* Uneasy G.I.s speak their peace
By RICHARD SISK
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
AL JABER AIR BASE, Kuwait - Many of the U.S. troops poised for battle
here would give peace a chance if they had the choice.
Doubts about going to war can be heard openly in conversations among
the troops gathered in
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 16:00:28 (-0800) Michael Perelman writes:
I would add to Ahmet's remark that I am still in a state of shock, rage
Encouraging words from Thomas L. Friedman: Our strongest ally for
war in Iraq is Bulgaria - a country I've always had a soft spot for,
because it
* Japanese `shields' hold out in Iraq
The Asahi Shimbun
Thirty-five Japanese are still in Iraq, including five so-called
human shields, Foreign Ministry officials said Tuesday in Tokyo.
Of the 35, 17 are classified as members of the media, six represent
nongovernmental organizations, two
Title: Re: The countries in the anti-Iraq
coalition
At 9:53 AM -0800 3/18/03, Devine, James wrote:
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Following is a list of 30 countries the
State Department
says are members of a Coalition for the
Immediate
Disarmament of Iraq:
Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan,
At 12:20 PM -0600 3/17/03, Bill Lear wrote:
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue06/arts.lcarroll.html
Examining the Looking-Glass Life of Lewis Carroll
The Man Who Loved Little Girls
by Ada Calhoun
We live in paranoid times.
snip
But Britain in the mid-19th century is a far cry from
It is no longer appropriate to say simply, Support Our Troops, Bring
Them Home. It is time to call on all US soldiers -- and US
civilians as well -- to uphold a duty to disobey all unlawful orders.
* electronicIraq.net
INTERNATIONAL LAW
A duty to disobey all unlawful orders
Lawrence
Drawing the Line:
An Open Letter To Present and Future U.S. Troops
by S. Brian Willson, a Vietnam Veteran
December 2002
The United States government has admitted that in 2002 it has placed
military forces at one time or another in at least 180 of the world's
210 nations, and articulated its
Apropos of nothing in particular:
* A Presidential Candidate
By Mark Twain
New York Evening Post (June 9, 1879).
I have pretty much made up my mind to run for President. What the
country wants is a candidate who cannot be injured by investigation
of his past history, so that the
From the CASI list. I doubt that Ashcroft would approve of freedom kissing!
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Time for the Queer Left to organize a French kiss-in against the war.
--
Yoshie
* Calendar of Events in Columbus:
http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html
* Student International Forum:
At 5:09 PM +1100 3/13/03, Rob Schaap wrote:
It didn't help poor Tory Blur, either. There he is strutting the
world stage, being all relevant and stuff, and now it transpires the
US don't care either way.
I picture political cartoonists in the UK and elsewhere drawing
pictures of Rumsfeld
Perfidious, Ottawa stabs Paris in the back
* 12 Mar 2003 23:57
Canada urges France to reconsider U.N. veto threat
By David Ljunggren
OTTAWA, March 12 (Reuters) - Canada urged France on Wednesday to
reconsider its threat to veto any U.N. resolution that authorizes the
use of force
At 7:57 AM + 3/11/03, Chris Burford wrote:
Blair's tactics towards public opinion seem to be almost masochistic
It makes sense that the Bush junta believed it's in their interest to
invade Iraq, thought and still think that they can get away with it,
and believe that they can't back down now
[The following note came to the Socialist Register listserv, courtesy
of Sid Shniad.]
Dear friends and comrades,
Last year in April, many of us watched in horror at the coup against
the elected government of Venezuela and rejoiced when the people and
the army restored that government to
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:32:23 -0500
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By the Bombs' Early Light; Or, The Quiet American's War on Terror
by H. Bruce Franklin
(Originally published in The Nation, February 3, 2003. Copyright ©
2003 H. Bruce Franklin; all rights reserved.)
In the new film version of _The Quiet American_, a photographer races
into a plaza in
Dear Activists:
CampusTruth.org has been conducting a blatant anti-Palestinian
propaganda campaign nationwide, placing ads in campus newspapers;
recently, its half-page advertisements were placed in the _Lantern_,
the student newspaper of the Ohio State University. If you have not
seen the
* The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is a feature length
documentary on Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela [directed by Kim
Bartley Donnacha O'Brien].
