Rosenstrasse (Dir. Margarethe von Trotta)

2004-08-16 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Rosenstrasse (Margarethe von Trotta's new film Rosenstrasse tells a little known story of the 1943 protest of thousands of non-Jewish German women who had resisted the Nazi pressures on them to divorce their Jewish husbands, demonstrated when their husbands were finally rounded up, and, most

¡Chávez No Se Va! ¡VOTA NO!

2004-08-14 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
¡Chávez No Se Va! ¡VOTA NO!: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/08/chvez-no-se-va-vota-no.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ * Calendars of Events in Columbus:

One Vote, One Party, NO Choice

2004-08-13 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
One Vote, One Party, NO Choice: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/08/one-vote-one-party-no-choice.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ * Calendars of Events in

James E. McGreevey and the Political Closet of the Democratic Party

2004-08-13 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
James E. McGreevey and the Political Closet of the Democratic Party (Embodied within McGreevey's career are contradictions of the Democratic Party): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/08/james-e-mcgreevey-and-political-closet.html. -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ *

Code Red: John Kerry's Neighborhood Terrorist Watch

2004-08-12 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Code Red: John Kerry's Neighborhood Terrorist Watch (Copying Bush and Ashcroft, Kerry calls on Americans to do more to protect themselves against terrorism by setting up neighborhood watch groups. Plus, my brand-new color-coded advisory system that allows liberals and leftists to evaluate Threat

Re: Greens For Nader Update: Rigged Convention Divides Green Party (Sign and Forward This)

2004-08-11 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 1:03 AM -0400 8/11/04, Michael Hoover wrote: The best way to highlight unequal/unjust ballot access procedures is to actually run a campaign that runs afoul of them -- then, there is a practical struggle. Who cares if ballot access procedures are unequal and unjust if there is no candidate

Re: Economics and law

2004-08-11 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 9:32 PM -0700 8/10/04, David B. Shemano wrote: Even taking your example into consideration, let's imagine a lack of economic coercion. Actually, I can't imagine it. In any event, let's assume that the law requires every car have the safety of a Lexus and everybody can afford a Lexus. Fine.

Iraq Veterans Against the War

2004-08-11 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
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Re: Corporate Democrats

2004-08-10 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
The lesson here is to remain militant in the streets, not to back a bourgeois politician. Ironically, this is, itself, a flawed analogy. Militant in the streets is lingo from an era of ascendant working class interests -- in particular, radical lingo from the 60s-70s. (Militancy, itself, is older

Re: Corporate Democrats

2004-08-10 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 12:18 PM -0400 8/10/04, Doug Henwood wrote: Why isn't it better to have a bourgeois politician in office who owes a few favors to people like us rather than someone who hates us with a passion? Expecting the Democratic Party elite to think that they owe working-class Democrats a few favors is

Re: Corporate Democrats

2004-08-10 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 12:52 PM -0400 8/10/04, Marvin Gandall wrote: But to imagine you can create strikes, demonstrations, and other forms of mass activity in the streets through the sheer power of ideas, where the conditions for those ideas to take root are largely absent, strikes me as -- well, idealism. You are

Re: Whither the Fed?

2004-08-10 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Jim wrote: I would guess that the Fed -- led by Dubya's close friend Alan, who visits the White House more than weekly -- is going to surprise the financial markets by standing pat on August 10th. (I'll be out of the country, so I won't be able to stop them.) The Fed raised the rate today. How

Re: Greens For Nader Update: Rigged Convention Divides Green Party (Sign and Forward This)

2004-08-10 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 1:07 PM -0400 8/9/04, Michael Hoover wrote: nader people might be of greater help to polity in general (of course, this is electoral campaign which, by definition, has narrow focus) by highlighting unequal/unjust ballot access procedures, state by state rules are clear violation of 14th

The Libertarian Party

2004-08-10 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
[lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 8, Issue 83 Tommy Kelly tkelly15450 at charter.net, Tue Aug 10 17:28:55 PDT 2004 snip What happens to the 2004 numbers if you add Libertarian Party's candidate Michael Badnarik? blockquoteDemocratic strategists have long fretted that Ralph Nader could draw votes

Re: ABK Comrades!

