How much was the spectrum given away in 1996 worth?
Michael Perelman
I recall Bob Dole using $70 billion figure when he called it
biggest giveaway of 20th century. I think Common Cause used
that amount as well in material it released on media lobby.
Michael Hoover
, federal gov't built towns in Los Alamos,
NM, Oak Ridge, TN, and Cape Canaveral, FL...Michael Hoover
ain't enough, at least in some circles.) It's clear that rentiers are
claiming a bigger portion of total U.S. surplus value than they used to.
Didn't Keynes refer to the "euthanasia of the rentiers" in proposing
political state intervention to manage productive capital investment?.
..Michael
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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:11:41 -0600 (MDT)
From: ANDERSON DAVID [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dsanet: LABORTALK: PRIVATIZING WELFARE (fwd)
LaborTalk: Privatizing Welfare
By Harry Kelber
Thanks to the millions of our poorest families that
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Labor's Next Century: New Alliances, Sweatshops and the Global South
An international conference at New York University on the future of
post-Seattle alliances, international organizing and the struggle for
human rights
April 7-8 at Judson Memorial
to supermarket *and* they have continued to
assert that they cannot afford unionization because they are
'family businesses' with small market shares.
Interested listers might check out Patrick Mooney's _My Own Boss?:
Class, Rationality, and the Fanily farm_ for marxist analysis of
erosion of
forwarded by Michael Hoover
From the (Morristown, NJ) Daily Record
By Joseph McLaughlin
Daily Record
FLORHAM PARK (N.J.) -- About 30 human rights activists
and environmentalists, under the close eye of a few dozen
police officers and sharpshooters, gathered at the Hamilton
Park
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World Socialist Web Site http://www.wsws.org
Republicans, Clinton White House back funding for US military intervention
in Colombia
By Patrick Martin
5 April 2000
The US House of Representatives voted March 30
to approve $1.7 billion in funding
milar period/history
as above:
Alexander Saxton, _The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese
Movement in California_
Gwendolyn Mink, _Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political
Development: Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920_
Michael Hoover
tric since focus remains on Europe (and lets third
world elites off hook). Michael Hoover
in light of recent thread on family farming, sent to me by friend
without source cited... Michael Hoover
"More than 180 organizations" have sent a letter to Congress asking for
an investigation of the American Farm Bureau, 4/10. The letter
grew out of a Defenders of Wildlife inv
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Miami urged as site for trade talks
By Sue Schultz, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 12, 2000
WASHINGTON -- Miami should be the permanent site for
free trade talks in the Americas, Congress voted Tuesday.
"Locating the (free trade area)
to then co-venture with Mainland (either
state-run or one of several private) companies in order to circumvent
restrictions on film imports that limit number to about 20 per year (up
from 10 a few years ago). Michael Hoover
probably too much to expect that below-types will start jumping from
fifteenth floor windows any time soon (and their going bye-bye won't
destroy capitalism), but one can hope... Michael Hoover
Here's how some famous billionaires fared as the stock market plunged
this week.
William H
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[Surprise, surprise, the government has found another way to treat poor
people unfairly.]
World Socialist Web Site http://www.wsws.org
Poor in US more likely to face tax audits
By Shannon Jones
22 April 2000
New statistical evidence demonstrates
ct.
Denise was co-producer/director on the film and Bill designed the
website.
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/med_svc/wguthrie/index.html
Michael Hoover
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 17:35:23 EDT
Subject: [ciw-announce] Taco Bell Action Alert!
Please distribute the following Action Alert as widely as possible - Thanks
... ACTION ALERT... ACTION ALERT... ACTION ALERT...
Coalition
'Regulation Theory:
Creative Marxism to Postmodern Disintegration.'Michael Hoover
missle promotion, provocative retargeting
of nuclear weapons... Michael Hoover
someone whose work is considered to be anti-Marxist to argue that Marx is
today unavoidable, despite the rush to global liberal capitalism.
isn't Marx unavoidable because of the rush to liberal global capitalism?.
