[Marxism] Moustafa Bayoumi, The Race Is On: Muslims and Arabs in the American Imagination
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Moustafa Bayoumi, The Race Is On: Muslims and Arabs in the American Imagination http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=52612205f=17475u=22792232c=3944463 The irony is that while Arabs and Muslims are increasingly racialized as black (in ways that approximate Cold War images of African-Americans), African-Americans are emerging in popular culture as leaders of the American nation and empire. Moreover, this depiction revolves fundamentally around the idea of black friendship with Muslims and Arabs, a friendship not among equals but one reflecting a modified projection of American power. This image appears to seek to transform the image of the United States itself. Consider two different films in this regard: The Siege (1998), again starring Denzel Washington, and The Kingdom (2007), starring Jamie Foxx. . . . Race, nation and empire. Their mixing, in the end, describes a complicated, if not confused, situation. On the one hand, as they suffer social exclusion, Arabs and Muslims are increasingly racialized. But the same gesture, in a post-civil rights era world, somehow manages to Americanize them. Arab and Muslim Americans signify both the incompleteness and the human triumph of the project of the American nation. African-Americans are cast at the same time in sheltering roles, protecting the nation, those vulnerable and good Arabs and Muslims, and the empire. Such representations simultaneously prove that true equality has been won and that there exists an enduring need for civil rights thinking in the United States. What is largely missing is the recognition that black heroism, for it to be truly noble, must not be staged on the backs of another people. What is required is the critical consciousness that would build an alliance between Arabs, Muslims and African-Americans against global and domestic aggression and terrorism. (To be fair, The Kingdom hints toward this consciousness at the end.) In the absence of that idea, such representations in fact coopt the struggle for racial equality into the project of an unequal nation and that of an expanding empire. http://www.merip.org/mero/interventions/bayoumi_interv.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] True Grit? Humbug....a response.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 12/25/10 11:00 PM, Mason Akhnaten wrote: Most Westerns feature violent bigots--as heroes and villains for that matter. Sometimes the heroes are saving relatively innocent townspeople from rich white land barons or protecting them from (generally Mexican) thugs. All too often, whatever historical basis for the film is white-washed--something Proyect says is somewhat excusable for Westerns during their heyday. But he's clear this is not acceptable today... Is there a specific year where movie studios must begin to make historically accurate feature films or have them condemned as failures? Why should anything like historical accuracy be expected out of fiction? Of course not. Trotsky loved Celine. I love Evelyn Waugh and much of VS Naipul. As well as John Ford and Howard Hawks westerns. But the Coen brothers are not in their league. They are clever fellows that have discovered a market niche for the smart set, the kind of people who fancy themselves hipsters for the modern age--in other words, those who worship at the altar of irony. Most of the time, I can put up with their shtick but I couldn't get True Grit down my craw. It was like one of those stunts on Fear Factor, where you have to eat worms or cockroaches. If worms and cockroaches turn you on, be my guest. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Moustafa Bayoumi, The Race Is On: Muslims and Arabs in the American Imagination
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == As a not unimportant aside, the author is entirely mistaken when he compares the racialization of Arabs and Muslims in ways that approximate Cold War images of African-Americans. White racism against blacks was always endemic to American history, and the period of the Cold War saw the most serious assault on racism in nearly a century. And it was extremely successful, insofar as the images of African-Americans might go. ML Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Cuban medics in Haiti put world to shame
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/cuban-medics-in-haiti-put-the-world-to-shame-2169415.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Cuban medics in Haiti put world to shame
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thank you Louis for posting this article. It is one of the most inspiring I've ever seen on Cuban health care missions. From a capitalist daily, no less. Well done. I might add that there is a small passing sentence on Cuban eye doctors. It is a fate of history that Cuba has what are considered some of the best eye doctors in the world (Interestingly, El Salvador has some excellent eye doctors as well) as the historical 'residue' of the collapse of the USSR. The USSR pioneered eye surgery and ended up with developing the radical procedure that actually corrects eye vision for people who are near-sided. This surgery, called keratectomy laid the ground work for Lasik, a procedure I had to that corrected by 20/400 visions to 20/20. The Cubans had a contingent of eye surgery students in Russia throughout the 1960s and 1970s when the Russians developed the original procedures for this form of sight correction, an outgrowth of general cataract surgery. Instead of focusing on keratectomy, they focused on what was an endemic problem in poor and developing countries: cataracts. Now they are the worlds leading teachers of, and surgeons in, cataract removal. David Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Behind Venezuela's new laws on the university system