2004-08-10 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 9:20 PM -0400 8/10/04, Michael Hoover wrote: maybe post header should have read: anybody but kerry and cobb, in any event, no need to limit oneself to left petit-bourgeois deviationism of nader, choose between several real-live socialists (commies even) Only Nader/Camejo represented a potential

Greens For Nader Update: Rigged Convention Divides Green Party (Sign and Forward This)

2004-08-08 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 03:04:28 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Greens For Nader Update: Rigged Convention Divides Green Party Greens For Nader Update: Rigged Convention Divides Green Party 2004.08.08 00:04:27

California, Take Back the Green Party!

2004-08-08 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
California, Take Back the Green Party! There's a little rebellion starting, [Peter] Camejo said this week. Camejo said in California, the bastion of Green registration, it's a fact: The majority of the party wants to put Nader/Camejo on the ballot. (Carla Marinucci, Nader's Ballot Hopes Hinge on

Re: Whither the Fed?

2004-08-07 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
... and make the next POTUS John Kerry a weak president without a big mandate at the same time.) Is there a subtle flaw here? If either Kerry or Bush is elected they will have a big mandate. It just won't be from the people, but the corporate purchasers. I fear the people's mandate can no longer

Re: Tariq Ali on the US election

2004-08-07 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before getting to the point of actually being able to split the Democratic and Republican Parties, we need an intermediate goal: do what we can to make the next POTUS a weak president, rather than a strong one. To do so, we need to decrease the shares

Nader 2004 Nader 2000

2004-08-07 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Nader 2004 Nader 2000 (The best kept secret of this presidential election year is that Ralph Nader has been polling better in 2004 than 2000, despite the relentless barrage of attacks by Anybody But Nader intellectuals. Compare the Gallop survey results in 2000 and 2004. Intellectuals who aid

Re: in defence of Tariq Ali

2004-08-07 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 4:22 PM -0400 8/7/04, michael a. lebowitz wrote: Simply the breathing space that comes when the rulers are disrupted a bit. That makes sense, and I'm sure that in 2008 there will be another disruption, as John Kerry will be a one-term president. -- Yoshie * Critical Montages:

Art Spiegelman: In the Shadow of No Towers

2004-08-07 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Art Spiegelman: In the Shadow of No Towers: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/08/art-spiegelman-in-shadow-of-no-towers.html. -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ *

Whither the Fed?

2004-08-06 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Whither the Fed? (Doug Henwood comments on US economy: just 32,000 new jobs, way way below both recent trend and expectations -- and earlier months were revised down. Is the Fed still committed to a series of quarter-point hikes -- including one in September -- over the next 18 months? Then,

Re: Whither the Fed?

2004-08-06 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
I would guess that the Fed -- led by Dubya's close friend Alan, who visits the White House more than weekly -- is going to surprise the financial markets by standing pat on August 10th. (I'll be out of the country, so I won't be able to stop them.) blockquoteThe Fed holds its next interest rate

Remembering the Korean Atom Bomb Victims

2004-08-06 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Remembering the Korean Atom Bomb Victims (Among the 350,000 to 400,000 who were attacked by the atom bomb and/or exposed to the lethal post-explosion radiation, at least 50,000 were people from the Korean peninsula who had been forcibly sent to Japan as mobilized workers and soldiers, or who had

Re: Tariq Ali on the US election

2004-08-06 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
TA: We're talking about the government which took the United States to war. Had Gore been elected, he would have gone to war in Afghanistan, but I doubt he would have gone to war in Iraq. This is very much a neocon agenda, dominated by the need to get the oil and appease the Israelis. Washington

Defrauding Women of Abortion

2004-08-05 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Defrauding Women of Abortion (an anti-abortion fraudster preyed on working-class women by promising them discount abortions and then cancelling appointments repeatedly, until it became too late for them to have abortions -- the fraud enabled by an anti-abortion myth that women who want abortions

