Re: Extra Credit Assignment

1998-02-16 Thread James Michael Craven
> Date sent: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:14:08 +1100 > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Rob Schaap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:Re: Extra Credit Assignment > What a lovely idea, Jim! > > Haven't seen the film, but here are a couple of

Re: Peter Drucker

1998-02-16 Thread James Michael Craven
> Date sent: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:29:15 -0600 (CST) > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: "William S. Lear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:Peter Drucker > I am having a bit of a battle at my company with a manager who is a > Druckerit

Re: Final Comment

1998-01-09 Thread James Michael Craven
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Michael Craven > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >But just as these privileged few don't speak for > >me (also one of the "privileged few" in relative terms) and certainly > >do not speak for the part-tim

Re: prostitution

1998-01-07 Thread James Michael Craven
> I don't like markets in general. Prostitution is just a commercialization > of another human relationship. > > I think Fred Lane is onto something in looking at the class nature of th > subject. > > Some sleeze cruises around and picks on a poor young girl who has few > options in life.

Bright responds to Valis & Craven

1998-01-07 Thread James Michael Craven
I passed along Valis' and Jim Craven's comments on Nina Hartley & porn to Susie Bright - an anarcho-marxist aka Susie Sexpert - who writes: >Nina is a very special woman, but her college education and leftie >political opinions are not as rare in the sex industry as the writer >imagines. In fac

Re: Research -- Yeah, right!

1998-01-07 Thread James Michael Craven
Too much! Who has the barf bag? > > Just what homage does Paul Kneisel - the same whose Computer Kills > Fascists - imagine he is paying to truth and proportionality by > introducing us to Nina Hartley? How many Berkeley faculty brats > with a magna cum laude degree in a marketable skill does

Re: prostitution

1998-01-08 Thread James Michael Craven
On Thu, January 8, 1998 at 11:02:39 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes: >William S. Lear wrote: > >>Bright nor Hartley > >Remember that these two women are socialists whose critique of degradation >and exploitation focuses on wage labor, not sex. Yes, quite right. It's easy to get sucked into a point

Re: prostitution

1998-01-08 Thread James Michael Craven
James Michael Craven wrote: >I'm sure that the few rich Jews of Hungry had rationalized away or >insulated themselves from knowing exactly what fate awaited the other >Jews that they helped to identify, register, collect and have >deported. Am I the only one who finds this

Re: marriage and prostitution

1998-01-08 Thread James Michael Craven
At 04:01 PM 1/8/98 -0500, Susan Fleck wrote: >What's different between prostitution and many marriage contracts? >1.prostitution is sex for direct payment of money, marriage is sex for indirect payment of money/financial security. Response: Marriage is or equals sex for indirect payment of

The End of Prostitution?

1998-01-09 Thread James Michael Craven
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Re: prostitution

1998-01-09 Thread James Michael Craven
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re: anarcho-marxists

1998-01-14 Thread James Michael Craven
Jerry Levy's discussion of anarcho-Marxists is very welcome. My understanding is that the difference between "antiauthoritarian Marxists" (a redundant phrase, at least in my book) and pure anarchists is that while the latter want to abolish the state as soon as possible, the former want to fir

Re: Full translation of Castro speech

1998-01-22 Thread James Michael Craven
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Re: Baffling indeed

1998-01-26 Thread James Michael Craven
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What is a market economy?

1998-01-28 Thread James Michael Craven
This kid, little Johnny, was assigned to do a high-school paper on "What is a market economy?". At dinner, he asks his Father to help him. The father, somnewhat flustered, remembering the D he got when he took economics, said: "Well a market economy is a system in which people play different e

Re: jokes

1998-01-29 Thread James Michael Craven
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Re: Santa Fe

1998-02-01 Thread James Michael Craven
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Re: Krugman-Arthur Brouhaha

1998-02-01 Thread James Michael Craven
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Chaos/Complexity

1998-02-01 Thread James Michael Craven
It is interesting to note that the chaos/complexity "paradigm" is often portrayed as "cutting edge; the notions of hidden order in complexity and complexity out of assumed order, fuzzy logic, strange- attractors, spirals rather than linear chains of causality etc. The earilies known date of the