..Michael
check the forward to Hal Draper's "Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution"
Vol 2...forward is entitled "How Not to Quote Marx"...Michael
Or check-out Ch. 1 of Joseph O'Malley and Keith Algozin ed. _Rubel on Karl
Marx_ (Cambridge, CUP, 1981).
to what end?...my suggestion to check out Draper was
I responded to Gerald Levy's - perhaps offhanded? - comment that Marx
repeatedly stated that he wasn't a Marxist because I remembered M's quip
differently - that M made it as a commentary on French Marxists and that
M's remark is known indirectly through Engels (and I noted the 4
specific times
What was the exact publication year of Lenin's Imperialism?
Mine Doyran
1916
Michael Hoover
ng
in sun, or something like that), looks askance at mainstream
historians' parroting of official line despite insufficient evidence,
and critiques conclusion drawn from 1991 exhumation that Taylor was
not poisoned. Michael Hoover
, it
offered a counterweight. Now that it's gone, what can a small, poor
country do?
Doug
Read Zizek... Michael Hoover
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Welcome to The Other Florida: The Florida of Economic Inequality and
Injustice; the Florida They Don't Want the Tourists to See
*
Hopefuls endure wait; Hialeah defends system
BY SANDRA MARQUEZ
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Date: 10 Jan 1997 19:02:27
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Subject: M.I.A.: the latest and potentially most dangerous
To: Recipients of conference [EMAIL PROTECTED]
M.I.A. Culpa
In popular mythology, economic globalization is a natural
phenomenon, like continental drift:
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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 21:47:43 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Eisenscher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: California to privatize welfare?
To: Recipients of conference [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Los Angeles TimesMonday, January 27, 1997
PRIVATIZATION
Michael Hoover responded to my question about the integration of the U.S.
South into the national economy, saying that the government expended
considerable resources to encourage investment there.
Why did they have to expend funds? Why was the investment so slow in
coming.
Michael
business in the U.S. had the opportunity for a
long time to take advantage of the low costs labor pools of the Southern
part of the country.
A homogenization of the country did not begin in earnest until the minimum
wage laws and other New Deal legislation took hold.
Why was this process so
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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 18:43:41 -0500
From: Softcomm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Michael Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Apple lays off thousands
By Dawn Yoshitake
March 14, 1997, 1:30 p.m. PT
Looking to drastically shrink its
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 23:04:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Eisenscher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Changes in the Dow Jones Average
To: Recipients of conference [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This announcement from the Wall St. Journal that four stocks are being
dropped and four added
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To: Michael Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Internet Service Providers
While many industry watchers had
expected independent ISPs to get trampled this
year by a herd of telecommunications companies,
many are in fact posting
According to ypu, Pierson has two main
objections to market socialism.
1) A market socialist economy cannot be a "pure" free market economy but
will require extensive government regulation to deal with externalities,
2) Market socialism cannot be achieved by reformist means.
--Justin
Patrick B:
And I recall Vicente Navarro's
argument that making the demand for single-payer and a national health
service more generally is a potentially revolutionary, not a reformist
demand; since the US capitalist class can (technically, financially,
administratively) concede it but will
when I heard David Schweickart speak last year, he acknowledged that
competition, inequality, advertising, and likely unemployment would
still exist in market socialism...he proceeded to invoke Marx (he
referred to himself as an anti-Stalinist Marxist) - socialism is not to
be identified
Louis: This question of a "transition phase" is something that gets lost
in all market socialism literature I have read. Marx was for communism.
Socialism is supposed to be a transition from capitalism to communism.
when I heard David Schweickart speak last year, he acknowledged that
Doesn't WALD use Sprint as their main carrier, and isn't Sprint a known
union-busting company?