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.zcommunications.org/venezuelan-university-law-creates-student-bill-of-rights-democratizes-higher-education-by-james-suggett Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Bradley Manning's Holiday Statement
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I greatly appreciate everyone's support and well wishes during this time. I am also thankful for everything that has been done to aid in my defense. I ask that everyone takes the time to remember those who are separated from their loved ones at this time due to deployment and important missions. Specifically, I am thinking of those that I deployed with and have not seen for the last seven months, and of the staff here at the Quantico Confinement Facility who will be spending their Christmas without their family. http://www.armycourtmartialdefense.info/2010/12/mannings-holiday-statement.html -- - Juan Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fascinating debate in the Guardian on the left/student protests
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == -- Forwarded message -- From: Dan DiMaggio dan.dimag...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 12:26 PM Subject: Fascinating debate in the Guardian on the left/student protests To: ty tyt...@gmail.com, Brandon Madsen brandon.mad...@gmail.com, Teddy tyimenu2...@gmail.com, Patrick Ayers patrick.ay...@gmail.com Hey, There is an excellent debate going on in the pages of The Guardian about the far left and the student protests in Britain. Laurie Penny, who has become one of the major voices of the demonstrations, writes about how the networks organizing the protests have gone far beyond the narcissism of small differences characteristic of the traditional left. At the same time, my understanding is that the far left has played a very important role in organizing these demonstrations. However, Penny also hits on an interesting point (if a bit demeaningly): It is highly likely that even after a nuclear attack, the only remaining life-forms will be cockroaches and sour-faced vendors of the Socialist Worker. Stunningly, the paper is still being peddled at every demonstration to young cyber-activists for whom the very concept of a newspaper is almost as outdated as the notion of ideological unity as a basis for action. It seems to me that Penny is expressing the general sentiment of young people today who are flocking to these protests. At the same time, there's the danger of throwing out the need for organization in favor of networks which have their own limitations. Here's Penny's column: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/24/student-protests-young-politics-voices Alex Callinicos has responded here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/26/student-protests-laurie-penny I'd be interested to hear more on what is happening in the British student protests, the role played by various organizations, the direction things are headed organizationally, etc. Dan Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] True Grit? Humbug....a response.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Interesting stuff. A lot of my mother's family were living in SW Missouri at the time and were strongly pro-Lincoln and anti-slavery. I'd be curious if they knew Mr. Kelso and might have fought with him. Some of my mother's family came from the Arkansas Ozarks; from what I can gather, they hiked up to Indiana to join the Union army, and nearly all of them died, either from combat or disease. The one of my mother's ancestors who returned was a great-grandfather who was a medical doctor and spent the war in field hospitals. You can just imagine the suffering he witnessed. Just in relation to the language: if you read the letters from that period, you realize that they really did express themselves differently than we do. Victorian language really was 35-word sentences, perfectly composed. Shortly before the publication of his historical novel Cloudsplitter (about John Brown), Russell Banks (my favorite living writer) gave a reading in Princeton, which I attended. He talked about how did the research for the book, which included reading a lot of letters, and he described how differently people in the mid-19th century wrote and talked, and also what they read. For example, a typical farmhouse in John Brown's time might have included two or three books. One would inevitably be the King James version of the Bible; most likely the second would be Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, and if there were a third it would likely be a collection of Shakespeare. A country doctor would also have Grey's Anatomy. The HBO series Deadwood, which was about the gold rush in the Black Hills of South Dakota in the late 1870s, attempted to recreate some of that language, even though the popular impression is that the only word in the show's dialogue was cocksucker. For example, everyone referred to the miserable excuse for a road as a thoroughfare. The hotel owner also referred to George Hearst's Black servant as an Ethiope. Hearst, played by Gerald McRaney, called her my nigger cook. Whether people actually talked the way they wrote we can probably never know, but the series's writers attempted to create the dialogue based on how people in Victorian times wrote letters, and they wrote A LOT of letters. Tom -Original Message- From: marxism-bounces+biastg=embarqmail@lists.econ.utah.edu [mailto:marxism-bounces+biastg=embarqmail@lists.econ.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Lause Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 1:47 AM To: Thomas Bias Subject: Re: [Marxism] True Grit? Humbuga response. == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Just up the line in southwest Missouri, John Russell Kelso was an Ohio born schoolteacher on the eve of the Civil War. A college man and up on all the latest ideas of the wider world When the war broke out, secessionist guerrillas (like the fictional Rooster Cogburn) began butchering his unionist neighbors, so Kelso organized local militia into small groups that could deal with them. Wild Bill Hickok came out these unionist bands down there, and the Lost Causers in that part of the world still malign them for having been so ruthlessly efficient. His men later told stories about how he'd stake out an ambush, pull out his firearm and a Latin grammar book...so he could practice his subjunctive, I guess, before he'd have to start shooting. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A Culture of Cruelty -- expose on Border Patrol abuses of immigrants