Industrial Reserve Army

1998-02-04 Thread James Michael Craven
In my Macro courses, I find that when I am discussing the concepts and paradigms embodied in the so-called "Natural Rate of Unemployment" or target rate of unemployment, bringing in Marx's Industrial Reserve Army opens up all sorts of discussion and thought. "The industrial reserve army...durin

Re: primitive communism

1998-02-09 Thread James Michael Craven
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Re: primitive communism

1998-02-11 Thread James Michael Craven
> Date sent: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:12:25 EST > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:Re: primitive communism > In a message dated 98-02-09 14:48:09 EST, you write: > > << s this really going to happen? I fin

Joke

1998-02-13 Thread James Michael Craven
This guy was sitting in his car on I-405 in LA surrounded by wall-to- wall cars with nothing moving for miles. He figures it is due to some kind of accident way up ahead. He then sees this guy going from car to car with a bucket talking to each motorist and figures he'll find out what's causing

Re: Extra Credit Assignment

1998-02-16 Thread James Michael Craven
> Date sent: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:31:33 -0600 (CST) > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: valis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:Re: Extra Credit Assignment > James Michael Craven wrote: > > For my class

response: Titanic in the classroom query (fwd)

1998-02-17 Thread James Michael Craven
I teach a journalism history survey course at the undergraduate level, and the Titanic takes up most of one lecture. It is important historically in mass media (and mentioned in all recent mass media history survey texts) as one of the factors in the passage of the Radio Act of 1912, which, amon

Publishing in URPE for Tenure

1998-02-22 Thread James Michael Craven
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:55:14 EST Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Publishing in URPE for Tenure In a message dated 98-02-20 12:12:40 EST, you write: << So

Re: Publishing in URPE for Tenure

1998-02-23 Thread James Michael Craven
Aside from those rather snide comments, I think the more interesting question is how to get some of these lefty journals talking to each other and the rest of the profession rather than addressing their little piece of audience. Feminist Economics was named one of the year's best journals primari

the Titanic

1998-02-23 Thread James Michael Craven
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:06:54 -0800 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: James Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:the Titanic Over the weekend, I heard an album by the anarchist-singer U

Re: State of the World

1998-02-22 Thread James Michael Craven
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Extra Credit Assignment

1998-02-16 Thread James Michael Craven
For my classes in which there are some who have had a problem demonstrating "command of the subjects" through the usual examination modalities, I have given the following extra-credit assignment: "The central concerns of 'Mainstream Economics' are seen by some as analogous to concern with 'th

Re: David Card

1998-02-11 Thread James Michael Craven
> Date sent: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:16:24 -0800 (PST) > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Sid Shniad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:Re: David Card > What the fuck's this line of discussion about? > > (Canadian) Sid > > > > Of course

"Takings"

1998-02-09 Thread James Michael Craven
As an addendum to previous remarks, the ultra-rightist "property rights" arguments are being examined for some dialectical turnabout by some of the Tribes. Where the "property rightists" argue that any social legislation that abridges, modifies, eliminates the effective, full and discretionary

Re: Ecology and the American Indians

1998-01-29 Thread James Michael Craven
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Energy Tribes

1998-01-19 Thread James Michael Craven
Comment: This piece was simply very well done and to the point. Under the old formulae of Reagan/Bush, the oil-holding Tribes were ripped off for over $5 billion through systematic and calculated under- valuation of oil and mineral assets. Add another $3 to $5 billion of BIA accounts suddenly "

Final Comment

1998-01-09 Thread James Michael Craven
I lived in Puerto Rico 1983-86 and worked as a Senior Planner for the Planning Board of the Office of the Governor of P.R. My original assignment was to work as a project leader restructuring and examining the input-output system used for planning and forecasting estimates. After some time I

Re: prostitution

1998-01-08 Thread James Michael Craven
> > > On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > > > there is a better chance a woman being > > brutalized by someone with whom she is in non-commodified relationship (a > > boyfriend or a husband) than by a 'john' in the commodified sexual act. > > > This is not only too much faith in

Re: prostitution

1998-01-08 Thread James Michael Craven
James Michael Craven wrote: >On what basis do you assert that these women are "socialists"? Because they call themselves that, for one. I've never talked to Hartley, but I did a long interview on my radio show the other week with Bright, and we talked, among other things (li

Re: Research -- Yeah, right!

