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University Professors, Jobs with Justice, and Scholars, Artists and Writers for
Social Justice
contact: Nathan Newman, Eisner Hubbard, P.C.
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Press documents archived at http://www.eisner-hubbard.com/westheimer/
New York University
the last few
days has shown are stark pictures of hard labor by working class folks and
how ultimately we depend on that to make our society work, no matter the
odes to the bits and financial bytes that the WTC itself represented.
Nathan Newman
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War Powers Act restrictions on the
President.
Nathan Newman
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From: Stephen Diamond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 8:55 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:17195] Blank check for Bush
Newman
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 9:16 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:15715] Nathan Newman
I am listening to Nathan on KPFA representing the National Lawyers Guild
call
Here is my contribution to the analysis of tactics and where to go after
Genoa:
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NATHAN NEWMAN
A Death in Genoa: Who killed Carlo Guiliani?
Who killed Carlo Guiliani?
In one sense, a death in Genoa was predictable, practically predicted
PLEASE FORWARD
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Dear Friends,
The National Lawyers Guild is exploring the legal, economic and viable
political grounds for launching a broad-based impeachment campaign against
the five members of the Bush v. Gore majority on the Supreme Court.
We are writing to ask for your
of power.
Nathan Newman
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http://www.nathannewman.org
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From: Max Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 11:11 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:15459] RE: the significance of global riots
If 'everybody' is rioting
bulk of
democratic organizations protesting is all just bourgois individualist
hedonism masking itself as revolutionary rhetoric.
Nathan Newman
consequences in Genoa.
Nathan Newman
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. Yes, unilateral
enforcement by the US is and can be selective, but that is all the more
reason to create international systems of adjudication to assure fair
protection of workers rights.
-- Nathan newman
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From
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - July 22,
2001
Contacts: Heidi Boghosian, Executive
Director, 212-627-2656, ext. 11
Bruce Nestor, President,
319-351-4567
Zak Wolfe, National VP and Mass Defense Committee,
202-530-5992
NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD
CONDEMNS USE OF LIVE AMMUNITION AGAINST
header, thereby fooling software into thinking the header subject has
changed.
I wish Michael would look into having the numbering of posts removed for
that reason, but it is too valuable then we will just have to live with the
multiplying re:s.
Nathan Newman
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http
it,
but the fact that the other person is not treated the same can be
irritating - and I say that from experience :)
Nathan Newman
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From: Stephen E Philion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001
and Clinton beat Bush and Dole in 1992 and
1996 (don't know the numbers for 2000, need an updated copy of the Alamanac
of American Politics). It's a heavily latino area in the Central Valley so
it could produce a much better candidate if mobilized right.
-- Nathan Newman
digital
characters, we have the likelihood of a stable of virtual stars who will
have their own fan clubs- not Angela Jolie as Lara Croft, but Lara Croft
starting in the digital remake of Pride and Prejudice :)
-- Nathan Newman
-driven extraction might shrink enough to make it much more
viable. It's the artificial cheapness of oil that makes it so economically
non-viable to extract any oil other than the reserves that are easiest to
get.
Nathan Newman
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-and-forth jibes.
Just a thought.
-- Nathan Newman
the carrying capacity of the globe.
-- Nathan Newman
that Los Angeles as currently designed is
actually underpopulated; if more areas were in-filled with greater density
of population and development, it would be more economical to run bus
systems, thereby decreasing energy use per person in the city.
-- Nathan Newman
enviros.
-- Nathan Newman
of analysis have an autarchic flavor that ignore the
environmental and economic benefits of immigration to California or the US,
both for this country and for the countries that may relieve pressure on
their food capacities and environments by lessening their population
pressures.
Nathan Newman
[EMAIL
. Better
tailored conduct remedies may be far better for consumers and the computer
industry, so the end result of the Appeals Court decision may be superior to
if they had upheld Jackson's breakup remedy.
