Re: Re: Fwd: letter

2000-05-01 Thread Michael Hoover
missle promotion, provocative retargeting of nuclear weapons... Michael Hoover

Re: Regulation Theory

2000-04-29 Thread Michael Hoover
'Regulation Theory: Creative Marxism to Postmodern Disintegration.'Michael Hoover

No Subject

2000-04-27 Thread Michael Hoover
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

[fla-left] [labor] Taco Bell Action Alert! Justice for Tomato Workers!! (fwd)

2000-04-27 Thread Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover 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

[fla-left] [news] Poor in US more likely to face tax audits (fwd)

2000-04-26 Thread Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover [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

billionaires (fwd)

2000-04-16 Thread 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

HK Film Industry (was Re: Notes on a talk I will give on Wed.)

2000-04-14 Thread Michael Hoover
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

FARM BUREAU INVESTIGATION DEMANDED (fwd)

2000-04-13 Thread 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

[fla-left] [news] Miami urged as site for trade talks (fwd)

2000-04-13 Thread Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover 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)

Re: Anti-Eurocentrism: Idealist Diversion from Anti-racism/anti-imperialism

2000-04-12 Thread Michael Hoover
tric since focus remains on Europe (and lets third world elites off hook). Michael Hoover

[fla-left] [analysis] Republicans, White House back funding for US military intervention in Colombia (fwd)

2000-04-06 Thread Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover 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

Re: Xenophobia and the American labor movement

2000-04-05 Thread Michael Hoover
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

[fla-left] [news] Arrests made at World Bank demo (fwd)

2000-04-03 Thread Michael Hoover
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

Re: Re: Re: Query on Small Farmers

2000-03-30 Thread Michael Hoover
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

NYU Conference Schedule (April 7-8) (fwd)

2000-03-29 Thread Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover 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

Re: telecommunications act of 1996

2000-03-10 Thread Michael Hoover
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

E-commerce majors (fwd)

2000-03-06 Thread 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

Labor's Next Century: Alliances, Sweatshops and the Global South

2000-03-01 Thread Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover "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

Re: Suburbia

2000-02-29 Thread Michael Hoover
, federal gov't built towns in Los Alamos, NM, Oak Ridge, TN, and Cape Canaveral, FL...Michael Hoover

Re: Re: Voucher Socialism- Rightwing view on school

2000-02-24 Thread Michael Hoover
it devalues the premium which links school quality to the value of their home.Michael Hoover

It was called AVC

2000-02-16 Thread Michael Hoover
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

Re: Re: reparations

2000-02-13 Thread Michael Hoover
'illegally' occupied land being recognized as owners. Michael Hoover

[fla-left] [commentary] CIA-Socialism in Chile (fwd)

2000-02-13 Thread Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover 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

Re: Re: Re: executive committee

2000-02-11 Thread Michael Hoover
lternative strategies for seizing state power, and bought time for opposition. Michael Hoover

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: reparations

2000-02-11 Thread 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

Re: Re: Re: Re: reparations

2000-02-11 Thread Michael Hoover
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

Re: Re: Re: Re: commies in New Hampshire

2000-02-01 Thread Michael Hoover
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

[PEN-L:13039] Re: Wood on Brenner on Market Dependence

1999-10-29 Thread Michael Hoover
and coordination would be (at best) coop capitalism... Michael Hoover I should have indicated in previous post that pp. 105-112 of CW6 are from _The Poverty of Philosophy_, MH

[PEN-L:13036] Re: Wood on Brenner on Market Dependence

1999-10-29 Thread Michael Hoover
in plywood coops considered them to be regressive employers and their plants to be among thse most hazardous to work in (by early 1980s, about 50% had been taken over by monopoly sector of industry). Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:13032] Re: Wood on Brenner on Market Dependence

1999-10-29 Thread Michael Hoover
gues that they only have value as independent working class creations, chastizes those calling for bourgeois state subsidies and participation... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:12940] Re: Re: Re: Know Your Yids c.