1998-01-07 Thread James Michael Craven
A couple of quick thoughts in response to Valis' remarks [ snip ... ] >And how much of a connection is there between her polished ideological >trumpetings and the terms of Fred Lane's original request? Actually, in Paul's defense, enough to make it worthwhile. Hartley had already popped

Re: Marx on Native Americans

1998-01-05 Thread James Michael Craven
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Re: query: "Indian" schools

1998-03-02 Thread James Michael Craven
> Date sent: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:58:53 -0800 > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: James Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:query: "Indian" schools > I heard a report this morning on (US) NPR about the abuses that many > Canadian I

Re: query: "Indian" schools

1998-03-02 Thread James Michael Craven
> Date sent: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 14:00:46 -0800 > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: James Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:Re: query: "Indian" schools > Jim, are those stories all for the US? or do they apply just as well to > Can

(Fwd) Caught playing God

1998-04-12 Thread James Michael Craven
April 8,1998 Mr. Dan Geer, Mr. Allen Lowry, Mr. Lowell, Meznarich Glacier County Commissioners & Mr. Larry Epstein Glacier County Attorney County Court House Cut Bank, Montana 59427 Dear Sirs: As you good people know I have been researching the history of the creat

(Fwd) FW: foul language in the office...

1998-04-14 Thread James Michael Craven
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: Liam Scanlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-to: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:"'+Aidan Waine'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'+Andy Bell'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'+Audrey Waine'"

[PEN-L:1437] Nazi link with medical experimentation in Ca

1998-09-02 Thread James Michael Craven
Dear Marco, Thanks for the note. I hope that you continue serious scholarship on some of these vital questions. When I was a Tribal Judge at a recent UN-sponsored Tribunal in Vancouver, B.C. we had some solid evidence of torture techniques used on Indians that were employed by "religious elem

[PEN-L:1436] Last Message, How to Confront Holocaust Deniers

1998-09-02 Thread James Michael Craven
How to Confront Holocaust Deniers 1) Do not take them on on their own turf; do not go as the "token opposition" to forums packed with their own kind, that are basically put on for publicity and narcissism; 2) Serious research the organizational, political and funding connections between indiv

[PEN-L:1467] Re: RE: The full dimensions of the Holocaust

1998-09-03 Thread James Michael Craven
On 3 Sep 98 at 9:49, Max Sawicky wrote: > > . . . > >that there are some references--e.g. certain Zionist leaders > >collaborating with Nazis to get young and religious Jews to Palestine and > leave older and more secular Jews to the gas chambers . . . >> > > Although I've read some about nazi-

[PEN-L:1477] Re: Briefly followup to Frances' post

1998-09-03 Thread James Michael Craven
On 3 Sep 98 at 10:26, Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: > > Just wanted to comment on my use of the word "goyim." I was speaking > within the context of the young Jewish wish to create a new Jew. Hope no > one was insulted. > > fb > > > On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: > > > Max,

[PEN-L:1498] NCAA v. ILLINIWAK et al.

1998-09-03 Thread James Michael Craven
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: "Boyle, Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:"'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: NCAA v. ILLINIWAK et al. Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:35:21 -0500 -- From: Boyle, Francis Sent: Thursday, Septem

[PEN-L:1493] Re: Re: Last Message, How to Confront Holocaust De

1998-09-03 Thread James Michael Craven
m On 3 Sep 98 at 8:31, jf noonan wrote: > On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, James Michael Craven wrote: > > > How to Confront Holocaust Deniers > > > > 3) Do not discuss only the Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust > > Unless you're trying to open a Holocaust museum in N

[PEN-L:1492] Education of our youth

1998-09-03 Thread James Michael Craven
>From the World Book Encyclopedia, circa 1920 "What is a Mexican? Mexico had in 1910 a population of about 15,112,600 people; an accurate census has never been taken because of the superstitious fears of the people. When a census taker appears they conceal from him as many facts as possible, t

[PEN-L:1490] Re: Nizkor-l: Re: Briefly followup to Frances'