Nathan Newman
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From
the remedy itself, which is why winning on the facts and the law
is far more important than winning on the specific remedy.
-- Nathan Newman
like East Timor does more
to make left opponents look hypocritical than undermine support for the
Western regimes.
-- Nathan Newman
.
Curious what you are noting here?
Nathan Newman
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 11:51 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:14011] Puzzle of the day
Nurses are highly trained and in very
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From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Curious what you are noting here?
Nathan Newman
-I think Michael is referring to the problems of under-staffing
-mandatory overtime:
But the need for mandatory overtime to deal with under-staffing is exactly
what
of judgement
enforcement currently operating.
-- Nathan Newman
Global treaty could transform Web
Source: CNET News.com
Published: June 22, 2001
Author: Lisa M. Bowman
International policy-makers this week ended a round of talks aimed at
setting common rules affecting online trade and commerce
Special from THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST www.populist.com
July 15th issue
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Burying Health Care in Supervisors:
The Supremes Screw Unions Once Again
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By Nathan Newman
The recent Supreme Court decision, NLRB v. Kentucky River
initially raised the issue of unfair taxes, but did so
simplistically and ended up having their campaign hijacked by the
anti-government Rightwing.
Nathan Newman
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From: Eugene Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent
have insight into why progressives have had this
strategic posture?
-- Nathan Newman
was built in the immediate post-war period.
Nathan Newman
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knowledge than
it should. And any other political critiques or suggestions are welcome -
even if I maintain the right to keep my screwed up interpretive views intact
:)
Email me privately if interested. I can email you chapters. Thanks.
-- Nathan Newman
played out more
broadly across the expanse of Latin America conflicts both within US policy
and within many of those nation;s politics as well.
And trying to map those divisions onto simple divisions among the US left is
even less easy to make
Nathan Newman
ps. BTW most folks probably missed
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From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 8:11 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:12681] Re: RE: Re: The Truth Will Set You Free
Max:
Opposing U.S. intervention does not depend on solidarity
with the FARC or anyone else. Presumably
opposed NATO thought the Serbians were the bad
guys, just that NATO were even worse guys.
But if that is a command to end the discussion mentioning Kosovo, fine, but
suggest you apply it evenhandedly.
-- Nathan Newman
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Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 8:32 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:12287] Re: Re: Sen. Jeffords leaves Republican party
Nathan Newman mentions (among other things, remarks reprinted below) the
minimum
wage legislation which might be revived now that the Senate has a democratic
majority of one. Last I
Well, it's nice to see a top Bush official being so clear on the goal of
leaving the multinationals untaxed and gutting the Social Security and
Medicare systems. Worth passing on- NN
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O'Neill lays out radical vision
Source: The Financial Times
Published: May 18 2001 19:18:25 Author:
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When did the term, intellectual property, first appear?
Doing a quick scan through Supreme Court decisions, a pretty isolated
example is a mention in the 1873 case, Mitchell v. Tilghman, 86 U.S. 287,
where the opinion quotes
A Broadband Mandate?
Communities and Workers Win a Round in Internet Legislation
by Nathan Newman, special to THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST
They're fighting over telecom legislation on Capitol Hill again.
Long distance companies and Internet Service Providers are fighting with
local Bell
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From: Max Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This looks very good, but to be more convinced I'd like
you to state the other side's progressive arguments, such
as they are, at more length, along w/your refutations.
The arguments come from very progressive consumer-style
different interests in regulation policy.
-- Nathan Newman
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From: Max Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 1:19 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:11560] RE: Re: A Broadband Mandate?- Telecom Legislation
Battle on Capitol Hill
Re: the opposing
companies could cherry-pick profitable customers with discounts
ATT could not match.
One of the reasons I have written on this broadband access issue is that we
are threatening to repeat history, again at the expense of universal access
and to the advantage of corporate swine.
-- Nathan Newman
A truly outrageous nomination by Bush, a racist nominee who wears his hood
in public.
