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

2004-08-11 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Ralph Nader on the November 2000 ballot without his Green Party affiliation, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. Ohio officials said the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling upholds the state's position that it has authority to impose reasonable requirements for ballot listings to ensure

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

2004-08-11 Thread Michael Hoover
Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiffs challenge the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's requirement blockquoteOhio had authority to list the name of presidential candidate Ralph Nader on the November 2000 ballot without his Green Party

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

2004-08-11 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/11/04 8:32 AM many technical/procedural/justice problems arise from 1787 constitutional language assigning each state authority to determine times, places, manner of holding elections... meant to note in above portion of earlier point that congress may at any time by law

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

2004-08-11 Thread Michael Perelman
, but in his run for Gov., much of his attack on Davis what almost identical to what the Republicans said. He would mention some progressive positions, but he devoted most of his time to fiscal responsibility. In the debate Cobb came off as a well-intentioned Green. Not strong, but nice sincere, but he

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

2004-08-10 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
') It would be ironic if Cobb/LaMarche are on the Green Party ballots in one-party states and Nader/Camejo are on the ballots in battleground states. -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/ * Bring Them Home Now! http

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

2004-08-10 Thread Michael Hoover
party has ballot status save two - florida and michigan (drum roll please - so-called 'battlegrounds') It would be ironic if Cobb/LaMarche are on the Green Party ballots in one-party states and Nader/Camejo are on the ballots in battleground states. Yoshie greens have prez ballot line in florida

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

2004-08-09 Thread Michael Hoover
retry - first attempt seems to have been sent as attachment for some reason, sorry... mh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/08/04 5:03 PM Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 03:04:28 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Greens For Nader Update: Rigged Convention Divides Green Party The nomination of David Cobb

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

2004-08-09 Thread Michael Hoover
request. Therefore, this e-mail communication may be subject to public disclosure. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/08/04 5:03 PM Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 03:04:28 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Greens For Nader Update: Rigged Convention Divides Green Party The nomination of David Cobb as the Green Party

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

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.

Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state? - Lou P. and Mr. Green

2004-07-29 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 7/28/2004 12:13:45 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am simply interested in the proponents of self determination . . . Lou P . . . and Mr. Green and whether they have any material on their support of Regional autonomy for the Southwest

Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state? - Lou P. and Mr. Green

2004-07-29 Thread Chris Doss
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Give me a break. These so called national movement . . . I also have Yugoslavia in mind . . . are utterly reactionary movements of and led by the bourgeoisie and none of them even talk about improving the life of the proletariat as proletariat. Minister

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

Re: The Future of the Green Party

2004-07-15 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/15/04 2:02 PM 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): -Yoshie sex pistols ranted something about

Re: The Future of the Green Party

2004-07-15 Thread Louis Proyect
Michael Hoover wrote: By 1936, left congressional candidates were negligible factor in wake of most left-leaning period of New Deal that secured FDR's re-election. Well, this is not quite accurate. Those candidates tended to function as the left wing of the New Deal. In other words, they had the

Re: The Future of the Green Party

2004-07-15 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/15/04 3:02 PM Michael Hoover wrote: By 1936, left congressional candidates were negligible factor in wake of most left-leaning period of New Deal that secured FDR's re-election. Well, this is not quite accurate. Those candidates tended to function as the left wing of the

Re: The Future of the Green Party

2004-07-15 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/15/04 3:56 PM Michael Hoover wrote 36 'left' (note scare quotes, few people realized that party was front for father coughlin)) prez alternative was populist candidacy of union party's william lemke (farmer-labor member of congress from north dakota)... left out of above:

Re: The Future of the Green Party

2004-07-15 Thread Louis Proyect
Michael Hoover wrote: big difference between 36 and today re. above is that fdr did court variety of progressive types, in fact, he ran 36 campaign as 'progressive coalition' rather than DP candidacy, number of 'soft' left leaders did sign on to become 'junior' partners,

