[Marxism-Thaxis] ATHEISTS,
ATHEISTS, IT'S TIME TO STAND UP TO JESUS By Russell Blackford, Udo Schuklenk, Comment Is Free Civility has its uses, but atheists should not be afraid to mock faith to undermine religious power. http://www.alternet.org/story/143820/atheists%2C_it%27s_time_to_stand_up_to_jesus ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
[Marxism-Thaxis] Comrade Dave Moore
In Memory of Extraordinary Freedom Fighter David William Moore Whereas, David W. Moore, Dave , was a fighter for freedom, equality, peace, human rights and economic justice for more than four score years; and Whereas, Citizen Moore from his youth in South Carolina, Ohio and Detroit and, throughout his 97 years, was an icon of the working class rank and file, a leader of the laboring masses who create all the wealth of society, a champion of revolutionary struggle; and Whereas, In the Depression of the 1930’s , Mr. Moore was active in the Unemployed Councils, the Ford Hunger March, worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps, ; and Whereas, Brother Dave Moore was a leader in securing representation rights for the UAW-CIO at Ford Motor Company, where Black and White unity was key; Mr. Moore is credited with five other workers who pulled one of a series of switches in the Axle Plant on April 2, 1941, triggering the strike that ended in Ford signing a contract with UAW-CIO on June 30, 1941; and Whereas, Dave Moore advanced organizing efforts at Ford Motor company with the Elder Charles Diggs, Reverend Charles Hill, Pastor of Hartford Avenue Baptist Church, and President of the Detroit NAACP among others and he convinced the leadership of the CIO to bring Paul Robeson to Detroit to speak before Ford workers , which he did three times, including on May 19,1941 when Robeson appeared before upwards of 100,000 workers and union supporters in Cadillac Square on the eve of that signal contract victory at Ford; In later years, Dave Moore , with the Honorable Coleman A. Young organized security details for Paul Robeson’s visits to Detroit, and said meetings also included the Honorable Erma L. Henderson; and Whereas, Brother Moore , in 1941, was elected a District Committeeman in the old Gear and Axle Plant of Ford Rouge by a workforce of 5,600 that was overwhelmingly white in its majority; he was reelected for twelve successive years and for many years was elected to an array of offices in UAW Local 600; he served as a member of the Bargaining Committee and Vice-President of the Gear and Axle Plant; he also served as Bargaining Committeeman and Vice-President of the Dearborn Engine Plant of Local 600 and Whereas, Dave Moore served as Vice-President of the Detroit Chapter of the National Negro Labor Council, along with the Honorable Coleman A. Young as National Secretary; the National Negro Labor Council , (NNLC), was an organization dedicated to winning first class citizenship for every Black man, woman and child in America in unity with that democratic minded workers of all backgrounds who recognized in the struggle for African American rights prerequisites of their own aspirations for a full life; Whereas, Brother Moore endured the undemocratic onslaught of McCarthyism and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee; he was targeted with four others at Local 600; barred from running for union office in the very union where he had played such an important role to establish; the National Negro Labor Council was a target of the anti-Red , anti-Communist false accusations ; and Whereas, After 12 years Brother Moore and his four fellow Local 600 officers were reinstated and overwhelmingly reelected. Later he and the Black Caucus at Local 600 decided that he should accept a position as an International representative for the UAW in the grievance procedure; seasoned from the trials and tribulations of the McCarthy Era, armed with his bachelor’s degree in the School of Hard Knocks and his advanced degree from the University Hastings Street, having studied the public use of the courts with Peoples’ lawyers Maurice Sugar, the Honorable George Crockett, Lebron Simmons, Ernie Goodman and the Honorable Claudia Morcom, he was An extraordinary and exceptionally astute advocate, and highly skilled in negotiating fourth-stage grievances until his retirement in 1979. He was awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Detroit City Council and the National Lawyers Guild and Whereas, In 1979, Dave Moore helped lead the victorious campaign of Judge George W. Crockett for Congress in Detroit’ s 13th District, and served as Director of Congressman Crockett’s Detroit office and ; In 1990 Mayor Coleman A. Young appointed Mr. Moore as the Director of the Senior Citizen Department of the City of Detroit; he was a friend of the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, jr. and of Congressman John Conyers, Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus THEREFORE BE IT Resolved, That the Detroit City Council salute and honor the Great Dave Moore , and deeply mourn his passing. We will as Mr. Moore always said “Carry On “ the struggle - ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options
Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Thw working class - employed, is female
Women have a longer life expectancy than men , too. (smile) CB On 11/8/09, waistli...@aol.com waistli...@aol.com wrote: The working class is officially female, although the proletariat was female perhaps two decades ago. WL. (Nov. 5) -- The United States may have officially entered the age of woman. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this fall, for the first time in U.S. history, women have surpassed men and now make up more than 50 percent of the nation's workforce. In 1967, by comparison, they accounted for just one-third of all workers. Signs of the changing landscape in gender relations are just about everywhere you look: • Double the number of single women are now purchasing homes in America than there are single men. • Four out of every 10 women are are now their family's primary breadwinner, a sharp increase from past decades. • The New Hampshire State Legislature is now made up of a majority of women, a first for a legislative body in the U.S., and the number of women in government continues to edge up nationwide. • Women now account for 30 percent of math Ph.D.s, up from just 5 percent in the 1960s. • On average, women read nine books every year. Men only read four, and women account for 80 percent of the U.S. fiction market. • The World Bank recently estimated that the global earning power of women will reach an estimated $18 trillion by the year 2014, up $5 trillion today. Women really have become the dominant gender, said Guy Garcia, author of The Decline of Men. What concerns me is that guys are rapidly falling behind. Women are becoming better educated than men, earning more than men, and, generally speaking, not needing men at all. Meanwhile, as a group, men are losing their way. _http://www.sphere.com/2009/11/06/women-are-overtaking-men-in-the-u-s/?icid= main|htmlws-bv-n|dl2|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sphere.com%2F2009%2F11%2F06%2Fwo men-are-overtaking-men-in-the-u-s%2F_ (http://www.sphere.com/2009/11/06/women-are-overtaking-men-in-the-u-s/?icid=main|htmlws-bv-n|dl2|link3|http://www. sphere.com/2009/11/06/women-are-overtaking-men-in-the-u-s/) ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