1999-10-26 Thread Michael Hoover
, Christianity with its *cultus* of abstract man, more especially in its bourgeois developments, Protestantism, deism, etc., is the most fitting form of religion. Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:12896] Re: Re: Re: Women and the Taliban

1999-10-24 Thread Michael Hoover
of conscience" is nothing but the toleration of all possible kinds of *religious freedom of conscience*, and that for its part it endeavours rather to liberate the conscience from the witchery of religion.' Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:12776] Re: equal pay act

1999-10-18 Thread Michael Hoover
was *Corning Glass Works v Brennan* (1974) where court that ruled men working night shift could not make higher wages than women working day shift if two were performing equal work. Check out Susan Gluck Mezey's _In Pursuit of Equality: Women, Public Policy, and the Federal Courts_.Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:12776] Re: equal pay act

1999-10-18 Thread Michael Hoover
was *Corning Glass Works v Brennan* (1974) where court that ruled men working night shift could not make higher wages than women working day shift if two were performing equal work. Check out Susan Gluck Mezey's _In Pursuit of Equality: Women, Public Policy, and the Federal Courts_.Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:12694] Re: Re: Re:Moore

1999-10-13 Thread Michael Hoover
Didn't Moore co-author(co-edit?)a work with Marcuse and R.Paul Wolff *The Critique of Pure Tolerance*? Michael Hoover will know. Sam Pawlett Not sure why you think I'd know above, but so happens that I do. Wolff ("Beyond Tolerance"), Moore ("Tolerance and the Sci

[PEN-L:12550] re: data on college teachers query

1999-10-11 Thread Michael Hoover
Can anyone direct me to a source giving the extent of the use of part-time and graduate student faculty in colleges and universities as well as the ratio of nontenure to tenure stream full-time faculty? Michael Yates AAUP has some of above, website is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:12452] Re: Tony Smith

1999-10-09 Thread Michael Hoover
guy who teaches in philosophy dept. at Iowa State University... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:12437] Re: Re: the long term

1999-10-08 Thread Michael Hoover
Mallet (he may have died but my memory is fuzzy on this)... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:12330] Re: Some sponsors of Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies

1999-10-05 Thread Michael Hoover
leader, perceiving himself to be voice of moderation, later martial law was imposed, including imprisonment. Solidarity that Jaruzelski legalized in 1988 and that won 99 out of 100 seats in Senate in 1989 was quite different grouping. Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:12282] Re: Jobs Education: A Query

1999-10-04 Thread Michael Hoover
are being contracted out and assigned to temps.Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:12080] Re: Re: Aid to Indonesia

1999-10-01 Thread Michael Hoover
phrase 'totalitarian democracy' to identify collectivist ideas that ostensibly denied liberty, tracing them to Rousseau. Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:12081] Re: Re: Re: Aid to Indonesia

1999-10-01 Thread Michael Hoover
J. T. Talmon, J. L. Talmon Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:12000] Re: Eurocentrism and Malaysia

1999-09-30 Thread Michael Hoover
foreign investors while forcing working people to bear the brunt of its 'developmentalist integration' with regional and global economy. I can think of more appropriate word than "clown' to describe him. Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:11996] Re: RE: Re: New biography of Marx

1999-09-29 Thread Michael Hoover
ve is from 1843... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:11995] Re: Aid to Indonesia

1999-09-29 Thread Michael Hoover
t required 'allies' in war against communism, offered military funding, training, and weapons to such counties, and maintained profitable 'trading partners' and investment locations, Indonesia invaded in December 1975. Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:11897] Slavery/Colonies/Industry

1999-09-28 Thread Michael Hoover
. In any event, apologies if below has already been posted and discussed. Michael Hoover 'Direct slavery is as much the pivot of bourgeois industry as machinery, credits, etc. Without slavery you have no cotton; without cotton you have no modern industry. It is slavery that gave the colonies

