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dan.kahan | 1 Aug 2005 04:49
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Researching Attitudes Toward Environment

Dear Rad-Green list subscribers:

I am a researcher at Yale University studying political attitudes,
including opinions on environmental protection. I am especially
interested in the opinions of individuals who are knowledgeable about
and interested in this issue.

As part of my research, I am conducting an on-line survey. It should
take about 5 to 8 minutes to complete. I would be extremely grateful for
your participation in it. 

Please be assured that all responses are confidential and anonymous and
no personal identifying information is collected. You can also find
contact information for me at the end of the survey.

To participate, please go to:

http://islandia.law.yale.edu/ss/wsb.dll/braman/study5a.htm

Thank you very much!

--Dan

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Yoshie Furuhashi | 1 Aug 2005 14:48
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"Latterday Wobbly Types" and "An Injury to One"

2005 marks the centenary of the Industrial Workers of the World.  The  
IWW has many heroes and martyrs who made indelible marks on American  
history, and Frank Little, who was murdered on August 1, 1917, is one  
of them.  Today, MRZine.org commemorates the spirit of Frank Little  
and other Wobblies with articles by two of the finest historians on  
the American left today (as well as a still from Travis Wilkerson's  
"An Injury to One"):

Paul Buhle, "Latterday Wobbly Types: Remembering Stan Weir," <http:// 
mrzine.monthlyreview.org/buhle010805.html>

Peter Rachleff, "An Injury to One: A Film by Travis Wilkerson,"  
<http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/rachleff010805.html>

As economy becomes ever more globalized, immigrant workers constitute  
an increasing proportion of the workforce in the United States (e.g.,  
"In recent years, 20 percent of the workers joining the U.S. labor  
force nationwide have been Mexican born" [Richard D. Vogel, "Border  
Vigilantes and Mass Migration," <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/ 
vogel220705.html>]), and US organized labor stands at a crossroads,  
we need Wobbliness more than ever.

Peter's article mentions the IWW Centennial Tour <http:// 
www.wobblyshow.org/>, a traveling IWW exhibit that Paul and Derek  
Seidman helped put together.  I included links to wobblyshow.org in  
both articles.  Be sure to check it out -- here's the tour schedule:  
<http://www.wobblyshow.org/tour.php>.

Peter's article, in addition to discussing Travis Wilkerson's "An  
Injury to One," one of the most moving documentaries ever made (and
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james m nordlund | 1 Aug 2005 18:24
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WILPF Hiroshima / Nagasaki Days event!s!!!

WILPF HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI EVENTS, 2005:

Here, in plain text, is a list of Hiroshima/Nagasaki events in which WILPF
is involved.  An HTML version follows for those who can receive it.

Please report your event if it is not listed here.  Give name of event,
street address, time and date, brief description, sponsoring 
organizations,
primary contact person with email, phone and website. Send to the DISARM
leadership team at curner <at> qwest.net . 
We would like a complete listing of WILPF participation during this 60th
anniversary year.

To access the national  calendar of registered events go to
http://www.besafenet.com/2005Calendar.htm  .   

If you sent notice and your event is not listed below or on the national
calendar, please complain loudly to the same email address.  I (Carol 
Urner)
am extremely fallible, and may have missed your report in the daily flood 
of
emails.  

AUGUST 2 TO 9

MASSACHUSETTS 
Boston
Name of Event: - Film showing “Radiation - a slow death, a new generation 
of
Hibakusha”
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james m nordlund | 1 Aug 2005 18:51
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CODEPINK: Downing Street: The Road to Impeachment

Dear james m, 

Imagine you’re driving down a back road in Texas, flipping through the
radio dial only to find one talk-show host after another singing the
praises of George Bush. Then all of a sudden, you tune in to a station and
hear this:

"I’m Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq. Casey was one
of more than 1700 Americans who’ve lost their lives in the war. Recently I
read a secret British intelligence document called the Downing Street
memo, and was appalled to learn that the Bush administration manipulated
intelligence and facts to justify the Iraq war. 

Sending our children to die for lies is a moral outrage. Deceiving
Congress is an impeachable offense. Please honor our soldiers by urging
your representatives to investigate and hold George Bush accountable. See
www.afterdowningstreet.org. Brought to you by CODEPINK women for peace". 