Re: The Future of the Green Party

2004-07-15 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/15/04 4:02 PM Michael Hoover wrote: big difference between 36 and today re. above is that fdr did court variety of progressive types, in fact, he ran 36 campaign as 'progressive coalition' rather than DP candidacy, number of 'soft' left leaders did sign on to become

Re: The Future of the Green Party

2004-07-15 Thread Devine, James
Of Louis Proyect Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] The Future of the Green Party Michael Hoover wrote: By 1936, left congressional candidates were negligible factor in wake of most left-leaning period of New Deal that secured FDR's re

Re: The Future of the Green Party

2004-07-15 Thread Louis Proyect
Devine, James wrote: NKVD document reports... do you trust Klehr? On this, I do. It actually undermines Klehr's general point that the CPUSA was subversive. They were as subversive as David Cobb. -- Marxism list: www.marxmail.org

Re: The Future of the Green Party

2004-07-15 Thread Shane Mage
Michael Hoover wrote: ...[in 1936] fdr's biggest fear (not too realistic imo) apparently was that lafollette might be able to bring together progressive/'left' elements... but until a year earlier, when the proverbial lone nut appeared, fdr's biggest, and quite realistic, fear, was that Huey Long

Re: the Democratic Leadership Council wing of the Green party

2004-07-04 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/02/04 7:44 PM On Nader's site, a major push is for impeachment of the current Resident. in Chief. In my mind this is the only viable defensive action available to the American people at the moment. When Bush gets his second term, even that avenue will be gone -- in his mind

Re: the Democratic Leadership Council wing of the Green party

2004-07-04 Thread Dan Scanlan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/02/04 7:44 PM On Nader's site, a major push is for impeachment of the current Resident. in Chief. In my mind this is the only viable defensive action available to the American people at the moment. When Bush gets his second term, even that avenue will be gone -- in his mind

Re: the Democratic Leadership Council wing of the Green party

2004-07-02 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/30/04 10:44 PM Dan Scanlan writes As a longtime Green activist with both a long term view and a quick knee I have got to disagree. Nader's campaigns for President have been strategic for long term betterment. Dan Scanlan thanks for informative, well-reasoned comments

Re: the Democratic Leadership Council wing of the Green party

2004-07-02 Thread Dan Scanlan
Title: Re: the Democratic Leadership Council wing of the Gre Michael Hoover writes... however, color me a cynic as i've a hunch that the sum of the parts that you describe add up to less than suggested... green party will experience 'growing pains' if it is to have substantive longevity

Green Strategy 2004-2008

2004-07-01 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Thursday, July 01, 2004 Green Strategy 2004-2008 How did the David Cobb/Pat LaMarche ticket receive the Green Party nomination? And what does it mean for the Green Party in particular and American politics in general? My conclusion is that the so-called red states Greens, by rejecting Ralph Nader

the Democratic Leadership Council wing of the Green party

2004-06-30 Thread Louis Proyect
American Prospect No Tie -- Cobb! The true story of how a man you've barely heard of beat Ralph Nader for the Green Party nomination. By Garance Franke-Ruta Web Exclusive: 06.28.04 MILWAUKEE -- For Ralph Nader campaign spokesman Kevin Zeese, the map explains it all. Hand drawn in black ballpoint

Re: the Democratic Leadership Council wing of the Green party

2004-06-30 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/30/04 9:34 AM American Prospect No Tie -- Cobb! The true story of how a man you've barely heard of beat Ralph Nader for the Green Party nomination. By Garance Franke-Ruta Web Exclusive: 06.28.04 Make no mistake: Had Nader chosen to fight for it over the past year, he could

Reply to a realo Green

2004-06-30 Thread Louis Proyect
In his ongoing capacity as chief ideologist of the Demogreen/Realo faction of the US Green Party, Ted Glick has an article on the Zmag website that talks about every aspect of the recently concluded Green Party convention except the politics. I will try to draw this out with bracketed comments

