I have received the following link from a local and family history mailing list
http://www.sbs.com.au/shows/whodoyouthinkyouare/feature-episode/page/i/1/show/whodoyouthinkyouare
the episode about Olympic gold-medallist Christine Freeman, which is well worth
watching.
Christine's ancestors include
That would be Catherine Freeman, who was known at the time of her
Olympic success as Cathy Freeman.
Cheers,
John
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 11:50 +0100, Paddy Apling wrote:
> I have received the following link from a local and family history mailing
> list
> http://www.sbs.com.au/shows/whodoyouthinkyo
Thanks for the correction.
Trust me to get the name wrong !!
Paddy
http://apling.freeservers.com
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> That would be Catherine Freeman, who wa
The New York Times
August 16, 2009
After the Deluge
By TIMOTHY EGAN
ZEITOUN
By Dave Eggers
Illustrated. 351 pp. McSweeney’s Books. $24
Imagine Charles Dickens, his sentimentality in check but his
journalistic eyes wide open, roaming New Orleans after it was buried by
Hurricane Katrina. He woul
Turns out that the world's best-known and most health-challenged physicist
thinks that his single-payer health care system works just fine.
"I wouldn't be alive today if it weren't for the NHS. I have received a large
amount of high quality treatment without which I would not have survived."
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In America’s healthcare reform debate, there is no greater whipping boy than
the National Health Service (NHS,) Britain’s healthcare system. The NHS is
being used as an example of the “failed Socialist” model of healthcare. FOX
host Glenn Beck took some shots at the NHS, apparently forgetting hi
> Empire Burlesque
> Written by Chris Floyd Saturday, 15 August 2009 23:12
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> "It is dangerous to be right when t
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> Imagine how the left could intervene in these town hall meetings and make
> our voice heard if we stopped wasting our energy on lesser evilism and built
> a new party that stands as a clear alternative to the corporate tweedle dums
> and tweedle dumbers! --- Dennis Brasky
>
> by Josh Hatala / A
I was a member of the National Executive Committee of the Young
Socialist Alliance and working in the National Office when, on the
opening day of Woodstock, an unknown man showed up in the office on
Union Square asking if he could get literature to distribute at the
festival. (It was very unusu
For those who read French, here is a detailed examination of Guillermo
Lora and Bolivian Trotskyism. Lora died last May.
David
http://www.le-militant.org/carnet/lora.htm
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I would like to have attended one of the Town Hall meetings but could not
figure out when and where they were. Then I stumbled onto the right wing Tea
Party Patriots. They have a very complete list of all events in every state.
http://teapartypatriots.org/Default.aspx
The story I heard was that the YSA did eventually send a couple of
minor deities from the National Office to set up a lit table. One of
them later said that they didn't really sell anything, but there were
these nice people who kept giving them free brownies.
ML
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FYI: The Peace and Freeom Party, the only socialist party on the ballot in
California, announes plans to form a national party. The link to the article
below is here:
http://peaceandfreedom.org/home/about-us/media-releases/555-new-national-challenge-to-democrats-and-republicans
New National C
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Thanks for the paper, Dogan; I've read it with more care than you appear
to have read my work (if you have) -- but, there does not seem to be any
evidence in there anywhere that Rosa Luxembourg "understood" this
mystical 'theory', either.
And, far from it being the
In July, Chinese workers murdered beat an executive to death in
protesting an immanent privatization of their steel mill.
Canaves, Sky and James T. Areddy. 2009. "Murder Bares Worker Anger Over
China Industrial Reform." Wall Street Journal (3 August): p. A 1.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/05700b18-7
I remember it as I was in NYC at the time. The team got back days late. We were
wondering what had happened to them. When they finally showed up, they were
acting kinda funny. I recall vividly they were all singing "White Rabbit" at an
SWP fundraiser weeks later. The last I heard they were sell
Comrades:
Apologies for my absence from Marx-mail. I had some other work
requiring my attention during the (U.S.) summer. That work is coming
to an end, and hence I have now re-subscribed.
On a different note, does anyone know the health status of comrade
Bustello? I rather miss his postings.
August 14, 2009 -- St. Louis -- Did you hear about the town hall meeting
in St. Louis on August 6, where union thugs attacked a black
conservative and sent him to the hospital with multiple injuries? Well,
it didn’t happen exactly like that. In fact, events were the opposite of
what talk show hosts
Pat Costello wrote:
> I would like to have attended one of the Town Hall meetings but could not
> figure out when and where they were. Then I stumbled onto the right wing Tea
> Party Patriots. They have a very complete list of all events in every state.
>
> http://teapartypatriots.org/Default.as
[The only time the Basques make the media is when ETA set off some bombs.
The extreme repression of any force fighting for self-determination, with
torture, abductions, retrospective laws that criminalise peacefully
advocating independence etc, is non-existent to the media. Unfortunatly, it
is too
Dialectical Materialism is a method of thinking
That every event is connected and there is no mystical or metaphysical
factor involved
Keep it simple
Attention to petty detail leads to madness
George Anthony
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SOCIALIST VOICE
Marxist Perspectives for the 21st Century
http://www.socialistvoice.ca
August 17, 2009
ALBA, THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING CARIBBEAN, AND THE COUP IN HONDURAS
(By Faiz Ahmed) The military coup carried out by masked soldiers in the
early hours of June 28 against the democratically elected
"Rosa Lichetenstein":
> So, if truth is tested in practice, history has refuted this 'theory'.
>
> And no wonder: dialectical materialism is just another example of
> dogmatic apriorism, the acceptance of which theory, as I alleged a few
> replies ago, simply confirms the fact that Dialectical Mar
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