1998-09-03 Thread James Michael Craven
On 3 Sep 98 at 12:14, Andrew Mathis wrote: > just what the hell is the matter w/you, anyway? haven't you gotten the > message? your contributions to the nizkor-l list turned out to be > something less than appreciated, if not exactly for the reasons you > fantasize > > why not just call it a

[PEN-L:869] United Church makes res-school apology

1998-11-04 Thread James Michael Craven
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 00:37:42 -0800 To:(Recipient list suppressed) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S.I.S.I.S.) Subject: United Church makes res-school apology 1. United Church makes res-school apology 2. Res-schools: Governme

[PEN-L:1208] One More Thought

1998-12-03 Thread James Michael Craven
Valis, One more thought: The Administrator and Politician as Slave "Before delivering a Law Day speech at a Western university, I attended a reception with its president. By the time the evening was over, the poor man had osculated the hindquarters of every dowager and shaky old fossil who m

[PEN-L:1209] Re: Re: pen-l questions

1998-12-03 Thread James Michael Craven
On 3 Dec 98 at 16:07, Michael Perelman wrote: I very much appreciate Jim Devine's question that he put to all of us. I think that those economists among us could do more to help each other, enlighten each other, and to find ways to contribute to social change. Like Jim, I enjoy the banter

[PEN-L:1235] Re: Re: Re: Ford and GM's Nazi ties

1998-12-04 Thread James Michael Craven
Response: So would courage on this man's part been to have joined the "America First" Movement? Of course World War II was an inter-imperialist war in many respects; but the everyday airmen, sailors, soldiers were used as cannon fodder and little to do with that. And once the war began, the de

[PEN-L:2668] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: intern needed

1999-01-27 Thread James Michael Craven
On 27 Jan 99 at 14:32, Tavis Barr wrote: > > STOP!!! PLEASE!!! I referred an intern to Doug once and she had a great > _working_ experience. No interaction with or complaints about his libido. > > Cheers, > Tavis > > > > On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > At 12:36 PM 1/2

[PEN-L:2196] (Fwd) RE: Email Addresses for NASC

1999-01-15 Thread James Michael Craven
Dear Pen-l Friends, I have been "allowed" to contact pen-l and 21 other addresses while there is a decision pending whether or not I will be banned permanently from contacting those addresses from work. Part of the change was due to union pressure and also my colleague Gerry Smith put the hea

[PEN-L:2314] Re: Re: 1998 Bad Writing Contest winners

1999-01-19 Thread James Michael Craven
Response: Absolutely dead on in my opinion. There are many forms of language and modes of communication/miscommunication/deceptive communication and just like the meaningless and overblown tortured syntax, caricatures and empty of real rhetoric (to persuade you must be understood) shown below

[PEN-L:2356] Re: Re: Judith Butler, etc.

1999-01-20 Thread James Michael Craven
Comment: Not as an "excuse" but if that empty pretentious rhetoric and totured syntax given in the example from Butler that won the Doublespeak/Gobbledegook Prize is an example of her normal prose and speech, I would need at least six Captain Morgan spiced Rums to go to hear her and six more t

[PEN-L:2593] Tribunal

1999-01-25 Thread James Michael Craven
The Pikanii Nation of the Blackfoot Confederacy Post Office Box 430, Browning, Montana USA 59417 406-338-2882 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:2628] Appeal for Help

1999-01-26 Thread James Michael Craven
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:14:24 EST To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Radio show of interest: Yet Another CIA Deadly Screwup? Jim: Welcome to the real warSomething "strange" is right...My sho

[PEN-L:2620] Re: Re: Immutability of Subjects

1999-01-26 Thread James Michael Craven
> Do I have to spell it out? You know, lump as in "immutable", labour as in > "labouring subject". The problem with many pomoistas, from my experience, is > that they seem to be so interested in endlessly "talking about doing" > something that they don't notice when it is actually being done.

[PEN-L:2600] Re: "Church-State-Corporate Triangle" series (

1999-01-25 Thread James Michael Craven
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 16:36:27 EST To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "Church-State-Corporate Triangle" series ( Jim: Thanks for the note. I just wanted to make sure you saw these last two artic

[PEN-L:2521] Radio show of interest: Yet Another CIA Deadly Screwup?