Curriculum vitae of Green Party vp candidate

2004-06-30 Thread Louis Proyect
From David Cobb's website: In the years since Holland, LaMarche has been employed at a radio station in Maine's capital under the pseudonym Genny Judge, which she borrowed from her late mother. Genny Judge is known throughout central Maine as an altruist in the truest sense of the term. She has

The Green Party's Political Suicide

2004-06-30 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
The Green Party's Political Suicide (The Green Party vice presidential candidate Pat LaMarche announced to the press that she would not commit to voting for herself and her running mate, Texas lawyer David Cobb!!!): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/06/green-partys-political-suicide.html Yoshie

Re: the Democratic Leadership Council wing of the Green party

2004-06-30 Thread Dan Scanlan
Michael Hoover wrote.. i posted comments yesterday about why electoral campaigns are not good vehicles for building mass movements, above article reflects those remarks... have never understood green party's desire for nader, he stiffed them in 96 by refusing to campaign, his 'party of person

The Green Party Missing the Walter Cronkite Moment

2004-06-29 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Missing the 'Walter Cronkite Moment' (an eloquent indictment of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars in the May 3rd issue of Sports Illustrated -- a Walter Cronkite moment that the Green Party missed): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/06/missing-walter-cronkite-moment.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages

The Green Party National Convention, June 23-28, 2004

2004-06-22 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
The Green Party National Convention, June 23-28, 2004:http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/06/green-party-national-convention-june.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ * Calendars of Events in Columbus: http

A Green Party mayor

2004-03-28 Thread Louis Proyect
was a surprise to the people who thought the mayor, who was elected on the Green Party line, was a radical liberal activist about to turn the town into a socialist enclave. In his reply to West, McLaughlin noted that the law is unclear. ''That's because the laws were written around the late 19th

Re: Camejo Takes the Lead/Green Party Likes Nader

2004-03-19 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/17/04 1:43 AM I did vote for him in 2000 (in Calif.); his silence since the last election has been deafening. I will not vote for him again. If I'm going to throw away a vote I'd rather give it to Camejo or a socialist candidate. Joanna remember: electoral college,

Re: Camejo Takes the Lead/Green Party Likes Nader

2004-03-19 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/17/04 7:30 AM At 10:20 PM -0500 3/16/04, Michael Hoover wrote: geez, nader could draw 2 activists and he'd top what i'd draw Well, you look adorable in a prequel to _The Blair Witch Project_. :- At 10:20 PM -0500 3/16/04, Michael Hoover wrote: but do activists really need

Re: Nader Drawing 7% (Camejo Takes the Lead/Green Party Likes Nader)

2004-03-19 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/17/04 7:51 AM Nader is now drawing 7 percent of the votes in a nationwide telephone poll of 1,206 adults, including 984 registered voters . . . taken from last Wednesday through Sunday (Adam Nagourney and Janet Elder, Nation's Direction Prompts Voters' Concern, Poll Finds,

Re: Camejo Takes the Lead/Green Party Likes Nader

2004-03-19 Thread Michael Perelman
Although the latest Nader/Dem/Socialist Revolution posts are unobjectionale, this thread ingnited so much nastiness, that maybe we can drop it. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Why the Democratic Party Attacks Nader the Green Party

2004-03-18 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Among the liberal pundits who cry Anybody But Bush, it's open season on Ralph Nader and the Green Party. Some wonder why the Democratic leaders and intellectuals attack Nader and the Greens, especially given that more Democrats voted for Bush than Nader in 2000: Bush received the votes of 12

Dollars Per Vote: Green vs. Democratic (Historical accuracy)

2004-03-18 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
to run as a Green candidate in the general election. Howard Dean spent over $40 million, did not win a single primary, and got forced out on February 18, 2004 -- five months before the Democratic Party National Convention on July 26-29 and more than ten months before the election day in November

Re: Dollars Per Vote: Green vs. Democratic (Historical accuracy)