[PEN-L:11709] Re: RE: Re: more on col'ism

1999-09-26 Thread Michael Hoover
of Pruit-Igoe housing project in St. Louis on 7/15/72 at 3:32pm (or thereabouts). Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:11683] Re: What the founders of the UN intended

1999-09-25 Thread Michael Hoover
ers) who may be motivated by humanitarian concerns.Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:11593] Re: Re: City on Fire

1999-09-23 Thread Michael Hoover
horse. I'll give you a ride." Wing-chun's superior fighting skills, however reduce him to a pre-pubescent boy. Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:11597] Re: City on Fire: Comments by Lou Proyect (fwd)

1999-09-23 Thread Michael Hoover
Yoshie was kind enough to forward Lou P's _City on Fire_ report to Doug H's lbo list. Below is post I sent to that list. Michael Hoover Lisa Stokes and I had the pleasure of meeting Doug H and his wife in NYC last weekend and it was great to finally do so after years of e-mail. I have much

[PEN-L:11586] Re: Re: City on Fire

1999-09-23 Thread Michael Hoover
her death is guaranteed by picture's end. Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:11574] Re: City on Fire

1999-09-23 Thread Michael Hoover
After exchanging email with Michael Hoover for over three years, I finally got a chance to meet him here in NYC this weekend. He was promoting his new Verso book on Hong Kong cinema titled "City on Fire" along with co-author Lisa Stokes. Louis Proyect A belated response to Lo

[PEN-L:10721] [fla-left] [analysis] Unions in FL: A Long Climb (fwd)

1999-09-08 Thread Michael Hoover
corporations, created in 1924) engineered the 'right to work' campaign during WW2 when a sizeable percentage of white working class males were away (of course, blacks were still disenfranchised at that time as well). Michael Hoover Labor Unions in Florida: A Long Climb Because of Florida's

[PEN-L:10732] Re: 'Humanitarian intervention' in E. Timor?

1999-09-08 Thread Michael Hoover
concern to the State Department and the CIA. In 1977, however, as the Indonesian army's war of annihilation reached awesome proportions, the *Times* index gave Timor only five lines. Politics rather than geography determined the amount of coverage.' Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:10728] Re: film query

1999-09-08 Thread Michael Hoover
Labor_ (Cornell) discusses over 30 documentaries with info about availability and address list of sources. First edition was 1996, don't know if it has been updated. Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:10627] [PEN-L] Re: City on Fire

1999-09-03 Thread Michael Hoover
HK film, *Hard-Boiled* (1992). Yoshie referred to it in post the other day (actually she quoted from a new book on HK cinema of which I've heard good things, it's called _City on Fire_ and the authors are apparently darn good folks!). Slouching towards shameless self-promotion, Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:10609] Re: Re: Re: re: Single-Payer National Health Insurance

1999-09-03 Thread Michael Hoover
of it came from the right with single-payer advocates being at a clear disadvantage in the 'debate.'Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:10605] Re: City on Fire

1999-09-02 Thread Michael Hoover
For a fascinating exegesis of the allegories of primitive accumulation, cutthroat gangsterism, etc. in the Hong Kong cinema, read _City on Fire_ (NY: Verso, 1999) by Lisa Odham Stokes and (our very own) Michael Hoover! Yoshie A big shoutout to Yoshie for the plug! Book is now available

[PEN-L:10258] Re: New Urbanism (was Race....)