Over the course of 7 months, from January to July 2002, we secured
unprecedented access to film Chavez in his daily life. During this
Kazem Al Saher -- Singing for Iraq and Its Children:
http://www.cairotimes.com/content/people/kazart.html
* New York Times February 26, 2003
Iraqi Star Tours U.S. and Sings of Baghdad
By NEIL STRAUSS
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Feb. 23 - In Beauty and His Love, the singer Kazem
al-Sahir
AFL-CIO's Executive Council Resolution against US War on Iraq:
http://www.afl-cio.org/aboutaflcio/ecouncil/ec02272003h.cfm
* New York Times February 28, 2003
Labor, Breaking Tradition, Criticizes War Preparations
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., Feb. 27 - After backing
* Afghan Massacre--Convoy of Death available on video
Film exposing Pentagon war crimes premieres in US
By Bill Vann
12 February 2003
A powerful film exposing the US role in the massacre of thousands of
unarmed prisoners of war in Afghanistan was shown for the first time
in the United
Between Iraq and a Hard Place
BREMNER BIRD AND FORTUNE - XMAS SPECIAL
Published: 17-Jan-2003
By: Channel 4 News
The comedy trio Bremner Bird and Fortune bring their viewpoint on the
Iraqi crisis in their own unique way
We're about to invade Iraq. Again. We invaded in 1917...and
1941...and 1991.
At 3:21 PM + 2/23/03, Chris Burford wrote:
Hardt highlights the undermining of the westphalian system of states
What has been undermined is not the Westphalian system but the idea
of sovereign equality embodied in the U.N. Charter -- see David
Chandler, International Justice, _New Left
What on earth is this Multitude the supposed agent of blah blah blah? Is
this the Proletariat replacement for these guys?
Cheers, Ken Hanly
And what happens when the Multitude goes out of fashion? What will
be the Multitude substitute? Mulch, in the spirit of Red-Green
synthesis? :-0
--
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
The underlying issue in the Lerner/ANSWER flap is whether the
anti-war movement will be steered towards or away from support for
a right of return for Palestinians, thereby denying the legitimacy
of the Jewish state.
Max, this is hardly a central issue to the peace
At 11:56 PM -0500 2/21/03, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
The underlying issue in the Lerner/ANSWER flap is whether the
anti-war movement will be steered towards or away from support for a
right of return for Palestinians, thereby denying the legitimacy of
the Jewish state. Lerner has translated this
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Global Capitalism and Israel
by Adam Hanieh
Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler, The Global Political Economy of
Israel (London and Sterling, Virginia: Pluto Press, 2002), 407 pages,
cloth $75.00, paper $24.95.
...Nitzan and Bichler start by challenging the traditional view of
Israel as a
Class, Economy, and the Second Intifada
by Adam Hanieh
...In essence, I argue that Israeli capitalism was brought into being
by the Labor Zionist movement (today represented by the Labor Party)
and that the Oslo process was a key step in its formation.1 Israel's
war against the Palestinian
An unusual amount of snow fell yesterday, and it was freezing cold
today, too, but about 800 of us marched against the war on Iraq,
starting from the Goodale Park at 11:45 AM, down High Street, to the
Federal Building (@ 200 High St.) in downtown Columbus, OH. During
the march, we briefly
Three Guests Who Bested O'Reilly:
* Stanley Fish, Dean (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)/Professor
of English and Criminal Justice (Milton and Post-Modernism),
University of Illinois - Chicago
* Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate, New Jersey
* Jeremy Glick, Lecturer, English (African-American
* It is not too much to say that along with an Israeli flag
and a drawing by a child who was a victim of the Holocaust, Colonel
Ramon, a 49-year-old father of four, carried Israel's dreams with
him. He represented the accomplishments this young country would
prefer to dwell on - its
Is there a government source to verify these figures? I have mentioned
them in class, but students want some verification.
--
Michael Perelman
* Department of Veterans Affairs
Office of Public Affairs
News Service
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VA Fact Sheet
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Illnesses
NYT January 29, 2003
The Question of Irradiated Beef in Lunchrooms
By MARIAN BURROS
IRRADIATED beef may be coming soon to your local school cafeteria.
The farm bill that was passed last May directs the Agriculture
Department to buy irradiated beef for the federal school lunch
program. It will
Title: Re: Irradiated Beef in School
Lunches
Eric Schlosser, in his
FAST FOOD NATION, has one of the best points against irradiation of
meat: he quotes someone saying that irradiation simply allows the
meat-packers to avoid dealing with the root causes of E. Coli and the
like, i.e., the crowded
* Anti-war poets force scrapping of White House symposium
Sarah Left
Thursday January 30, 2003
The White House yesterday confirmed that it had cancelled a poetry
symposium after a number of American poets threatened to turn the
event into an anti-war protest.
