To whom...,
Marxists who waste their time denouncing cars are doomed.
peace
I've been reading all this with interest. As a doctoral student of
David's in the mid-late 1980s, I'll attest to his staple gun prowess. When
anti-apartheid shanties were firebombed one May 1986 night at 2AM
(one of his other students was badly burned) and then -- predictably
-- banned by JHU
G'day Penners,
Oz is currently hosting global economist, fund manager, markets guru, and
besuited, arrogant, tell-the-dumb-locals-to-give-it-up-for-daddy, bloody
American David Hale (I mean to condemn but a particular genus of Homo
Americanus here, of course - Americanus Armanirolexicus.
== Although the following artistic strategy _may_ be read as a veiled,
or even unconscious, statement of a direct relationship between
capital accumulation and sin, I wouldn't bet a small pizza on it.
In the real world of old imperial churches Christianity and capitalism
are
The May Day is probably the best kept secret on the internet.
I tried to find an email greeting card site that would offer a May Day card
which I wanted to send to my friends.
What I found was the nauseating crap of the Hallmark variety: happy
valentine, happy sweetheart, happy family, happy
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BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1998
RELEASED TODAY: Employment Cost Index -- On a seasonally adjusted basis,
On Wed, April 29, 1998 at 19:44:11 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes:
...
Hmm, really? My own recent tours of campuses, and conversations with
academics, combine to present a less pretty picture of the U.S. college
population. They seem, for the most part, poorly educated and don't seem to
give a fuck
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
Have a great May Day everyone.
Don't forget that in the USA, May 1 is officially Loyalty Day. This year's
White House proclamation isn't out yet, but here's last year's.
Doug
White House Press
Maggie's post about students not appreciating having their
preconceptions challenged struck a familiar chord. It brings up an issue
I think all progressive academics are concerned with, namely can and do
professors substantially transform students' attitudes about society, or
do they largely
At 12:09 PM 5/1/98 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
Don't forget that in the USA, May 1 is officially Loyalty Day. This year's
White House proclamation isn't out yet, but here's last year's.
--snip
White House Press Release
Interestingly, just over a year ago we had the same experience with
Hale in Jo'burg.
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 20:58:03 +1000
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G'day
At 09:55 PM 4/30/98 -0400, Mike Yates wrote:
I don't like cars much either, but at present I have to have one. If I
lost it,
I'd be in a bad way. Sme too with the workers who are threatened with plant
closings. What are they supposed to do in the meantime? Sit back and
enjoy the
cleaner air?
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
Hmm. So when was the public law 85-529 passed? And what was the rationale
behing selecting May 1st for the festivity?
I think it was explained to me as an anti-Communist redefinition of Mayday.
When was Labor Day created? Wasn't that also an anti-May Day thing?
Doug
I take the occasion of May Day to announce a new Marxism mailing-list.
THE PURPOSE:
The primary purpose of the list is to gather together Marxists
internationally who are dedicated to a non-dogmatic approach to issues of
the class struggle today. Marxism has always been confronted with the
At 11:05 AM 5/1/98 -0500, Bill Lear wrote:
On Wed, April 29, 1998 at 19:44:11 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes:
...
Hmm, really? My own recent tours of campuses, and conversations with
academics, combine to present a less pretty picture of the U.S. college
population. They seem, for the most part,
At 08:33 AM 5/1/98 -0500, valis wrote:
== Although the following artistic strategy _may_ be read as a veiled,
or even unconscious, statement of a direct relationship between
capital accumulation and sin, I wouldn't bet a small pizza on it.
In the real world of old imperial churches
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From: William S. Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Friday, May 01, 1998 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: David Harvey's anomie
On Wed, April 29, 1998 at 19:44:11 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes:
I heard on Pacifica just yesterday the results of a
At 12:57 PM 5/1/98 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
Hmm. So when was the public law 85-529 passed? And what was the rationale
behing selecting May 1st for the festivity?
I think it was explained to me as an anti-Communist redefinition of Mayday.
When was Labor Day created?
Patrick Bond:
Working through the militant particularisms and
building a general struggle out of this was, I felt, the general
thrust of David's new book, and Louis isn't giving this project any
credit in his haste to ridicule the petty-bourgeois character of the
1990s academic.