1999-08-20 Thread Michael Hoover
neighorhood'...unsurprisingly, people who've lived in these areas longest are generally opposed because they understand that property values housing costs will rise, more recent arrivals - so-called 'new traditionalists' (now that's postmodern!) - are more likely to favor such designation... Michael

[PEN-L:10236] Re: Body as Self-Property, Not Commodity

1999-08-19 Thread Michael Hoover
I risk being admonished by Michael Perelman, Michael Hoover Rosalind Petchesky "The Body as Property: A Feminist Re-Vision" (in _Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction_ [1995]), Petchesky argues that those feminist and postmodernist critics (such

[PEN-L:10238] Re: Re: Body as Self-Property, Not Commodity

1999-08-19 Thread Michael Hoover
I don't know why my message under this header was tagged urgent, I'm a few days behind in e-mail, but I almost always behind in e-mail, so apologies for *urgent* notice as well as for cluttering lister e-mailboxes with this followup... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:10202] Biblical Support for Abortion

1999-08-18 Thread Michael Hoover
I began but did not finish below comments yesterday, Michael Perelman has since blown whistle on abortion topic so if I may be allowed this trangression... Michael Hoover religious anti-abortionists like to quote Christian bible - generally a few verses from Psalms (139: 13-16), Jeremiah (1

[PEN-L:10121] Re: What Is to Be Done?: Women's Rights the Left (was Re: Value

1999-08-16 Thread Michael Hoover
positions during course of event Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:10117] Re: Roe v. Wade (was Abortion and communication)

1999-08-16 Thread Michael Hoover
on? Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:10039] Re: Re: Value Theory and Abortion: [Was Free Speech and

1999-08-14 Thread Michael Hoover
and query about how to reverse this trend was followed by posts about 'morality' and 'legitimacy' of abortion itself...sheeshMichael Hoover

[PEN-L:9949] Re: Re: Re: Campus Area Gentrification

1999-08-12 Thread Michael Hoover
selling and renting was not illegal until 1968...and exclusionary zoning continues segregationist (race and class) residential patterns to the present day... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:9617] [floridaleft] FLOC

1999-07-26 Thread Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover from July-August Industrial Worker (newspaper of the IWW) BOYCOTT May 22, Tampa, FL by Cris D'Angelo They rallied at noon beneath a sweltering Florida sun, but after thirty years working in the fields of North Carolina

[PEN-L:9619] Re: Revolution in Colombia, part one: historical background

1999-07-26 Thread Michael Hoover
Perspectives* includes several articles about above...regarding Colombia, see Nola Reinhardt, 'The Consolidation of the Import-Export Economy in Nineteenth Century Colombia,' pp. 75-98... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:9380] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: chopped liver

1999-07-20 Thread Michael Hoover
some paranoid lunacy in the propaganda, but there are very good reasons for the U.S. ruling class to want to squash any potential threat to the global hierarchy. Doug -- Michael Perelman I, for one, have always believed in the 'domino theory'...contrary to capitalists, however, I think it would be a

[PEN-L:9279] Re: Re: Re: Order and Anarchy, a Person and a Thing (was

1999-07-19 Thread Michael Hoover
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Michael Hoover wrote: Kant's essay entitled (if memory serves) "The Different Races of Mankind" makes clear his view that full personhood depends on race and is reserved for whites... Do you have a cite for this, Michael? I found a short section

[PEN-L:9251] Re: Re: Re: Re: Sports Jingoism (fwd)

1999-07-17 Thread Michael Hoover
that fought in North Africa during WW2 (about 1200 incarcerated Japanese-Americans on US mainland entered these units after 'passing' government loyalty test)... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:9255] Re: Kant in History (was Re: How not to read Kant....)

1999-07-17 Thread Michael Hoover
MacCauly (1731-1791), Mary Anne Radcliffe (1746-1810), Thomas Spence (1750-1814), Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820), Mary Darby Robinson (1758-1800)... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:9242] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Kant on Debt

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Hoover
(noblesse oblige?)... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:9246] Re: Re: Kant on Pain Moral Worth

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Hoover
is itself the product of a definite social development, not a natural, in contrast to an historical development.' (Nicolaus, trans., 1973, p. 155) above might serve as 'radical evil' of capitalist morality... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:9245] Re: Re: Kant on Debt

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Hoover
puritan upbringing... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:9185] Re: Re: Re: Re: Hanns Eisler