2004-03-18 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
(Cf. In 1996, Nader opted to cap his campaign expenditures at $5,000 and ended up with 581,000 votes. Nader's DPV: $0.01, says Norman Solomon in News That Still Goes Unreported: 'Dollars Per Vote' at http://www.fair.org/media-beat/980604.html -- our Consumer Advocate sure knows how to get his

Re: Dollars Per Vote: Green vs. Democratic (Historical accuracy)

2004-03-18 Thread Julio Huato
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: It costs a left-wing candidate more to run in the Democratic presidential caucuses and primaries than to run as a Green candidate in the general election. Howard Dean spent over $40 million, did not win a single primary, and got forced out on February 18, 2004 [etc.] I

Re: Camejo Takes the Lead/Green Party Likes Nader

2004-03-17 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
decides to run at all, will run as a VP candidate on a Nader/Camejo ticket. (As I said, Camejo has been running in primaries not to promote himself, but to push for the Green Party nomination of Nader.) Running in presidential elections costs enormous amounts of money, time, energy, etc., which only

Nader Drawing 7% (Camejo Takes the Lead/Green Party Likes Nader)

2004-03-17 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 10:20 PM -0500 3/16/04, Michael Hoover wrote: my mother is my political barometer and she and her husband are in anybody but bush camp, she's worried (incorrectly imo) that nader will help put bush back in white house, folks like her who think that are much more important than all nation

Camejo Takes the Lead/Green Party Likes Nader

2004-03-16 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Good news for the Green Party -- Camejo taking the lead in the Green Party primaries, and the Green Party is likely to nominate the Nader/Camejo combo: * March 14, 2004 Camejo takes the lead Peter Camejo won 99 of 132 state delegates in the California primaries, garnering 75.4 percent

Re: Camejo Takes the Lead/Green Party Likes Nader

2004-03-16 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/16/04 06:48AM Over the last eight years, Nader has done more for the Green Party than anybody else, said Howard Hawkins, a Green Party organizer from Syracuse, N.Y. We should draft him and have a candidate who can be in the national debates with Bush and the expected

Re: Camejo Takes the Lead/Green Party Likes Nader

2004-03-16 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/16/04 06:48AM Over the last eight years, Nader has done more for the Green Party than anybody else, said Howard Hawkins, a Green Party organizer from Syracuse, N.Y. We should draft him and have a candidate who can be in the national debates with Bush and the expected

Re: Camejo Takes the Lead/Green Party Likes Nader

2004-03-16 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/16/04 2:02 PM Even aside from the media question, it's no use denying that name recognition matters in national politics, even to activists on the left. For instance, this is what Doug had to say about Jonathan Farley, a Green Party leader in Texas: I've come across very

Re: Camejo Takes the Lead/Green Party Likes Nader

2004-03-16 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/16/04 10:20 PM geez, nader could draw 2 activists and he'd top what i'd draw, but do activists really need to hear him, seems to me that non-activists need to hear him (i'd rather they heard folks mentioned above, and you as well)... above should have read: i'd rather they

Re: Camejo Takes the Lead/Green Party Likes Nader

2004-03-16 Thread Devine, James
PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 3/16/2004 7:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Camejo Takes the Lead/Green Party Likes Nader [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/16/04 10:20 PM geez, nader could draw 2 activists and he'd top what i'd draw

Re: Camejo Takes the Lead/Green Party Likes Nader

2004-03-16 Thread joanna bujes
? inquiring minds want to know. Jim D. -Original Message- From: Michael Hoover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 3/16/2004 7:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Camejo Takes the Lead/Green Party Likes Nader [EMAIL PROTECTED

Green, Reform Parties May Both Tap Nader

2004-03-13 Thread Michael Hoover
Published on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 by Knight-Ridder Green, Reform Parties May Both Tap Nader by Maria Recio WASHINGTON - Q: Ralph Nader, who is running for president as an independent, will be listed on the ballot in November as: a) the Reform Party candidate b) the Green Party candidate c

