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39811 Action as Persuasion -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because it had an attachment] Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:32:16 -0500 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> After sending my commentary on Peter's post I realized that the earlier post I referred to at the end had been on Pen-l rather than lbo. Because I consider this perspective absolutely crucial to political thought I am forwarding it to lbo. I have been arguing on various lists for several years that the question "how do we reach people" (and the assumption that t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 19 11:41:45 PDT 1999

39812 Offlist: [stormingheaven] ebonics? & what happened to the BAI lin k? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Apologies, all. That e-mail was supposed to go just to Doug, and my >main reason for sending it wasn't to make a Miss Grundy-esque comment >about grammar but to find out if Doug's radio show is still available >cyberistically. Not now, and who knows if it ever will be again? Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 19 11:38:58 PDT 1999

39813 [stormingheaven] ebonics? -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Here's a test. > >Jack be nimble. >Jack be quick. >Jack jump over the candlestick. > >Is that Ye olde white English or Ebonics ? Imperative too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 19 09:39:37 PDT 1999

39814 [stormingheaven] ebonics? -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Here's a test. > >Jack be nimble. >Jack be quick. >Jack jump over the candlestick. > >Is that Ye olde white English or Ebonics ? I thought it was subjunctive mood. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 19 09:38:15 PDT 1999

39815 Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Charles: Seems to me that the internet and e-mail is a major >technological advance that can remove much of the boredem and >negative features of the traditional meeting , and qualitatively >transform them. These lists are ongoing meetings. But Carrol sez we're all just pulling our puds here! Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 19 09:22:00 PDT 1999

39816 Fwd: [PEN-L:10215] BLS Daily Report -- rank: 1000

BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1999 __After showing no change for 2 months, the CPI-U rose 0.3 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in July. During the first 7 months of this year, the CPI-U has accelerated to a 2.4 percent annual rate of increase from a 1.6 percent advance for all of 1998. Most of the upturn is due to higher energy costs, which were up 3.3 percent. ... Looking at the July figures, BLS economist Patrick Jackman said that the higher energy prices accounted for nearl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 19 09:22:44 PDT 1999

39817 gentrification -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >You can be surprised how glamorous those things can be, especially to >middle class teenagers and members of Leftish cult groups (henceforth "Left >files"). Why do you keep caricaturing the fantasies of bored suburban teenagers and attributing them to some "left"? Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 19 08:44:40 PDT 1999

39818 Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

Brett Knowlton wrote: >Finally, there is this insistence on calling these kinds of blueprints >"utopian." Because they seem invented largely out of thin air, in a "Wouldn't it be nice?" mode, rather than saying how the present set of institutions and associated forms of consciousnessness can be engaged and transformed. With these participatory planning schemes, you're telling people in a world of Wal-Marts that they'd have to go to meetings, which would excite their bor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 19 06:44:56 PDT 1999

39819 Media attacks on business -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >Mr. X want to be on your radio show? Are publicists part of your program's >demo? I'm listed in several talk radio directories as a host of a show on economics & business, so all kinds of low-rent publicists are always calling & faxing & emailing with their schemes. One thing that surprised me when I got into this lucrative racket known as journalism is just how much of the product is driven by publicists. Your typical press kit now includes a list of 10 ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 18 20:07:27 PDT 1999

39820 Fwd: Media attacks on business -- rank: 1000

[From a publicist, names effaced to deny publicity....] X, one of the nation's leading experts in crisis management and high-stakes communications, and the man that many Fortune 500 companies and celebrities turn to when they are attacked, has written a new book, Y, on our attack culture and the aggressive, and sometimes unpopular, tactics needed to fight back. As more and more corporations become the targets of aggressive smear campaigns, people like X are called upon to develop strategies and ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 18 15:36:08 PDT 1999

39821 media -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >As for nurturing alternative media today, I think it's crucial. But >how do you do that? Subscribe. Send extra money even. Quote critical (sometimes "alternative" sounds like just another consumer choice) media. Tell your friends to do the same. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 18 15:31:59 PDT 1999

39822 International Homicide Rates -- rank: 1000

david dorkin wrote: >That's interesting-I was looking into the relationship between factors >like neoliberal policy reform and homicide and crime rates in Latin >America in particular. I hear there are people within the Inter-American Development Bank exploring exactly this connection. Nothing published, though. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 18 15:30:18 PDT 1999

39823 media -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >Well, depends on your historical time-scale, and what you mean by "the >media", doesn't it? If you mean the corporate media, then "have >become" is wrong, but if you mean the entire media, including once >lively labor newspapers and independent radio programs, which have >all but disappeared from mass circulation, then I don't find it >terribly misleading. Chomsky and Herman note this deterioration at >the beginning of their book ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 18 12:28:22 PDT 1999

39824 International Homicide Rates -- rank: 1000

david dorkin wrote: >I was looking around for studies, data and comparisons of international >homicide rates; anyone know of good online sources (I did find a good UN >organization document but I dont remember where). UNDP's Human Development Report. The front end for the Acrobat version is at <http://www.undp.org/hdro/report.html#stats>; the stat supplement is at <http://www.undp.org/hdro/Backmatter2.pdf>. You want table 23, "Crime." Incredibly, they don't have a ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 18 12:17:12 PDT 1999

39825 Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >My >question was seriously intended. I assume your question was >also. I answered your question seriously: I fucking don't know >what a revolution would be like in the U.S. Now why can't >you try to answer my question seriously. > >I will add one observation. If your route does work -- the leaders >on that route will be revolutionaries. This is what I gained about >a quarter of a century ago from my initial reading of Lenin: Revolutionaries >make ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 18 10:07:49 PDT 1999