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Hunter Gray | 1 Dec 2004 01:59
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San Francisco Peaks controversy [Flagstaff region]


                        Note by Hunter Bear:

                        Cline Library at NAU is named for Platt Cline,
long-time publisher of the Arizona Daily Sun. He was a strong and consistent
liberal on matters of race during frequently grim times -- as was his wife,
Barbara.  They, although not Catholic [Barbara  was LDS], were very good
friends of Ammon Hennacy, the Catholic anarchist.  And the Clines were very
good friends over many decades of my parents. Platt and Barbara Cline would
certainly support the Native and environmental position in this current
Peaks controversy. And so, of course, would my folks.  H

                        Film focuses on SF peaks debate

                        By Noel Lyn Smith
                        Special to the Times [Navajo Times]

                        FLAGSTAFF - With Sunday's snowy weather outside,
people gathered inside Northern Arizona University's Cline Library to watch
a film about the Arizona Snowbowl and a controversial proposal to put
treated wastewater on sacred land.

                        The library was filled to near capacity for the
premiere of "The Snowbowl Effect," a documentary on the issue of using
wastewater to produce artificial snow for the Arizona Snowbowl, a 777-acre
ski area located on land administered by the U.S. Forest Service on the San
Francisco Peaks seven miles north of here.

                        Owners of the Snowbowl, strained by years of
below-normal snowfall and scarce water availability for artificial snow,
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Hunter Gray | 1 Dec 2004 17:17
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Ed's Labor Ed announcements [UALE]


LABOR EVENTS, JOB OPENINGS & ITEMS OF INTEREST
Compiled by Ed Czarnecki  czarlabs <at> comcast.net

Dec. 3 20th Anniversary of ILWU refusal to handle South Africa cargo.
7 PM  400 North Point St., San Francisco

Dec. 7-8 - Two workshops - Cornell Univ. Conf Center 16 East 14th St NYC
Public Sector Labor Relations Law in New York State &
Improving the Public Speaking of Union Advocates
Register by calling 212-340-2856 or e-mail Gene Carroll gc32 <at> cornell.edu

Dec. 10.11.12 Cuban Labor Conference, Tijuana Mexico featuring
discussions
With 5 leaders of the Confederation of Cuban Workers (CTC)
Contact Fred Lonidier  flonidier <at> ucsd.edu

Dec. 20 to April 30 George Meany Memorial Archives Silver Spring Md
Exhibit "BelleGlade" -paintings by Carol Carter of this rural Florida
town
Contact Lynds DeLoach ldeloach <at> nationallaborcollege.edu

Jan 6-9 Labor & Employment Relations Association (formerly IRRA) Annual
Meeting
Philadelphia PA  Go to
http://www.lera.uiuc.edu/meetings/Annual/2005/index.html

Jan. 15 Union member Maquiladora Tour  9 AM to 3 PM Tijuana Mexico
Sponsored by Labor Council Cross Border Educ. Comm., San Diego
Maquiladora Workers Solidarity Network and Tijuana Maquiladora Workers
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Yoshie Furuhashi | 1 Dec 2004 17:25
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Their Vacations and Ours


"Their Vacations and Ours": 
<http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/12/their-vacations-and-ours.html>
-- 
Yoshie

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dnrad1 | 1 Dec 2004 18:17
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Successful Bangla Bandh on 17 November


Published in Proletarian Era the central organ of S.U.C.I 1st. December 2004 
issue
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Successful Bangla Bandh on 17 November
People create history

The historic success of 24-hour Bangla bandh on 17 November, 2004, at the 
call of our party, the SUCI  added yet another glorious chapter in the 
annals of the democratic mass movement in India. Besides hefty increase in 
price of petro-products, the bandh was called against 12-point pressing 
issues in people's life including steep hike in power tariff and other 
anti-people policies and measures of the Central and the West Bengal 
governments. The Calcutta High Court declared the bandh illegal, the 
CPI(M)-led West Bengal government made elaborate arrangements including 
deployment of massive police force, RAF and stormtroopers. Order was issued 
for a day's salary-cut in case the government employees remained absent from 
duty. Bourgeois media unleashed a barrage of anti-bandh propaganda. But 
nothing deterred people from making the bandh a total success reaffirming, 
once again, that when toiling people rise up with firm resolve in support of 
a movement at the call of a revolutionary party, defying all odds, threats 
and intimidations of all sorts, it could become an dauntless struggle. In 
the face of this indomitable courage, spirit and initiative, the combined 
power of the exploiting ruling class - judiciary, autocratic administration, 
police-military, subservient political parties, reduced to nothingness.
Our beloved General Secretary, Comrade Nihar Mukherjee while condemning the 
latest steep hike in the prices of petrol, diesel and liquefied petroleum 
gas (LPG), third in a row, after the Congress-led UPA government assumed 
power at the Centre five months back, called upon all sections of the 
people, "...to launch an organized sustained resistance movement to compel
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dnrad1 | 1 Dec 2004 19:19
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Arafat - icon of epic Palestinian struggle


