Silence shrouds the moral abyss spawned by the war against Iraq

2004-07-22 Thread michael a. lebowitz
Vancouver Sun July 22, 2004 Silence shrouds the moral abyss spawned by the war against Iraq By Stephen Hume On what appeared to be its website last week, the British newspaper The Independent carried a four-paragraph item dated July 16. I say appeared, because who knows anymore what's real

Silence in Michigan about McPherson's energy connections

2004-02-11 Thread Brian McKenna
PEN-Ls, This is a Presidential issue (both Bush and MSU). Peter McPherson (Prez. of Michigan State University) is the chair of the powerful external Department of Energy advisory committee. Yet he has thusfar not been pressured by Michigan citizens, nor the Michigan media to publicly call on Vice

CELEBRATE DR. KING'S BIRTHDAY BY CARRYING ON HIS PEACE ANDFREEDOM LEGACY: BREAK THE SILENCE AND OPP

2002-01-18 Thread Charles Brown
CELEBRATE DR. KING'S BIRTHDAY BY CARRYING ON HIS PEACE AND FREEDOM LEGACY: BREAK THE SILENCE AND OPPOSE THE WAR ON AFGHANISTAN WHAT WOULD DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR DO ABOUT THE CURRENT U.S. WAR ON AFGHANISTAN ? Every year hundreds of peace awards are given in the name of Martin Luther King

Now let us all bow our heads in a moment of silence over

2001-11-26 Thread Charles Brown
Now let us all bow our heads in a moment of silence over the impending demise of several thousand fascist, anti-semitic, misogynist terrorists. (One suspects they are not down with the GBLTGTS thing either.) Oh woe! They won't get fair trials.They won't get public defenders. They won't get

silence assent

2001-08-24 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I do not want to have to keep monitoring this thread. It is a bad time for me. This sort of sarcasm has no please here. Please stop!!! On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:55:19AM -0700, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: Ah so someone like Kabeer is a bourgeois

Re: silence assent

2001-08-24 Thread Doug Henwood
of sectarianism as always scornful of any actual mobilizations. I think you've been exhibiting exactly that. And now I'm going back to silence.

Re: silence assent

2001-08-24 Thread Michael Perelman
I don't care now about who did what when. The list was going quite well until you revived this vituperation. It must cease immediately. On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:13:40AM -0700, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I do not want to have to keep monitoring this

Re: Re: silence assent

2001-08-24 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
as always scornful of any actual mobilizations. I think you've been exhibiting exactly that. And now I'm going back to silence. well i think that's unfair.. did i speak against the students protesting at littauer on the behalf of janitors? no. have i walked picket lines? many times. have i ever

Re: Re: silence assent

2001-08-24 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I don't care now about who did what when. The list was going quite well until you revived this vituperation. It must cease immediately. Michael, since you are blaming me for the vituperation, you obviously do care who did what when. And you are

Re: Re: Re: silence assent

2001-08-24 Thread Michael Perelman
What I said is that I don't care. Drop it. Don't bother the list with old hat. I would rather than you engage in constructive dialogue. On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:53:54AM -0700, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I don't care now about who did what when.

silence assent

2001-08-23 Thread Doug Henwood
Liza Featherstone I have both decided that it's best not to respond to Rakesh's posts, which seem motivated more by personal hostility than genuine political content. Please don't mistake our silence for assent. Doug

Re: silence assent

2001-08-23 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Liza Featherstone I have both decided that it's best not to respond to Rakesh's posts, which seem motivated more by personal hostility than genuine political content. Please don't mistake our silence for assent. Doug My posts can't be motivated

Re: Re: silence assent

2001-08-23 Thread Stephen E Philion
, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Liza Featherstone I have both decided that it's best not to respond to Rakesh's posts, which seem motivated more by personal hostility than genuine political content. Please don't mistake our silence for assent. Doug My posts

Re: Re: silence assent

2001-08-23 Thread Michael Perelman
to Rakesh's posts, which seem motivated more by personal hostility than genuine political content. Please don't mistake our silence for assent. Doug My posts can't be motivated by genuine political content; they however do contain genuine political content which Perelman just recognized

Re: Re: Re: silence assent

2001-08-23 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Stephen E Philion [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If I read the last series of posts a few weeks back from the USAS mtg. correcdtly, one thing stood out re: strategy, namely the intent to work on sweatshop struggles that unions are currently engaged in, be they in the States or abroad. In your

Re: Re: silence assent

2001-08-23 Thread Doug Henwood
Stephen E Philion wrote: If I read the last series of posts a few weeks back from the USAS mtg. correcdtly, one thing stood out re: strategy, namely the intent to work on sweatshop struggles that unions are currently engaged in, be they in the States or abroad. In your schema, the US unions

Re: Re: Re: silence assent

2001-08-23 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Henwood wrote: Student anti-sweatshop activists are opposed to protectionism and to boycotts. Well they may not recognize as protectionist what other trade unionists do. Moreover, the students don't seem to have yet put this to a vote or put it in writing. They haven't formally

Re: Re: Re: Re: silence assent

2001-08-23 Thread Michael Perelman
I do not want to have to keep monitoring this thread. It is a bad time for me. This sort of sarcasm has no please here. Please stop!!! On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:55:19AM -0700, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: Ah so someone like Kabeer is a bourgeois hack like Friedman? Hmm. What do you think

