[Marxism] It's not enough to steal their land - Israel must also steal the Palestinian cultural heritage
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/did-you-know-palestines-knafeh-now-israeli-too?utm_source=EI+readersutm_campaign=8e8b5dbc3d-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGNutm_medium=emailutm_term=0_e802a7602d-8e8b5dbc3d-290662377 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] I run afoul of stringent British libel laws | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Last week I found out from Robin Yassin-Kassab that the article I had written for the forthcoming issue of Critical Muslim had to be dropped upon the instructions of Hurst Publishers. My article as well as one taking on George Galloway was considered to be an invitation to a libel suit. British libel law favors the accuser since the burden of proof falls on the author of an article. In other words, Hurst would have had to spend money on a legal defense aimed at showing my article did not defame someone like Yale professor David Bromwich who has developed a second career as a Bashar al-Assad apologist (okay, go ahead and sue me now, motherfuckers.) I think that Robin was a lot more upset than me. I expect very little from print publishers and generally prefer to write for online publications. In fact, despite my profound admiration for the work that Robin and co-editor Ziauddin Sardar as well as my willingness to write for them in the future, my blog gets far more traffic than the print edition of CM. To this date, the Unrepentant Marxist has gotten 3,595,480 views and averages about 40,000 per month. For some writers, a print publication is proof that you are a real writer—something that amounts in my eyes to the diplomas the Wizard of Oz hands out to Dorothy’s companions. Looking at the op-ed page of the NY Times on most days, I can say that being in print is no guarantee that you have something to say. In any case, here is the article. You be the judge. full: http://louisproyect.org/2014/06/04/i-run-afoul-of-stringent-british-libel-laws/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Left Forum/JJ built on unconstitutional seizures
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 6/4/14 11:09 AM, Jesse Lemisch via Marxism wrote: John Jay has a fine faculty. But the institution itself is totally cozy with NYPD and, as I have pointed out, is built on illegally seized property. They are late-comers to the club. NY Times October 18, 2013 Dirty Antebellum Secrets in Ivory Towers By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER When Craig Steven Wilder first began digging around in university archives in 2002 for material linking universities to slavery, he recalled recently, he was “a little bashful” about what he was looking for. “I would say, ‘I’m interested in 18th-century education,’ or something general like that,” Mr. Wilder said. But as he told the archivists more, they would bring out ledgers, letters and other documents. “They’d push them across the table and say, ‘You might want to take a peek at this,’ ” he said. “It was often really great material that was cataloged in ways that was hard to find.” Now, more than a decade later, Mr. Wilder, a history professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has a new book, “Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities,” which argues provocatively that the nation’s early colleges, alongside church and state, were “the third pillar of a civilization based on bondage.” He also has a lot more company in the archives. Since 2003, when Ruth Simmons, then the president of Brown University, announced a headline-grabbing initiative to investigate that university’s ties to slavery, scholars at William and Mary, Harvard, Emory, the University of Maryland, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and elsewhere have completed their own studies. And that tide is far from over. Last spring, a historian at Princeton began an undergraduate research seminar on the little-explored connections between that university and slavery. In September, the president of the University of Virginia announced a 27-member commission charged with recommending ways to commemorate the university’s “historical relationship with slavery and enslaved people,” in advance of its bicentennial, beginning in 2017. But Mr. Wilder, scholars say, seems to be the first to look beyond particular campuses to take a broader look at the role of slavery in the growth of America’s earliest universities, which, he argues, were more than just “innocent or passive beneficiaries” of wealth derived from the slave trade. “Craig shows that what happened at one institution wasn’t simply incidental or idiosyncratic,” said James Wright, a former president of Dartmouth College, which is discussed in the book. “Slavery was deeply embedded in all our institutions, which found ways to explain and rationalize slavery, even after the formation of the American republic.” “Ebony and Ivy,” published by Bloomsbury, documents connections between slavery and various universities’ founding moments, whether it is the bringing of eight black slaves to campus by Dartmouth’s first president, Eleazar Wheelock, or the announcement by Columbia University (then named King’s College) of the swearing in of its first trustees on a broadside paid for with a single advertisement: for a slave auction near Beekman’s Slip in Lower Manhattan. Mr. Wilder also ventures into more unexpected territory, including the rise of 19th-century “race science” and the evolution of university fund-raising. Harvard, he notes, emphasized its mission to convert “heathen” Indians in its early appeals for donations; by the late 18th century, its leaders were competing vigorously with those of other