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826 Venezuelan Interim President Resigns -- rank: 1000

>Charles: It would seem that, at least, the positions and actions of >trade unions, must be judged more on a case by case basis, without a >sort of rebuttable presumption in their favor in general. Trade >unions and especially their leaders can be integrally part of >capitalist ruling class institutions, although not all are. I was overly broad in my statement. The reversal of the coup in Venezuela (as I already commented in another email) needs to be lauded as the victory of the ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Apr 15 12:10:27 PDT 2002

827 The New Science -- rank: 1000

>On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, joanna bujes wrote: > >> anti-depressants...that being that they are, in the main, drugs that >> increase one's agitational level and that, in fact, the risk for suicide >> rises as much in the control group (of nondepressed patients) as it does >> with those who are suffering from depression. Miles wrote: >As I understand the literature on SSRIs like Prozac, the drug seems to >provoke suicidal ideation and behavior in a small number ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Apr 15 11:54:13 PDT 2002

828 The New Science -- rank: 1000

>On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, joanna bujes wrote: > >> anti-depressants...that being that they are, in the main, drugs that >> increase one's agitational level and that, in fact, the risk for suicide >> rises as much in the control group (of nondepressed patients) as it does >> with those who are suffering from depression. Miles wrote: >As I understand the literature on SSRIs like Prozac, the drug seems to >provoke suicidal ideation and behavior in a small number ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Apr 15 11:51:06 PDT 2002

829 Venezuelan Interim President Resigns -- rank: 1000

> >In purely political terms, it has _always_ been true - >well before the 1920's, indeed since the beginning of >'proletarian time' - that "pure and simple" trade >unionism was inadequate to the construction of a mass >working class-oriented political opposition. >Successful working class political parties never >simply sprang directly out of the trade union >movement, but instead developed in parallel with the >trade unions. The failure of the American ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Apr 15 11:22:47 PDT 2002

830 Venezuelan Interim President Resigns -- rank: 1000

> >That's way too charitable. What I have read in the Spanish media >makes no mention of a change of heart from the trade unions. The >CTV has consistently been Anti-chavez and pro coup. I would say >that the main reason the coup took place in the first place was its >support by the CTV. The anti-coup forces appear to have come from >the slums and they protested not only the directors of the coup, but >the Venezuelan media, surrounding their offices, because of their ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Apr 14 09:33:55 PDT 2002

831 Medicaid/ 26% no prescriptions -- rank: 1000

Following up on the last thread on Medicaid 26% on Medicaid go without prescription drugs http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/09/health/09DRUG.html?pagewanted=print&position=top -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA www.disweb.org

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Apr 9 16:42:14 PDT 2002

832 Query- Workfare & Giuliani -- rank: 1000

Several years back in New York the Giuliani administration planned to extend workfare to homeless shelters, making workfare and other requirements a condition of shelter for the 4,600 families and 7,000 single adults in New York City's homeless shelter system. Can one of you New Yorkers point me to sources for an update on what happened with his plan? Big thanks in advance, can send offlist. marta -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachmen ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Apr 5 11:24:26 PST 2002

833 April Fools Day -- rank: 1000

April 1 is the day called "April Fools' Day" in some parts of the world. Thought it would be of interest to H-Disability subscribers to have some links to pages about the history of "fools" (who, of course, were often people with disabilities of various descriptions)--as usual, inclusion below does not imply endorsement of all the language or ideas at any website. (It's incredible how much goofy stuff I dragged through just to find these somewhat more respectable offerings.) ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Apr 1 10:45:10 PST 2002

834 A Suggestion for Leftist Rhetoric -- rank: 1000

Alec Ramsdell wrote: > > Marta Russell wrote: > > > I'm going to make my objects to the use of "sane" > > and "insane" which > > seems to be such a common leftie language trap that > > already I have > > done this on three lists. > > > > One writer labels the Taliban a "cult of ignorant > > psychotics," > > pundits and government officials have called them > > "madmen" and > > " ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 21 08:43:17 PDT 2001

835 A Suggestion for Leftist Rhetoric -- rank: 1000

> > >We should focus on the motivation of the sane, not the insane. We > >should emphasize the feelings of the everyday Muslim, not the small > >group of psychotics who make up the Taliban. There has been a lot of > >talk about "blowback." Cause-and-effect should not be ignored, but > >irrationality fights against such mechanical explanations. I believe > >we should accept the WTC attack as an act of insanity and leave it at > >that. We shou ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Sep 20 16:20:55 PDT 2001

836 These guys we can trust w/our civil liberties? -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: > > I can't learn a thing from that because there are lot's of cultures > inside the geographic boundaries that simply are *not* in any kind of > harmony that he seeks, nor should they strive to be. Plus, the > imperialists who use nationalism as a foil or even precisely because > they do believe in it do need to be confronted with the long history > of *their* behaviors that were partly responsible for the acts that > took place, now more than ever, so ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Sep 17 19:28:33 PDT 2001

837 Israel question -- rank: 1000

You aren't repeating -- thanks for so much detail. You must have a scanner -- sure am thinking that will be the next computer item I'll purchase so I can back up more of what I have to say. Typing is wearisome. Marta "Forstater, Mathew" wrote: > > Haven't read all the replies top this yet, so I apologize if I am > repeating anything already said. snip

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Date:	Mon Sep 17 15:50:19 PDT 2001

838 Vote.com depressing outcomes -- rank: 1000

Christopher Susi wrote: > > > You make some good points that I agree with, and some I don't. However my > original motivation was in reply was to a post that had a very sarcastic > (unfortunately that's not quite the word I want - but I suffer from aphasia > now) feel to it. What was the quote again? "All it takes is good old > fashioned nationalism to convert them all to ruling class ideologies." I > read that as "fuck you proleteriat sheep". Yea w ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 17 09:50:52 PDT 2001

839 Trees sowed in May bear rotten September fruit -- rank: 1000

There must have been something that preceded this excerpt from the LA Times: Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/20010522/t000042732.html "Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously. That's the message sent ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Sep 17 09:36:24 PDT 2001

840 Israel question -- rank: 1000

Very useful info - ! Marta Charles Jannuzi wrote: > > If Arabs were anywhere 4000 years ago, it was Arabia(Arabs speak a Semitic > language--back then there were more Semitic languages than the two main ones > recognized today, Arabic and Hebrew) . They don't really enter historical > accounts much until the rise of missionary and militant Islam, well into AD. > snip

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