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == long, but worth reading: http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2010-12-16/news/the-feds-bury-border-patrol-abuses-of-immigrants-but-what-s-been-unearthed-reveals-a-culture-of-cruelty/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] True Grit? Humbug....a response.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Tom Bias: Just in relation to the language: if you read the letters from that period, you realize that they really did express themselves differently than we do. Victorian language really was 35-word sentences, perfectly composed. It has to be understood that the Coens appropriated the words from Portis's novel that Mattie Ross speaks. By all accounts, Portis wrote a highly stylized comic novel in which the barococo utterances of the 14 year old girl were meant to be amusing. I found them tedious, but that's just me. Years ago I took a writer's workshop class at NYU where the teacher, a third-rate spy novelist named Roy Doliner, recounted a trial in which James Jones's sergeant demanded compensation for being slandered in From Here to Eternity. He asserted that although the name was changed, it was obvious to everybody, so he claimed, that he and the novel's character were identical. Jones's lawyer then asked him to take the stand and began to draw him out on this question as well as a number of others that would make sure that the jury had a fix on him. He then began reading from the novel those sections in which the sergeant (played by Burt Lancaster in the movie) spoke. It was so obvious that the character was almost completely an invention by Jones based on the differences between the real and fictional characters' speech that the jury found Jones innocent of all charges. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Repression of Honduran farmers
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Honduran farmers in the Aguan region and Zacate Grande have been engaged in land struggles with one of the country's most powerful robber barons, Miguel Facusse. His hired thugs continue to intimidate, brutalize and kill the farmers with impunity. Here is some info (three links), with a link to an article that contextualizes the repression further below. Please forward widely. http://upsidedownworld.org/main/honduras-archives-46/2820-honduras-campesinos-expelled-like-vermin http://rightsaction.org/articles/Hond_Colon_Conflict_update_120410.html http://www.rightsaction.org/articles/Hond_repression_unabated_121610.html More background: http://upsidedownworld.org/main/honduras-archives-46/2800-a-state-of-siege-in-northern-honduras-land-palm-oil-and-media Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Returning to the castles of Seville (Ishbeelyah).
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == *Returning to the castles of Seville (Ishbeelyah).* *Imagine what an uproar there would be if Muslims declared the following: * * We long to return to Spain, from which we were expelled centuries ago. We long to return to the Gardens of Cordoba (in Arabic: Qurtuba). We agonize with every breath to re-inhabit the castles of Seville (Ishbeelyah). In our veins, there runs an eternal longing to walk again in the footsteps of our forefathers in Zaragoza (Saraqusta). We yearn to once again cultivate the orchards of Valladolid (Balad Al Waleed). We shall strive, by military means if necessary, to see the blessed day when we can tread along the rose-scented pathways of the splendid palace of Al Hambra (Al Hamraa) in Granada (Ghirnata). Every stone and every particle of sand in that Iberian holy land belongs to me and to my people, exclusively. No Spaniard terrorist has the right to obstruct the will of God and deny my family the legal title to the land of our ancestors. It is God who had given us Andalucía (Al Andalus), and it is God who promised us that we, the exiles, shall return to it once again. * I would indeed have to be a certified lunatic if I had meant a word of the above. Yet, the only difference between my disease of the mind and that of the millions of Jewish Israelis who claim to have returned to Palestine is that in my case, at least, the monuments and Arab names I am referring to are real and do actually exist today. It is incontestable that the direct ancestors of my people built a great Islamic civilization in Spain. On the other hand, Zionist archaeologists have failed after digging up every conceivable corner of Palestine for the last 62 years to excavate a Jewish artifact or building or temple remotely matching the grandeur of any of the visible relics of Andalucía. How is it conceivable for otherwise rational people to entertain - let alone accept and adopt - the twisted Zionist logic about a Jewish return to a promised land after so many thousands of years of supposed separation? How can these people allow Israeli politicians to use such religious nonsense as a justification for the contemporary and ongoing catastrophe being inflicted upon the millions of guiltless Palestinian inhabitants of that land? * Adapted from A Terrible Disease of the Mind, written by Zaid Nabulsi and published online at * http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/08/a-terrible-disease-of-the-mind/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Returning to the castles of Seville (Ishbeelyah).