1999-01-24 Thread James Michael Craven
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 03:16:36 EST Subject: Radio show of interest: Yet Another CIA Deadly Screwup? THE EXPERT WITNESS RADIO SHOW WBAI New York City (99.5 FM-Tuesdays 7-8pm)) KPFK Los Angeles (90.7 FM)

[PEN-L:2478] HES: QUERY -- Institutionalization of Neoclassicism

1999-01-22 Thread James Michael Craven
Comments? Jim --- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: "Colander, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:"'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: HES: QUERY -- Institutionalization of Neoclassicism Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 15:33:36 EST Reply-to:

[PEN-L:2379] Re: Re: Re: Re: Judith Butler, etc.

1999-01-20 Thread James Michael Craven
On 20 Jan 99 at 19:30, Dennis R Redmond wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, James Michael Craven wrote: > > > I wonder how many working class women or women on Reservations could > > relate to or understand the rhetoric in the example of Butler's > > writings give

[PEN-L:2297] Re: Re: Judith Butler, etc.

1999-01-19 Thread James Michael Craven
On 19 Jan 99 at 8:39, Gerald Levy wrote: > Barkley asks: > > > Are you happy now, Jerry? > > Not yet. > > Had a published "review" of your book been authored by someone who > admitted (afterwards) that s/he only read the dust jacket, would your > response be so cavalier? > > I doubt it. > >

[PEN-L:2273] Re: Re: Judith Butler, Alan Sokal and Doug Henwood

1999-01-18 Thread James Michael Craven
I enter this with some trepidation. I have read only portions of Judith Butler's work. Frankly, I just dropped it because the Talcott Parson-like tortured syntax coupled with pomobabble along with the soc/antho/econ penchant for telling people what they already know or is obvious in language f

[PEN-L:2197] (Fwd) (Fwd) Information

1999-01-15 Thread James Michael Craven
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: "James Michael Craven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Clark College, Vancouver WA, USA To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:48:38 PST8PDT Subject: (Fwd) Information --- Forwarded

[PEN-L:1053] Re: Media ownership

1998-08-20 Thread James Michael Craven
On 20 Aug 98 at 18:49, Mark Miller wrote: > > > Hello, all. I'm delighted to be "here," taking part. > > I'd like to weigh in with some comments on Doug Henwood's last, because it > oversimplifies both my own argument and--more important--the current > situation of the media. > > There is rea

[PEN-L:1029] "War is a Racket"

1998-08-20 Thread James Michael Craven
The following is an excerpt from a speech by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC, TWICE awarded the Medal of Honor (1914, 1917) made in 1933: "War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside grou

[PEN-L:985] Re: The following is real

1998-08-19 Thread James Michael Craven
On 19 Aug 98 at 9:55, James Devine wrote: > the following ad copy is real: > > "New! Titanic -- The Board Game > > "Gossip with other passengers, receive telegrams, and collect all five of > your personal property cards to earn your way out of Second Class and into > First Class, where your

[PEN-L:948] Re: what are we doing here?

1998-08-18 Thread James Michael Craven
Response: At the risk of starting another flame war and without implying in any way that struggles of Indigenous Peoples or the Political Economy of Indian Country are the only--or even the most "important"--issues worth discussing, nevertheless some issues, concepts and references provoking t

[PEN-L:944] Re: Clinton's speech

1998-08-18 Thread James Michael Craven
On 18 Aug 98 at 7:39, James Devine wrote: > I liked that bit about Hillary's "Republican cloth coat." and I'm glad he's > going to keep the dog. > > > > Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & > http://clawww.lmu.edu/Departments/ECON/jdevine.html Add to this list of types of individuals who loved Clin

[PEN-L:929] Re: Re: Re: sell-out Indians and western arrogance

1998-08-17 Thread James Michael Craven
On 17 Aug 98 at 15:31, Louis Proyect wrote: > Ricardo Duchesne: > > > >RD: Ok, Craven, if it fits your political goals, let's say N. > >American Indians did evolve into a state organized society. > > In the chapter "The Gift of Democracy," in Jerry Mander's "In the Absence > of the Sacred" he

[PEN-L:924] Re: Re: sell-out Indians and western arrogance

1998-08-17 Thread James Michael Craven
On 17 Aug 98 at 11:24, Ricardo Duchesne wrote: > Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 19:08:23 -0700 (PDT) > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Michael Eisenscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PEN-L:901] Re: Re: sell-out Indians and western arrogance > Reply-t