-- Nathan Newman
Thomas Dorr, Ag Dept nominee, is a big fan of 'ethnic, religious
non-diversity'
Posted on Sunday, May 13 @ 10:11:03 EDT
segregated is to show one things a racist
society is better than a multi-racial one. To argue that people are more
willing to share resources with those of the same race is not to make a
normative statement but merely to note that racism is used to undermine a
just society.
-- Nathan Newman
As the empirical studies come in, the global Thatcherite experiment in free
market liberalization is proving to be a complete and wretched failure for
the countries on which it was imposed (although not of course for the
multinational corporations that benefitted from the policies.) But the
PLEASE FORWARD TO POLITICAL ALLIES AND PROGRESSIVE LISTS!
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MOBILIZE AGAINST BUSH RIGHTWING COURT PACKING
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The National Lawyers Guild, May 9, 2001
Contact: Nathan Newman, NLG Judicial
socialist reforms without becoming
entangled into the national politics of "competitiveness."
-- Nathan Newman
s unlikely to
succeed in radical transformation but would instead cave to the threats of
capitalism- essentially the fear of a race to the bottom in competition for
capital.
-- Nathan Newman
-I didn't realize that Singer had been into a leftish kind of TINA. That
-stuff was certainly widespread, wasn't
s period (although I have some sympathy
in moving things in that direction), but it is classical Marxism, not
revisionism.
-- Nathan Newman
. -- Nathan Newman
Say no to income taxes: Joseph Farah warns class divide will tear U.S.
republic
News/Current Events Front Page Editorial
Source: WorldNetDaily.com
Published: Wednesday, April 11, 2001
The political machinations taking place in Washington with regard to a
proposed tax cut perfectly
spark
new realms of research at a more global macro level.
-- Nathan Newman
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From: "Michael Yates" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 2:56 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:10090] Re: Burawoy
John Foster sharply attacks Burawoy's so
From Max - who caught my note on the improvements in the House tax plan for
working families. Here is his analysis on the limits of the plan. --NN
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From: "Max Sawicky" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Correction on H.R.6, the bill makes the Child
Credit refundable for families with
ainst future tax cut politics quite as much.
-- Nathan Newman
March 30, 2001
House Passes 2 More Pieces of Bush's Tax Cut
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM
ASHINGTON, March 29 - Forging ahead despite uncertain prospects in the
Senate, the House of Representatives today approved two more elements of
President Bush's t
Why weird? In a system dominated by outside
corporate money, self-financed progressives are the only ones who don't need to
compromise with corporate interests in order to fund their campaigns and get
elected.
-- Nathan Newman
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From:
Michael Perelman
tegy. But that's what radical
organizing in the streets and in the workplace is for and why big globs of
soft union money is a wonderful thing in politics.
-- Nathan Newman
re
respect for their employees.
As I said, if you want to make running Goldman Sachs seem like a
disqualification, don't cite how they treat their own highly paid employees,
cite what they do to others.
-- Nathan Newman
sters"), but
we should weep for well-payed cogs in the financial world is beyond me.
As I note, and emphasize for those who miss the point, of course the money
Corzine has is dirty as hell and based on global exploitation. That's the
contradiction worth emphasizing.
-- Nathan Newman
revived numerically with the full
employment policies of World War II.
-- nathan Newman
off,
it may give justification for Dems and some pro-choice GOPers to vote
against.
So if Economists Against a Debt Prison wants to gear up opposing arguments,
it could still play a role.
-- Nathan Newman
Bankruptcy bottleneck threatens other legislation
REPUBLICANS WANT A ONE-VOTE MAJORITY
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From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Meanwhile, we work on reforms while getting out a
revolutionary message at the same time. Otherwise, we end up being
not so different from Brad, Nathan, other supporters of the
Democratic Party, except in our self image.
an example of an almost unmitigatingly rightwing
guy.
We need to be mobilizing to defeat and filibuster this nomination right
away. Start calling your Senator NOW!