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'll add one thing: Even according to Old Testament scholarship, Hebrew sovereignty in present-day Palestine would have been only from 1200 BC until about 600 BC, that is about 600 years. The Babylonian captivity ended in roughly 560 BC when Kourosh (Cyrus) the Great added present-day Iraq to his Persian empire. The Jews prospered under Persian rule, according to the Old Testament. Present-day Palestine remained a Persian province until Alexander the Great took it; you all get the drift. The point is this: Palestine has been part of the House of Islam for a longer time than it was ever Jewish. Nothing other than sheer racism could give European Jews a greater right to the territory than the Muslim and Christian Arab inhabitants. Tom -Original Message- From: marxism-bounces+biastg=embarqmail@lists.econ.utah.edu [mailto:marxism-bounces+biastg=embarqmail@lists.econ.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis Brasky Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 1:20 PM To: Thomas Bias Subject: [Marxism] Returning to the castles of Seville (Ishbeelyah). == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == *Returning to the castles of Seville (Ishbeelyah).* Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Mahatma Gandhi on His Conviction for Sedition
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mahatma Gandhi on His Conviction for Sedition: A selection from Gandhi’s closing statement to the judge on March 23, 1922 http://bargad.wordpress.com/2010/12/25/gandhi-sedition/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Moustafa Bayoumi, The Race Is On: Muslims and Arabs in the American Imagination
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark observed: the author is entirely mistaken when he compares the racialization of Arabs and Muslims 'in ways that approximate Cold War images of African-Americans.' White racism against blacks was always endemic to American history, and the period of the Cold War saw the most serious assault on racism in nearly a century. And it was extremely successful, insofar as the images of African-Americans might go. Mark's point is not as inconsequential as he believes. Although Bayoumi may be entering the historic discourse on race and its role, especially in U.S. society, his points are particularly poignant when one considers, as Mark correctly does, that race relations changed during the Cold War era in some, though in the broad scheme of capital's struggle for survival inconsequential, significant way. Historically speaking Blacks, in main, though one could argue that legal Latinos might be included, won some measure of uplift through the radicalization of the 50's 60's that ultimately resulted in the establishment of a strengthened Black middle class; that is to say, bourgeois sectors such as the Johnsons (i.e., of Johnson Johnson), petite bourgeois in the form of strengthened small business owners, and the most important, labor aristocracy (e.g., in the academy and labor unions) and Democratic Party bureaucracy (we are all familiar with that outcome). However that history is one of maintaining the survival of capital by enlisting the most squeaky wheel of the squeaky wheels into the buy-in to defend the interests of capitalism and its ultimate control of the reins of power; commerce and government. Making this point does not alter in any way the true nature of the Black (or Brown, or Asian, or Indigenous) experience in capitalist society, Blacks remain the most chronically unemployed, the most likely to profiled, and targeted, in short, remain the prime targets of racial oppression precisely because of their potential for playing a different role. Why else would capital (metaphorically and actually) spend so much time upholding Black leadership in their unrelenting attack on the working class and oppressed communities of which comprise working people? The racist, xenophobic assault on Arab peoples, disguised alternately as an assault on terrorism and anti-Christian values, is only strengthened if White capitalists can hide behind Black leaders (and legal Latinos, reasonable Asians, and Indians, in a particularly cynical twist of history) in their true assault on all working people and the oppressed. What better way to make the case for the best of all possible worlds than by enlisting the very people who will need to be oppressed to accomplish such a world? I know this view is not news to many of you (though I find sometimes that there are those who never truly learned this point), but the current and real observed racialization of Arab peoples is in total consistency with the historical advent of racism that was the most salient outcome of the European conquest of the rest of the world. It is best for the oppressor to divide and conquer, by any means necessary. Hence it is essential we follow the dictate to unify the working class by any means necessary. I make these points not to render into relief the rather obvious for most of us, but to make explicit the true historic change that has come about by the advent of Black leadership in the defense of capitalism and imperialism; the enlisting of a significant sector of the oppressed in American society in the direct promotion of racist policy abroad and within the U.S. It is not simply the racist campaign against Arabs and Muslims of all stripes that is the historic target, it is the racism associated with dividing