The Manchurian Candidate: The Return of the Repressed

2004-08-04 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
The Manchurian Candidate: The Return of the Repressed (If Fahrenheit 9/11 is a perfect filmic expression of the Anybody But Bush ideology of liberal intellectuals, The Manchurian Candidate unexpectedly -- despite the intentions of its creators -- serves as a cinematic vehicle for the return of the

Imam in Virgin Mary Drag in the Green Zone

2004-08-04 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Imam in Virgin Mary Drag in the Green Zone: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/08/imam-in-virgin-mary-drag-in-green-zone.html.

Changing Sex, Changing Islam

2004-08-03 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Changing Sex, Changing Islam (In Iran, transsexuals, changing sex, have been changing Islam as well, under its still theocratic government): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/08/changing-sex-changing-islam.html. -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader:

Re: No Bounce for Kerry

2004-08-03 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
If there's a great untapped reservoir of leftish populism in the American masses, why did Kucinich do so badly in the primaries, 1. Kucinich is nice, poor, and white. 2. Kucinich is short: 5 feet 7 inches. 3. 93% of Americans are still unsure about how to pronounce his last name. and why is

Nuruddin Farah: We No Longer Own Our Country

2004-08-03 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Nuruddin Farah: 'We No Longer Own Our Country' (Nuruddin Farah, a Somali novelist, writes of what it means to lose one's own country -- utterly): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/08/nuruddin-farah-we-no-longer-own-our.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for

Speaking Up about Our Abortions in Public

2004-08-02 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Speaking Up about Our Abortions in Public: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/08/speaking-up-about-our-abortions-in.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ * Calendars of

Have You Forgotten?

2004-08-02 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Have You Forgotten? (A Small Victory, a blog on the right, created a visual reminder of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I doubt that such a reminder will do the right any good at this point. Anyhow, I've photoshopped the image created by A Small Victory -- the slogan Have You Forgotten? superimposed

No Bounce for Kerry

2004-08-02 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
No Bounce for Kerry: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/08/no-bounce-for-kerry.html.

Re: A Question for the Moderator

2004-08-01 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Chris wrote: Look at the post-Soviet situation in the early 90s. The Union falls apart, and you immediately start having all these bloody ethnic conflicts around its former borders: Armenians vs. Azerbaijanis, Georgians vs. Abkhazians and Ossetians, Romanians vs. Russians, Ossetians vs. Ingush...

Guarding the Right to Leisure

2004-08-01 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Guarding the Right to Leisure (workers in Western Europe, who enjoy the shortest workweeks and longest vacations in the world, confront downward pressures on free time exercised by longer hours in the USA and cheaper labor in former socialist nations):

The Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem

2004-08-01 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
'The Museum of Tolerance' in Jerusalem (The Simon Wiesenthal Center is building a Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem -- an ugly white elephant designed by Frank Gehry -- on a spot that once was an ancient Muslim cemetery, a museum which Palestinians in the occupied territories, blocked by

My Partner Had an Abortion

2004-07-31 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
My Partner Had an Abortion (What about men owning up to abortions? How about My Partner Had an Abortion T-shirts for them?): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/my-partner-had-abortion.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/

Re: My Partner Had an Abortion

2004-07-31 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Jim says: I think My wife had an abortion or My life partner had an abortion makes more sense, since so many men have _business_ partners, who are often male. Only a tiny minority of men have business partners. In any case, that sort of ambiguity makes it even more interesting. Jello Biafra goes

Re: A Question for the Moderator

2004-07-31 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 6:22 AM -0700 7/31/04, Chris Doss wrote: --- Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question, I thought, was whether Kurds, Kashmiris, and Chechens (as well as East Timorese, Albanians in Kosovo, etc. from recent history) have the right to self-determination. --- Yoshie, upon a little

Leon Golub's Disasters of War

2004-07-30 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Leon Golub's Disasters of War: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/leon-golubs-disasters-of-war.html. -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ * Calendars of Events in