NM Gov. Richardson Appoints Green Person to Education Post

2004-03-13 Thread Michael Hoover
Miller, a well-known health care expert and Green Party leader, to serve on the state Commission on Higher Education. ³Carol Miller brings unique strengths as a grass-roots advocate and a champion for public health and health education that will benefit the Commission on Higher Education,² Governor

Nader the Green Party (Maybe they should start calling him angry)

2004-02-22 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
(their perception, not mine). Doug The 2000 Nader/Green Party presidential campaign was, financially, a minus for Ralph Nader as an individual political entrepreneur but, in terms of gains in votes, offices, etc., a plus for the Green Party as a mass political party in the making. The impact

Re: Nader the Green Party (Maybe they should start calling him angry)

2004-02-22 Thread jlwae3
list on behalf of Yoshie Furuhashi Sent: Sun 2/22/2004 1:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L] Nader the Green Party (Maybe they should start calling him angry) Michael Hoover wrote: 'best' reason why nader shouldn't run is that he is stone cold bore... But at least he has the nerve

Re: Nader the Green Party (Maybe they should start calling him angry)

2004-02-22 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
I think the problem with Nader's stance is that he's against the corporations but that conceptualisation or theme is unlikely to be successful, it's essentially no different than being against the public service. J.

Tabula rasa, palimpsest or green guilt ?

2003-12-07 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Machine out to erase green guilt Friday 05 December 2003, 14:54 Makka Time, 11:54 GMT Erasing machine uses heat treatment to remove words and images It may not be the paperless office many once thought possible, but it may be the next best thing. With Toshiba Corp's new erasable ink, the green

Forwarded from the Green Party

2003-10-27 Thread Louis Proyect
PLEASE FORWARD EVERYWHERE The Greens/Green Party USA Invites all Greens and progressive people to participate in A Public Forum on The Role of the Greens in the 2004 Presidential Election Should Greens: - run our own candidate

BETTER VERSION: ATTN: Joseph Green: Michael Albert Replies

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Re: BETTER VERSION: ATTN: Joseph Green: Michael Albert Replies

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green struggles

2003-10-22 Thread Eubulides
into trouble with protests planned at a talk being given by BP boss Lord Browne tonight. Rising Tide - a loose-knit group of green activists - is organising a rowdy reception for the oil executive when he arrives to give a speech on sustainable development at the Royal Institute of British Architects

Milosevic and the Green Party: common enemies of the liberal left

2003-10-20 Thread Louis Proyect
The Fight Is For Democracy, which contains writings by what Dionne calls a gathering of tough-minded liberals. What makes these liberals so tough-minded? In Dionne's mind, a tough-minded liberal (TML) is someone who's not afraid to give the U.S. military a green light to wage war under certain

Re: Mapping the CA Political Geography for the Green Party

2003-10-14 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
In any case, the Green Party needs to prioritize where its activists should spend their time and energy, mapping the political geography of race and class, and to set numerical targets (how many campaign workers, how many votes, etc. in each precinct), in order to garner more than 2-5

Mapping the CA Political Geography for the Green Party

2003-10-13 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Arnold Schwarzenegger received 3,850,982 votes (at http://vote2003.ss.ca.gov/Returns/gov/00.htm). Let's say that each Green campaign worker in California should be responsible for securing 100 votes for the Green Party gubernatorial candidate, by getting registered Greens to vote, getting angry

Re: Green party

2003-08-18 Thread Eubulides
- Original Message - From: Eubulides [EMAIL PROTECTED] One aspect of that nervousness can be seen in the attempts by the US Justice Dept. to stop any and all lawsuits using the Alien Tort Claims Act. They're terrified of the future of global environmental law and, as any social

Green party

2003-08-17 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Ian, What do you consider the most compelling argument for Green-style politics, or do you have a ref for me ? Thanks J.

