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9421 [lbo-talk] help -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Tim Francis-Wright wrote: > Well, "rank and file power" is not a wholly risible answer. The > Boston- > area SEIU has done a commendable job organizing janitors in Boston > and Providence. The latest contract garned wage increases of 25% over > 5 years, bettwer sick time (increasing from 2 days to 6 days over > the life of the contract), more full-time jobs, and better health > insurance. This was the second significant improvement i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 26 11:55:03 PDT 2007

9422 [lbo-talk] Andre Gorz, RIP -- rank: 1000

[via Debate] Andre Gorz- RIP Ari Sitas Andre Gorz, philosopher of freedom, sociologist of work, ecologist and democratic socialist, trade union adviser, journalist and for a time editor of Nouvelle Observateur and Les Tempes Modernes, took his life at 84 on the 24th of September together with his wife Dorine, 83, who was suffering from a degenerative disease. On the 25th he was about to appear on German Television to discuss his latest book, Lettre à D. Histoire d'un amour, published in 20 ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 10:32:55 PDT 2007

9423 [lbo-talk] UAW/GM -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 12:25 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: Some really helpful stuff about the UAW. Which reminds me, in response to Chuck - Michael has been traveling around the U.S. for the last several years and has been talking to a lot of workers. Michael, do you see anything like the receptivity to more militant action that Chuck says is out there? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 26 10:10:44 PDT 2007

9424 [lbo-talk] GM-UAW agreement -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Chuck wrote: > Doug, I think you need to get out of New York and talk to some actual > working people around the U.S. This line drives me crazy. There are plenty of working people right here in NYC. And the ones I talk to exhibit none of the militancy you're always claiming exists. I'm sure Jim Straub has lots of stories about the consciousness of the American working class in places like Nevada and Ohio. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 26 10:05:36 PDT 2007

9425 [lbo-talk] GM-UAW agreement -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > But don't think I'm coming over there to bang my head against that > wall in > person. I don't blame you, and you've got enough on your hands in Gordon Brown-land. But my head hurts from all the banging, man.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 26 10:03:34 PDT 2007

9426 [lbo-talk] Clash of Sexual Civilizations (was Re: ahmadinejad) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > I'm actually just sitting here listening to A's speech. > He sounds a lot less foolish and loony -- and much better-bred -- > than Lee Bollinger. I'll agree with that. Bollinger was a disgrace.

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 09:40:00 PDT 2007

9427 [lbo-talk] help -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 12:26 PM, joanna wrote: > Take over operations? Yeah, that would be the way to go, but would the union leadership or rank and file go for it? Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 09:38:40 PDT 2007

9428 [lbo-talk] Khomeini on Sodomy: a response -- rank: 1000

[from the Debate list] From: "Tahir Wood" <twood at uwc.ac.za> Date: September 26, 2007 3:30:44 AM EDT To: "Debate" <debate at lists.kabissa.org> Subject: Re: [DEBATE] : Khomeini on Sodomy Reply-To: "debate: SA discussion list " <debate at lists.kabissa.org> List-Archive: <http://lists.kabissa.org/mailman/private/debate> > "Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages at gmail.com> 09/25/07 4:58 PM > > For instance, do you kn ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 09:18:16 PDT 2007

9429 [lbo-talk] GM-UAW agreement -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > On 9/26/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> >> So what should they have done instead? GM and Ford are losing gobs of >> money in the U.S. What would you have proposed if you were running >> the UAW? > > > Is that a serious question? Or are you merely playing Business > Advocate? It is a serious question, one to which I don't know the answer. And your answer is so at odds with the sta ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 09:13:24 PDT 2007

9430 [lbo-talk] Clash of Sexual Civilizations (was Re: ahmadinejad) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2007, at 5:50 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 17:02 -0400, Charles Brown wrote: > >> is it possible that he, like the ancient Greeks that we're all >> supposed to admire so much, doesn't see homosexual people as existing >> as much as homosexual _behaviors_ that some engage in? > > This was exactly Yoshie's original point, if I understood > her correctly. Yeah that's her point, but how do we know that's where Ahmadinejad is coming fro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 26 08:56:49 PDT 2007

9431 [lbo-talk] behind Dan Rather's suit against CBS -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > I totally agree with this. I hope someone bigger than the Observer > takes this on; I think that's what Dan is betting on. Sounds like discovery could be mighty interesting. If CBS sacrificed Rather (and Mary Mapes, a very fine person we met on The Nation cruise) for a break on ownership restrictions then it'd be great to see Redstone's head on a platter.

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 08:53:02 PDT 2007

9432 [lbo-talk] help -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 12:40 PM, Eric wrote: > Can someone remind me again why unions are so vital to leftist > politics? As far as I can tell, really existing unions are actually > retreating from politics, toward the national interest and away from > any sort of working-class mutual aid. I know this is not a new > development, but after the UAW deal, it seems like it might really be > useful to evaluate the left's undying faith in the anachronistic > political form called the ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 08:50:11 PDT 2007

9433 [lbo-talk] Last Supper, in a leather harness -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Mr. WD wrote: > For me, the problem is definitely not that people find blasphemy > deeply offensive. I think it's the gratuitousness of it... I guess > I'm just conflicted about this. Should I be? I grew up Catholic, and I find this sort of thing hilarious. Besides, the whole ritual of the Crucifixion is a sadomasochistic fantasy. Whips? Humliation? Grandiosity? Crown of thorns? Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 08:43:07 PDT 2007

9434 [lbo-talk] GM-UAW agreement -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > The more I read about this, the more unattractive the deal looks. > VEBA > going ahead, wage-reduction programme, no commitment on job > security so far > as I can see... it looks as if the union leadership led workers out > for a > short strike for leverage to obtain some fairly marginal gains. So what should they have done instead? GM and Ford are losing gobs of money in the U.S. What would you have proposed if you were r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 26 06:32:10 PDT 2007

9435 [lbo-talk] he's happier, less so her -- rank: 1000

New York Times - September 26, 2007 Economic Scene He's Happier, She's Less So By DAVID LEONHARDT Last year, a team of researchers added a novel twist to something known as a time-use survey. Instead of simply asking people what they had done over the course of their day, as pollsters have been doing since the 1960s, the researchers also asked how people felt during each activity. Were they happy? Interested? Tired? Stressed? Not surprisingly, men and women often gave similar answers about w ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 06:30:29 PDT 2007