Re: [marxmail] The anticommunist network | Richard Seymour on Patreon

2020-09-01 Thread Arvind Ghosh
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Re: [marxmail] Evan Ross: My Jack Lieberman story — a life of service

2020-09-01 Thread John Obrien
I was unaware and this news about Jack Lieberman passing, is very unexpected and sad. He deserves better obit than this.Jack was an important activist in Florida for over 50 years. He sadly stayed in the SWP when it passed the anti-LGBT "social weight" proposal in 1974, to try and disrespect

Re: [marxmail] The anticommunist network | Richard Seymour on Patreon

2020-09-01 Thread Roger Kulp
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[marxmail] More on Kameny

2020-09-01 Thread Louis Proyect
Turning to “The Lavender Scare” [the documentary, unfortunately not VOD yet], we meet some of the same figures who are featured in “Before Stonewall”. Among them is Frank Kameny, who, while probably well-known to gay activists, deserves much greater recognition from the left in general. Like

Re: [marxmail] Monstre Sacré: The Life and Times of Franklin E. Kameny - Los Angeles Review of Books

2020-09-01 Thread fkalosar101
Kameny's elitism--while it represents an important and IMO in many ways unfortunate current in gay male culture and activism--hardly tells the whole story.  Consider the communist Harry Hay, who never had that problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hay -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io

[marxmail] Remembering the 1979 Greensboro Massacre

2020-09-01 Thread Richard Modiano
In recent days, the U.S. has seen a wave of violent attacks by far-right militia groups on Black Lives Matter protesters, and the killing and maiming of protesters in Kenosha, Wis., by a young supporter of one of these groups. How can we counter these attacks? Which tactics are effective, and

[marxmail] Patrick Hilsman on how COVID-19 denialism and Assadism go hand in hand

2020-09-01 Thread Louis Proyect
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[marxmail] Panel on Women in Prisons: U.S., Syria, Iran, Sept. 26

2020-09-01 Thread Ken Hiebert
Zanan Group in Northern California presents: a panel discussion on Women in Prisons in the U.S., Syria, and Iran There are currently approximately 220,000 women in U.S. prisons, most of whom for non-violent offenses or self-defense in abusive relationships. In Syria, of the over 100,000

Re: [marxmail] Dead Trotskyists Society: Provocative Presence of a Difficult Past

2020-09-01 Thread John Obrien
Alan Wald in his preface wrote: "Nat Weinstein is a working class hero" Well as a worker, I would like to state that Nat Weinstein was a homophobic bigot that actively discriminated against LGBT people. For some/many - that disqualifies Nat Weinstein as a "hero". But I understand that some have

[marxmail] Facebook: A Most Violent Platform | Jacob Silverman

2020-09-01 Thread Louis Proyect
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[marxmail] Rob Wallace speaking this Sunday

2020-09-01 Thread John Reimann
Rob Wallace, author of "Big Farms Make Big Flu" will be speaking at a Zoom meeting sponsored by the Workers International Network this Sunday. At a time when so few socialists explain the role of factory farming and habitat destruction in the rise of new zoonotic diseases, and at a time when the

[marxmail] two chapters of DSA endorse the Walker/Hawkins presidential campaign

2020-09-01 Thread Dayne Goodwin
Yesterday the Colorado Springs and Salt Lake City chapters of the DSA endorsed the Howie Hawkins/Angela Walker Green Party campaign for president and vp of the U.S. (Last year the Salt Lake City chapter of the DSA changed its name from Salt Lake DSA to Democratic Socialists of Salt Lake.)

[marxmail] The Po-Po Are a No-Go at SEIU Drop the Cops Town Hall | Left Voice

2020-09-01 Thread Louis Proyect
On August 30, SEIU Drop the Cops hosted a virtual town hall meeting to discuss the continuing fight against racism and police terror. The event, which attracted more than a hundred participants, highlighted the campaign’s five demands that advocate for a radical shift in the labor movement.

[marxmail] Monstre Sacré: The Life and Times of Franklin E. Kameny - Los Angeles Review of Books

2020-09-01 Thread Louis Proyect
WHILE WE NOW THINK of privilege and entitlement as pernicious cornerstones of a culture where some lives are valued more than others, pre-Stonewall leaders of the gay rights movement were often men fully invested with both. For these men, denial of what they deemed was rightfully theirs by

[marxmail] Dead Trotskyists Society: Provocative Presence of a Difficult Past

2020-09-01 Thread Louis Proyect
By Alan Wald. https://solidarity-us.org/atc/208/provocative-presence-of-a-difficult-past/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1064): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1064 Mute This Topic:

[marxmail] Robin’s Wish | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

2020-09-01 Thread Louis Proyect
I am not a great Robin Williams fan and even found his most interesting performances done against type such as the psychopath in “One Hour Photo”. When I learned that a documentary about his death titled “Robin’s Wish” was premiering today on Amazon Prime and the spanking newGoogle Play

[marxmail] H-Net Review [H-Early-America]: Colby on Churchill, 'The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America'

2020-09-01 Thread Andrew Stewart
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[marxmail] H-Net Review [H-Asia]: Herr on Davis, 'Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands'

2020-09-01 Thread Andrew Stewart
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[marxmail] Evan Ross: My Jack Lieberman story — a life of service

2020-09-01 Thread Louis Proyect
Jack Lieberman just died from COVID-19 a couple of days ago. He was on Marxmail years ago but was hardly the radical of his youth as this obit tries to honor. He became a hard-core Zionist and Democratic Party supporter sometime in the 80s. My respect for him is based on how and his good

[marxmail] The right wing defense of Kyle Rittenhouse is based on misinfo - misinfo

2020-09-01 Thread Louis Proyect
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[marxmail] Los Angeles: sheriff's deputies fatally shoot Black man stopped for riding bicycle | Los Angeles | The Guardian

2020-09-01 Thread Louis Proyect
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[marxmail] Wreckreation, Public Lands, and the Fecal Timebomb - CounterPunch.org

2020-09-01 Thread Louis Proyect
By Christopher Ketcham. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/01/wreckreation-public-lands-and-the-fecal-timebomb/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1052): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1052 Mute This Topic:

[marxmail] Trump Just Went Full QAnon in a Fox News Interview

2020-09-01 Thread Louis Proyect
President Donald Trump’s latest unfounded claims were so unhinged that even a Fox News host called them a “conspiracy theory.” In an interview with Laura Ingraham broadcast on Monday night, Trump made multiple baseless claims about his opponent Joe Biden being controlled by a shadowy group of

[marxmail] How did the US's mainstream right end up openly supporting vigilante terror? | Richard Seymour | Opinion | The Guardian

2020-09-01 Thread Louis Proyect
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[marxmail] In China’s Xinjiang, forced medication accompanies lockdown

2020-09-01 Thread RKOB
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[marxmail] Hunger could to kill more people than Covid-19 this year

2020-09-01 Thread RKOB
Bloomberg 1 Sep, 2020, https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3099682/hunger-could-kill-more-people-covid-19-year -- Revolutionär-Kommunistische Organisation