[PEN-L:883] Re: Re: sell-out Indians and western arrogance

1998-08-14 Thread James Michael Craven
On 14 Aug 98 at 15:24, Ricardo Duchesne wrote: > > > > JC: > > Further Response: I'm sorry but you are just ignorant about Indians, > Indian History and Indian Society; your reference to "nomadic way of > life" reveals your basic ignorance (Most Indian Nations formed stable settlements >

[PEN-L:879] (Fwd) Alert: Quebec threatens to attack Mik'Maq Monday!

1998-08-14 Thread James Michael Craven
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:16:27 -0700 (PDT) From: John Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-to: John Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Alert: Quebec threatens to attack Mik'Maq Monday! Please di

[PEN-L:878] (Fwd) Tsek'ehne Nation needs your help

1998-08-14 Thread James Michael Craven
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:03:51 -0600 To:sovernet list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Dayna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Tsek'ehne Nation needs your help Hi there- A few days ago we received a desperate call for help from a

[PEN-L:853] Suggested Reading List

1998-08-13 Thread James Michael Craven
With so much talk about traditional Indians and Indian societies being "primitive", "Stone Age" Luddite-like etc here is a suggested reading list for those not acquainted with Indian issues, history and societies (please feel free to add): "Native American History: A Chronology of a Culture's

[PEN-L:820] Re: re: adeau Bhoddi?

1998-08-12 Thread James Michael Craven
On 12 Aug 98 at 21:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Louis P. just responded in the general debate "The > Canadian Government just signed a compromised treaty with a tiny > Indian tribe and the ramifications are turning British Columbia into > a maelstrom." Now as someone (from BC) who has followed

[PEN-L:803] Re: re Bhoddi vs Proyect

1998-08-12 Thread James Michael Craven
On 12 Aug 98 at 16:42, Ricardo Duchesne wrote: > From: "James Michael Craven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: Clark College, Vancouver WA, USA > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:31:13 PST8PDT > Subject:

[PEN-L:792] Re: Re: Sociologists and others who lie

1998-08-12 Thread James Michael Craven
On 12 Aug 98 at 12:36, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > At 11:47 AM 8/11/98 +, Jim Craven wrote: > >Thanks to Louis for publishing that piece. It reminds me of > >journalists who scream "But what about the people's right to know?" > >when someone being questioned refuses to answer. Translation: "

[PEN-L:768] Re: Re: Re: re Bhoddi vs Proyect

1998-08-11 Thread James Michael Craven
On 11 Aug 98 at 19:51, boddhisatva wrote: > > > > > > C. Craven, > > > > So the native Canadians get the land and do what? Are they going > to open casinos? Are they going to log, farm or mine? All those are > pretty depressed industries right now. Where are they g

[PEN-L:753] Re: Re: Re: Sociologists and others who lie

1998-08-11 Thread James Michael Craven
On 11 Aug 98 at 12:31, Michael Perelman wrote: > Am I the only one who sees a distinction between Leo, investigating police > interrogation methods, and Ellis, taking advantage of people who are not harming > anyone else? How about the Greenpeace person who infiltrated the fishing fleet or > the

[PEN-L:746] Sociologists and others who lie

1998-08-11 Thread James Michael Craven
Thanks to Louis for publishing that piece. It reminds me of journalists who scream "But what about the people's right to know?" when someone being questioned refuses to answer. Translation: "But what about MY need for a 'scoop' so that I can get more exposure, so that I can get name recognitio

[PEN-L:269] Urgent Appeal

1998-07-24 Thread James Michael Craven
Last night (Jul 23 rd) Frank Martin (Bella Bella) and his wife Helen Michell (Carrier) were arrested again--following a meeting on Indian activism and plans for actions and protests. Frank was arrested on the basis of an alleged previous warrant in 1992; the problem is, that he was just previo

[PEN-L:284] Re: Re: Urgent Appeal

1998-07-27 Thread James Michael Craven
Hello Ajit, Thanks for the message and the concern. These people are for real freedom fighters who have suffered/are suffering unimaginable persecution. One thing is to organize petitions or write letters to the Government of Canada (Prime Minister Chretien) as this alerts the Canadian autho