Moments of Shocked Silence About Biotech

2000-10-28 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:49:58 -0700 From: MichaelP [EMAIL PROTECTED] (by way of Connie Fogal [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Subject: Moments of Shocked Silence About Biotech http://iisd.ca/pcdf/meadows/trinity.html Donella Meadows' The Global Citizen*, March 16, 2000 * A bi-weekly column by Donella H

New Gilded Age was Re: FBI helps Czech cops silence dissent

2000-09-29 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
JD speaking of which, I've noticed that the media make a lot of comparisons between the last 20 years or so and the US "gilded age" of the late 19th and very early 20th centuries. I think there's a lot of validity to these comparisons (though no analogy is perfect). In the last gilded age, the US

Re: Re: FBI helps Czech cops silence dissent

2000-09-29 Thread Joel Blau
If the correct analogy is to the Gilded Age, then isn't the obvious political problem how to ensure that the coming version of the "Progressive Era" does more than merely rationalize the marketplace? Joel Blau Jim Devine wrote: At 10:17 AM 9/29/00 -0400, you wrote: Keeping an eye on

FBI helps Czech cops silence dissent

2000-09-29 Thread Louis Proyect
Keeping an eye on protesters International authorities are sharing information -- not all of it accurate -- about anti-globalization activists. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Sarah Ferguson Sept. 29, 2000 | On Sept. 17, 23-year-old Kay Morrison of Seattle was standing on the platform at the Bad

[PEN-L:1010] (Fwd) End the silence: U.S. should bring Pinochet t

1998-11-12 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
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[PEN-L:309] Re: Martin Niemoeller on silence

1998-05-30 Thread Gerald Levy
Mark Jones wrote: Michael has repeatedly asked for this absurd flaming to stop. Is it not time to DO something to stop it? The day before Mark Jones wrote (to Paul Zarembka): This (i.e. those arresting Paul Z, JL) would be the men in flapping white costs, presumably. Is this what you had

[PEN-L:310] Re: Martin Niemoeller on silence

1998-05-30 Thread Mark Jones
Gerry, there is nothing to defend. Those who know me (which you do not, and never will) know the utter, laughable absurdity of calling me homophobic. As for Paul Zarembka, whether or not he is a long-time, long-respected listee I know not; he like you almost never contributes to the list, except

[PEN-L:313] Re: Martin Niemoeller on silence

1998-05-30 Thread Mark Jones
least for the time being), relative to the price Niemoeller faced, as to not be worth mentioning. Niemoeller, who died in 1984 (I believe he survived 7 years in Nazi concentration camps), would be highly unlikely to disagree or to recommend the "silence" Michael P. has recommended. Paul

[PEN-L:285] Re: Martin Niemoeller on silence

1998-05-29 Thread Mark Jones
I think most people who subscribe to this list know who pastor Niemoller was and know the quote Zarembka cites practically by heart. Personally, I could feel a little insulted at being likened to the Nazis in this way (relax, Paul, no-one is coming for you, that I know of); but I think most

[PEN-L:282] Martin Niemoeller on silence

1998-05-28 Thread Paul Zarembka
The man in a 'flapping white coat' Mark Jones refers to was Martin Niemoeller, Lutheran church leader who opposed the Nazis. A quote of his is one of my very favorite: "First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I

[PEN-L:283] Re: Martin Niemoeller on silence

1998-05-28 Thread michael
Korea is enjoying a general strike. The Russian economy is in tatters. South Asia is exploding atomic bombs. We have more important things to do than to rehash this. Of course, Mark knew the quotation and so did everybody else. Pen-l used to be a lively place where we engaged in a lot of

[PEN-L:11569] Re: The silence of Mandela

1997-07-31 Thread Patrick Bond
esian sovereignty over East Timor and has sponsored talks between Portugal and Indonesia in a bid to find a settlement. Sapa-AP/je 07/30/97 09-5140 -- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 21:37:36 -0700 (PDT) Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Patrick Bond&quo

[PEN-L:11553] Re: The silence of Mandela

1997-07-30 Thread Patrick Bond
Subject: mandela's silence on suharto genocide To: Recipients of conference [EMAIL PROTECTED] As quoted in agitprop news 7/27/97: Mandela was silent on the Suharto regime's brutal suppression of political dissent and trade unionism at home, as well as its coercive labou

[PEN-L:11543] Re: The silence of Mandela

1997-07-30 Thread William S. Lear
On Wed, July 30, 1997 at 13:47:18 (-0700) D Shniad writes: ... As quoted in agitprop news 7/27/97: Mandela was silent on the Suharto regime's brutal suppression of political dissent and trade unionism at home, as well as its coercive labour policies. Asked for comments

[PEN-L:1054] Silence of the Lambdas...

1995-10-19 Thread Jim Jaszewski
Unless I missed it, only ONE economist here actually bothered to reply to my request for data to combat the neoliberal assaults currently underway everywhere. Not a word too on my post about a general strike. I have to say that this doesn't help lessen the image out there,

Silence

1994-09-07 Thread Doug Henwood
After reading that count, whatever the errors Gil points out, I've taken a vow of silence. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)