I Had an Abortion

2004-07-30 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
I Had an Abortion (Barbara Ehrenreich argues that women should own up to our abortions in her New York Times column. Fortunately, Planned Parenthood has made beautiful I Had an Abortion T-shirts available, outraging anti-abortion right-wing groups. The designer of the T-shirt, Jennifer

Re: A Question for the Moderator

2004-07-30 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Michael Perelman, Some posters on this list have expressed their support for the breakup of Russia, India, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. I would like know what is your personal opinion in this matter. Ulhas The question, I thought, was whether Kurds, Kashmiris, and Chechens (as well as East

Kashmir's Forgotten Plebiscite

2004-07-29 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1766582.stm Thursday, 17 January, 2002, 18:16 GMT Kashmir's forgotten plebiscite By Victoria Schofield Author of Kashmir in Conflict When the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir acceded to India in 1947, the then Governor-General Lord Mountbatten suggested

Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state? -

2004-07-29 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Ulhas Joglekar wrote: Chris Doss wrote: Reactionary is an understatement. This is equally true of terrorists in Kashmir. About 70% of terrorists killed in Kashmir in the recent years have been non-Kashmiris. Lately the resistance in Iraq has mainly been killing people at open-air markets. The

Heavenly Kashmir Is Still Mired in Hell as a Dirty War Gets Dirtier

2004-07-29 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Heavenly Kashmir is still mired in hell as a dirty war gets dirtier Sandra Jordan in Srinagar http://www.guardian.co.uk/kashmir/Story/0,2763,1185386,00.html Sunday April 4, 2004 The Observer The following correction was printed in the Observer's For the record column, Sunday April 11 2004 In the

India Turned Kashmir into the Bitter Place It Is Now

2004-07-29 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
India turned Kashmir into the bitter place it is now BJP Hindu nationalism has made the conflict more dangerous Martin Woollacott http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,630975,00.html Friday January 11, 2002 The Guardian When sections of the Kashmiri crowd booed the Indian side and waved

Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state? -

2004-07-29 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 11:05 AM -0400 7/29/04, Doug Henwood wrote: Have you added up all the Iraqi civilians killed by various factions of Iraqi and non-Iraqi terrorists and compared the number to that of Iraqi civilians killed by US and other foreign troops who invaded and have occupied Iraq and by economic

Celluloid Diplomacy

2004-07-29 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
'My film is part of the peace process' After 40 years of hostility and embargoes, India's movie industry is opening its doors to its Pakistani rivals. Is this the start of celluloid diplomacy? Tania Branigan reports http://www.guardian.co.uk/kashmir/Story/0,2763,1146645,00.html Friday February 13,

A Stem Cell's Worth of Difference

2004-07-29 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
A Stem Cell's Worth of Difference (the most eloquent speaker at the Democratic Party convention turns out to be Ron Reagan, because he alone didn't have to lie to distinguish Kerry from Bush): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/stem-cells-worth-of-difference.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages:

Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state? -

2004-07-29 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Devine, James wrote: yoshie writes: Only those who do not vote for Kerry or Bush have the moral standing to criticize foreign terrorists. why so much emphasis on an essentially powerless and thus meaningless act, an individual vote? It's testimony to the powers of American assimiliation that

Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state? -

2004-07-29 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
yoshie writes: Only those who do not vote for Kerry or Bush have the moral standing to criticize foreign terrorists. why so much emphasis on an essentially powerless and thus meaningless act, an individual vote? jim devine Because, at bottom, it's a matter of avoiding a double standard of

Re: India Turned Kashmir into the Bitter Place It Is Now

2004-07-29 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Chris wrote: --- Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: India turned Kashmir into the bitter place it is now Typical Guardian headline: Big country (fill in name of big country here) turned small country (fill in name of small country here) into the bitter place it is now. Small countries

Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state? -

2004-07-29 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 11:19 AM -0700 7/29/04, Chris Doss wrote: If voting is merely an individual moral gesture, why not make a better moral gesture than a worse one, such as refusing to vote for a terrorist? -- Yoshie How do you know Nader wouldn't be a terrorist? If he becomes one, we will fight against him also,

Security Fences: Palestine and Kashmir

2004-07-28 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
'Security Fences': Palestine and Kashmir: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/security-fences-palestine-and-kashmir.html

Outfoxed?