Doug
yes to both questions...as I recall, Sprint fired a mostly Latina
workforce at a Spanish-language branch in San Fransisco one week
prior to a certification election that the union (CWA?) was
On Sat, May 31, 1997 at 08:33:39 (-0700) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am teaching a course this summer based on movies. I am
curious if anyone has any suggestions for movies with a strong
message concerning labor issues or unions.
you might check out Tom Zaniello's book *Working Stiffs,
Michael Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/12/00 05:48PM btw:
Michael Parenti has noted that policy of containing spread of
slavery was promptly reversed following death of President Zachary
Taylor (southern slaveowner opposed to extension of slavery and
secession) death. Parenti's article
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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 14:15:25 +
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Subject: dsanet: Greenspan as dem-leftist
All Globalization Is Local
By Jim Hoagland
Thursday, August 28, 1997; Page
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:36:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Victor O. Story" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ATWS [EMAIL PROTECTED], chiapas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LatAm is where it's happening, say consultants (fwd)
SAO PAULO, Brazil, Sept
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: List of Top 25 American philanthropists
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(September 19, 1997 7:57 p.m. EDT) - "Fortune" magazine's list of the
top 25 American philanthropists and
4th, the book is selling at a rate
of more than 2.25 copies per minute.
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1970s and 1990s...
currently, 1 out of every 3 new home purchases is manufactured
housing, up from 1 out of 4 15 yrs ago...Michael Hoover
...Michael Hoover
From the press you'd think that the technology-heavy NASDAQ was
a no loose investment; however, a dramatic effect can be illustrated
with the NASDAQ Composite index.
The Nasdaq Composite Index measures all Nasdaq domestic and non-US based
common stocks listed on The Nasdaq
Florida listers note below e-dresses for more info...Michael Hoover
This Week's Events (see below for more details)
---
TUESDAY: Ramsey Clark to Speak in St. Petersburg
WEDNESDAY: Weekly Vigil and Organizing Meeting in Orlando
of
thousand in Chile, Argentina, Zaire, Iran (under the Shah), Colombia,
Bolivia, Brazil, Panama, Somalia, South Yemen, Western Sahara, and other
countries.'
Lenin wrote somewhere that, politically, imperialism tends toward
violence and reaction...'humanitarianism' my ass...Michael Hoover
55, the US had provided US $600 million in
direct military grants (not a typo, amount of military and economic
'assistance' was equal)...Michael Hoover
es against police, military personnel,
Kosovo Serbs, and ethnic Albanian 'collaborators' increased.
the stage was set...Michael Hoover
friend of mine who runs Mangrove Replenishment Initiative
- http://mangrove.org/ - sent me below note, Michael Hoover
An article in the 4/8 issue of Nature says the Amazon rain forest is
being destroyed much faster than previously thought. Researchers found
the rate of destruction is 17,000
excuse more shameless self-promotion...again, feel free (be encouraged)
to forward to folks who/lists that might be interested...appears
publication will now be at beginning of June...Michael Hoover
The publisher, VERSO, April 9, 1999
ENDORSEMENTS
CITY ON FIRE: HONG KONG CINEMA
Will the Asian economic crisis spell the
end of Hong Kong cinema and the beginning of brain drains? Yoshie
CITY ON FIRE: HONG KONG CINEMA, Lisa Odham Stokes and Michael Hoover
attempted cross-over to Hollywood (initiated by Terence Chang and John Woo
in 1991) preceded economic crisis
stern capitalism thus
makes itself a senior, and often dominant, advisor to the Yugoslavian
government." (_Socialism_, p. 295) Michael Hoover
myriad problems facing the poor and reduce class inequalities and
socio-economic polarization at the same time...Michael Hoover
of executive aggrandizement'...
Michael Hoover
gov't says, and then ...'
if memory serves, Yoshie F. called this Media Literacy 101 recently
(may have been on another list)...Michael Hoover
to be
transmitted instantly around the world, Chambers said at the spring
Internet World expo.
forwarded by Michael Hoover
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Fifty-five executives with ties to the
high-tech world urged Texas Gov. George W. Bush to run for president
Monday,
saying they liked his views on education, litigation and regulation.
