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39691 WTO talks fail: Reuters story -- rank: 1000

[Either the reporter doesn't know the meaning of "enormity," or he's making a very subtle point.] December 4 2:57 AM ET Acrimony As Global Trade Talks Fail By Adam Entous SEATTLE (Reuters) - World trade ministers failed on Friday to launch a new round of global trade liberalization talks in an embarrassment for host President Clinton and a setback for the cause of free trade. U.S. officials declared an end to the World Trade Organization meeting as time ran out for solving deep differe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 4 00:45:49 PST 1999

39692 nonsense redux -- rank: 1000

Personal feuds score rather low as a spectator sport. I hope this comes to an end pretty quickly. The damn WTO talks collapsed. This seems of no small historical significance. Let's talk about that instead, ok? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 3 23:00:41 PST 1999

39693 Butler on Spivak (was SZ) -- rank: 1000

Katha Pollitt wrote: >I just want to say I am bewildered by Kelley's attacks on Rakesh. I >know him pretty well personally, in real life, I mean, and have talked >about all these issues with him for hours and hours. He is NOT an >anti-feminist. He is NOT an "identity cop." Quite the contrary -- >Rakesh always opposes the "you have to be black/female/gay etc to talk >speak about issues of blackness, femaleness, gayness" style of >argument-- the argument ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 3 14:20:52 PST 1999

39694 FW: Seattle -- rank: 1000

t byfield wrote: >in all the insufferable sanctimony and dismissive-reductive >'historicism' of the last two decades, it seems that one thing >an awful lot of people forgot is that Protest Can Be Fun. seems >like seattle might go a long way toward reminding them of that. Yes yes yes. The RadioNation team, a band of pretty hardcore pessimists, have all been remarking on the incredible change in tone here - a left, broadly defined, that has rediscovered exuberance and confidence, led i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 3 14:16:28 PST 1999

39695 Anarchists or agents provocateurs? -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I'm just hoping that the cops around the U.S. are realizing that the >days when demonstrators kissed thier butts are over with. We - the RadioNation crowd I've been hanging with - have been speculating that the cops probably assumed everyone would disperse at the first whiff of teargas. They didn't, and just kept reconfiguring their demos. By the way, it's hard to imagine any of this happening quite this way without cell phones. What was that bromide about not using the mast ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 3 08:40:31 PST 1999

39696 Anarchists or agents provocateurs? -- rank: 1000

Katha Pollitt wrote: >I think those "anarchists" are jerks -- but I do wonder about something. >Before the trashing, the news minimized the number of demonstrators and >didn't seem to take them all that seriously. The trashing certainly got >the media's attention! To tell you the truth, I was more embarrassed by >people dressing up in squirrel suits. I hate that hippie-dippie cute >stuff. Normally I do too. Maybe it's the carnival aspects of being here, but it all se ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 3 08:16:39 PST 1999

39697 FW: Seattle -- rank: 1000

I'm way behind on reading email, so someone else may have pointed this out, but the U.S. WTO delegation is now saying that Clinton "misspoke" when he said that labor rights violations should be sanctionable under the WTO. Once again proving the truth of that old adage - originally from an Arkansas unionist, right? - that he'll shake your hand while he's pissing down your leg. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 3 08:13:30 PST 1999

39698 update up -- rank: 1000

I've just posted the updated text and pictures to the LBO website - the (A)'d cop car and scenes from the exhilarating jailhouse demo <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/SeattleThursday.html>. Coming tomorrow: a report on the labor free speech demo. Coming Saturday: a retrospective thumbsucker. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 3 00:06:28 PST 1999

39699 Anarchists or agents provocateurs? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Less window breaking would have been better, >though as I said yesterday, some was inevitable. Why? The events would probably have gotten less attention without the window-breaking. As it is, there wasn't much violence - just the right amount I'd say. The NationRadio team is thinking of organizing a fundraiser to provide a travel budget for the Eugene Anarchists. Dennis, you know these folks? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 2 23:00:25 PST 1999

39700 Cockburn on Seattle -- rank: 1000

Oh yes. Word is that Alex Cockburn has a column in this week's Nation declaring that the big story of the week was the AFL-CIO's betrayal of the kids. Aside from the profound wrongness of this analysis, there's a labor rally scheduled for Friday at noon in support of them and the right to free speech. Pix and reports to follow. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 2 22:54:32 PST 1999

39701 Anarchists or agents provocateurs? -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >doesn't a state of emergency make us all anarchists? if it becomes illegal >to possess a gas mask, for instance, isn't it nuts to argue that people >should confine themselves to legality? Hell, it's illegal to walk down certain streets in this city tonight. We were trying to walk back to our hotels in the seedy hotel district from a downtown restaurant and were told that we couldn't walk down certain streets. There was a great demo in front of the city jail tonight. Pix f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 2 22:52:36 PST 1999

39702 Fwd: my take on WTO protests -- rank: 1000

I haven't had a chance to read this, but Leslie's cool. - Doug >X-From_: lakauffm at erols.com Thu Dec 2 12:10:42 1999 >From: "L.A. Kauffman" <lakauffm at erols.com> >To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;@panix.com> >Subject: my take on WTO protests >Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 12:15:54 -0500 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 > >Friends -- > >A bit of shameless self ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 2 14:11:40 PST 1999

39703 more Seattle stuff -- rank: 1000

I've just posted more Seattle stuff on the LBO website <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Seattle.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 2 13:56:54 PST 1999

39704 volume -- rank: 1000

It's kind of hard for me to keep on top of things, but you egregious overposters, please cool it. You know who you are. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 1 01:46:53 PST 1999

39705 ehrenreich on biology -- rank: 1000

Katha Pollitt wrote: >Maybe Doug can put Barbara's Nation piece up? Can't do it now; when I get back I will. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 1 01:46:53 PST 1999