Re: Green party

2003-08-17 Thread Eubulides
- Original Message - From: Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ian, What do you consider the most compelling argument for Green-style politics, or do you have a ref for me ? Thanks J. = In terms of a sophomoric sound bite: Finance capitalism is a pathological

Re: Green party

2003-08-17 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Well, it may have been a naive question, but you are really knowledgeable about this, and I thank you very much for your reply. Yes, if you have some refs, by all means post them. Jurriaan

Re: Green

2003-08-16 Thread Mike Ballard
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Green Thanks for the kind response, Jim. I'd like to see common ownership of the means of production/consumption under the democratic control of the producers. Also on my agenda is production for use and need, the abolition of the wages-system

Re: Green

2003-08-15 Thread Mike Ballard
they say. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine -Original Message- From: Mike Ballard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 1:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Green --- Devine, James

Re: Green

2003-08-15 Thread Devine, James
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Green Thanks for the kind response, Jim. I'd like to see common ownership of the means of production/consumption under the democratic control of the producers. Also on my agenda is production for use and need, the abolition of the wages-system

Re: Green

2003-08-15 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
this is the basic principle of the socialism from below tendency on the left. It goes against the Marxist-Leninist tendency and the social-democratic tendency, in which condescending saviors are relied upon. In explaining simply about the meaning of a so-called vanguard party, Ernest Mandel once

Re: Green

2003-08-15 Thread Devine, James
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 8/15/2003 1:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Green Devine, James wrote: you write: I don't think that this can be accomplished by having others act for the proles

Re: Green

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Campbell
Jim writes: is there a color which represents democracy? I'd prefer democracy to anarchism (which precludes democracy). Democracy would be the color of the ruling cohort. Everyone is a democrat, even Hitler. Anarchism is okay... if you have the other two sides of the flag supporting it. Ken.

Re: green pensions?

2003-08-14 Thread Devine, James
from BusinessWeek, Au. 18-25, 2003: The Greening of Pension Plans Cash-strapped U.S. steel (X ) may have hit on a solution for companies scrounging for the dough to pump up pension funds that were recently flattened by the stock market's slide. Just sign over some forests -- or other valuable

Re: Green

2003-08-14 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 9:11 AM -0400 8/12/03, Kenneth Campbell wrote: the next unifying revolutionary force will be green, not red. I'd prefer Red, Black, and Green together (the colors of revolutionary socialism, anarchism, and environmentalism), also the colors of the pan-African Black Liberation Flag. At 9:11 AM

Re: Green

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Campbell
I wrote: But in this particular battle of definitions, I agree with all the Yoshies out there. They call anarchism what Mr. Marx would call democracy. I think it's useful to avoid mushing concepts together that way. I don't see that as mushing. I see it as evolving language. But we can call

Re: Green

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Ballard
:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Green is there a color which represents democracy? I'd prefer democracy to anarchism (which precludes democracy). Jim Anarchy, to me, means democracy, i.e., collective self-government

Re: Green

2003-08-14 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
is there a color which represents democracy? I'd prefer democracy to anarchism (which precludes democracy). Jim Anarchy, to me, means democracy, i.e., collective self-government, the very ideal to which Lenin spoke in _The State and Revolution. Not all those who call themselves anarchists agree

Re: Green

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Campbell
Jim writes about the classic Marx v Bakunin battle of anarchism and intelligent socialism. I can never disagree with Karl, because he was just too damn smart. Never took a position based on his own interests and fudged the rest. But in this particular battle of definitions, I agree with all

Re: Green

2003-08-14 Thread Devine, James
Ken writes: Democracy would be the color of the ruling cohort. Everyone is a democrat, even Hitler. everyone is a democrat _in theory_ or _in rhetoric_. The point is to be a democrat _in practice_, _in reality_. Jim

green pensions?