The February 12 symposium
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 22, 2003
Contact:
Van Gosse (717) 291-4246
David Montgomery (203) 865-6480
More Than 1,000 Historians Announce National Antiwar Network
Chicago--At a meeting on the evening of Friday, January 3, at the
117th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association,
Academy snubs fine Palestinian movie
Fri Jan 24, 7:22 AM ET
USA TODAY
On Feb. 11, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will
nominate films for the Oscars. One highly acclaimed Palestinian film,
which premiered Jan. 17 in New York City, will not be considered,
however. It seems that
What Would Lysistrata Do? Here's a brief list of symbolic targets:
the U.S. Department of Treasury (1500 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20220); local offices of the Internal Revenue
Service (Cf. http://www.irs.gov/localcontacts/index.html); the
Federal Reserve, 20th St. and
At 7:44 AM -0800 1/26/03, Michael Perelman wrote:
Someone somehow forged my address, sending A Very Funny Game to the
list, which I assume is a virus. I know that someone did something
similar with the PKT list. Please don't open that file. Also, no one can
help me today from the staff at
Ashcroft Online 1.0: http://www.idleworm.com/nws/2002/12/aol10.shtml
Make Your Own Bush Speech: http://home.attbi.com/~charlibrary/bushspeech.swf
--
Yoshie
* Calendar of Events in Columbus:
http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html
* Student International Forum:
, an activist
from South Korea, will lead the discussion.
Sponsors: Social Welfare Action Alliance, Solidarity, the Student
International Forum www.osu.edu/students/sif
Contact: Yoshie Furuhashi, 614-668-6554, [EMAIL PROTECTED];
Keith Kilty, 292-7181, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Download the flyer at
http
* Greg Palast: Beat the Press
Hustler Magazine
Saturday, March 1, 2003
Interview by Bruce David
For those of us who've long suspected that our democracy is up for
sale to the highest bidder, award-winning investigative journalist
Greg Palast has uncovered disturbing evidence confirming as
A rarity in the _New York Times_ -- a favorable _editorial_ about
anti-war protests and the anti-war movement in general, going so far
as to state that [m]illions of Americans who did not march share the
concerns and that [t]hese protests are the tip of a far broader
sense of concern and lack
Making Social Movements: The British Marxist Historians and the Study
of Social Movements, June 26-28, 2002, Edge Hill College of Higher
Education, England,
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/AJconfTimetable.htm
Colin Barker (Manchester Metropolitan University)
A Modern Moral Economy:
: www.acs.ohio-state.edu/map/linkbuildings/journalismbuilding.html
Contact: Yoshie Furuhashi, 614-668-6554, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Download the flyer at
http://www.service.ohio-state.edu/students/sif/jenin.pdf.
--
Yoshie
* Calendar of Events in Columbus:
http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html
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H-Gender-MidEast Announcement of New Publication in the Field by
Network Members
Date: January 13, 2003
-
From: Jassal Smita, Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Dehli
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Daughters of the Earth:
On Monday, January 13, 2003 at 13:11:45 (-0800) Ian Murray writes:
- Original Message -
From: Bill Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Another truckload of crap. We have created princes and when they
bestow us with a trickle of benefactions, our knees weaken in their
divine presence. It would
- Original Message -
From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yoshie writes:
For starters, avoid using such ungainly words as incentivize
straight out of the book of CorporateSpeak.
right. In addition, I'm afraid the word incentive is inextricably
bound
with individualistic ideas of
_A Dangerous Business_:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/workplace/
David Barstow and Lowell Bergman, At a Texas Foundry, an
Indifference to Life, _New York Times_ 8 January 2003,
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/08/national/08PIPE.html
David Barstow and Lowell Bergman, Family's
* Palestinian Humanities and Arts Now
About Us
Our name comes from the Arabic word al-phan (pronounced fan) meaning
the arts and is an acronym in English for Palestinian Humanities
and Arts Now. al-PHAN is a Chicago-based not-for-profit organization
dedicated to promoting the many
* January 8, 2003
Venezuela to Tighten Control Over Oil Co.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 10:47 a.m. ET
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez, battling a strike
that has paralyzed the world's fifth-biggest oil exporter, will
restructure the state oil company to tighten
New York Times January 7, 2003
Venezuela Plans to Split State Oil Company
By GINGER THOMPSON with NEELA BANERJEE
CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. 6 - Energy Minister Rafael Ramírez said
today that the government planned to take the state-owned oil
company, the world's fifth largest, and break it in
Hi!