This fantasy is going to become a reality on Saturday, July 23, the 3rd
anniversary of the Downing Street Memo. CODEPINK is going to run this
radio ad during Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh’s radio shows all over the
country. But we can’t do it without YOU.

Help CODEPINK air Downing Street/impeachment radio ads on right-wing radio
shows!

Starting on July 23, CODEPINK will begin a campaign to hit the right-wing
airwaves with the above Downing Street/impeachment radio spot recorded by
Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in the Iraq war. We will run the
ads during Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh’s nationally syndicated shows,
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Viren | 2 Aug 2005 20:43
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Demonstration

Amidst pouring rain there was a demonstration outside Hero Honda and Lake
City Honda showroom in Udaipur. Activists from AICCU , Jantantrik Vichar Manch, PUCL,                                                Jan Sanskriti
Manch.and UTUC ( LS ) , blocked the road outside the Hero Honda showroom for about a half an
hour. Subsequently demonstration took place outside the Lake City Honda showroom . 

The demonstration was organised to protest against the designs of economic/neo colonisation in the name
of FDI or globalisation.

 The demonstrators were protesting against the following

1. The humiliating terms on which the workers were taken back at the instance
    of the leader of the Congress party.
2. Collaboration between Honda and the Haryana Government.
3. The partisan role of the police and barbaric acts commited by them.  
4. The despicable role of MNCs in terms of crushing workers rights and
    creating the conditions for curtailing workers movements to achieve the same.
5. The neo colonial attack on developing and least developing countries in the name of FDI or globalisation.

Viren 

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shniad | 3 Aug 2005 05:27
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An impossible news article from the streets of Havana

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/40577

An impossible news article from the streets of Havana	 

The foreign citizen, who initially was thought to be a dissident, was later
discover that, having detected the presence of various agents of the Cuban
State who chase after him throughout the streets of Havana until he boarded
a vehicle of public transportation and having ignored their command to stop
he was throwed to the floor and instantly killed with seven bullets to his
head.

The Cuban government, recognized that the dead man had nothing had to do
with possible terrorist actions, but emphasized the terrorist threat for
which has been the object as confirmed by a passed wave of bombs in hotels
of the capital.

It seems to be, the agents confused the foreigner, a blond, blue eyes man
with the face of an idiot, with an American terrorist.

President Fidel Castro, regretted today the error committed in the death of
the foreign citizen but did not rule out the reoccurrence of similar errors
given that, he recognized, there are orders to shoot to kill.

It is expected that the European Union will condemn the murder and withdraw
immediately its ambassador to the Caribbean Island. Some European
governments have insisted on the need to adopt economic sanctions and
retaliation against the Cuban State for its contempt for "human rights."

And if you, dear reader, are still asking where is that I am going with this
impossible news item that took place not in Havana but London, and in which
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Yoshie Furuhashi | 3 Aug 2005 16:55
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Market Fundamentalists Lose in Iran (For Now)

Today is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's inauguration.  Rostam Pourzal made a  
tough deadline and delivered a great article (whose permanent URL is  
<http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/pourzal030805.html>) in time for  
it.  Now, it's featured on the homepage of <http://mrzine.org>,  
together with (what I think of as) a handsome photo of Ahmadinejad.

Here's an excerpt from Pourzal's article:

<blockquote>The top vote-getter of the first round of elections, Ali  
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has in recent years used his appointed  
position as the head of the powerful Expediency Council to champion  
opening Iran's economy to massive foreign investment and  
"innovation." He is a business tycoon and Iran's richest man who ran  
but failed to get enough votes for a seat in the Majlis (parliament)  
in 2000. Ever since his two terms as president from 1979 to 1987,  
Rafsanjani has been known as a defender of property rights and IMF- 
style "adjustments" in labor and banking laws. The reform parties  
share his passion for privatization, deregulation, and an end to  
multibillion-dollar public subsidies. Eight years of reformist  
struggle to establish "the rule of law" showed results last December  
and February, when Iranian courts ruled in favor of US-based  
multinationals Proctor and Gamble and Time Warner in trademark  
infringement cases.

. . . . .. . . . .. . . . .. . . . .