1999-07-15 Thread Michael Hoover
_Opera and Politics: From Monteverdi to Henze_... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:9184] Re: Order and Anarchy, a Person and a Thing (was Kant on Debt)

1999-07-15 Thread Michael Hoover
od depends on race and is reserved for whites... re. marriage, K's analysis led him to develop notion of 'real personal right' in which a husband could have his wife returned to his control if she tried to leave... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:9171] Re: Kant, Reason, Armed Forces (was Re: Kant on Debt)

1999-07-14 Thread Michael Hoover
Kant wrote in "What Is Enlightenment?": 'Argue as much as you will, and about what you will, only obey!' Yoshie didn't Kant also write somewhere that government must suppress criticism that does not show 'respect and devotion towards the existing constitution'... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:9169] Sports Jingoism (fwd)

1999-07-14 Thread Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover TO comment on ABC Sports slanted coverage of the final game of the Women's World Cup go to: http://www.abcsports.com/ask.asp --- New York Times, Sunday July 11, 1999. Section Y, p. 23, col. 1. TV Sports / Richard Sandomir Just Who

[PEN-L:9037] Re: Kant on Debt

1999-07-09 Thread Michael Hoover
ture wife Jenny and in letter that he wrote to his father in the same year)... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:9060] Re: Re: Kant on Debt

1999-07-09 Thread Michael Hoover
developments, Protestantism, deism etc., is the most fitting form of religion.' Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:9056] Re: Re: Kant on Debt

1999-07-09 Thread Michael Hoover
e grappled with a Kantian Marxism (not sure what any of them offer political practice)... Michael Hoover portion of above post was apparently lost...here is partial reconstruction sans previous examples... 'young' Stanley Fish's 'reader response' theory giving individual reader responsibility for

[PEN-L:8895] Re: Re: racism

1999-07-06 Thread Michael Hoover
minorities, aboriginals, the disabled, and women because affirmative action law really wasn't necessary anyway... Michael Hoover Yes, that is correct. This was not an issue in the recent election. The issues had to do with the attack of this government upon the poor, i.e., there were class issues

[PEN-L:8880] Film: *Rabbit in the Moon*

1999-07-05 Thread Michael Hoover
Documentary prize at this years Sundance Film Festival... Michael Hoover *Rabbit in the Moon* Emiko Omori, Director Emiko Omori Chizuko Omori, Producers Recounting of the travails of Japanese-Americans during WWII uses survivors of the forced relocation camps to tell the story of the hidden

[PEN-L:8842] [fla-left] Vieques (fwd)

1999-07-04 Thread Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover Struggle for Human Rights on Vieques, Puerto Rico (For publication in the War Resisters League newsletter, July, 1999) Robert L. Rabin Siegal* Around 7:00 PM (EST) on April 19, 1999, a U.S. Navy pilot launched two

[PEN-L:8843] US Shirks Liability Issue on Cassini

1999-07-04 Thread Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover From: Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.S. SHIRKS LIABILITY ISSUE ON CASSINI Contact: Bruce Gagnon (352) 337-9274 The "double standard" that the U.S. has created to deal with its liability the event

[PEN-L:8805] Re: Consumerism defended

1999-07-02 Thread Michael Hoover
traditional Christian social anchoring (he is all for shaming)... Twitchell simplistically claims that family name/pew placement/educational affiliation/accent/club membership no longer convey social status... hucksterism masking ideology masquerading as critique... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:8755] Re: Re: Definition: Of word or thing? Was ...Thomas

1999-07-02 Thread Michael Hoover
ism, the Utopia (Becoming a Reality) of Unlimited Exploitation," in _Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market_, 1998 Michael Hoover (who doesn't take to Zizek much either)

[PEN-L:8789] Re: Woman as the Other of Philosophy (was (Fwd) Review of *Hegel and