We sent out this call for submissions last month, and since then
we've heard from a lot of folks who are really excited about being
part of this project, but who just don't have the time to work out a
piece of writing or art for it by now.
In an effort to include as many of you as
* Veterans Against The Iraq War
Dear Veteran:
With the prospect of a major war looming just over the horizon, and
the threats of more suffering from violence growing, the times are a
changing -- for the worse!
If you are convinced that a U.S. invasion of Iraq is wrong, then you
are
* WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community Labor Report
- Gobal Edition Produced Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg Ken Nash
Venezuela, What's Really Happening?
To read the commercial news reports from Venezuela, one might think
there is a popular labor strike that has brought an
New York Times 5 January 2003
'Captives': When Empire-Builders Become Victims
By ADAM HOCHSCHILD
The most powerful empire ever seen extends its influence throughout
the planet. Its navy is the world's largest. A key battleground is
Afghanistan. And yet in other far corners of the earth,
At 8:07 PM -0800 1/3/03, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
Most racism, even most conscious racism, is driven by hatred and
fear, not pride.
At 9:00 PM -0800 1/3/03, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
loathing, rage, violence, xenophobia. fear -- the characacteristic
attitudes of racism
At 11:40 PM -0600
Non-U.S. students jailed over class load
Friday, December 27, 2002 Posted: 10:23 AM EST (1523 GMT)
DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- At least six Middle Eastern students
studying in Colorado have been jailed in the past 10 days for failing
to take enough college classes as required by their student
At 2:44 PM -1000 1/1/03, Ralph Johansen wrote:
with a break for lunch, yes, at the York Theater in SF about 15 or
20 years ago. And btw not a bad format as precedent, for a film that
has it all
I would enjoy watching it, and it would have a guaranteed spot in
film history and perhaps find a
At 5:17 PM -0800 12/31/02, Dorman, Peter wrote:
This is an unsatisfying view, one which undermines the subversive --
and realistic -- history-telling pretentions of the film. A better
film would have placed the gangs within the larger structural
formations of mid-19th century society: the
At 10:09 PM -0500 12/31/02, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
Peter criticizes the oversight about people at work and the
political implications of that. I noted that as well. But the film
implies that for the working class, the gang structure superceded
all other social attachments. Right or wrong,
At 7:36 PM -0500 12/29/02, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
Leslie Fiedler's sexual take (come back to the raft, Huck honey).
Leslie Fiedler's take has yet to be commodified in Hannibal. There
is (or was) a hotel called Tom N Huck Motel, 3604 Mcmasters Ave,
Hannibal, MO 63401, (573-221-0422) (see
At 7:20 AM -0800 12/30/02, Devine, James wrote:
1) it's true that Tom Sawyer's evil (which is all within the
conventional morality of the day) isn't opposed by Huck except in a
weak way. One problem is that Huck always feels bad about not
conforming to the conventional morality and looks up to
At 10:20 AM -0600 12/31/02, Kendall Grant Clark wrote:
But, no, it's mute about the degree to which such white riots were
typically called forth (McKoy calls this 'ululation') by whites
(perhaps especially by business leaders and other elities,
particularly by white newspapers), as happened in
At 9:46 AM -0600 12/31/02, Carrol Cox wrote:
At 7:36 PM -0500 12/29/02, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
Leslie Fiedler's sexual take (come back to the raft, Huck honey).
Leslie Fiedler's take has yet to be commodified in Hannibal.
Incidentally, Fiedler spoke at a departmental dinner a decade or so
that's my favorite part of the book, not because it's pleasant
(it's not) but because it makes the moral message of the book as
clear as possible. One the one hand, there's Tom Sawyer, the
representative of the conventional morality of the day: Tom follows
all the official rules (since he's
To my mind, the rejection of Mark Twain's HUCK FINN as
racist because it uses the N word
Just for accuracy's sake. I suppose some label racist for that reason,
but the feature of the book focused on by those who read it is not the
language but that last terrible section in which Tom Sawyer
I've heard that the second national gathering of Racial Justice 9-11
(Cf. http://www.rj911.org/
http://www.war-times.org/current/6art9.html) was held in Los
Angeles. Did anyone attend it? What came out of it?
--
Yoshie
* Calendar of Events in Columbus:
I always thought a little bit too much had been made of Huck Finn,
and not quite enough of Puddinhead Wilson. It's been decades since
I read either, but I have a clear recollection of the latter as much
more subversive of the times. Ditto for A Connecticut Yankee.