Nathan Newman
--
Bush to nominate conservative judges
http://www.icanonline.net/news/fullpage.cfm?articleid=C1E4121E-C8EA
when stupidity is a sufficient
explanation."
-- Nathan Newman
olidarity that a lot of the abstract theorists of proper
socialism on this list seem reluctant to make.
No wonder the working class are just individualists and unconvinced by
collective solutions. Apparently, the left intellectual class is shares
their apathy towards collective effort, at least in
lt to turn it into
political strategy and then into action.
It's nice that there are a bunch of economists who do not believe in
neoliberalism, but what does it matter if the popular movements are
disconnected from them?
-- Nathan Newman
- what is
the role of the intellectual in the working class movement? How does
professional thought serve the mass movement if not grounded in the
dscipline of organizaiton?
-- Nathan Newman
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From: "Michael Perelman" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Se
n odd ways
being more tied to seeking "objective" truth and the correct analysis of
reality.
So I return to the question, who cares about any of these economic questions
in the abstract? The issue is what form the answers can be packaged to
assist radical organizing.
-- Nathan Newman
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From: "Doug Henwood" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nathan Newman wrote:
A lot of people rightly condemned the Dems in the Senate who rolled over on
the Bankruptcy Bill, but where was the discussion on designing the best
counter-propaganda against the credit car
will lead to
long-term gains to compensate for creating these short-term losses, but
Nader voters helped inflict those short-term losses on our country.
For those who will suffer in pain from RSI injuries without compensation,
those losses will be very real.
Nathan Newman
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m like a
gain in our view either for short term reforms or long-term radical change.
You can disagree with that assessment but the reality is that there are far
more people whose goals are fundamental change who voted for Gore than voted
for Nader.
-- Nathan Newman
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From: "Doug Henwood" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nathan Newman wrote:
For those who will suffer in pain from RSI injuries without compensation,
those losses will be very real.
-Good thing Clinton set right into addressing that problem from his
-first day in off
Then again, Bush launched the Gulf War partly to distract from recession
talk and his falling popularity back in 1990.
-- Nathan Newman
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From: "Jim Devine" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 11:57 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:9394]
rbitration.
Progressive activists must make it a priority to amend the FAA to block such
mandatory arbitration and restore workplace legal rights.
-- Nathan Newman
=
New York Times -- March 21, 2001
Court Gives Employers Right to Force Worker Arbitration
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at
ied to NO employment contracts, will not expand as well.
It's a completely cyncial manipulation of legislative history and judicial
doctrines. And of course a betrayal of any idea of federalism- as if the
Rehnquist regime ever cared about such accept where it can gut progressive
federal legislation.
-- Nathan Newman
thing most employees want to do is identify themselves
as lawsuit-happy. Frankly, the willingness to sign such agreements is
probably a wonderful culling device for employers to weed out the
independent-minded employees who will cause trouble.
-- Nathan Newman
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through illegal means.
-- Nathan Newman
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From: "Ellen Frank" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 9:14 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:9180] Re: Pirce discrimination
Is price discrimination really illegal? If so, why can airlines, h
even a few coming with us when
we took busloads of folks to Sacramento to lobby for higher taxes on the
wealthy to block the fee hikes and budget cuts, but damn few, damn few.
-- Nathan Newman
=
Los Angeles Times
Copyright, The Times Mirror Company; Los Angeles Times 1992 All Rights
Reser
particular book I may have read.
-- Nathan Newman
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From: "Michael Yates" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 8:39 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:8698] Re: Re: farewell to academe
Nathan,
Your comments are very well taken. Two comme
lue.
Since then, with cases like Eastern Associated, "partial takings" in the
regulatory context are increasingly likely to be upheld. The current Rhode
Island case looks to be the decisive case, unless the court punts on a
procedural loophole.
-- Nathan Newman
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e the vote
was "perfectly clear", Gore still won by 1017 votes.
