Re: [Marxism] White House bars Daily News, multiple outlets from press briefing - NY
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 2/24/17 9:11 PM, Marla Vijaya kumar via Marxism wrote: Louis, The readers' reactions on the news of blocking news agencies, remind me strongly of the methods used by Fundamentalist Hindutva trolls here in India. Perhaps, Trump is following Modi in manufacturing consent through trolls.Vijaya Kumar Marla What the hell is going on over there? Today, an Indian FB friend asked me to recommend readings on how the German left dealt with Hitler before he took power in order to figure out how to deal with Modi. And a week earlier a Pakistani friend wrote that he feels totally hemmed in by the Islamists. What a mess. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] White House bars Daily News, multiple outlets from press briefing - NY
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[Marxism] Bathroom Case Puts Transgender Student on National Stage
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * NY Times, Feb. 24 2017 Bathroom Case Puts Transgender Student on National Stage By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG WASHINGTON — The bespectacled teenager in the gray A.C.L.U. hoodie and cargo pants stood, back pressed against a chain-link fence on Pennsylvania Avenue, under a sign saying “No Trespassing, Authorized Personnel Only.” The White House, illuminated at night, cast a glow over well-wishers who, having just wrapped up a protest against President Trump, waited in line to pay homage to 17-year-old Gavin Grimm. Mr. Grimm looked a little flustered. “Absolutely humbled,” he pronounced himself, as his admirers thanked him for being brave. With Mr. Trump’s decision this week to rescind protections for transgender students that allowed them to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity, the next stop is the Supreme Court, where Mr. Grimm — an engaging yet slightly awkward young man — is the lead plaintiff in a case that could settle the contentious “bathroom debate.” Amid a thicket of conflicting state laws and local school policies on bathroom use, the suit, which pits Mr. Grimm against his school board in Gloucester County, Va., could greatly expand transgender rights — or roll them back. Mr. Trump has portrayed the issue as one of states’ rights, and already the country’s transgender students face differing realities depending on their school. Some are restricted to the bathroom of the gender on their birth certificate. Others are not. Then there are the students like Mr. Grimm, who have had separate facilities set aside for them. At issue in Mr. Grimm’s case is whether Title IX, a provision in a 1972 law that bans discrimination “on the basis of sex” in schools that receive federal money, also bans discrimination based on gender identity. President Barack Obama concluded that it did. Despite Mr. Trump’s action, lawyers for both Mr. Grimm and the school board said Thursday that they expected the case to go forward, with oral arguments set for March 28 and school officials across the country awaiting the result. “No one was in a rush to bring this case to the Supreme Court,” said Joshua Block, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents Mr. Grimm. “Gavin didn’t choose this fight; this fight happened to Gavin. But now that we are here, lives are at stake, and they are at stake in a way that is even more acute because you don’t have a federal government anymore to protect us.” For Mr. Grimm, who said he knew he was a boy “as soon as I was aware of the difference between boys and girls,” the case amounts to a crash course in government and media relations. It bears his initials, G.G., because he is a minor, and the name of his mother, Deirdre. At home in rural Gloucester, he is a kid with a pet pig named Esmeralda, a geek’s love of Pokémon cards and 600-plus Facebook friends. He wears $12 sneakers from Walmart and likes eating at Fuddruckers because the name sounds funny. He is applying for college, but doesn’t want to talk about it. But here in the nation’s capital and in big cities around the country, Mr. Grimm is now a hot property, the new face of the transgender rights movement. Laverne Cox, the actress and activist, gave him a public shout-out at the Grammys. (“Everyone, please Google ‘Gavin Grimm,’” she said.) After his appearance here Wednesday night, he dashed off to New York to appear Thursday morning on ABC’s “The View.” At the protest here Wednesday night, he was the star speaker, besieged with teary hugs and cellphone selfies. The mother of a transgender child burst into tears when she saw him. A government lawyer shook his hand. Activists posed for pictures. Suddenly, he is hearing his name mentioned in the same breath as Norma McCorvey, the eponymous plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that established a national right to abortion (and who died last week), and Jim Obergefell, whose case led to the legalization of same-sex marriage. Mr. Grimm looked awe-struck at the thought. “I just hope I do it justice,” he said quietly. When Mr. Grimm was about 12 or 13, he said, he was able to put a name to what he was feeling and recognized himself as transgender. He came out first to his friends, which was easier than telling his parents. For the family, it was a jolt, his mother said. It made her question preachers — she eventually left her church — but strengthened her faith. “God gave me this child to open my heart and my mind,” Mrs. Grimm, a nurse, said. In 2014, when Mr. Grimm was 15 and starting his sophomore year, the family told his school he was transgender.