Perhaps both were less
Just for accuracy's sake. I suppose some label racist for that reason,
but the feature of the book focused on by those who read it is not the
language but that last terrible section in which Tom Sawyer frees Jim.
Try to imagine a book in which two black men subject a white woman to
such
NYT December 26, 2002
Growing U.S. Need for Oil From the Mideast Is Forecast
By JEFF GERTH
WASHINGTON Dec. 25 - As President Bush seeks to reduce American
reliance on oil imported from the Persian Gulf, new government
studies predict that in two decades the West will be even more
dependent
* 29 Dec 2002 11:54
Nepal capital paralysed by rebel strike
(Recasts with quotes from government official)
By Gopal Sharma
KATHMANDU, Dec 29 (Reuters) - A general strike called by Maoist
rebels paralysed Nepal's capital Kathmandu on Sunday but was
generally peaceful.
Most shops were
At 2:33 AM -0500 12/28/02, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
the raging critique -- via a style of reportage
without any didacticism -- of U.S. society
being born. The city government is corrupt
to the core. The Civil War is a charnal house
for the working class that the wealthy are able
to forego. Civil
At 12:16 PM -0500 12/28/02, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
But its use is not limited to protecting the wealthy. It is also to
establish order.
Visually, though, the film doesn't dwell upon the establishment of
order very much. After the riot and its suppression, the film
creates a vast scene of
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
At 2:33 AM -0500 12/28/02, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
I'd say the best thing about the movie from the standpoint
of how it would strike a politically untutored person is that
it raises a million questions.
Well said.
One point about the film I haven't seen mentioned
You also leave out one important social space -- that created by
religion. It seems to me that the official religion of the left is
atheism and I think this is a huge loss. I think the left needs to
recongize that there is a whole spectrum of religious belief in the
U.S. -- ranging from the
Fuel Shipment Arrives in Venezuela
Fuel Shipment Arrives in Venezuela As President Chavez Insists He's
Winning Oil Standoff
The Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela Dec. 28 -
Venezuela got some desperately needed gasoline from abroad Saturday
as President Hugo Chavez claimed he was winning the
December 20, 2002
MIDDLE-CLASS REVOLT
Venezuelan elites go on strike.
By Steve Ellner
Caracas, Venezuela -- At first glance, the general strike in
Venezuela stands Marx on his head. On December 2, the powerful
Confederation of Workers (CTV) and the business organization
Fedecámaras stopped
* Al-Ahram Weekly 19 - 25 December 2002
Issue No. 617
Not kid stuff
A book by a 15-year-old girl on Palestine is causing a sharp outcry
by anti-Semitism activists in France. Amina Elbendary reports
Intellectual and journalistic circles in France -- and to an extent
in Germany -- have
New York Times 29 December 2002
Trickle of Oil Starts Flowing in Venezuela
By GINGER THOMPSON
PUERTO LA CRUZ, Venezuela, Dec. 28 - Nearly a month into Venezuela's
devastating national strike, all systems were back up and running
close to normal this week at the refinery here that supplies
_Jenin Jenin_
Type: Documentary
Director: Mohamed Bakri
Year: 2002
Time: 54 minutes
Produced by: Iyad Samudi and Mohamed Bakri
Written by: Mohamed Bakri
Edited by: Leandro Pantanella
Language: Arabic with English subtitles
Winner: Best Film, Carthage International Film Festival
'Where is God,'
Reverend Billy the Church of Stop Shopping:
http://www.revbilly.com/
http://stream.realimpact.org/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/demnow/dn20001122.rastart=51:20.1;.
* Jill Lane, Reverend Billy: Preaching, Protest, and
Postindustrial Flanerie, _TDR: The Drama Review_ 46.1 (Spring 2002):
Claire C. Robertson, _Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men, and Trade
in the Nairobi Area, 1890-1990_:
http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/books/0-253-33360-1.shtml
* Journal of Social History 33.1 (1999) 242-244
Book Review
Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area,
Cairo Declaration: Against US Hegemony and War on Iraq and in
Solidarity with Palestine, 27 December 2002,
http://www.counterpunch.org/cairo1227.html.
