly patronizing stuff, particularly the part which >suggests that the >people on the streets couldn't figure out why they wanted to be there on their >own, without having digested the blizzard of pre-WTO prose poured >out by the elite >commentators. By the way, this relates to the conversation we've never had about the virtues of the "grassroots." There's a tendency among validators of the grassroots to turn conventional discourse ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 13:28:29 PST 1999

39553 Groundhog's Day -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey St. Clair wrote: >If only Henry Liu were still around to give the likes of Dolan the drubbing >they deserve for their racially-charged denunciations of China. We don't need HCKL to do that. It's ugly shit. I listened in on a press conference yesterday, at which James Hoffa did a real China-bashing turn - as bad as his anti-Mexican crap. He didn't speak the words "yellow peril," but he might as well have. But HCKL would also offer apologies for the Chinese government, whic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 13:22:12 PST 1999

39554 Great Cockburn/St. Clair piece on Seattle -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey St. Clair wrote: >The problem is that the Left is always claiming victory for battles it barely >fought and so quickly gives away. This is the story of the Left >during the Age of >Clinton. What left are you talking about? The left I know and am associated with has been pretty damn hostile to Clinton - including the much-villified Marc Cooper. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 11:05:31 PST 1999

39555 Mark Ritchie comments... -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey St. Clair wrote: >Actually, I think Mark Ritchie is missing quite a lot, mainly because he spent >so much time inside. I and many others have written extensively on the >solidarity shown at the frontlines by Ecuadoran enviros fighting rainforest >destruction and giant dam building schemes, Korean farmers and >enviros, farmers >and biotech activists from France, Ireland and Canada. Ritchie spent a lot of >his time in the International Media Center harassing the French ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 10:46:50 PST 1999