Ahmadinejad's constituency apparently does not buy his rivals'  
argument that the best way to reduce unemployment is to stimulate  
economic growth -- now about five percent annually -- with enough  
concessions to Washington to have the US trade sanctions lifted.
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james m nordlund | 3 Aug 2005 18:16
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UFPJ: Aug 6-9: No Nukes! No Wars! Defend Democracy!

ACTION ALERT * UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE 
http://www.unitedforpeace.org | 212-868-5545
To subscribe, visit http://www.unitedforpeace.org/email 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
August 6 and 9, 2005 mark the 60th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. United for Peace and Justice
urges you to join with thousands of people at four central U.S. nuclear
weapons sites to call for an end to the development and production of
nuclear warheads. There are also local activities planned in scores of
cities around the nation.

In Iraq, they never found nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction,
yet the daily reality of death and annihilation continues, sparked by the
Bush administration's invasion and fueled by the ongoing U.S. military
occupation. A majority of people in this nation now oppose the war, but
the White House and most members of Congress are resisting the only
solution to the crisis: bring the troops home immediately. 

This year, the 60th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki also coincide with the 40th anniversary of the 1965 Voting
Rights Act on August 3, 2005. Ensuring our basic voting and civil rights
is at the heart of keeping our democracy alive and healthy. A vibrant
democracy with open public debate is essential to keep U.S. power in
check. Given that U.S. power is directly expressed and projected through
its possession and threat to use nuclear weapons, the links between
democracy, power and nuclear weapons becomes clear. Click here to read a
statement drafted by in February 1999 that addresses these crucial links.

United for Peace and Justice encourages those of you in driving distance
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Anthony Fenton | 3 Aug 2005 17:40
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Withdrawal means more indiscriminate violence in Gaza

Removing the Accidental Protection
Withdrawal means more indiscriminate violence in Gaza
by Justin Podur
	
August 01, 2005
  http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=8419

What is behind the Gaza ‘disengagement plan’? It has been spelled out 
clearly enough by Ariel Sharon’s own advisor, Dov Weisglass, in an 
often-quoted Ha’aretz interview about ‘freezing’ the peace process in 
‘formaldehyde’. Palestinian activist and commentator Azmi Bishara 
stated it like this:

The plan is one package containing the dismantling of settlements in 
Gaza and four in the northern part of the West Bank, but in exchange 
for this, the plan: (1) is intended to freeze the peace process and 
prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and 
Gaza; (2) stipulates the fortification of settlements in the West Bank; 
(3) includes a plan for annexing settlement blocs and large swaths of 
land from the West Bank into Israel; (4) secures the siege of the Gaza 
Strip by land, sea, and air, and preserves Israel’s right to continue 
invasions and attacks in Gaza; (5) includes the Bush-Sharon 
correspondence which negates the right of return, certifies that Israel 
will remain a Jewish state, and acknowledges that settlement blocs will 
be annexed to Israel.

There are several reasons Israeli planners feel able to do this at this 
moment. First, the ‘War on Terror’ and the occupation of Iraq by the 
United States have created a favorable political climate for aggressive 
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David Mcreynolds | 3 Aug 2005 19:35
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Re: Goodbye Iraq

Ethan,

This is sobering and I think on target. I am happy to see that Ahmad
(someone I don't know) shared my view of the Vietnam experience - I always
argued
the US had no basic interests in Indochina (except ideological).

Yes, how we will really get out of Iraq will depend in part on
understanding why we are there, and it isn't because of a Zionist
conspiracy, or democracy, or terrorism.

Hope you are surviving the heat,

David

> [Original Message]
> From: Ethan Young <ethanyoung <at> earthlink.net>
> To: <david.mcr <at> earthlink.net>
> Date: 8/2/2005 3:51:13 PM
> Subject: Re: Goodbye Iraq
>
> This is from one of the best Marxist commentators writing in English,
Aijaz Ahmad:
>
> The question of British disengagement from wars that are planned in
Washington and executed according to U.S. plans is thus itself wholly
subject to the far more central question of the U.S. withdrawal - rather,
the longevity and modalities of the U.S. entrenchment in those countries.
Any U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in the foreseeable future is most unlikely,
regardless of the intensity or breadth of the resistance. We are hearing a
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