``We need visionary leaders who understand the New Economy,'' the
executives
from John Ehrenberg's "Civil Society Marxist Politics," *Socialism
Democracy*, Vol. 12, Nos. 1-2, 1998...article is based on his
recently published _Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea_...
any listers read it? Michael Hoover
'The contemporary obsession with "civil
CLINTON SENDING 90,000 GROUND TROOPS TO YUGOSLAVIA
30,000 of which will be reservists and national guard... Michael Hoover
friend forward below to me, apologies for bad formatting, I received
it that way...Michael Hoover
Careful, they might hear you
By DUNCAN CAMPBELL
Australia has become the first country
openly to admit that it takes part
offered US $500
million which is approximately equal to Suriname's GDP...region
under consideration is pristine rain forest with tremendous
animal and plant diversity that is inhabited by indigenous people
living in what are called 'forest communities'... Michael Hoover
On Friday, May 28, 1999 at 15:22:51 (-0400) Michael Hoover writes:
consequences of unrestricted suburban growth include among other things,...
Very interesting stuff. What would you recommend for reading on these
topics?
Bill
if you are asking about literature favorable to the 'managerial
to
create metro-wide planning council with authority over land-use policy...
efficacy of 'managerial' approaches is certainly questionable...
Michael Hoover
and political
innovations (nowhere in Europe were such far-ranging concessions to
nationalist rights granted in a region considered so potentially
separatist and Kosovo, as the poorest area with the highest
unemployment rate, received disproportionate investment and
assistance)... Michael
of uniformed military personnel is about 1.5 million,
also the lowest figure since 1950... Michael Hoover
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 20:09:00 -0400
Subject: ACTION ALERT-Guestworkers-URGENT
Please distribute widely. Thanks, Vicki.
Migrant Farmworker Justice
At 06:23 PM 4/29/99 -0400, Michael Hoover wrote:
watching the debate and vote on this matter on C-SPAN last evening, I
couldn't help but notice that 'socialist' Bernie Sanders voted for the
resolution to sanction the bombing...how fortunate that there aren't
more leftists like him
uneven and unequal tariff and 'free trade' agreements, IMF loansharking,
democratic pretense, and covert/'low-intensity'/overt warfare...
Michael Hoover
al mineral resources, including the richest mines for lead,
molybdenum, mercury and other metals in all of Europe. Obviously one cannot
leave the control over such resources to an independent Yugoslavia.
Kosovo also has the largest lignite field in Europe...Michael Hoover
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[www.IraqWar.org]
Americans Against World Empire
www.IRAQWAR.org
Very important documents. German govt. reports state that no extensive
persecution of Albanians in Kosovo was taking place prior to the Nato
bombing. ( The German govt. nonetheless supported
anyone know if below has a precedent? Michael Hoover
Vets Want US Troops Out of Balkans
Thursday, May 6, 1999; 5:00 a.m. EDT
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The nation's largest veterans
organization has urged President
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FAIR Fairness Accuracy In Reporting 130 W. 25th Street New
York, NY 10001 Slanted Sources in NewsHour and Nightline Kosovo Coverage
May 5, 1999
A FAIR analysis of sources on ABC's Nightline and PBS's NewsHour during
the first two weeks
Is this captured in the term "chauvinism", which means both male-supremacy
and national jingoism ? (Named for Napoleon's General Chauvin)
Charles Brown
"Michael Hoover" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/06/99 01:20PM
in first days/weeks of US/NATO bombing, this list had a lot
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The Orlando Sentinel's San Juan Bureau has been doing good coverage of the
growing movement to stop the U.S. Navy from using the island of Vieques as
a bombing range. Information on the Puerto Rican Independence Party:
http://www.pip.org.pr and http
includes 'unimportant' issues such as health) exists as
if in some gender-neutral realm...Michael Hoover
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The Times
May 4 1999
Roger Boyes Inside Germany
'Chancellor of war' faces tide of dissent
The tide of German opinion is shifting rapidly
against the Nato war in Yugoslavia. Popular
opponents have found a voice in the form of Oskar
Lafontaine, the former
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 16:20:36 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Black)
Subject: The Emporer Has No Clothes!