Latinos, Asians, and even Indigenous peoples against themselves; legal vs. illegal, immigrant vs. refugee, pro-capitalist (e.g. Cuban, Hmong) vs. potentially anti-capitalist (e.g. Haitian, Mexicans, among others) that such a play for enlisting hatred can facilitate. It is this historic change that I believe many--Black radicals, Marxists, and even revolutionary-minded leftists among the oppressed communities--seem to be missing. For some, the advent of a Black president was, at one, an anomaly or sign of radicalization. Leftists, missing the true definition of radical, were either blinded by this seeming progressive event, initially suspending their otherwise insightful judgment, or simply blown onto the side of capital in their support absent the necessary anchor of a truly radical appraisal of the Obama election. But the trajectory of the economic crisis, actually portended by the economic boom of the 90's and brought to relief by our current circumstances ,
Re: [Marxism] Cuban medics in Haiti put world to shame
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == You, know, stating this may be unpopular, but I am simply Done with the Cuban Revolution Serving ONLY as an example. The dictates of the class struggle today require immensely more Leadership than simply providing doctors, nurses and educators (and, no, I am not suggesting they need to send troops in case any pinche Gringo capitalista puppet is listening). The Cuban Revolution is simply hanging on precisely because of the defensive posture that they have been force into. It Does Not Absolve Them Of A More Significant Political and ORGANIZING Role, However. The Cuban revolutionists may not be socialism in one country types, but their current political trajectory results in the same absent a more dedicated international organizing role. Perhaps over 50 years of being bludgeoned would give the old revolutionary guard a break for the obvious assault on their sensibilities. But I have to believe that their are young revolutionary cadres who can serve a stronger political role internationally. The Cuban Five are an example of both the promise of defense of the Revolution and the futility of simply defending oneself against imperialism without a more dedicated approach to organizing a revolutionary International. I tried to send this kind of message directly to Cuba through their website and unfortunately all too predictably I get nothing but silence. I surmise that a lone supporter of the Cuban Revolution with a penchant for asking immature questions will not suffice. Manuel Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] True Grit
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I would have to disagree with David's position that in the original version of True Grit,Glen Campbell did a better job of playing LeBoeuf than did Damon. The low point of the original 1969 was Glen Campbell's so called acting. Mad magazine was unable to resist the opportunity to satirize Mattie's long grammatically correct sentences. Regardless of John Wayne's horrendous politics I think he gave an academy award winning performance of the over the hill one eyed fat man marshall. The one historical slip up both versions made was LeBoeuf's Civil War service. He says he served in Shreveport with Kirby-Smith, and then later mentions in the Army of Northern Virginia. Shreveport is in Lousiana and Kirby-Smith commanded the Confederate Army of the Trans Mississippi, whose command was, as the name implies, west of the Mississippi River. While that was the error of author Charles Portis, that should have been caught by the movie makers. Is there any historical evidence of any US Marshall having killed 23 men during a 4 year period? That seems a bit over the top. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] True Grit
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I would be surprised if some of the marshall's didn't wrack up those kinds of numbers, though they may not have counted them. Judge Parker was the hanging judge who was allowed to impose his harsh version of the law at Fort Smith because the war left a virtual chaos in the Indian Territory. Federal officials regularly went out into the territory and functioned with very little concern that anybody would restrict their activities Btw, there were Texas units in the Army of Northern Virginia and Edmund Kirby-Smith was out there before getting transferred to west. Shreveport was his headquarters from that point. Getting sent from Virginia to Texas was a bit like drawing Northern Ireland as an assignment, I suspect... This was true on both sides, of course... ML Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Sidi Bou Zid unemployment protests spread to the capital and beyond
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In case you missed the news from Tunisia, protests have been sparked by a self-immolation of young man, Mohamed bu Azizi, who had failed to find a job for years, and eventually became unable to provide for himself. The anti-riot police killed one shot dead one protester, a teenager. Protests continue in Tunisia http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2010/12/2010122682433751904.html AlBadil.org, the mouthpiece of the Tunisian Workers' Communist Party, is calling it an uprising of the poor in Sidi Bou Zid, in the heartland of the country, entering its 10th day. -- محمد فتحي كلفت Mahammad Fathy Kalfat Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
