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5056 Labor Party (was: Bush Threatens Veto...) -- rank: 149

Yoshie writes: > >This is how Jane Slaughter, who wrote that "the founding of the Labor >Party is definitely the proverbial 'big step forward,'" put the >problem in 1996: > >***** ...THE BREACH BETWEEN CHAPTERS AND THE MAIN ENDORSING UNIONS. >Although there are exceptions, the separation between the chapters >and the four initial endorsing ...

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Author:	JBrown72073 at cs.com
Date:	Sat Oct 12 15:40:05 PDT 2002

5057 Labor Party (was: Bush Threatens Veto...) -- rank: 149

Continuing from another post.... At 9:43 PM -0400 10/11/02, JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: > >I read about some of them at >><http://lpa.igc.org/lppress/lpp61_elections.html>; is this the >>strategy, winning nonbinding referenda? > >Organizing around issues rather than simply candidates, yes. We're working >on ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Oct 12 14:45:16 PDT 2002

5058 Labor Party (was: Bush Threatens Veto...) -- rank: 149

>At 12:02 PM -0400 10/10/02, JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >>>Yoshie wrote: >>>No, I remain an interested observer, as my understanding of the LP >>>was and is that it wants to sign up union locals first of all, rather >>>than individuals currently unrepresented by any unions >> >>Nah ...

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Author:	JBrown72073 at cs.com
Date:	Fri Oct 11 18:43:21 PDT 2002

5059 "Workers are fed up" -- rank: 149

... some other left-wing non-profit group to organize, maybe Nader's PIRG's or something. One day, everyone working in ...

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Author:	Brian O. Sheppard x349393
Date:	Thu Oct 10 16:02:43 PDT 2002

5060 "Workers are fed up" -- rank: 149

... some other left-wing non-profit group to organize, maybe Nader's PIRG's or something. One day, everyone working in ...

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Author:	Lance Murdoch
Date:	Thu Oct 10 11:19:53 PDT 2002

5061 Bush Threatens Veto of Defense Bill -- rank: 149

Doug Henwood writes: > Zizek says in his Lenin book that one should only make the argument > that there's no difference between the two parties (two principal > parties in countries outside the U.S., like the CDU and the SDP in > Germany) when the more liberal party is in office. When ...

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Author:	s-t-t at juno.com
Date:	Tue Oct 8 20:22:12 PDT 2002

5062 The Shadow Welfare State Re: Workers of the world...relax -- rank: 149

>One of the program planks of the Labor Party is shorter work time including a >32-hour work week; double time for all overtime; an hour off with pay for >every 2 hours overtime; 20 mandatory paid vacation days; one year paid leave >for every seven years of work. > >Folks ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Oct 1 07:57:37 PDT 2002

5063 Alterman's list -- rank: 149

This kind of crap is bringing the Nation to a new low. http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021209&s=alterman ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Stop the Presses by Eric Alterman Straw Liberals and False Prophets [from the December 9, 2002 issue] One big problem with liberal and leftist debate about Al Qaeda or ...

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Author:	Chris Kromm
Date:	Sun Nov 24 06:52:56 PST 2002

5064 Movement Leadership? What does it consist of? was Re: Corn transcript -- rank: 149

The post below is a contribution (stupid or intelligent, right or wrong) to the question of "What constitutres leadership in a mass movement?" I take off from a single short quotation -- the universal practice of scholars, philosohers, historians, & journaists as well as political activists for as long as such activities have ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Nov 22 10:29:46 PST 2002

5065 Corn transcript -- rank: 149

Marta Russell wrote: [Quoting Doug quoting Corn -- the passage below is from Corn: > > >>What is your standard? Should the leadership of a movement not be > >>scrutinized? I'm reading fragments again in isolation if that bothers anyone, delete. Corn (and most of the louder critics of ANSWER) doesn't seem to ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Nov 21 17:02:14 PST 2002

5066 bourgeois riot, DC branch -- rank: 149

----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Archer" <todda39 at hotmail.com> Doug posted: >KARENNA GORE: . . . And my whole attitude was, like, "We've got to fight >back harder. And where are our crowds?" And my dad, I'll never forget his >response. He said, "We have to do what's best for ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Mon Nov 18 13:22:54 PST 2002

5067 USG confirm activist "no-fly" list -- rank: 149

Grounded A federal agency confirms that it maintains an air-travel blacklist of 1,000 people. Peace activists and civil libertarians fear they're on it. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Dave Lindorff Salon.com Nov. 15, 2002 | Barbara Olshansky was in Newark International Airport at the JetBlue departure gate last March when an airline ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 15 07:08:35 PST 2002

5068 Gore supports single-payer national health care -- rank: 149

if you believe gore means this, i've got some enron stock i'd like to sell you. R At 10:56 PM 11/14/2002 +0000, you wrote: >[From ABC News "The Note"] > >Gore Supports Single-Payer > >Washington, November 14 - On a stage in a synagogue on New York's ...

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Author:	R
Date:	Thu Nov 14 20:48:42 PST 2002

5069 Gore supports single-payer national health care -- rank: 149

... my shoes >before I voted for him in 2004. > >Michael Nader and the Greens forced him to do it. :)

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Thu Nov 14 18:02:05 PST 2002

5070 Gore supports single-payer national health care -- rank: 149

[From ABC News "The Note"] Gore Supports Single-Payer Washington, November 14 - On a stage in a synagogue on New York's Upper West Side Wednesday night, Gore made this stunning announcement to several hundred people in response to a question from the event's host. Gore suggested he was ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Thu Nov 14 14:56:02 PST 2002