[PEN-L] Forwarded from Jim Craven

2005-01-13 Thread Louis Proyect
Hi Louis, I am on an extended "excellent adventure" just back to chair a final tenure meeting. I hope you and Mine are well. Would you please forward this to marxism, pen-l and a-lists as I am traveling and not in contact with computers and this savage has no lap-top or cell phone. I see liberal or

[PEN-L] Forwarded from Jim Craven

2005-02-02 Thread Louis Proyect
Jim asked me to forward this letter sent to the U. of Colorado. Dear Ms. Schwartz: Dissent, disagreement and holding contrary views do not constitute reasonable cause for dismissing Professor Ward Churchill. Not only are they parts of free speech and its exercise, guaranteed by the First Amendment

[PEN-L] Forwarded from Jim Craven

2005-02-08 Thread Louis Proyect
Would you please send out for mass distribution the following attached. It is from James Louie, a Lil'wat Elder and activist (since1962). Thanks, Jim, Resolution Whereas James Douglas Louie, Certificate of Indian Status, Band Number 5570025701 is a descendent of the STL'ATL'IMX Nation, a disti

[PEN-L] Forwarded from Jim Craven

2005-02-18 Thread Louis Proyect
Warning: More Hate Speech from W. Churchill By MICKEY Z http://www.counterpunch.org/mickey02072005.html Alert O'Reilly...send word to both the limo liberals and the Soldier of Fortune crowd...Pataki, Zahn, and Hannity take note...we have another repugnant quote from W. Churchill: "I do not agre

[PEN-L] Forwarded from Jim Craven

2005-02-19 Thread Louis Proyect
Prof. Craven -- As an Cherokee Indian professor at MSU I applaud you for your recent article regarding the personal attacks on Ward Churchill's Cherokee Indian blood. As a Cherokee I know that it is our mothers and grandmothers who determine who we are. For 25 years I have worked among Northern P

[PEN-L] Forwarded from Jim Craven

2005-03-20 Thread Louis Proyect
What is SIL International? Founded 70 years ago, SIL International is a faith-based organization that studies, documents, and assists in developing the world's lesser-known languages. SIL's staff shares a Christian commitment to service, academic excellence, and professional engagement through lite

[PEN-L] Forwarded from Jim Craven

2005-04-13 Thread Louis Proyect
An Open Letter to the Vatican: Pope Fails Indigenous Peoples on Important Fronts April 2000 (copyright) Tony Castana (The writer was the Project Director of the indigenous peoples' delegation to the Vatican in the Year 2000.) Pope John Paul II's recent death has stirred a kind of global frenzy for

[PEN-L] Forwarded from Jim Craven

2005-06-14 Thread Louis Proyect
Hi Louis, I am in BC right now. Could you please forward this to the lists? FW: RE: FW: letter to Weyerhaeuser from CUPW | | | Inbox Getting this kind of letter is only the beginning of the end of Mother Earth. It took me three quarters

[PEN-L] Forwarded from Jim Craven #1

2005-01-22 Thread Louis Proyect
Imagine a seasoned, highly trusted and highly committed Elder/Activist of one of the six nations governed by The Great Law of Peace, who is involved in legal actions against the U.S. government designed to reveal evidence of genocide and to push sovereignty of his and other Native nations. Imagine

[PEN-L] Forwarded from Jim Craven #2

2005-01-22 Thread Louis Proyect
*** Please distribute widely. With YOUR help we CAN reach the whole world! *** WELCOME TO LEAVENWORTH Excerpt by HARVEY ARDEN from HAVE YOU THOUGHT of LEONARD PELT

Re: [PEN-L] Forwarded from Jim Craven

2005-03-20 Thread Michael Perelman
Thy will Be Done, that wonderful book about the destructive Rockefeller influence goes into great detail about the SIL as a wedge for the Rockefellers. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

[PEN-L] Forwarded from Jim Craven (Pope jokes)

2005-03-07 Thread Louis Proyect
When I first read this piece, the words that first came to my mind were: "self-indulgent, infantile, superficial, self-negating/impeaching" etc. This kind of "critique" is the kind that comes from those types of "progressives" that are typically narcissistic and isolated from real-world struggles t

[PEN-L] Forwarded from Jim Craven (Yale economics professor)

2005-01-13 Thread Louis Proyect
(Sounds to me like he was putting bourgeois economics into practice.) Response Jim C: The old aphorism is with respect to the media is that the only sacred cow of the media is the media itself. It is the same with bourgeois economics/economists: All human beings, "by nature", are summarily assumed-

Re: [PEN-L] Forwarded from Jim Craven (Pope jokes)

2005-03-07 Thread Waistline2
>>When I first read this piece, the words that first came to my mind were:"self-indulgent, infantile, superficial, self-negating/impeaching" etc.This kind of "critique" is the kind that comes from those types of"progressives" that are typically narcissistic and isolated from real-worldstruggles t

Re: [PEN-L] Forwarded from Jim Craven (Pope jokes)

2005-03-07 Thread lbo
I got the impression that what Taibbi was mocking was the obsessiveness of the press more than the pope. I agree with Carl and Max-- I didn't think it was especially funny, just the parts where he makes clear he's mocking his colleagues for their obsessiveness.

Re: [PEN-L] Forwarded from Jim Craven (Pope jokes)

2005-03-07 Thread Louis Proyect
Inkspot: I got the impression that what Taibbi was mocking was the obsessiveness of the press more than the pope. I agree with Carl and Max-- I didn't think it was especially funny, just the parts where he makes clear he's mocking his colleagues for their obsessiveness. There's a precedent for this