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4546 [lbo-talk] jingle mail: a strategy of the upscale -- rank: 1000
<http://www.miamiherald.com/living/home/story/1239858.html> When mortgage default becomes a strategy Homeowners with high credit scores are 50 percent more likely to abandon a mortgage compared with lower-scoring mortgage borrowers. BY KENNETH HARNEY KHARNEY at WINSTARMAIL.COM Who is more likely to walk away from a house and a mortgage -- a person with super-prime credit scores or someone with lower scores? Hint: It's probably not who you think. New research using a massive sample of 24 ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 26 06:21:02 PDT 2009
4547 [lbo-talk] who? -- rank: 1000
On Oct 25, 2009, at 8:19 PM, SA quoted the classic "Where Was the Color In Seattle": > Limited knowledge meant a failure to see how the WTO affected the > daily lives of U.S. communities of color. "Activists of color felt > they had more immediate issues," said Rashidi. "Also, when we > returned people told me of being worried that family and peers would > say they were neglecting their own communities, if they went to > Seattle. They would be asked, ' ...
Document Size: 5059
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 25 17:52:00 PDT 2009
4548 [lbo-talk] who? -- rank: 1000
In response to Chuck Grimes's question, I said that anti-racist movements were very big among U.S. student activists. (There's a reason that Wise has a campus gig every other day.) A while back, Liza thought of doing a Nation article on them, but never got around to it. Here's one of the epicenters of their activity: <http://collectiveliberation.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=46&Itemid=62 > A taste: > The Catalyst Project is a center for political educatio ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 25 15:23:20 PDT 2009
4549 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed on the limits of antiracism -- rank: 1000
On Oct 24, 2009, at 9:15 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > Well, that makes three times I've read that essay. Not sure what it's > doing re-posted. Is there some snark reasoning? It was never posted before. I don't know what you're talking about. > So, some points. I don't know where the term `anti-racism' comes > from. I > never heard anyone use this term in the past. Personally I wouldn't > use > the term now, because I don't know what means or who it points to. > > So, an h ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 25 07:38:47 PDT 2009
4550 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed on the limits of antiracism -- rank: 1000
On Oct 24, 2009, at 10:57 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I can't remember the details, but I think if you search the early > archives of this list you will find a discussion of a rally of sorts > held out at some California university, at which Judith Butler among > others spoke, which was a critique of Marxism for not being anti-raist > and anti-sexist or something like that. Then there was an article in > NLR > by Judith Butler along the same lines. I believe that was discussed o ...
Document Size: 5302
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Oct 24 20:48:07 PDT 2009
4551 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed on the limits of antiracism -- rank: 1000
On Oct 24, 2009, at 11:21 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > think of Communists who are pretty darned good on race, sex, > gender and sexuality but find all of them to be of a status > subordinate to > and effectively separate from class. Its all variants of "your > stuff is > important but secondary so we'll deal with it later thank you very > much". Did you read Adolph's article? Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Oct 24 20:47:14 PDT 2009
4552 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed on the limits of antiracism -- rank: 1000
On Oct 24, 2009, at 8:18 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > I've tried to avoid engaging with Peter Ward ever since he claimed > that I > was "an academic hawking for tenure" or something like that (and > showed some > repulsive antisemitism), but seriously I'm not sure what that means--- > "classism". Is there a more disgusting, bourgeois, word Dunno. How about "a fair profit"?
Document Size: 5150
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Oct 24 17:42:39 PDT 2009
4553 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed on the limits of antiracism -- rank: 1000
On Oct 24, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Peter Ward wrote: > Frankly, we could do with less philosophizing and more serious > activism to subvert the racism (and other forms of discrimination, > such as classism) that is integral to many of our institutions. Just what is that comment directed at? I think that's in some sense a restatement of Adolph's point, but it's hard to tell. Doug
Document Size: 5083
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Oct 24 15:47:10 PDT 2009
4554 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed on the limits of antiracism -- rank: 1000
Just posted to the LBO website: Adolph Reed on the limits of antiracism: http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Antiracism.html Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 242 Greene Ave - #1C Brooklyn, NY 11238-1398 USA <dhenwood at panix.com> <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com> "blog": <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> voice +1-347-599-2211 cell +1-917-865-2813 producer, Behind the News Thursdays, 5-6 PM, WBAI, New York 99.5 FM Saturdays, 10-11 AM, KPFA, Berkeley 94.1 F ...
Document Size: 6151
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Oct 24 12:10:43 PDT 2009
4555 [lbo-talk] Obama Appears to Prefer Trigger - WAS Re: RIP,"robust" public option; Barack tails Olympia -- rank: 1000
On Oct 23, 2009, at 3:55 PM, SA wrote: > Yours, the one about sunspots and genetic programming, I'm unable to > explain. I was hoping you could. My proposition, though, was a > generalization about Americans' political preferences, the sort of > proposition that can be tested with things like poll data and so on. > (I know, your favorite.) In Coxworld, generalizations are always wrong, unless he's making them. Doug
Document Size: 5739
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Oct 23 13:23:52 PDT 2009
4556 [lbo-talk] Obama Appears to Prefer Trigger - WAS Re: RIP,"robust" public option; Barack tails Olympia -- rank: 1000
On Oct 23, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Matthias Wasser wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > >> All Americans? All the time? This is genetically programmed into >> residents of the norhtern western hemisphere? The government never >> has >> and never will go against what Americans like? It will always avoid >> what >> they dislike? Amazing. >> >> This never changes? Or it only changes from changes in t ...
Document Size: 6291
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Oct 23 11:35:45 PDT 2009
4557 [lbo-talk] Obama Appears to Prefer Trigger - WAS Re: RIP, "robust" public option; Barack tails Olympia -- rank: 1000
On Oct 23, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > The notion that he's constrained by some idealistic commitment > to bipartisanship seems laughable to me It's not idealistic - it's anything but. But it seems real. Why the appointments of three Republicans to the cabinet? Why the reach-out to conservative pundits just as he was taking office? I think Adolph Reed was right - that the current goal of the DLC types, of which BHO is one, is to become the centrist, establishment party, an ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Oct 23 11:11:34 PDT 2009
4558 [lbo-talk] Obama Appears to Prefer Trigger - WAS Re: RIP, "robust" public option; Barack tails Olympia -- rank: 1000
On Oct 23, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > But of course she isn't, as you well know. The insurance > companies are. Olympia is the fig leaf. Well, you may be right. But how do you know this?
Document Size: 5480
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Oct 23 10:17:07 PDT 2009
4559 [lbo-talk] Obama Appears to Prefer Trigger - WAS Re: RIP, "robust" public option; Barack tails Olympia -- rank: 1000
On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:17 PM, SA wrote: > Let me just underline this part for those who might have skipped > over it: > > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> OBAMA APPEARS TO PREFER TRIGGER, reports POLITICO's Carrie Budoff >> Brown: 'Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is leaning toward putting >> a public insurance option in the Senate health reform bill - a >> signal that Reid increasingly believes he can get the votes needed >> for a plan that would allow stat ...
Document Size: 6745
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Oct 23 09:38:10 PDT 2009
4560 [lbo-talk] self-interest -- rank: 1000
On Oct 23, 2009, at 10:00 AM, c b wrote: > Are a higher percentage of people w/o health care non-voters than > those who have health care ? I've never seen numbers on that, but almost certainly yes. Income correlates with both coverage and voting.
Document Size: 4767
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Oct 23 08:15:49 PDT 2009
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