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9856 [lbo-talk] Why I Skip Anti-Globalization Protests -- rank: 1000

On Oct 23, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Chuck wrote: > No, I didn't have a brick. I can't that a brick would be of much > use on > the right wing puritans that we were talking about. From what I > understand after talking to some reporter friends, the guy running the > anti-porn campaign is actively avoiding interviews. Speaking of which, Phill Kline is on the march again, isn't he? What is he, like some county prosecutor going after abortion clinics now? Doug

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9857 [lbo-talk] Why I Skip Anti-Globalization Protests -- rank: 1000

Chuck0: > If you dismiss the property destruction at Seattle, then you just > don't get how that played an important role in the overall success > of Seattle. Huh? I was there all week and property destruction was minimal. A few smashed windows, and a circle-A spray-painted on a cop car (which was ballsy and marvellous). The bourgeoisie likes to talk up the damage, but to them anything that interferes with their plans is the virtual equivalent of armed revolution. And...Seattle was ...

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9858 [lbo-talk] "Islamofascism Awareness Week" (was Marjane Satrapi: Revolutionary Spirit) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 23, 2007, at 2:49 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > For the record, I am in favor of total nuclear > disarmament by everyone, and have worked for many > years for that goal, including extensive organizing > and writing against the US possession and use of > nuclear weapons. I do not favor anyone adding to the > world's nuclear arsenals, including Iran. But I cannot > see that the US government is in any position to > object to Iranian efforts to get the bomb, much l ...

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9859 [lbo-talk] Marjane Satrapi: likes the West for the freedom to work, wanted Kerry to win -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bookslut.com/features/2004_10_003261.php> An Interview with Marjane Satrapi Anyone who read Marjane Satrapi s simple and evocative graphic novel, Persepolis, felt the sting of its final page. In Satrapi s first installment of her memoir of Iranian life before, during and after the 1979 revolution, she chose to end with the image of our fourteen- year-old heroine -- the cartoon Marjane -- with her hands pressed against airport glass as her father carried away her fainting mo ...

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9860 [lbo-talk] Why I Skip Anti-Globalization Protests -- rank: 1000

On Oct 23, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > Chub: > >> Fuck you, douchebag. >> >> At least I'm out there making a difference. Your contribution to the >> world seems to be limited to making personal attacks on people who >> are >> doing something. >> >> It's not easy putting oneself out there on the line when you have to >> deal with dickbrains like yourself who snipe at you from the >> comfort of >> some Internet li ...

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9861 [lbo-talk] "Islamofascism Awareness Week" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 23, 2007, at 2:29 PM, BklynMagus wrote: >> How do we as mostly secular leftists relate to > religiously minded people, such as militant > Islamists who might be engaged in anti-imperialist > struggle? > > We support them in their shared identification of > a great threat, in this case, imperialist activity. Yeah. On a related topic, Adolph Reed wrote me recently: > On the religion thing, I've never pretended -- in nearly 40 years of > organizing work with wor ...

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9862 [lbo-talk] jail terms for student activists -- rank: 1000

On Oct 23, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > But if a majority of the population supports executions or those > who inflict > death, then executions are legitimate and understandable, at least in > certain corners of the world. I suppose. Today's FT has an article on how the Afghan population is cheering the return of capital punishment as an antidote to criminal anarchy (the bad kind of anarchy, of course). Some are even calling for public executions, not seen since the da ...

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9863 [lbo-talk] fascism week -- rank: 1000

On Oct 23, 2007, at 2:04 PM, bhandari at berkeley.edu wrote: > I think > we should be developing such analysis--anti imperialist and self > critical > of Western liberalism I couldn't agree more.

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9864 [lbo-talk] jail terms for student activists -- rank: 1000

On Oct 23, 2007, at 12:51 PM, ravi wrote: > Ulhas' day off, today? > > --ravi > > > http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/10/13/usdom14388.htm > http://hrw.org/reports/2006/us0406/ > > <...> > > Lethal injections look peaceful and painless which is why California > and all but one of the other death penalty states adopted them to > replace the more gruesome spectacles of execution by hanging, firing > squad, lethal gas, or electrocution. Ah, didn't you ...

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9865 [lbo-talk] "Islamofascism Awareness Week" (was Marjane Satrapi: Revolutionary Spirit) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 23, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > But at the risk of repeating myself, I don't think she did say that. > She said what he wrote on a particular occasion wouldn't have > been out of place on FR or LGF. That seems perfectly parliamentary > to me, whether one agrees with it or not. Oh please. That's ridiculous. You think queer-friendly socialism would be welcome on FR or LGF? For YF, any critique of the reactionary branch of Islam makes you the functional equivalent ...

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9866 [lbo-talk] LGF cites Hitch -- rank: 1000

Yoshie's odious comparison got me paging through LGF. Yeah, sure, we'd all feel right at home there! I came across their approving citation of this passage from Hitchens: <http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=27644_Hitchens- _Defending_the_Term_Islamofascism&only> > Does Bin Ladenism or Salafism or whatever we agree to call it have > anything in common with fascism? > > I think yes. The most obvious points of comparison would be these: > Both movements are base ...

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9867 [lbo-talk] gun porn -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gunsandammomag.com/blog/gablog/>

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9868 [lbo-talk] Why I Skip Anti-Globalization Protests -- rank: 1000

On Oct 23, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Chuck wrote: > I'm unaware of any random praxis happening lately. The people who > protested in D.C. this past weekend were not protesting for the > sake of > protesting. I know that some people here prefer to see them as random > teenagers, but there were quite a few veteran organizers involved. They are random in the sense that they're mostly the isolated acts of isolated individuals associated in transient, isolated groups. They don't speak for a ...

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9869 [lbo-talk] labor news from Iran -- rank: 1000

[from Eric Lee's LabourStart] As many of you will be aware, jailed Iranian labour activist Mansour Osanloo faced the loss of vision in one eye while the regime refused him medical treatment. A massive online campaign involving Amnesty International, the International Transport Workers Federation, and many thousands of LabourStart readers has resulted in Osanloo receiving the medical treatment he needed last weekend. The more than 10,000 messages you sent to the government in Tehran had a ...

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9870 [lbo-talk] "Islamofascism Awareness Week" (was Marjane Satrapi: Revolutionary Spirit) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 23, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > I started prowling back through > it to see what terrible thing she's done this time. As usual, > I took away the impression that she's taking a lot more personal > insults than she's handing out, and in general, her tone is > much more temperate and on-topic that her detractors'. Saying Andie, someone I know fairly well in the real world, and not just as a dotcomrade (a word I just learned today, thanks to the Urban Dictionar ...

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