Patrick,
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Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 07:20:11 PDT
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Subject: NEWS BULLETIN: Age Discrimination in SUNY
MAY 1, 1998 NEWS BULLETIN
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A class-action age discrimination complaint has been
James Devine wrote:
Ex-Fedster and economist Alan Blinder was interviewed on US NPR yesterday
and had some interesting things to say about this (in the fragments I heard
-- is it possible to get a transcript on-line?). He said that in addition
to the "irrational exuberance" of the stock market
I've started up a mailing l*st, LBO-talk. Details follow.
Doug
LBO-talk is a mailing list for the discussion of politics, economics, and
culture, all expansively defined. It is sponsored by Left Business Observer
Well, I gues I should tell everybody:
Today is my 40th birthday. Somehow astrology and politics must have had some
role way back when... (alright, so I also played left wing in ice hockey).
Can anyone tell me if there are any children's sneakers that are: 1) made in
the US, and 2) not under
The president of our university, Bob H. Suzuki, is going to give an
honorary doctorate to Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe. There will be
a demonstration, of course, at the ceremony. We would appreciate any
information on him, sent to the address below, or to me.
Many thanks.
Larry Shute
Patrick - I now get the Pen-L posts directly, so please don;t forward anymore! Also
you seem to send me everything twice (to 2 different email addresses maybe?). Please
just use my igc box for now.
Really enjoyed your E Cape history in the Stutterheim paper. Is that Colin Bundy? Was
that his
A larger question I also want to ask is, how do green marxists take part in
struggles of workers whose primary concerns are to keep their jobs? I agree
that in the above case (as in most others) siding with workers and keeping
the plant open is undoubtedly the correct position, but since that's
When I taught at Washington State in Pullman WA in the 1960s, they
celebrated "Loyalty Day" in nearby Moscow, Idaho, with a parade
and festivities. I had never heard of Loyalty Day before so I
had thought it was their own idea. There were a lot of far-right
types living in Northern Idaho even
Well since you ask and I bet there are no Pen-Lers in Harare just
yet...
There are no critical bios of Mugabe yet. Key things that
progressives have protested about in recent years are his coverup of
ethnic massacres in Matabeleland during the mid 1980s that left at
least 5,000 civilians
At 01:58 PM 4/30/98 -0800, Gar Lipow wrote:
I hold no brief for the Sierra Club, the largest of the corporate
environmentalist
groups. But the 40% vote for the anti-immigrant rule is not completely
reflective of
their membership. From what I understand there was a massive last minute
purchase
On Fri, May 1, 1998 at 10:32:58 (-0700) Nathan Newman writes:
...
What is it with the youth of today?
They just aren't as patriotic/progressive/hard-working/fill-in-the-blank as we
were at their age.
Frankly, this sort of global analysis of a generation is offensive and most of
you would have
forwarded by Michael Hoover
Whose labor day is it really?
by Fred Gaboury
from the September 1.1995 issue of the
People's Weekly World.
Who founded Labor Day -- and what
Jim,
Why don't you call him at 212-229-5717
Jason
A couple progressive publications have mentioned during antiNike reports
that New Balance meets both criteria. I can't vouch for it, but that's
what they say.
Happy May Day, Happy Birthday
Andy Pollack
On Fri, 1 May 1998 16:08:30 EDT Jay Hecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, I gues I should tell
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, boddhisatva wrote:
Isn't being pro-marijuana being pro-market?
Oh but we're all pro-market nowadays. I, for example, am a great believer
in the marketplaces of radicalism, direct action, union organizing and
ruling-class-bashing. I
Whoops, sorry for the messed-up message, full text is below:
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, boddhisatva wrote:
Isn't being pro-marijuana being pro-market?
Oh but we're all pro-market nowadays, haven't you heard? I myself am a
fervent partisan of the marketplaces of radicalism, direct action,
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Doug Henwood wrote:
CNBC just ran a rather fevered but short report about May Day worker
"riots" in Europe and elsewhere. What's going on?
Doug
According to the BBC report I heard at 8:00 this morning there were
riots in Liepzig when 6000 "leftists" went to
At 08:58 PM 5/1/98 +1000, Rob wrote:
Hale tells us the US Fed's model for valuing stock has Wall Street
somewhere between 10 and 20% over the odds. At current rates of euphoric
appreciation, that figure could be between 30 and 40% by Christmas. By
then, he reckons, any correction might better
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