[PEN-L:5870] Re: U.S. Military and Its Domestic Effects

1999-04-24 Thread Doug Henwood
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: And remember Timothy McVeigh's military background? He bulldozed Iraqi corpses into mass graves, right? Doug

[PEN-L:5871] Re: Jim Devine on the Media and Golf

1999-04-24 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-04-23 12:26:24 EDT, Michael Perelman writes: Golf courses employee an enormous amount of toxic materials, especially pesticides and herbicides. and all those pesticides and herbicides are now being linked to breast cancer -- breast cancer lumps have several hundred

[PEN-L:5875] Speaking of shameless

1999-04-24 Thread meisenscher
Apologies to the list for inattentatively posting a personal message intended for Charles Brown.

[PEN-L:5876] Re: Re: Jim Devine on the Media and Golf

1999-04-24 Thread Tom Lehman
Golf is an industry and I've seen revenue estimates of between $43 billion and $60 billion a year. Some people think that it's bigger. Of the estimated 23-25 million golfers my intuitive hunch is that at least 1/4 are women and I also have a hunch that women control at least 50% or more of the

[PEN-L:5877] Re:Methodists in Yugoslavia Rattlesnake U. 30 Year Reunion Cancelled

1999-04-24 Thread Tom Lehman
Yesterday, when I got home from work and picked my mail up from the basket on the coffee table, I found an ominous little postcard. The card read the Rattlesnake U. 30th Reunion scheduled for this weekend has been canceled. Sorry for any inconvienece call 1-800-666-7734 the alumni office.

[PEN-L:5878] Israelis on Kosovo/a

1999-04-24 Thread Jim Devine
from: Serbs, Kosovars, Israelis, Palestinians: The bewildering politics of Kosovo in Israel. (From SLATE, copyright 1999 Microsoft) By David Plotz ... But beneath Israelis' sympathy for Kosovars lurk more perplexing reactions that illuminate the anxieties of a state where a beleaguered

[PEN-L:5879] Toronto anti-war demo, coalition

1999-04-24 Thread Gregory Schwartz
If in Toronto and area, please join! -- PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY! Anti-war demo: 2 pm, Sunday, April 25 Starting at Liberal Party HQ, 10 St. Mary's @ Yonge (2 blocks south of Bloor, opposite the Church of Scientology) Demands: Stop the bombing! NATO out of Yugoslavia! Canada out of NATO! next

[PEN-L:5882] Follow-up on Brazil

1999-04-24 Thread Henry C.K. Liu
It is only an IMF myth that global capital will not invest in economies with macro policies of high inflation and low interest rates. With the growth of structured finance instruments, inflation and currency risks had not been a hindrance for "hot" capital, until July 1997. In theory, these

[PEN-L:5884] Trotsky, Ukrainian nationalism and Kosovobrenner@history.ucla.edu

1999-04-24 Thread Louis Proyect
There is widespread support for Kosovar "self-determination" among groups in the broadly defined Trotskyist tradition. In general, these groups view Milosevic and the Serbs as the latest incarnation of Stalin's Greater Russian domination over lesser nationalities. In this schema, what is

[PEN-L:5886] Vietnam War Impact

1999-04-24 Thread ts99u-2.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.154.225]
I have been asked by a friend whose daughter is doing an undergrad history paper on the Vietnam War in which she is supposed to discuss the economic impact. However, in her reading to date she has found little on the economic impact and I was asked to recommend some sources. Can anyone help

[PEN-L:5887] (Fwd) THIS ATROCITY IS STILL A MYSTERY TO NATO. PERHAPS I CAN

1999-04-24 Thread ts99u-2.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.154.225]
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 17:17:28 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:THIS ATROCITY IS STILL A MYSTERY TO NATO. PERHAPS I CAN HELP... The (London)

[PEN-L:5888] (Fwd) WINNIPEG LABOUR COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON YUGOSLAVIA

1999-04-24 Thread ts99u-2.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.154.225]
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 17:05:24 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:WINNIPEG LABOUR COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON YUGOSLAVIA WINNIPEG LABOUR COUNCIL

[PEN-L:5890] (Fwd) STATEMENT OF CONCERNED SERBIAN ANTI-NATIONALIST CITIZENS

1999-04-24 Thread ts99u-2.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.154.225]
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 17:04:58 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:STATEMENT OF CONCERNED SERBIAN ANTI-NATIONALIST CITIZENS TO ALL CONCERNED

