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316 Successes of the antiwar movement? (Re: [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

"preaching to the choir?" King's speech would be dismissed as PREACHING of any kind. At risk of wandering into the thread about absence of snake handlers on LBO, MANY speakers at rallies I have been at recently could stand a good round of training in public speaking, and oratory ...

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Author:	DoreneFC at aol.com
Date:	Thu Apr 10 07:14:52 PDT 2003

317 Successes of the antiwar movement? (Re: [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

Rallies are important not only as outreach but as a way to bring together individuals and demonstrate to each other that theirs is a shared viewpoint, the constant lies of Faux News and the Compromised News Network to the contrary. Without them, would the antiwar movement have even gained the momentuum ...

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Author:	H. Curtiss Leung
Date:	Thu Apr 10 06:52:37 PDT 2003

318 Successes of the antiwar movement? (Re: [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

rallies are the method of outreach....what are we supposed to do....go on CNN and FOX non-stop? There were plenty of avenues for people to find out and understand what this war was about and was not about .... at the end of the day that 40% decided to close ...

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Author:	eric dorkin
Date:	Thu Apr 10 06:13:01 PDT 2003

319 [lbo-talk] WBAI crisis -- rank: 508

That certainly explains not wanting to pay six thousand dollars to have it published. Martin On May 26, 2004, at 1:31 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > This is a scandal and an embarrassment. But almost no one within the > station, or the whole "Pacifica community," wants to talk about them. > You ...

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Author:	martin
Date:	Wed May 26 14:29:08 PDT 2004

320 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

On 10/4/2003 8:52 AM, "lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org" <lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org> wrote: > > Perhaps, but probably not. The line that signs of enthusiasm for > Saddam's fall are simply sucking up to the new imperial power is > going to be hard to ...

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Author:	Thiago Oppermann
Date:	Wed Apr 9 20:33:23 PDT 2003

321 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

The daily news is _exactly_ as illuminating as hour by hour stock market reports. I think Lou Paulsen made this point a couple weeks ago in reference to daily war reports, but it's true in peacetime as well. The only news (other than local news of people you know) that ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Apr 9 18:17:36 PDT 2003

322 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

Kelley: > I really want to think it was staged, but the boo boo with > the US flag > suggests to me that it wasn't. Had the us staged that one, i > doubt the > braintrust would have ok'd the u.s. flag. no, that was an > action by Uncle > Sam's ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Wed Apr 9 16:44:20 PDT 2003

323 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > ...and don't forget: > > >Dow Up 300 After Deaths Of 400 > >NEW YORK-Buoyed by positive news from the war front, the Dow Jones > >Industrial Average soared more than 300 points Monday after the > >killing of more than 400 Republican Guard ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Wed Apr 9 16:44:43 PDT 2003

324 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

At 03:50 PM 4/9/03 -0700, Brad DeLong wrote: >Were the crowds at the fall of the Berlin Wall fake too? > >I don't think the U.S. Army has enough people in Baghdad who speak Arabic >to stage a mobilization. > > >Brad DeLong I really want to think it ...

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Wed Apr 9 16:36:03 PDT 2003

325 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

Willy Greenfields wrote: > > > Insofar as there's to be had and leveraged, I'm afraid > it could end with exile-enforced repression on a > familiar scale. > Merely afraid? Don't we _know_? What U.S. invasion of the last 50 years (or skipping WW 2 what U.S. invasion _ever_) has ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Apr 9 16:31:49 PDT 2003

326 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

At 10:31 PM 4/9/03 +0000, loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote: >Like I said to a guy in the elevator today, "Hell, if there was a big statue >of George Bush in Chicago, I bet we could get ten thousand people to pull it >down." (I didn't continue ...

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Wed Apr 9 16:30:16 PDT 2003

327 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

Brad: > > Were the crowds at the fall of the Berlin Wall fake too? > I do not think it is a good analogy, Brad. GDR was not invaded by anyone - the change came from within. > I don't think the U.S. Army has enough people in Baghdad who speak > Arabic to ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Wed Apr 9 16:22:56 PDT 2003

328 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

> I don't think the U.S. Army has enough people in Baghdad who speak > Arabic to stage a mobilization. > > > Brad DeLong They have those Arabic-speaking electronic speaker gizmos. You push a button and it says "Put your hands over your head!" or "Drop your weapons!" These things really ...

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Author:	loupaulsen at attbi.com
Date:	Wed Apr 9 16:11:11 PDT 2003

329 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Doug Henwood wrote: > Bradford DeLong wrote: > > >Once again, The Onion put it best: > > ...and don't forget: > today on CNBC: statues, stocks fall -gr

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Author:	Guilherme
Date:	Wed Apr 9 16:07:58 PDT 2003

330 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

> So you don't think that the fall of Saddam opens up > positive > possibilities for the Iraqi people? And you don't > think a lot of > people in Baghdad are happy at this prospect? Yes on both counts. My sincere hope is that they can realize those possibilities (I'm ...

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Author:	Willy Greenfields
Date:	Wed Apr 9 16:08:58 PDT 2003