2004-07-28 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Outfoxed? (If conservatives exaggerate liberalism of the corporate media beyond recognition, liberals, too, are hyping the power of the Fox News Channel far more than its actual total viewership warrants): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/outfoxed.html.

Adnan Abbas's Call to Humanity

2004-07-28 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Adnan Abbas's 'Call to Humanity' (about a young Iraqi artist): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/adnan-abbass-call-to-humanity.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

Presbyterians Divest from the Israeli Occupation

2004-07-27 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Presbyterians Divest from the Israeli Occupation (the first US church -- and so far the largest membership organization -- to embark upon divestment from the Israeli occupation): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/presbyterians-divest-from-israeli.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages:

It's a Hollow Party

2004-07-27 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
It's a Hollow Party (SEIU President Andy Stern calls the Democratic Party a party of stale ideas, expressing discontent that the activist base of the party will be in a weak bargaining position vis-a-vis the party elite after the election -- what if SEIU spent $65 million it's wasting on the John

Re: Thomas Frank op-ed piece

2004-07-27 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 9:19 PM -0400 7/27/04, Michael Hoover wrote: i've not suggested working through local dem branches as such nor working only on local issues... michael hoover What you originally suggested is the following: At 3:27 PM -0400 7/19/04, Michael Hoover wrote: maybe the three million or so people

North Korea Goes Commercial Online

2004-07-26 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
North Korea Goes Commercial Online (North Korea's net venture is merely one aspect of its slow but certain transformation into a capitalist economy): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/north-korea-goes-commercial-online.html. -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens

Cyber One Korea

2004-07-26 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Cyber One Korea (more on North Korean online gambling and South Koreans' yearning to communicate with North Koreans): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/cyber-one-korea.html

In Venezuela, Failure Is Not an Option

2004-07-26 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
In Venezuela, Failure Is Not an Option (Roland Denis on the August 15 referendum); http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/in-venezuela-failure-is-not-option.html Yoshie

Re: A critical look at Michael Moore

2004-07-26 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 7:48 PM -0400 7/26/04, Louis Proyect wrote: Devine, James wrote: Mother Jones magazine, a magazine catering to Birkenstock-wearing, Sierra Club-donating, brie-eating liberals. hey, Louis, have you been channeling Dick Cheney? It sure sounds like him or someone in the neo-con crowd. Are the MJ

Re: Thomas Frank op-ed piece

2004-07-24 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Carrol wrote: I think Yoshie has gotten a bit too wrapped up in the Greens (in the 2004 election). We cannot know the form that socialist activity will take in the future, but we can be fairly certain that it will not be electoral and will involve mass resistance to imperialist policies. Arguments

Re: United Nations Human Indicators Index 2004

2004-07-24 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Lou wrote: Is now available at: http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2004/pdf/hdr04_HDI.pdf It is *highly* interesting that for the first time ever Cuba has made it into the High human development grouping that includes the G-8 nations, etc. Does that mean that Cuba's economy is more marketized and

Re: HDI, GNP and the PPP factor

2004-07-24 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Indeed, it has been a little noticed trend that today most of the World Bank's 'public relations' type documents, most human development related documents, and most documents arguing for the success of the neo-liberal project use PPP *and only* PPP. Even where there findings would be utterly

Re: Thomas Frank op-ed piece

2004-07-23 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 4:31 PM -0400 7/21/04, Michael Pollak wrote: self-selected candidates often don't care whether they get local party support or not (and sometimes prefer not), surely progressive/left folks can do better than this with whatever shell of an organization exists... I think there is now a much more

