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1876 PRAGUE DECLARATION - 28 Sep 2000 -- rank: 1000

In message <p0433010fb5f92678990d@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >From: Soren <Soren at afgj.org> >PRAGUE DECLARATION >28 September 2000 > >We, the members of non-governmental and community-based organizations from >different parts of the world, Wow! From 'we the people' to 'we the non-governmental...' >We gathered in Prague for an exceptionally broad, inclusive, international >protest against the discriminatory and unjust ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 29 03:47:01 PDT 2000

1877 small not beautiful -- rank: 1000

In message <20000928092352.A12873 at panix.com>, Gordon Fitch <gcf at panix.com> writes > >Well, a lot of it seems like simple-minded utopianism, for >one thing. The results of technological innovation are >complex and often paradoxical. Consider the results of >learning how to derive a lot of energy very quickly from >nuclear fission. > Its not the results of technological innovation that are paradoxical (though of course they might be) in the example you cite ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 28 07:16:03 PDT 2000

1878 Small-talk -- rank: 1000

In message <F34REIpzlXySilODPni00005da4 at hotmail.com>, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> writes >>And, quoting DeLeon (quoting St Just?) >> >>The great only appear great because we are on our knees, arise! >>-- >>James Heartfield > >Actually I believe that quote is from St. Monica (Lewinsky). No no, what Monica said was 'a rise' -- James Heartfield Great Expectations: the creative industries in the New Economy is available from Design Agend ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 27 12:52:39 PDT 2000

1879 Small-talk -- rank: 1000

>The Indian writer Arundhati Roy put it best, writing about her crusade >against a World-Bank-funded dam: "Perhaps what the 21st century has in store >for us is the dismantling of the Big. Big bombs, big dams, big heroes, big >mistakes. Perhaps it will be the Century of the Small." 'World-bank funded'? I thought that the World Bank had pulled out of the Narmada Dam, despite the determination of the Indian government to go ahead. Of course, it is very convenient to big capit ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 27 10:02:11 PDT 2000

1880 Pollitt on Nader -- rank: 1000

In message <014b01c0289c$039cf0c0$0edcfea9 at 7zig1>, Nathan Newman <nathan at newman.org> writes quoting >From: "John Halle" <john.halle at yale.edu> >To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >> Your decision not to vote for Nader, even in a state where it >>doesn't matter, is therefore a deliberate sabotaging of these >>non-electoral efforts. Which seems a bit intolerant to me. Is the case for Nada so overwhelming that not voting for him is a ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 27 10:06:32 PDT 2000

1881 Prague -- rank: 1000

In message <518B8516EDC0D011BE3F00C04FD4EE5A27CC08 at smtp.fair.org>, Seth Ackerman <SAckerman at FAIR.org> writes >There seems to be a disconcerting absence of actual Czechs at the Prague >demonstrations. Does anyone know why that is? Considering what the IMF has >done to Eastern Europe, why aren't there tens of thousands of Czech union >members in the streets? Or are there? Disconcerting absence of proletarians en masse, one might add. Why should Czechs support a moveme ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 26 15:14:03 PDT 2000

1882 New Economy rant -- rank: 1000

In message <p0433011ab5f68bc514d4@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Nonbrand capital - a factory or a piece of software, say - >contributes to social wealth, even though much of that contribution >is appropriated by capitalists. Brand capital contributes to the >returns of the trademark holder, but doesn't increase social wealth >in any meaningful sense; the inflated markups are a diversion from >money that could otherwise have been spe ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 26 11:34:39 PDT 2000

1883 World Bank, Car freedom, oil -- rank: 1000

In message <p04330116b5f68695dcb9@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >James, your normal skepticism seems to be on leave. Wolfie & the WB >are masters of PR, and of seducing some of their more sluttish >critics. You find some of the more compromised NGOs, make a great >show of "listening" to them, pump out some sensitive-sounding >reports, and continue financing the imperial march of capital across >the globe behind all the ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 26 11:27:49 PDT 2000

1884 World Bank, Car freedom, oil -- rank: 1000

In message <p04330103b5f4667d09d1@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Under his reign, pro-poor softies have been >purged, not encouraged. Earlier Doug posted this: 'In fact, Wolfensohn agrees with many of their concerns and wants to bring the demonstrators into the tent of global problem-solving, rather than holding them at bay at the end of a police truncheon.' Probably the question is what are pro-poor softies doing at the World Bank anyway? Is thi ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 26 09:50:33 PDT 2000

1885 World Bank, Car freedom, oil -- rank: 1000

ending 24 September 2000 Conditionality transformed? This week International Financial Institutions found themselves at the centre of protests by activists against economic globalisation. Two thousand people marched in the streets of Prague against IMF policies perceived to be discriminatory and unfair to workers in developing countries. But a paper by Africa researcher John Pender, he shows the free market ideologues of the eighties have long since given way to a new breed of World Bankers who ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 24 08:30:39 PDT 2000

1886 Petrol Protests -- rank: 1000

The week ending 17 September 2000 Crisis? What crisis? The petrol protests in Britain were over before even one of Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott's Jaguar tanks had run dry, but that did not stop the government from making a crisis out of a protest. The protest movement was a wholly reactionary alliance of small business (see below), aided and abetted by the police and the oil companies. Well advised by Tory politicians, the protesters stood down before their action could have any effect. H ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 17 04:31:49 PDT 2000

1887 national journal Professor Finkelstein, please explain to us how the Holocaust /Chomsky, Shahak -- rank: 1000

In message <p04330110b5e4016428a0@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Michael Pugliese wrote: > >>Are these unrepresentative quotes from Finkelstein's book? > >No. > >It's a short book; as Verso editor Colin Robinson said, you could >read it over a drink. Why not check it out? Extracts from Norman Finkelstein's book were serialised in the Guardian newspaper, so may well be on their website at www.newsunlimited.co.uk >From what ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 13 03:39:29 PDT 2000

1888 Women & Industrialization (was Re: capitalist patriarchy) -- rank: 1000

In message <v04210100b5e4154c9b46@[140.254.114.95]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes >Typical faces of industrial workers changed from female & colored to >male & white to female & colored. The prevalence of the nuclear >family idealized by conservatives now -- male breadwinner, female >housewife, & biological children -- was merely a blip in history that >coincided with the post-WW2 economic boom (say, from the Korean War >to the V ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 13 03:36:25 PDT 2000

1889 Twins, East Timor, Africa, Creative Britain -- rank: 1000

In message <v04210103b5e150698606@[140.254.114.65]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes >Details are sketchy, but in the name of Britain's holy crusade to >civilise Africa once more, at least 17 have been killed in this >British massacre in Sierra Leone. I would not be surprised if the >women involved were not actually fighters but civilians. I expect >NATO will be bombing London by the end of next week to punish us. Ceefax here is also saying that 17 'We ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 10 11:46:18 PDT 2000

1890 Twins, East Timor, Africa, Creative Britain -- rank: 1000

The Week ending 20 September 2000 Leave it to God The parents of the Siamese twins 'Mary' and 'Jodie' are the latest victims of the national obsession with babies and children, and of the inability of professionals to leave people to suffer their personal tragedies in private. The parents came to Britain in the hope that doctors here would help them. Instead, they have been made the main attraction in an obscene circus run by British doctors, lawyers, priests and journalists. When the parents we ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 10 06:46:12 PDT 2000