1999-07-02 Thread Michael Hoover
an appeal to a supposedly "pre-feminist" culture is both to underestimate the currency of feminist ideas in the nineteenth century and to underestimate the usual level of perception of Marx.' ("Marxism-feminism and the Work of Karl Marx," in B. Mathews (ed.), _Marx: A Hundred Years On_, 1

[PEN-L:8784] Re: Re: Re: STOP! STOP! STOP! Racism

1999-07-02 Thread Michael Hoover
Apologies for extensive quoting but Sandler's comments convey such naivete (to give him benefit of doubt) and historical innaccuracy that I couldn't decide what to excerpt...also, I transgress my own 'rule of thumb' - 2 screens and I'm out - with this post... Michael Hoover The following

[PEN-L:8705] Re: the NFL and urban development

1999-07-01 Thread Michael Hoover
' threatened lawsuit claiming that he retains territorial rights to area)...NFL desire to reenter LA market may win out in final decision, but Houston has both ownership and stadium financing ready to go...I think NFL has given LA interests until September to come up with plan... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:8593] Re: Re: Re: Whiteness Studies and Its Discontents

1999-06-30 Thread Michael Hoover
all analogies being suspect... Michael Hoover On Monday, June 28, 1999 at 21:36:23 (-0400) Yoshie Furuhashi writes: ... ... Besides, it's nearly impossible to discuss race on e-lists in any case, which I think has been proven before. Yes, particularly

[PEN-L:8583] [fla-left] [news] Anti-flag burning amendment passes House (fwd)

1999-06-30 Thread Michael Hoover
it may be lesser-of-two-evils (that may be evil-of-two-lessers given Demublicans) that House spends time/effort on 'symbolic' stuff like flag-burning and ten commandments given its record on taxes, public assistance, corporations, trade, foreign policy, etc... Michael Hoover Thursday June 24 8

[PEN-L:8580] Re: Re: [fla-left] [affirmative action] Ballot fight predicted (fwd)

1999-06-30 Thread Michael Hoover
student groups, and public university prez's... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:8359] Re: Re: Re: Re: California Green Party Assembly Representive

1999-06-26 Thread Michael Hoover
pollution - it may not be possible to demand that public transit systems run at a profit... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:8362] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: California Gree -Reply -Forw

1999-06-26 Thread Michael Hoover
consistently invested in modernizing train and transit operations, the result being efficient intercity and intracity systems that are fast, punctual, widely used, save on oil costs, and hold down air pollution... Michael Hoover

[PEN-L:8370] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: California Green Party Assembly Representive

1999-06-26 Thread Michael Hoover
Why should public transit "run at a profit"? The fire department doesn't. Gene Coyle Michael Hoover wrote: today, state (47%) and federal (9%) subsidied make up majority of public transit revenues with fares and ads contributing the rest... but operations lost money ev

[PEN-L:8372] [fla-left] [affirmative action] Ballot fight predicted (fwd)

1999-06-26 Thread Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover "The [Florida Civil Rights Initiative committee] has raised $100,000 to date, most of it coming from white contractors who claim minority preferences are keeping them from getting government contracts." Policy foe predicts ballot fight

[PEN-L:8371] [fla-left] AMNESTY-FL: AI Report on Florida Jail Conditions (fwd)

1999-06-26 Thread Michael Hoover
in _Discipline Punish_, Foucault reminds us to judge a society by its prisons... Michael Hoover Published Thursday, June 24, 1999, in the Miami Herald Human-rights group assails jail torture probe By ANDRES VIGLUCCI Herald Staff Writer A year after immigration detainees alleged

[PEN-L:8354] N.C. Textile Workers OK Union (fwd)

1999-06-25 Thread Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover JUNE 24, 11:40 EDT Fieldcrest Cannon Workers OK Union By PAUL NOWELL Associated Press Writer KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (AP) - A textile union that has struggled for 25 years to represent workers at six Fieldcrest Cannon plants claimed victory after a two-day

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