RISING PUBLIC ANGER AT CORPORATIONS
Source: EDK Associates, 235 West 48th Street, New York, NY 10036; phone:
(212) 582-4504; fax: (212) 265-9348. July
What are recent articles/books dealing with "globalization"?
Eric
Saskia Sassen, *Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization*,
Columbia University Press, 1996...Michael
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Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 10:11:04 -0500
From: Bob Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Soros marks 10 years of philanthropy in Russia
Copyright © 1997 The Associated Press
MOSCOW (October 7, 1997) -- As George
Soros sees it, Russia is well on the road from "robber
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Date sent:Thu, 11 May 2000 16:14:45 -0700
Organization: Veterans For Peace,
eventually faced problems (amidst myriad others) associated with
'partial' participation - declining productivity, alienation,
resistance.Michael Hoover
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "activist general"[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 23:03:08 -0400
Subject: Protest Republican Democratic Conventions this summer
Reply-to: "activist general"[EMAIL PROTECTED]
BE ON THE STREETS AT THE
RE
sentence of your post is 'kinder, gentler' disparagement and
likely disingenuous. Such discussion on pen seems remote (listers
finding it tangential) and it is kind of topic that you generally
discourage on lbo. Michael Hoover
lternative strategies for seizing state
power, and bought time for opposition. Michael Hoover
it is result of 'normal' functioning of current
world system. Galtung, Hoivik, Gernot Kohler, Norman Alcock concluded
that about 20 million people were victims of structural violence.
Michael Hoover
20 million per year... MH
political scientist Tord Hoivik termed such loss 'structural
violence' because it is result of 'normal' functioning of current
world system. Galtung, Hoivik, Gernot Kohler, Norman Alcock concluded
that about 20 million people were victims of structural violence.
Michael Hoover
'illegally' occupied
land being recognized as owners. Michael Hoover
it devalues the premium which links school quality to the value of
their home.Michael Hoover
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Posted by Ben Markeson, moderator
This article appears in the February-March issue of IMPACT Press, the
magazine I work for. IMPACT is available in Orlando, Winter Park, Altamonte
Springs, Tampa, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Jupiter and West
Palm
we had a state-mandated course for all secondary school students called
'Americanism vs Communism' requiring course materials that promoted
(quoting from the law) "the system of constitutional government and the
free-enterprise, competitive economy indigenous to the U.S."
Michael Hoover
friend who sent below to me didn't identify source... Michael Hoover
E-tailers aren't the only ones cashing in on the online retail craze
universities are also getting in on the action. More colleges are
offering e-commerce majors in response to growing demand for workers
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"Labor's Next Century: Alliances, Sweatshops and the Global South"
An international conference at New York University on the future of
post-Seattle alliances and organizing for social justice and workers'
rights.
SAVE THE DATE: April 7-8 at Judso
'Marxists' in each instance...
Michael Hoover
Free Enterprise: The Business Assault
on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60_
Michael Hoover
spring '99 catalogue is at http://www.verso.com
Michael Hoover
CITY ON FIRE: Hong Kong Cinema
MICHAEL HOOVER AND LISA STOKES
Hong Kong's film industry gained global attention in the 1980s, at the time
of negotiations over Great Britain's return of the colony to China.
Uncertainty about
Freud Marx: different kinds of materialism...any comments on below?
Michael Hoover
Philip Green, _Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology Gender in Hollywood_,
pp. 4...
'"Ideology" has meaning only as an account of an individual's
transactions with a structured social whole, but psyc
The Amazon.com catalogue lists a new publication by David Harvey called
_Limits to Capital_ to be published in April of this year (192 pgs). Is
this an update of his earlier work of the same name?
RSP
yes, new edition, you can read description at www.versobooks.com...
Michael Hoover
have re-evaluated latter point in
light of intervening years.Michael Hoover
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