[Marxism-Thaxis] Keeping Afghanistan Safe From Democracy
Keeping Afghanistan Safe From Democracy By Robert Scheer San Francisco Chronicle November 5, 2009 http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/scheer/#ixzz0W73PpiAz The most idiotic thing being said about America's involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 U.S. troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in harm's way. People who argue for that plan clearly have not read Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's report pushing for escalation. The general is as honest as he is wrong in laying out the purpose of this would-be expanded mission, which is to remold Afghanistan in a Western image by making U.S. troops far more vulnerable, rather than less so. He is honest in arguing that American troops would have to be deployed throughout the rugged and otherwise inhospitable terrain of rural Afghanistan, entering intimately into the ways of local life so as to win the hearts and minds of a people who clearly wish we would not extend the favor. He is wrong in indicating, without providing any evidence to support the proposition, that this very costly and highly improbable quest to be the first foreign power to successfully model life in Afghanistan would be connected with defeating the al Qaeda terrorists. As the president's top national security adviser has stated, there are fewer than 100 al Qaeda members left in Afghanistan, and they have no capacity to launch attacks. These remnants of a foreign Arab force assembled by the United States to thwart the Soviets in their hapless effort to conquer Afghanistan are now alienated from the locally based insurgency. As Matthew Hoh, the former Marine captain and foreign service officer in charge of the most contested area, said recently in his letter of resignation, we have stumbled into a 35-year-long civil war between rural people who want to be left alone and a corrupt urban government that the United States insists on backing. Hoh, who quit after a decade of service in Iraq and Afghanistan, wrote that he was resigning not because of the hardships of his assignment but rather because he no longer believed in its stated purpose: In the course of my five months of service in Afghanistan ... I have lost understanding and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States' presence in Afghanistan. ... To put simply: I fail to see the value or the worth in continued U.S. casualties or expenditures of resources in support of the Afghan government in what is, truly, a 35-year-old civil war. ... Like the Soviets, we continue to secure and bolster a failing state, while encouraging an ideology and system of government unknown and unwanted by its people. ... I have observed that the bulk of the insurgency fights not for the white banner of the Taliban, but rather against the presence of foreign soldiers and taxes imposed by an unrepresentative government in Kabul. Just how unrepresentative was amply demonstrated in a very low turnout election in which the U.S.-backed candidate, Hamid Karzai, won after stealing one-third of the ballots he claimed for his victory, according to U.N. observers. In a message of congratulation to Karzai, President Obama made reference to the need for reform and an end to the corruption that is endemic in the Karzai regime, but then stated, Although the process was messy, I am pleased to say that the final outcome was determined in accordance with Afghan law, which I think is very important. What law? A runoff was avoided only when Karzai refused to accede to his opponent's demand for changes in the election commission that had stuffed the ballot boxes. When Bob Schieffer of CBS said of the election the thing was a fraud, White House senior adviser David Axelrod had the arrogance to defend the rigged process as having proceeded in the constitutional way. Just what is it we are telling the world about our belief in the integrity of elections? It is no different from our having extolled those garbage elections that occurred with great regularity in Vietnam during the war there, a point made to great effect by Hoh: Our support for this kind of government, coupled with a misunderstanding of the insurgency's true nature, reminds me horribly of our involvement with South Vietnam; an unpopular and corrupt government we backed at the expense of our nation's own internal peace, against an insurgency whose nationalism we arrogantly and ignorantly mistook as a rival to our own Cold War ideology. Obama must know the truth of those words and should heed them before he marches down the disastrous path pursued by another Democratic president, Lyndon Johnson - who, we now know from his White House telephone tapes, sacrificed the youth of this country in a war that he always knew never made sense. 2009 CREATORS.COM Robert Scheer is editor of truthdig.com, where this column originally appeared. E- mail Robert Scheer at rsch...@truthdig.com. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list
Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Keeping Afghanistan Safe From Democracy
General McChrystal is believed by many to have Potomac fever, that is, he wants Obama's job. Both Abe Lincoln and Harry Truman in their times had their experiences with politically ambitious generals. A major test for Obama will be whether he has the guile and intestinal fortitude to deal with such a general. Jim F. -- Original Message -- From: c b cb31...@gmail.com To: Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx and the thinkers he inspired marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] Keeping Afghanistan Safe From Democracy Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 08:35:35 -0500 Keeping Afghanistan Safe From Democracy By Robert Scheer San Francisco Chronicle November 5, 2009 http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/scheer/#ixzz0W73PpiAz The most idiotic thing being said about America's involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 U.S. troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in harm's way. P Manufacturer-Direct Hardwood Floors Never pay retail again. Wholesale prices on all hardwood floors! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=nOmHS7rGKEBFkIea4HcNugAAJ1AP8ttsZd_TbiVxkZxsC3mBAAQFAKMXpD4AAAMlAANldAA= ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