2003-08-14 Thread Devine, James
from BusinessWeek, Au. 18-25, 2003: The Greening of Pension Plans Cash-strapped U.S. steel (X ) may have hit on a solution for companies scrounging for the dough to pump up pension funds that were recently flattened by the stock market's slide. Just sign over some forests -- or other valuable

Re: Green

2003-08-14 Thread Devine, James
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Green --- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the one thing that all anarchists seem to agree with is that centralized government (the state) should be abolished -- as soon as possible. The State is the governmental expression of class rule

Re: Green

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Perelman
Is this necessary? On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:05:38PM -0400, Kenneth Campbell wrote: If you can't sell it... well... languish in the warehouse with Lou's crew. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Green

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Campbell
Is this necessary? On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:05:38PM -0400, Kenneth Campbell wrote: If you can't sell it... well... languish in the warehouse with Lou's crew. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 I was referring to Lou Rukyser. God I hate

Re: Green

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Campbell
Mike wrote: The State is the governmental expression of class rule. Fair enough. I've heard many descriptions of what the state is. That's a workable one. I've never met anyone--anarchists included--who argued that that State could be abolished by decree. I agree with that. (In terms of

Re: Green

2003-08-14 Thread Devine, James
Jim writes about the classic Marx v Bakunin battle of anarchism and intelligent socialism. right. Though I prefer to use my own words rather than quoting any Master. I can never disagree with Karl, because he was just too damn smart. Never took a position based on his own interests and

Re: Green

2003-08-14 Thread Devine, James
] Sent: Tue 8/12/2003 7:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Green is there a color which represents democracy? I'd prefer democracy to anarchism (which precludes democracy). Jim Anarchy, to me

Green

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Campbell
some effect. Maybe Ian is right in his prognostication... the next unifying revolutionary force will be green, not red. Everyone is immediately interested. After all... Everyone talks about the weather... Even the 90+% of the North American populace that is already proletarian. Ken. -- Education

Re: Green

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Campbell
Yoshie wrote: I'd prefer Red, Black, and Green together (the colors of revolutionary socialism, anarchism, and environmentalism), also the colors of the pan-African Black Liberation Flag. Sounds good to me. I adopt that as my flag. But don't tell anyone I agree with you. I would hate

Re: green pensions?

2003-08-14 Thread Eubulides
- Original Message - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 1:00 PM Subject: [PEN-L] green pensions? from BusinessWeek, Au. 18-25, 2003: The Greening of Pension Plans Cash-strapped U.S. steel (X ) may have hit on a solution

Re: Green

2003-08-14 Thread Devine, James
I wrote: I think it's useful to avoid mushing concepts together that way. Ken: I don't see that as mushing. I see it as evolving language. I don't think we should go with the linguistic flow. Instead, we should try to use language as clearly as possible (by being clear about our own

Re: FW: Scientific socialism: A reply to Joseph Green

2003-06-24 Thread Chris Burford
At 2003-06-22 08:02 -0700, you wrote: From: Jurriaan Bendien In reply to Joseph Green, whose comments you send me: I think he should try learning to read a book, and not judge it by its cover. My basic point is that when Engels wrote the text of anti-Duhring, he was doing so

Re: FW: Scientific socialism: A reply to Joseph Green

2003-06-24 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suspect the really difficult debate is about whether there is a single scientific socialism now, and what it is in today's context. Or whether marxism is a method of science, rather than a definitive body of science. Chris

FW: Scientific socialism: A reply to Joseph Green

2003-06-22 Thread Devine, James
Title: FW: Scientific socialism: A reply to Joseph Green From: Jurriaan Bendien In reply to Joseph Green, whose comments you send me: I think he should try learning to read a book, and not judge it by its cover. My basic point is that when Engels wrote the text of anti-Duhring, he

Re: FW: Scientific socialism: A reply to Joseph Green

2003-06-22 Thread Kenneth Campbell
of it. :) As to Mr. Mayall's protege, Peter Green, he was a fine contributor to another tradition -- England-style blues, et al. -- that was equally re-translated (and retranslating in the process) each generation. With great success... Ken. -- All politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one

Green response

2003-02-21 Thread Dan Scanlan
On January 28th, Natalie Johnson Lee, Minneapolis City Councilwoman gave the Green Party response to President Bush's State of the Union Address. Ms. Lee's speech was broadcasted over the Pacifica Radio Network, as well as was heard by a large crowd in Washington DC who had gathered to hear

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