Good graphs too :)
-- Nathan Newman
PLEASE FORWARD
CALL YOUR CONGRESSPERSON OR SENATOR!
GET YOUR ORGANIZATION TO ENDORSE THE PEOPLES DIVIDEND!
The Progressive Caucus in the House has challenged Bush's
giveaway-to-the-rich tax cut with an alternative which is not just better
but politically a brilliant way to show the
bourgoisie to fight further reforms
if successful.
-- Nathan Newman
The nice thing about the rebate check idea, of course, is that it ends up
being very progressive - a per person check that would give much less
proportionately to the wealthy. I wonder if the progressive Dems are smart
enough to grab onto the idea and push it hard. It seems like one that could
pportunity and
results.
-- Nathan Newman
ood, but I hope the results are
strong enough to justify my lesser-evilism faith. We shall see.
== Nathan Newman
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From: "Doug Henwood" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nathan Newman wrote:
And do you or Doug have evidence of orders coming down from the high
command
of Capital to create such a scapegoat?
-How about the SEC, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan, and the
-Feder
ve to ramp up more funds for organizing or they
are going to die. Hopefully, this year's numbers will be a bit of a wakeup
call that the AFL-CIO needs more than incremental improvements in its
organizing commitments.
-- Nathan Newman
Why would you argue otherwise?
-- Nathan Newman
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From: "Doug Henwood" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nathan Newman wrote:
And why are prosecutors and other enemies of Milken, including large
numbers
of union leaders as well, such bad sources of information?
-Hmm, would you trust prosecutors as a source of informatio
g is quite pervasive on the conservative side of the
spectrum, especially in much of the financial community such as Forbes. How
do you explain the broad conservative defense of Milken given your analysis?
-- Nathan Newman
n the case of Milken.
-- Nathan Newman
nia, since they have control of the whole
government. The GOP can block a lot of policy because of the two-thirds
requirement, but the legislature can even bypass that with an initiative.
So we will see.
-- Nathan Newman
Associated Press January 8, 2001
California Governor Backs Creation of Pu
basically nominal.
-- Nathan Newman
s and losses from conservation?
It's a tricky problem that traditionally had a bad answer for the
environment under pure market competition.
-- Nathan Newman
of the election. And his analysis of the vote, the media and the
campaign is quite deep on the issues involved -- Nathan Newman
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From: "Phil Agre" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Red Rock Eater News Service" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2
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DID NEW WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL PUT FIX IN FOR CHENEY'S HALLIBURTON?
Controversy Surrounds Texas Justices Acceptance of Donations and Rulings for
Cheney Firm
By Nathan Newman, Yale Law Campaign for a Legal Election [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This Sunday, December 17th, Bush nominated
Justices Acceptance of Donations and Rulings for
Cheney Firm
By Nathan Newman, Yale Law Campaign for a Legal Election [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This Sunday, December 17th, Bush nominated Antonio Gonzales, a man Bush put
on the Texas Supreme Court in 1999, to be the new White House Counsel.. Yet
Justice
of Donations and Rulings for
Cheney Firm
By Nathan Newman, Yale Law Campaign for a Legal Election [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This Sunday, December 17th, Bush nominated Antonio Gonzales, a man Bush put
on the Texas Supreme Court in 1999, to be the new White House Counsel.. Yet
Justice Gonzales has been a focus
ion, black and latino election activists. If our folks
could do it for Gore, we sure as hell should be able to do it for a real
progressive in the primaries in four years and push for a win in the general
election.
-- Nathan Newman
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From: "Chris Burford" [EMAIL P
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The Jim Crow Five and the Coming Political War
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Last night, five Justices of the Supreme Court declared that the 14th
Amendment was created to suppress the black vote and protect
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From: "Rich Cowan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MEMO TO MEDIA
To: Reporters, Editorial Writers and Columnists Covering
Florida Vote
From: Ed Jackson, Advancement Project
(202) 728-9557, (202) 251-3894, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Diane L. Gross, LawyersĂ
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