Suicides, Military and Economic

2004-07-23 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Suicides, Military and Economic (rising suicide rates of Israeli soldiers, Japanese workers, and Indian farmers): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/suicides-military-and-economic.html. -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/ *

Re: Thomas Frank op-ed piece

2004-07-23 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Michael Hoover wrote: responses to my initial post conveyed, by and large, varying degrees of maximalism, making quantitative leap from my modest suggestion all the way to presidential electoral politics (by such measures *all attempts will fail), pervasive problem imo... The questions of what we

Re: Thomas Frank op-ed piece

2004-07-23 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Carrol wrote: even through contesting for power in local DP organizations. At the local level, what a Green politician does and what a really good left-wing Democratic politician does may not be so different anyway. (Real irreconcilable political differences make their appearance at the level

Re: Thomas Frank op-ed piece

2004-07-22 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Michael Hoover wrote: A person who puts forward a proposal should be prepared to act on it. Otherwise, others will simply conclude that, if the idea is not even worth the proposer's time, then, it's not worth their time either. -- Yoshie people do different things, as for doug, he's a reporter

Be All You Can Be

2004-07-22 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Be All You Can Be (the US military offers its personnel free cosmetic surgery -- including breast augmentations): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/be-all-you-can-be.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/ * Bring Them

Re: Thomas Frank op-ed piece

2004-07-21 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
An argument against it? You would actually try it yourself if it were really a good idea. Yoshie nah, doug's a journalist, he'd write about it... michael hoover A person who puts forward a proposal should be prepared to act on it. Otherwise, others will simply conclude that, if the idea is not

Wages of Election-Year Rituals

2004-07-21 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Wages of Election-Year Rituals: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/wages-of-election-year-rituals.html

Killing the Future of Iraq

2004-07-20 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Killing the Future of Iraq: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/killing-future-of-iraq.html

Peter Camejo Speaks (Audio File)

2004-07-20 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Peter Camejo Speaks (San Francisco, July 16, 2004): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/peter-camejo-speaks.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ * Calendars of

Re: Thomas Frank op-ed piece

2004-07-20 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
sorry. you are correct. but I would be happy to remove the troops from the US. Or bring all the troops home here and re-train them into an army of fitness instructors -- sorely needed in the fattest nation in the world. -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for

A Postmortem: The Anti-War Movement, September 2001-March 2004

2004-07-19 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
A Postmortem: The Anti-War Movement, September 2001-March 2004: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/postmortem-anti-war-movement-september.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/ * Bring Them Home Now!

FUD

2004-07-19 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
FUD (a perfect term to refer to the tactic that the Democratic Party uses against third parties on the left): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/fud.html

The Ruling Class Dumps Bush

2004-07-19 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
The Ruling Class Dumps Bush: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/ruling-class-dumps-bush.html

Re: Thomas Frank op-ed piece

2004-07-19 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Michael Hoover wrote: maybe the three million or so people who voted for nader in 2000 should take control of local democratic executive committees, use structure in place to recruit candidates, slag off on dems who suck, use available funds to issue policy statements and press releases one after

Democrats Put Bush on the Ballot While Fighting to Keep Nader off It

2004-07-19 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Democrats Put Bush on the Ballot While Fighting to Keep Nader off It: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/democrats-put-bush-on-ballot-while.html

Re: [Fwd: Swans' Release: July 19, 2004]

2004-07-18 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Michael wrote: i've a hunch that some left interest in nader is reflection of absence of actual left alternatives, as panelist at forum i attended in ann arbor said yesterday: 'he's best known option, lousy way to develop actual left alternative... I think that those who are seriously interested

Re: Thomas Frank op-ed piece

2004-07-18 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 9:57 AM -0400 7/18/04, Michael Hoover wrote: will plead ignorance re. lopov, saw name on poster, chuckled, thought to myself kinda funny, even thought 'group' might be joke, thought up by someone/small group with no serious intention of having legs for mass outreach, so my initial comments