institutions for the tuition dollars and patronage of ascendant slave-owning West Indian planters. “Sometimes I chuckled at how contemporary some of these colonial administrators were,” Mr. Wilder said. “Ebony and Ivy,” with its cover image of a tendril of ivy wrapped around a chain, may not find a home on many alumni-office coffee tables. But Mr. Wilder, a graduate of Fordham and Columbia who has also taught at Dartmouth and Williams, says that some people are too quick to see political motives behind work like his. A 2001 report on Yale University’s connections with slavery, he notes, was dismissed by some as a partisan hit job, written by graduate students with connections to labor unions that were then battling with the Yale administration. And the Brown report was begun at a moment when northern universities, along with banks and insurance companies, were threatened with class-action lawsuits demanding financial reparations for their connections with the 18th-century slave trade. “There has been a fear that there’s something lurking in the archives that will be devastating to these institutions, and that people doing this
Re: [Marxism] I run afoul of stringent British libel laws | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Last week I found out from Robin Yassin-Kassab that the article I had written for the forthcoming issue of Critical Muslim had to be dropped upon the instructions of Hurst Publishers. My article as well as one taking on George Galloway was considered to be an invitation to a libel suit. British libel law favors the accuser since the burden of proof falls on the author of an article. In other words, Hurst would have had to spend money on a legal defense aimed at showing my article did not defame someone like Yale professor David Bromwich who has developed a second career as a Bashar al-Assad apologist (okay, go ahead and sue me now, motherfuckers.) Not to rain on your parade, but I believe the precedent has been established that purveyors of US Internet sites can be sued under the more restrictive libel laws of another country provided the material is available on the Internet in that country (if memory serves, an Australian health food company sued an online health website from America). Of course, I once did a *War of the Worlds*-style announcement on Usenet that the British monarchy had been overthrown, and I didn't hear back about it; however, more light would probably generate more heat. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] WNYT.com - Hawkins argues discord on the left improves his chances for Governor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I was at the press conference today and accompanied Howie later to a meeting of the Albany Federation of Labor, which gave him a serious listen with lots of questions, an interesting sign coming from a largely Working Families oriented group. Howie got lots of coverage from his trip to Albany today; Jon Flanders -- Forwarded message -- *Howie Hawkins*says Green Party has a shot at victory http://wrvo.org/post/howie-hawkins-says-green-party-has-shot-victory WRVO Public Media -?3 hours ago? Green Party politician*Howie Hawkins*says a third party candidate has a chance to win the governorship. The left-leaning Working Families Party has endorsed Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Democrat running for reelection, but some members of the party weren't ... *Hawkins*argues discord on the left improves his chances for Governor http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S3462879.shtml WNYT -?1 hour ago? ALBANY -*Howie Hawkins*was not seeking the Working Families Party nomination for Governor, but argues he's been helped by last Saturday's open argument at the convention in Colonie. And it opens up the possibility, not only of us getting a double digit ... *Hawkins*: The WFP got played by Cuomo http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/214074/hawkins-the-wfp-got-played-by-cuomo/ Albany Times Union (blog) -?1 hour ago? Green Party gubernatorial candidate*Howie Hawkins*believes that the Working Families Party's controversial decision to throw its support behind Gov. Andrew Cuomo provides a clearer choice for voters seeking an alternative to both major parties this fall. After other liberal party backs Cuomo, Green candidate hopes to woo progressives http://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/spin-cycle-1.812042/after-other-liberal-party-backs-cuomo-green-candidate-hopes-to-woo-progressives-1.8335292 Newsday -?3 hours ago? Green Party gubernatorial candidate*Howie Hawkins*, seeking to unite disaffected Democrats and liberals, said he's the lone progressive candidate left in the field after the labor-backed Working Families Party decided to endorse Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. http://wxxinews.org/post/green-party-candidate-says-his-chances-are-improving Green Party Candidate says His Chances Are Improving http://wxxinews.org/post/green-party-candidate-says-his-chances-are-improving WXXI News -?1 hour ago? The Green Party candidate for governor, making a statewide tour, says there's always been an alternative, left leaning candidate for governor, and he says his chances to win votes are now better than ever.*Howie Hawkins*, the Green Party nominee for ... Cuomo Says He's Proud of Lack of Partisanship in Albany http://wxxinews.org/post/cuomo-says-hes-proud-lack-partisanship-albany WXXI News -?2 hours ago? Green Party candidate for Governor*Howie Hawkins*, who stopped in Albany as part of a statewide swing, says the Working Families Party is no longer in a position to criticize the governor over any perceived contradictions. After Working Families gave him ... On 06/04/2014 09:30 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