--
Yoshie
* Calendar of Events in Columbus:
http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html
* Anti-War Activist Resources:
* New York Times 27 December 2002
Brazil Sends Gasoline at Venezuelan's Request
By LARRY ROHTER
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 26 - In a show of support for Venezuela's
embattled president, Hugo Chávez, the Brazilian government has sent
an emergency shipment of 520,000 barrels of gasoline to
* Wednesday December 18, 02:03 PM
Protesting is good for you
Group protests, or collective action, may have health benefits for
participants, according to research by UK psychologists.
A study by Dr John Drury, a lecturer in social psychology at the
University of Sussex, suggests that
* FORUM, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 7-9 p.m.
--VENEZUELA TODAY-
WHAT IS HAPPENING?
WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT?
WHY IS THIS CRISIS IN VENEZUELA COMING UP AT THIS TIME?
BRIEF TALKS AND THEN QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION,
FEATURING VENEZUELAN PROFESSOR DOZTHOR ZURLENT,
Visiting Lecturer in the
PROTEST TOOLS
_This is an all-out war at this point, and it is amazing to me that
in the face of body armour, batons, grenades, gas, pepper spray,
rifles, and what is pretty much a tank, we are defending ourselves
with only wetted bandanas, swim goggles (if you're lucky), baking
soda, water
The Culture of the Market: Historical Essays
Edited by Thomas L. Haskell, Richard F. Teichgraeber, III
£25.95
September 1996 | Paperback (Hardback) | 538 pages | ISBN: 0521564786
In stock
Scholars have only recently begun to appreciate the extent to which
the norms and practices that foster
* _Objectivity Is Not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in
History_ (Baltimore, 1998): 280-306.
Responsibility, Convention, and the Role of Ideas in History*
Thomas L. Haskell
...My debt to Quentin Skinner is already apparent. In the interest of
brevity, my plan here is to hoist myself up
Labor Competition and the New York Draft Riots of 1863
By ALBON P. MAN, JR.
Journal of Negro History, Vol. XXXVI, No. 4, October 1951
The New York draft riots of July, 1863, had their origin largely in a
fear of black labor competition which possessed the city's, Irish
unskilled workers. Upon
The Church and the New York Draft Riots of 1863
By ALBON P. MAN, JR.
JULY 1863 was a momentous month in the War between the States. At
Gettysburg Union forces repulsed Lee's thrust into Pennsylvania,
while Vicksburg, Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi, finally
fell to Grant's long
I just watched _Gangs of New York_.
Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader) writes:
And is it churlish to ask why, after making so many allusions to
nativists, Scorsese couldn't allude even once to Native Americans to
throw some ironic backlighting on the label? But who knows? Maybe
some real
* Venezuela oil tanker unloaded as strike support starts to slip
By Andy Webb-Vidal in Caracas and David Buchan in London
Published: December 23 2002 4:00 | Last Updated: December 23 2002 4:00
[Financial Times]
Oil workers and a crew loyal to the government of Hugo Chávez, the
Venezuelan
* The Global Political Economy of Israel
Jonathan Nitzan Shimshon Bichler
$35.95 Paperback
Release Date: 8/1/02
ISBN: 0745316751
Distributed for Pluto Press
About the Book
Over the past century, Israel has been transformed from an
agricultural colony, to a welfare-warfare state, to a
New York Times 22 December 2002
Quiescent Objector
By TROY MELHUS
In 1990, on Christmas Day, I had a peace symbol tattooed on my back,
a week after signing my will. I was 22 years old. Three weeks later,
I met Sam Lwin. I was a United States marine, a reservist, and I had
just been ordered
NYT December 22, 2002
Football Is a Sucker's Game
By MICHAEL SOKOLOVE
...Football is the S.U.V. of the college campus: aggressively big,
resource-guzzling, lots and lots of fun and potentially destructive
of everything around it. Big-time teams award 85 scholarships and,
with walk-ons, field
The Venezuelan revolution
by GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE Fri, Dec 20 2002, 11:00pm
phone: 087 7838688 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An appeal from women to women all over the world
We women reject the organizers of hate and chaos. We women are on
the front line for our right to live in peace and to defend the
Venezuelan Opposition Solicits Key Officers
Payments Offered To Topple Chavez
By Scott Wilson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, December 21, 2002; Page A01
MARACAY, Venezuela -- As gasoline, food and patience run low in
Venezuela's punishing 19-day-old national strike, President Hugo
* BBC News World Edition
Sunday, 22 December, 2002, 01:21 GMT
Venezuelan tanker forced into port
The Pilin Leon had been sitting idle in Lake Maracaibo The Venezuelan
Government has commandeered and steered into port an oil tanker, in
an attempt to break a general strike that has led to
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