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4321 [lbo-talk] Black People DID Get the Vote by Voting -- rank: 149

The headline on the original post is just flat out wrong. As multiple accounts of the rise of the civil rights movement emphasize, the migration of blacks north and their expanding voting power in northern states was a major reason for national politicians taking civil rights seriously after decades of neglect ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Mon Oct 18 11:01:06 PDT 2004

4322 [lbo-talk] Class Action: The Million Worker March, October 17 -- rank: 149

Wojtek wrote: >Yoshie: >> > As for the turnout, I'd say that the police officer quoted by Manny >> Fernandez and David Nakamura in their Washington Post article is >> accurate: "Million Worker March in the Washington Post" (October 18, >> 2004, > >Quote from that source: >"A law enforcement official estimated the crowd at less ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Oct 18 07:54:20 PDT 2004

4323 [lbo-talk] Class Action: The Million Worker March, October 17 -- rank: 149

>We've got three eyewitnesses to query on Tuesday: Brad Mayer, my >daughter (10 yrs old and Seattle veteran), and Yoshie. >Joanna Sadly, I didn't get to see Brad (my cell phone battery died before I got to try to call him back), but I did manage to meet ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Oct 18 06:21:54 PDT 2004

4324 [lbo-talk] Million Worker March in the Washington Post -- rank: 149

Unionists Mobilize for Work, Benefits Thousands Drawn to Rally at Lincoln Memorial in Prelude to Nov. Vote By Manny Fernandez and David Nakamura Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, October 18, 2004; Page B01 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40594-2004Oct17.html> Union members from across the country gathered at ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Oct 18 04:13:17 PDT 2004

4325 [lbo-talk] Associated Press: undreds of Workers at MWM -- rank: 149

... election of Democrat John Kerry or Reform Party candidate Ralph Nader. Organizers had billed the gathering as the "Million Worker March ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Oct 17 14:43:01 PDT 2004

4326 [lbo-talk] "The Most Important Election in Our Lifetime" -- rank: 149

... quiz! -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/> * Greens for Nader: <http://greensfornader.net/> * Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Oct 16 17:39:55 PDT 2004

4327 [lbo-talk] Luddism: "Collective Bargaining by Riot" -- rank: 149

>>>Eubulides wrote: >>>>Please don't perpetuate the stereotype of the Luddites! >>>They half deserve it for focusing on the machines and not the >>>social relations. >>>Doug >>Would you rather that they had simply killed the capitalists? >Huh? The only choices are breaking machines or breaking capitalists? >Doug Why did the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Oct 16 15:16:18 PDT 2004

4328 [lbo-talk] and in the irony dept... -- rank: 149

... Kerry: "Destroy the young demagogue before he becomes another >Ralph Nader." Clearly, he (or somebody) succeeded beyond his wettest dreams! Shane

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sat Oct 16 14:12:39 PDT 2004

4329 [lbo-talk] and in the irony dept... -- rank: 149

... Kerry: "Destroy the young demagogue before he becomes another Ralph Nader." http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061703.shtml

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Sat Oct 16 13:37:20 PDT 2004

4330 [lbo-talk] The Million Worker March: Black People Did Not Get the Vote by Voting -- rank: 149

John Adams jadams01 at sprynet.com, Sat Oct 16 08:44:24 PDT 2004: >On Saturday, October 16, 2004, at 11:30 AM, Michael Dawson wrote: >> Martin Luther King was a great political strategist. > >Till he fucked up in Chicago, where he had a change to move from >protest to power ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Oct 16 13:08:07 PDT 2004

4331 [lbo-talk] Beirut Meet Seeks Strategies to Counter U.S. Policies -- rank: 149

The Beirut Declaration: <http://www.focusweb.org/main/html/Article512.html> Walden Bello, "Beirut 2004: A Milestone in the Global Struggle against Injustice and War" (Speech at the Assembly on "Where Next for the Anti-War and Anti-Globalization Movements?" Beirut, Lebanon, Sept. 17, 2004): <http://www.focusweb.org/main/html ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Oct 16 10:32:21 PDT 2004

4332 [lbo-talk] Class Action: The Million Worker March, October 17 -- rank: 149

Class Action: The Million Worker March, October 17 August 31, 2004 Seth Sandronsky Why are some Americans mobilizing to publicly gather and speak out about their working lives? Just ask a top organizer for the Million Worker March (MWM) protest in Washington, D.C. on October 17. "The Million Worker March ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Oct 16 10:01:08 PDT 2004

4333 [lbo-talk] The Million Worker March: Black People Did Not Get the Vote by Voting -- rank: 149

Michael Dawson mdawson at pdx.edu: >Martin Luther King was a great political strategist. Local 10 could >use a rethink on that point, before they run their 10,000 worker >march. Why are thoughts of some LBO-talk subscribers more conservative than a Washington Post article <http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2 ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Oct 16 09:39:43 PDT 2004

4334 [lbo-talk] The Million Worker March: Black People Did Not Get the Vote by Voting -- rank: 149

Friday, October 15, 2004 The Million Worker March: Black People Did Not Get the Vote by Voting An Interview with Clarence Thomas (ILWU Local 10), Co-Chair of the Million Worker March By Derek Tyner Q: The initiative behind this march came out of your union, ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Oct 16 00:31:53 PDT 2004

4335 [lbo-talk] Frequent Filers: Corporate Hypocrisy in Accessing the Courts -- rank: 149

Oct. 4, 2004 U.S. Businesses File Four Times More Lawsuits Than Private Citizens And Are Sanctioned Much More Often for Frivolous Suits But Corporate America and Political Allies Bush and Cheney Campaign to Limit Citizens' Rights to Sue WASHINGTON, D.C. -- American businesses file four times as many lawsuits as ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Oct 15 13:16:41 PDT 2004