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526 TOWARD A MAXIMUM ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT -- rank: 1000

>Yoshie: >Let's not worry about _all_ Americans for the time being (besides, >we'll never get all of them on our side). How far are the 9% of >Americans who are relatively consistently opposed to imperialism >prepared to go? How can we expand the proportion of Americans >consistently opposed to imperialism from 9% to, say, 20-30%? >-- >Yoshie > Jokes appreciated. Seriously. Bill, we could dump the South and much of the midwest. Look the only way is to get people be ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jan 16 16:29:49 PST 2003

527 TOWARD A MAXIMUM ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT -- rank: 1000

> >Taking and occupying a building that is always guarded -- e.g., an >important government building -- would be far more difficult. >Shouldn't be impossible, though, with a sufficient number. In fact we did this when Califano would not issue the 504 regs. I was not in San Francisco but enough disabled people were to get into the Federal building and occupy it for about 5 days with the help of local community. Califano signed the regulations. That is what I am talking about. An a ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jan 16 11:00:39 PST 2003

528 TOWARD A MAXIMUM ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT -- rank: 1000

>If the struggle lasts long enough(and that depends partly on events >outside our control, such as the magnitude of the resistance of the >Iraqi people, whether the imperialists in D.C. carry their wars into >Iran, etc. etc. etc.) -- under those conditions the actions you describe >will occur. Say this war does happen. How to make the struggle stick after the war even? How can we keep the momentum going? The last time the energy seemed to pretty much dissipate after the Vietnam ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jan 15 23:06:04 PST 2003

529 non-voters -- rank: 1000

>Marta: >> That is my experience too Wojtek. Here they are mostly after free >> market success. There are Armenians, Russians and Iranians in my >> building. They are not close to what you would call liberal. There >> probably exists some figures on how many vote Republican. I would >> bet it is high. > > >The same also works for Latinos - as far as I can remember. I used to >teach at a community college in CA and heard some horror stories f ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 15 16:24:38 PST 2003

530 North Korea/disabled treated like sh*t -- rank: 1000

North Korea's Secret January 14, 2003 By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF SEOUL, South Korea The eeriest puzzle in the Hermit Kingdom just north of here is not where it hides its nukes, but where it hides its disabled people. The only time I was allowed into North Korea, years ago, I couldn't find anyone in a wheelchair, on crutches or missing a hand. North Koreans kept insisting there were no disabled people in Pyongyang, the clean and lovely capital of which North Korea is justifiably proud. "Any hand ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jan 15 16:17:33 PST 2003

531 Approaching Sh*tstorm? -- rank: 1000

>Well, the odds are rising that I'm about to receive a massive >incoming sh*tstorm launched by the assembled right-wing hacks of >America. > >And all because I pointed out that Glenn Hubbard's current line on >deficits and interest rates is... inconsistent with what he says in >his textbook. > >Now if only I can persuade Max, Jamie Galbraith, and company not to >be *too* eager to shoot the wounded if the sh*tstorm comes... > > >Brad DeLong I'm with you Brad ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jan 15 16:15:26 PST 2003

532 non-voters -- rank: 1000

> > >THen you must be dealing with a select group of Vietnamese and Cuban >immigrants. In California, the new immigrant voters have shifted politics >significantly to the left. It is mainly the Latino immigrants who are in the low wage service sector who have become more political . marta --

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jan 15 15:55:49 PST 2003

533 non-voters -- rank: 1000

>That might have been true with European immigrants at the turn of the >centuries who had been exposed working class movements in the Old World/ >My experience with today's immigrants is that they tend to be >conservative, especially on social issues, like women's or gay rights, >race issues or even economic issues; many of them are rabidly >anti-communist. > >Wojtek That is my experience too Wojtek. Here they are mostly after free market success. There are Armenians, Ru ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 15 14:36:53 PST 2003

534 TOWARD A MAXIMUM ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT -- rank: 1000

>At 12:32 PM -0600 1/14/03, Carrol Cox wrote: >>Marta Russell wrote: >>> Yes, same person. I know he has a radical background and is a fine >> > activist but everything seems to be toned down these days. No one >>> wants to offend the police, no chances taken, no Starbucks windows >>> thing you know. >>> marta >> >>Marta, Besides "toned-down" old radicals, we _also_ (and crucially) have >>new _about-to-becom ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 14 22:29:41 PST 2003

535 TOWARD A MAXIMUM ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT -- rank: 1000

Yes, same person. I know he has a radical background and is a fine activist but everything seems to be toned down these days. No one wants to offend the police, no chances taken, no Starbucks windows thing you know. marta > My mentor oin the late 70's, Blase Bonpane did that, Marta? I've >been meaning to say hi to him at the Office of the Americas in L.A. >for a while. Blase was thrown out of Guatemala in '66 or '67 for >supporting the guerillas. > >-- >Michael Pugliese ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 14 09:47:07 PST 2003

536 TOWARD A MAXIMUM ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT -- rank: 1000

I witnessed some tired old demo control in LA on the 11th. First the organizers seemed only to agree to unite to pull this march off if no one broke ranks and did any CD. Seems the last event several NION folks sat down in the street and got the police angry. We can't have that! Blase Bonpane, of the Christian contingent of the organizers, said NO CD. The numbers of marchers was over estimated I believe. But also our efforts played to an empty downtown LA. It was Saturday, the office building ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jan 13 20:46:12 PST 2003

537 Disabled activists/Russia (was Marxism and bodies) -- rank: 1000

>The US and Brit activists have been working in cahoots with Russian >counterparts to get disabled people more politically organized there. > >Marta >--- > >Marta, > >Do you have any data and/or contact info? This would be worth looking >into/doing a piece on. Thanks. Here are a few stories that give info. These orgs are all on the web. Alan Holdsworth lives in London. ADAPT of Texas is Stephanie Thomas and Bob Kafka. Marta ******************** SFrom: adapt at adap ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 13 17:14:24 PST 2003

538 Marxism and Bodies -- rank: 1000

> >Marta, I will admit, with some embarassment, that I >know nothing of the history of the deaf, mentally >retarded, blind,etc in this country or any other >country. I have no doubt that there were/are >well-intentioned individuals within this country and >others. Don't be embarassed because it is arcane and the history is only just being written by disabled historians and theorists as of late. Disability has largely been placed in the realm of medicine, not sociology or hi ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 12 22:58:21 PST 2003

539 The Triumph of Hope Over Self-Interest -- rank: 1000

>Brooks may be a conservative, but I'm afraid he's mostly right about >this argument. That Time poll, which has 39% of Americans either >thinking they're in the top 1% or will be someday, is just as >revealing as Brooks claims. It uncovers a fundamental fantasy about >American life. Even though we've got the most unequal distribution >of income in the rich world, the highest poverty levels, the >greatest persistence of low-wage pay, and only moderate levels of >mobility - ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jan 12 14:37:25 PST 2003

540 Bush Pedigree / tax-shelter salesman -- rank: 1000

It takes a Republican to show the Democrats what's up. Marta LA Times Opinion pages ECONOMY A Tax Cut Plan Rooted in the Bush Pedigree By Kevin Phillips Kevin Phillips is the author, most recently, of "Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich." January 12 2003 WASHINGTON -- For those who ever believed in it, Washington "compassionate conservatism" just took off its mask. Federal deficits are soaring. State finances are sinking into their biggest crisis s ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 12 14:21:36 PST 2003