Published inProletaian Era the Central organ Of S.U.C.I. on 1st.dec. 2004

Arafat - icon of epic Palestinian struggle
The death of Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation
Organization (PLO) and President of Palestine Authority has been mourned by
freedom loving people throughout the world. He was the living symbol of the
Palestine struggle for statehood: he symbolized the aspirations of a
deprived people to live with dignity and honour in their own homeland. What
could be a more poignant pointer to the tragic Palestine situation than his
official military funeral in Cairo - a funeral of a head of state without a
state, attended by heads of states and dignitaries from many countries. And
what could more eloquently express his standing among the Palestinian people
than the mass outpouring of grief not only in Ramallah where he was later
buried, but among millions of Palestinian people scattered in West Bank,
Gaza and refugee camps in different countries.
The last ailment of Arafat or its diagnosis and treatment at the military
hospital in Paris is shrouded in secrecy. Accusations have been raised even
by his personal physician for 22 years that he was poisoned by Israel, that
he was the victim of a stealth assassination. Right or wrong - the fact
remains that reactionary Zionists in collusion with the US imperialists for
whom the struggle by the PLO headed by Arafat, was a thorn in the flesh, had
many times in the past tried to eliminate him. And one thing is clear: the
three year confinement as virtual prisoner in a few rooms in his bombed out
Ramallah headquarters under siege by Israeli military had shattered his
health. Significantly Ariel Sharon, heading the fascist Zionist regime in
Israel did not even try to hide his glee at the death of Arafat, decrying
him as a terrorist and proclaimed - in tune with US imperialist approach -
that the death of Arafat was a significant moment in the History of
Palestine, and expressed his hope that peace negotiations would advance
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tommythetraveler | 1 Dec 2004 19:24
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The U.S. Election and the Coming Socialist Revolution


Dear Sisters and Brothers of Progressive Fate:

I would like to personally thank Joel Kovel for his "The Hour of the 
Beast" http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1129-28.htm article 
because it illustrates the significance of the recent election in 
terms of what has been eating away at me before the first vote was 
cast.  There are those who on the Left like Argiris Malapanis who in 
his article entitled, "Middle-Class contempt for Workers Fuels 
Liberal Panic Over U.S. Elections" ( see 
http://www.themilitant.com/2004/6843/684302.html .) who are part of 
the problem and not anywhere near the solution. 

Kovel's article is sobering and to the point.  When discussing this 
issue with a friend of my before reading this article I recalled my 
reading in the late 1970s of Wilhelm Reich in his "Mass Psychology 
of Fascism," where Reich identified the patriarchal German family 
structure and its "armored" and sex -negative roles promoted the 
potential of masses of people submitting to the likes of an 
authority figure such as Adolf Hitler. 

During the same period a book was written by Leon Trotsky where one 
could take the two works and set by each other and each read like a 
mirror of the other. Trotsky dealing with the practical aspects of 
the German Social Democrats and the German Communist Party both mass 
parties falling victim to this "Fuhrer."  The GCP attacking just 
like Mr. Malapanis the GSD as being the greater danger and not 
joining with the German Social Democratic party in the elections to 
block Hitler rise to power.  We all know the historical outcome of 
the slogan "First Hitler than Us." shouted by Thalmann as his party
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Yoshie Furuhashi | 2 Dec 2004 07:26
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The Rise of Capitalism


"The Rise of Capitalism": 
<http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/12/rise-of-capitalism.html>
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Yoshie

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Yoshie Furuhashi | 2 Dec 2004 16:41
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"Welfare Quean"


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-- 
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Hunter Gray | 3 Dec 2004 10:30
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The strange land of North Dakota [economic breakdown, academic wars]


Fargo Forum - Dec 3 2004

NOTE BY HUNTER BEAR:

Although not everyone is going to be that interested in developments in the
far off and frequently frozen land of North Dakota, some -- especially those
in higher ed and those following  economic disasters -- will be intrigued by
this struggle.  Although three of our offspring are UND grads -- Maria,
John, and Peter -- our old time ties, through my maternal grandfather, are
with NDSU.  Josie, our youngest, is a grad of Idaho State, here at
Pocatello.

North Dakota has been in profound economic crisis for many years.  In the
last thirty and forty or so, several thousand small farmers and ranchers
have gone out of business -- their lands gobbled up by "agricultural
corporations."  There is little real industry.  As a result, the
geographically large state has been losing population and now has only about
640,000 people.  Whole communities are dying and the central and western
parts of North Dakota are literally full of ghost towns.  The vast and
beautiful Badlands and adjoining wild grasslands should be drawing tourists
but are not.  The state is off the beaten track and, in any case, has never
been adept at marketing itself.

A cruel joke goes this way:  "North Dakota just lost half its entire state
library. . .Montana won't return a book."

My great grandfather [maternal side] came into the Territory in 1870 from
Ontario to successfully and violently gobble up a very large amount of ranch
land.  Eldri's paternal ancestors homesteaded near the Turtle Mountain
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ProLibertad Campaign | 3 Dec 2004 21:12
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El Coqui Libre Dec. 2004


The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign
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This is the ProLibertad Activist Digest:

1. Antonio Camacho Negron Health Fund
2. Salsa for Freedom 2004 Dec. 11th
3. Pick up the Work: Support a Weekend for all Political Prisoners Dec.
10-11th
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ANTONIO CAMACHO NEGRON URGENTLY NEEDS OUR SUPPORT!!

Antonio Camacho Negron, a former Puerto RIcan Political Prisoner, is
extremely ill and needs our support!! Antonio has injured his wrist and has
severe gastrointestinal problems!! He needs to
undergo a biopsy and several gastrointestinal procedures!! Antonio is
unemployed and has no health insurance to cover these upcoming expenses!!

The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign is calling all our allies to give
generously to the Antonio Camacho Negron Health Fund!! This is an urgent
situation; please endorse your tax deductible donation to IFCO/ProLibertad
and write “Antonio Camacho Negron Health Fund” in the memo section, then
mail it to:

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