[PEN-L:5891] Re: Vietnam War Impact

1999-04-24 Thread Michael Perelman
It would not be a burden to the list. I think that many of us would find the answers interesting. I have written else that I think that the war weakened the US economy by providing extra demand, and thereby protecting the US from competitive forces, so the many US industries were unprepared

[PEN-L:5892] Re: graffitti

1999-04-24 Thread Carrol Cox
Jim Devine wrote: Also, graffitti turns most people off. There have to be better ways of protesting this war. Jim, I suspect if you will check back over your own experience as well as various history of the last movement (going back to its beginnings in the South in the 1950s) you will

[PEN-L:5893] Re: U.S. Military and Its Domestic Effects (was Race, Gender, and

1999-04-24 Thread Michael Hoover
I think it is important to think of, for instance, the likely effects that the maintenance of a gigantic standing army has had on American culture, male socialization, etc. I think that socialists, as a matter of principles, should object to a gigantic and professional standing army,

[PEN-L:5894] Littleton, adolescence, and violence

1999-04-24 Thread Michael Perelman
Growing up is probably difficult in any society. What may be different in the United States is the lack of a stable support system. The right is probably correct in a sense when they speak of the failure of the family, but the family is part of a larger, and sick, society. Families can be

[PEN-L:5895] Re: Vietnam War Impact

1999-04-24 Thread William S. Lear
On Saturday, April 24, 1999 at 16:00:50 (-0500) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been asked by a friend whose daughter is doing an undergrad history paper on the Vietnam War in which she is supposed to discuss the economic impact. However, in her reading to date she has found little on the

[PEN-L:5896] Re: 10's of thousands for peace in Italia

1999-04-24 Thread Charles Brown
PEACE, bread and land, Bread and roses, bread and roses, All Power to the working People as a whole, Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/23/99 09:20PM Forwarded by Charles: On Thursday, 22nd April, over 600 shop stewards gathered in the Milan CGIL trade union headquarters to take part in

[PEN-L:5889] (Fwd) OTTAWA LABOUR COUNCIL SAYS NO TO U.S./NATO BOMBINGS OF

1999-04-24 Thread ts99u-2.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.154.225]
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 17:05:32 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:OTTAWA LABOUR COUNCIL SAYS NO TO U.S./NATO BOMBINGS OF YUGOSLAVIA

[PEN-L:5885] Re: Re: Re: bombing the media

1999-04-24 Thread Michael Hoover
Michael "Not-Mike" Hoover wrote: for what it's worth, the US gov't has been prohibited from carrying out assassinations and assassination attempts since Gerald Ford signed Executive Order 11095 (I think) in 1976... William Blum says that, in the American bombing attack upon Libya of 14

[PEN-L:5883] graffitti

1999-04-24 Thread Jim Devine
For what it's worth, I saw my first anti-war graffitti today: "NATO" followed by a swastika, on the side of a fire station near here, in West Los Angeles. Too bad it uses the Nazi analogy hype. Also, graffitti turns most people off. There have to be better ways of protesting this war. Jim Devine

[PEN-L:5881] Re: Jim Devine on the Media and Golf

1999-04-24 Thread Tom Walker
Maggie Coleman wrote, maybe it has something to do with the fact that the bulk of funding for breast cancer research comes from several European chemical companies who produce -- aha, pesticides.. That, and the fact that some of them are also in pharmaceuticals, producing the chemo-therapy

[PEN-L:5880] Re: Re: Jim Devine on the Media and Golf

1999-04-24 Thread Michael Perelman
Maggie's note reminds us of the importance of independent sources of information. The big agro-chemical companies are in the process of taking over departments in the universities, for example Novartis in Berkeley and Monsanto in Davis. We're heaping an enormous toxic overload on ourselves and

[PEN-L:5874] A real cost for you, but especially for them

1999-04-24 Thread valis
= While cleaning out my files -- a frequently postponed activity now proving to be unexpectedly cathartic -- I came across this undated Reuters piece. The date on the forwarding was last November 20th. With NATO's new doctrine it has been decided that the

[PEN-L:5869] Judy Rebick on the bombing. Bombing of TV and Radio etc.

1999-04-24 Thread Ken Hanly
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --D5A5C20156C1BF0B645FDDC7 Are any professional groups representing TV or Radio journalists, technicians etc. saying anything about the bombing of Serb TV and radio stations, particularly the brutal attack in downtown Belgrade? Serb short