[Marxism] Fwd: La La Land Is a Propaganda Film | L.A. Weekly
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[Marxism] Fwd: Progressives Need A New Party, Not A New DNC Chair | The Huffington Post
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[Marxism] Fwd: White House bars Daily News, multiple outlets from press briefing - NY Daily News
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[Marxism] Fwd: Muhammad Ali’s son detained at Fort Lauderdale airport: report - NY Daily News
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[Marxism] Fwd: CPAC scrambles to control damage after attendees wave Russian flags during Trump speech
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[Marxism] Fwd: If Donald Trump Targets Journalists, Thank Obama - The New York Times
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[Marxism] Fwd: White House blocks CNN, BBC, New York Times, LA Times from media briefing | The Independent
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[Marxism] Fwd: Hero tuba player trolls entire KKK march with doofy music
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[Marxism] Fwd: It's Early, But The Sports Highlight Of The Day Might Be This Guy's Flying Leap To Take Down A Confederate Flag
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[Marxism] Fwd: In Defense of Amnesty International’s report on mass killings in the Saidnaya prison | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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[Marxism] Fwd: I'm an Arab actor who's been asked to audition for the role of terrorist more than 30 times. If La La Land cleans up at the Oscars, I'm done | The Independent
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[Marxism] Fwd: Socialism Betrayed? Inside the Ukrainian Holodomor
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Prophet: Deutscher's Trotsky
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I think a serious discussion of the NEP would be wonderfully educational. I think it's been "underdiscussed" for the last 8 decades or so. By discussion, I don't mean the polemics around it and lining up with one side of the Bukharin-Trotsky debate on this but an examination OF the dabate itself. Where it fit in withing the bureaucracy of the communist part; it's actual effects, what would of been the alternative (say, had Trotsky gotten his way, or others, for that matter); did they have an serious choice to implement something else, etc. It could be well worth the kind of discussions that were generated by the Lar Lih/Paul LeBlanc discussion on Leninism and the party and Eric Blanc's thesis on the Bolsheviks and the national question. David Walters _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Prophet: Deutscher's Trotsky
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Yes, an interesting and generally accurate summary of Deutscher's trilogy, which I have recently been rereading. A minor criticism: Where he departs from Deutscher, e.g. via Chris Harman, Dickman goes astray, as in overlooking both the necessity and the positive results of the NEP or in avoiding any discussion of the evolution of Trotsky's thinking on the class nature of the USSR, on which Dickman replicates Harman's claim that a "new class" was in control of the country by the late 1920s (not Deutscher's, or Trotsky's, view). On the latter, Trotsky's "Revolution Betrayed" is a useful introduction. Richard -Original Message- From: Marxism [mailto:marxism-boun...@lists.csbs.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Louis Proyect via Marxism Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 8:49 AM To: rfidle...@sympatico.ca Subject: [Marxism] Fwd: The Prophet: Deutscher's Trotsky POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Very useful long essay by an ISO'er. http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/24/the-prophet-deutscher s-trotsky/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/rfidler_8%40sympa tico.ca _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: The Prophet: Deutscher’s Trotsky
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[Marxism] Fwd: "Get out of my Country!" White Terrorist Shoots Indian Engineers in Wake of Trump Visa Ban
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[Marxism] Fwd: 'I was naive': after losing healthcare battle, factory workers fear next blow | US news | The Guardian
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[Marxism] After congress win, Podemos’s Iglesias promises ‘return to the streets’
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * In the end, the expected close result never happened. At the second congress (“citizens’ assembly”) of Spain’s radical anti-austerity party Podemos, the proposals and candidate list of outgoing general secretary Pablo Iglesias easily defeated those of his rival, outgoing political secretary Inigo Errejon. https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/after-congress-win-podemos%E2%80%99s-iglesias-promises-%E2%80%98return-streets%E2%80%99 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
