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361 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 31, Issue 224 -- rank: 858

No offense intended, Doug! Perhaps I'm indulging in some strategic snideness. But the specific professors I jab at are Fitch--- who believes home health aides are not 'really' workers (in a way that, presumably, college profs are); and Yoshie, who's made many offensive claims that are baldly false about ...

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Author:	Jim Straub
Date:	Fri Jul 28 10:18:46 PDT 2006

362 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 31, Issue 219 -- rank: 858

>>> <lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org> 07/27/06 5:01 PM >>> Why dismiss your interlocutor so completely? He's intelligent, well- informed, and writes well. Should people only engage those they agree with? ..... (Note to the ideological police: I don't think Hezbollah is fascist.) Doug Hmmm interesting ...

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Author:	Tahir Wood
Date:	Fri Jul 28 00:08:08 PDT 2006

363 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 31, Issue 215 -- rank: 858

> --- Tahir Wood <twood at uwc.ac.za> wrote: > > > > I have no idea why you directed us to this entry, > > but I am impressed by > > this assertion that "a single male can impregnate > > any number of females > > at once". I never knew that. How is it possible and > > is it safe ...

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Author:	Daniel Davies
Date:	Thu Jul 27 03:13:31 PDT 2006

364 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 26, Issue 243 -- rank: 858

quoth Michael Hoover: "one joseph weydemeyer, financial contributor to newspaper for which k marx was editor, communist league member, and german '1848er' who fled to u.s., was a surveyor on central park construction... mh" Any more information/sources on weydemeyer? Is it right he served in the Union Army? James ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Feb 26 14:16:27 PST 2006

365 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 26, Issue 174 -- rank: 858

Justin wrote: > Have had interesting and rather depressing chats about socialist politics with my teenage kids, one a 16 year > old HS junior, another an almost 13-year old middle schooler (now reading Orwell's 1984) on his own, both > very smart and fairly politically aware, quite progressive in their values ...

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Author:	Luke Weiger
Date:	Mon Feb 20 12:55:22 PST 2006

366 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 36, Issue 217 -- rank: 858

On Dec 20, 2006, at 5:05 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > I have a standing offer out to fistfight bob fitch, loser stops > writing about labor permanently. But I think he might be an old guy Early 60s, though a weightlifter.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 20 14:15:14 PST 2006

367 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 36, Issue 217 -- rank: 858

Maybe I'm missing something but I didn't interpret Doug's tone as negative. And we are ALWAYS hiring hard-work oriented radicals. I think I've supplied eight anarcho-friends of mine with seiu hookups the past two years, and see no reason to stop at classical marxists. Email ...

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Author:	Jim Straub
Date:	Wed Dec 20 14:05:22 PST 2006

368 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 36, Issue 174 -- rank: 858

Here here. All opinion polls of what workers are most trusted rank the same two jobs at the top of the list: firefighters and nurses. All my experience in a healthcare workers union is that those polls reflect reality: people really do trust nurses, because nurses really do have generally high ...

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Author:	Jim Straub
Date:	Sat Dec 16 17:12:59 PST 2006

369 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 32, Issue 165 -- rank: 858

> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:13:38 -0400 > From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] A Split In the Racist Right > To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org > Message-ID: <975A123C-7979-44C6-999E-BE4F59B1393D at panix.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII ...

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Author:	Michael Givel
Date:	Wed Aug 16 17:00:19 PDT 2006

370 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 32, Issue 8 -- rank: 858

On 8/2/06, Jim Straub <rustbeltjacobin at gmail.com> wrote: > My biggest > complaint about seiu in general and the local in particular is that we don't > have as good of a plan for articulating and achieving the transformative > vision as we do for winning the bread and butter. The ...

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Author:	Mark Rickling
Date:	Wed Aug 2 07:34:54 PDT 2006

371 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 32, Issue 8 -- rank: 858

On 8/2/06, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > Also, my son is 22, goes to San Francisco State, does not have the > discipline/passion for the library card and the solitude, but does get > inspired taking history classes from good lefty profs. I'm glad they're > around for ...

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Author:	Mark Rickling
Date:	Wed Aug 2 06:53:56 PDT 2006

372 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 32, Issue 8 -- rank: 858

Jim Straub writes: "The layer of the most active hundred members or so is largely lefty, but not entirely. It includes catholics and mormons who are militant about class stuff, conservative about social issues; anti-immigrant latina nurses; socialist shop stewards who are regarded as quacks by their co-workers; some ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Wed Aug 2 04:47:39 PDT 2006

373 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 32, Issue 8 -- rank: 858

But Marvin Gandall asks a good question - tell us how you're doing > among the workers of Las Vegas. I'm guessing that few of them are > into radical politics, and are mainly looking for a couple of dollars > more an hour and some health insurance. > > Doug > > > Great idea. I definitely ...

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Author:	Jim Straub
Date:	Tue Aug 1 22:49:39 PDT 2006

374 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 32, Issue 8 -- rank: 858

Actually, basically, I think you're right. On the other hand, I lived in a small town in upstate New York, and I thought I would die of asphyxiation. I left after two years. It takes a person much stronger than I .... Also, my son is 22, goes to San Francisco ...

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Author:	joanna
Date:	Tue Aug 1 22:15:22 PDT 2006

375 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 32, Issue 8 -- rank: 858

Jim Straub wrote: > of them who lived closer to the college lefty town of Yellow > Springs, where antioch is. When we'd drive through yellow springs > and see the 'infoshop' and noon > peace demos with three old hippies, we'd shake our heads and be glad we > were talking to workers ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Tue Aug 1 21:01:09 PDT 2006