[PEN-L:301] Re: Re: Inuit and ecology

1998-07-28 Thread James Michael Craven
On 28 Jul 98 at 13:09, Louis Proyect wrote: > Jim Craven has been very close to a similar type conflict in Seattle with > the whale-hunting Makah's lined up against an outfit called the Sea > Shepherds, a middle class green group that views the Makah as a cat's paw > of the Japanese whaling indus

[PEN-L:304] Whale Hunt

1998-07-28 Thread James Michael Craven
Most of the Marxist--and even much of the non-Marxist--literature on national sovereignty and self-determination defines a nation as a group of people who share: a) common territory; b) common language; c) common culture; d) common economic life; e) common political institutions; f) common his

[PEN-L:310] Re: Re: Inuit and ecology

1998-07-28 Thread James Michael Craven
Comment: "Give Aways" and "Potlatch" including with other Tribes and Nations are a very Indian thing to do. Secondly, there is the matter of Treaty Rights and defending them as virtually every single Treaty that has been signed and ratified or not-ratified has been broken by non-Indians whil

[PEN-L:311] Re: Re: Re: Inuit and ecology

1998-07-28 Thread James Michael Craven
es not make it any less legitimate or > serious, although it certainly should make one cautious > about it, which I believe I am. > Barkley Rosser > On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:47:16 PST8PDT James Michael Craven > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 28 Jul 9

[PEN-L:313] Re: Re: Inuit and ecology

1998-07-28 Thread James Michael Craven
Was even one Indian Nation a signatory to any international conventions on Whaling? Was even one Nation consulted or asked about Whaling and its significance to national/cultural survival or any alternatives that might also allow national/cultural survival? No, the "dependent and captive" Indi

[PEN-L:321] fascism

1998-07-28 Thread James Michael Craven
Every case of fascism--past and present--has faced the problem of how to construct ultra-repressive instruments and policies that effectively serve the interests of a tiny minority--the ultra-rich--while forging a mass social base of supporters and shock troops who objectively could never be s

[PEN-L:324] Re: Re: Re: Inuit and ecology

1998-07-28 Thread James Michael Craven
t think that this means that being concerned about this > "contradiction" is "shit." Sorry about that, Jim. > Barkley Rosser > On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:58:45 PST8PDT James Michael Craven > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Was even one Indian Nation a s

[PEN-L:326] Re: Re: Re: Re: Inuit and ecology

1998-07-28 Thread James Michael Craven
ions on your important work in England. As a Canadian, I had to swear allegiance to Liz, Phil, their Polo ponies and all their in-bred half-wit heirs and successors; how they doing? I hear Harry and William will be soon calling Camilla Bowles "Mommy". Take care, Jim On 28 Jul 98 at

[PEN-L:345] Saving Private Ryan

1998-07-29 Thread James Michael Craven
On 29 Jul 98 at 7:44, James Devine wrote: > > I'll join the chorus on this (though I probably won't see Saving Private R > until it hits video, since going to a movie plus baby sitting adds up). My > late father was also in the Pacific, in the supply corps on an LST. I > always got the impression

[PEN-L:346] Give-Aways

1998-07-29 Thread James Michael Craven
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 17:41:57 -0700 From: Jerod Rosman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: James Michael Craven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Thanks Jim: Thanks for the reply and reference. I'm trying to dig up

[PEN-L:351] part 1 judicial findings

1998-07-29 Thread James Michael Craven
--Message-Boundary-8911 Some "applied" political economy Jim Craven James Craven Dept. of Economics,Clark College 1800 E. McLoughlin Blvd. Vancouver, WA. 98663 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tel: (360) 992-2283 Fax: 992-2863

[PEN-L:352] corrected part 1 judicial findings

1998-07-29 Thread James Michael Craven
Judicial Findings From The Inter-Tribal Tribunal on Residential Schools in Canada (Held June 12-14 in Vancouver, B.C.) Submitted by James M. Craven, Tribunal Judge ( c Copyright James M. Craven July 14, 1998, All Rights Reserved) “You Can Recognize a Red Indian by His [or Her] Way of Life, Not b

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