There are two interesting articles in the Feb. issue of Monthly Review
(of course all of the pieces are of interest!):
1. "Overcoming Racism" by Staughton Lynd (available at the MR
website:ww.monthlyreview.org). This is a fascinating account of a
prison rebellion at Lucasville prison in Ohio
http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/2221/t16886.html
before tomorrow.
The author is with the Carnegie endowment.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~jdevine
the following is a letter from today's L.A. TIMES, by my cousin, a former
editor of the New York POST:
Reform Party
In Dark Days for the Reform Party (editorial, Feb. 15),
The
Times wondered what a Buchanan-Fulani ticket would stand
for?
I'm sorry to spoil the fun, but there won't be a
Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/19/00 03:49PM
Charles Brown wrote:
You can find a lot of people who'd say exactly the same thing about
"Stalinists" or even "Marxists." They'd be as happy to censor you as
the would some pig in a sheet, maybe happier.
CB: They already have. Remember
Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/19/00 04:02PM
Charles Brown wrote:
CB: I wish Brad had had a chance to meet Stalin too.
That's one of the funniest things I've read so far this millennium.
You think Uncle Joe's personal charm would have won Brad over? Or is
this a roundabout way you
tom tomorrow had a good cartoon wondering about
the buchanan-fulani hook-up. slate has a good archive of tomorrow's
hilarious cartoons. some of the funniest are on the lewinsky
scandal. in one, a clinton lawyer says it isn't sex if it involves
curiously strong peppermints. how about
Paul Kneisel [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/20/00 12:24AM
Fascism itself, like murder, is a crime. There are numerous international
treaties and the common law of nations that outlaw it; under Article II of
the Constitution these are, along with the Constitution, the supreme law of
the land.
CB: The
"Nathan Newman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/20/00 08:43AM
Charles dismisses free speech, citing McCarthyism, but while a number of
Communists were jailed, the Supreme Court did eventually declare most of the
attempted deportations (cases centered on Harry Bridges) and convictions
void on First
. . . is that 98 percent of the world's
population has an income of less than $25,000 per year, a figure in the
United States that is close to the poverty line. . . .
FYI
$25K for an individual is quite a bit higher than
the U.S. poverty line. For a family of four, for
instance, it is
Max B. Sawicky wrote, responding to Lou Proyect:
. . . is that 98 percent of the world's
population has an income of less than $25,000 per year, a figure in the
United States that is close to the poverty line. . . .
FYI
$25K for an individual is quite a bit higher than
the U.S. poverty line.
I don't have much faith in the bourgeois state either. But since the only way to
protect left "speech" is to develop a mass left movement, I seriously doubt that
"fighting fascists" on the Web is the way to go about it. The notion of a small left
engaged in glorious combat with small right
This is a good article. It's pretty clear that something is fishy (or
rather, fishier) in the state of economics when it was only a Union for
Radical Political Economics session that attracted Louis Uchitelle of the
NY TIMES and Michael Mandel of BUSINESS WEEK.
But there was a good little
Attached is a rightwing attack on private school vouchers. There's some
truth to the arguments here- the fact is that the biggest difference between
a private and public school under a voucher system is the unionization
level, which could be rectified over time with organizing.
So what do
Nathan Newman wrote:
Attached is a rightwing attack on private school vouchers. There's some
truth to the arguments here- the fact is that the biggest difference between
a private and public school under a voucher system is the unionization
level, which could be rectified over time with
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nathan Newman
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 5:03
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Subject: [PEN-L:16581] RE: RE: Re: Protest Yahoo Sponsorship of
Racist/FascistGroups
On Behalf Of David McMullen
I am
Title: This is wonderfully absurd stuff,
Below
are some comments to an piece written by the Irish Times columnist Fintan O
Toole published in the Irish Times on Friday, 18th February
2000:
Fintan
O Toole: As the rump of the Second Dáil and the remaining leadership of Sinn
Féin after the
In explaining why the New York Knickerbockers should no longer use training
facilities in South Carolina, where state-sanctioned display of the
Confederate flag is being protested by black groups, point guard and Born
Again Christian Charlie Ward said, "The flag is symbolic of slavery, power,
and
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