Re: Thomas Frank op-ed piece

2004-07-18 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 8:05 PM -0700 7/18/04, sartesian wrote: Dumped George Bush? Not hardly. Put 200 million into his campaign and he hasn't, and they haven't, started yet. Kerry? That's call hedging the position. You don't dump somebody by place a 200 million dollar bet. Dump Bush Oh no, they love this

Re: Fahrenheit 911

2004-07-17 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Melvin wrote: It is one thing to privately believe that the rulers are America are greedy self serving criminals of the bourgeois order. It is a different matter to share this private belief as an experience in a public setting where no one can pretend they had not witnessed a crime. You summed up

Re: Thomas Frank op-ed piece

2004-07-17 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/16/04 2:45 PM michael hoover (reporting from birkenstock, i mean ann arbor, where forum on third parties this weekend includes representative of the righteously named - and no doubt - growing group, league of pissed off voters) Isn't that another front group for the

Re: Thomas Frank op-ed piece

2004-07-16 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Carl says: From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Frank's new book What's Wrong With Kansas argues implicitly that the Democrats lose elections because they are identified with the wrong side of the culture wars. This is the same sort of position that Michael Moore argued in the Nation

Re: Thomas Frank op-ed piece

2004-07-16 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Max wrote: Frank also says Clintonesque center-hugging on economics -- free trade, labor rights, privatization, etc. -- causes the culturally- conservative worker's decision to hinge solely on God, guns, and gays. That's a good point. Since the top Democrats are so economically neoliberal that

Re: Thomas Frank op-ed piece

2004-07-16 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
michael hoover (reporting from birkenstock, i mean ann arbor, where forum on third parties this weekend includes representative of the righteously named - and no doubt - growing group, league of pissed off voters) Isn't that another front group for the Democrats? -- Yoshie * Critical Montages:

The Future of the Green Party

2004-07-15 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
The Future of the Green Party (it's the Greens for Nader and Green leaders like Peter Miguel Camejo, Matt Gonzalez, Jason West, Ross Mirkarimi, Donna Warren, and others who are the future of the Green Party): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/future-of-green-party.html -- Yoshie * Critical

Matt Gonzalez: Why Vote for Ralph Nader?

2004-07-15 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Matt Gonzalez: Why Vote for Ralph Nader?: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/matt-gonzalez-why-vote-for-ralph-nader.html. -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ *

Kerry/Edwards: Divorced from Gay Marriage

2004-07-15 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Kerry/Edwards: Divorced from Gay Marriage: (Kerry avoids Gavin Newsom to dodge the question -- also, Kerry and Edwards were the only senators who abstained from voting on the Federal Marriage Amendment) http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/kerryedwards-divorced-from-gay.html. -- Yoshie * Critical

A Letter to the Black Caucus from a Black Woman Living in South Central

2004-07-15 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
This just in from the San Francisco Bay View (July 14, 2004) -- A Letter to the Black Caucus from a Black Woman Living in South Central by Donna J. Warren, supporting the Nader/Camejo Campaign: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/letter-to-black-caucus-from-black.html. -- Yoshie * Critical

Two Americas of Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Passion of the Christ

2004-07-14 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Two Americas of Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Passion of the Christ: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/two-americas-of-fahrenheit-911-and.html -- Yoshie Furuhashi English Comparative Studies Ohio State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 614-668-6554

Re: Kucinich delegates fold like a cheap suitcase

2004-07-14 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
kucinich folks have to make decision at some point re. that They should be told to leave the Democratic Party and joing the Green Party. -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ * Calendars of Events in Columbus:

Greens for Nader!

2004-07-14 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Greens for Nader! (circulating a petition to protest the campaign against the voters by Democratic Party operatives trying to keep Ralph Nader Peter Miguel Camejo off the ballot): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/greens-for-nader.html. -- Yoshie * Critical Montages:

July 14, 1789/1958

2004-07-14 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
July 14, 1789/1958 Celebrate the French Revolution in 1789 and the 1958 Revolution in Iraq. http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/july-14-17891958.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ * Calendars of Events in

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