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Jon Flanders | 1 May 01:04
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"New" photographs of the Spanish Civil War by Capa and others released

New Works by Photography’s Old Masters
By RANDY KENNEDY
When the three weathered cardboard boxes — known collectively, and
cinematically, as the Mexican suitcase — arrived at the International
Center of Photography more than a year ago, one of the first things a
conservator did was bend down and sniff the film coiled inside, fearful
of a telltale acrid odor, a sign of nitrate decay.

But the rolls turned out to be in remarkably good shape despite being
almost untouched for 70 years. And so began a painstaking process of
unfurling, scanning and trying to make sense of some 4,300 negatives
taken by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour during the Spanish
Civil War, groundbreaking work that was long thought to be lost but
resurfaced several years ago in Mexico City.

What the center’s scholars have found among the 126 rolls over the last
several months are a number of previously unknown shots by Capa, one of
the founders of the Magnum photo agency and a pioneering war
photographer, and by Taro, his professional partner and companion, who
died in 1937 when she was struck by a tank near the front, west of
Madrid. But more surprising has been the wealth of new work by Seymour,
known as Chim, that was in the cases. Another of Magnum’s founders, he
was known not for his battle photography but for penetrating
documentation of Spanish life in the shadow of war.

full:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/arts/design/30capa.html?_r=1&ref=arts

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Juan Fajardo | 1 May 04:45
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Re: May day stuff!


A growing list of internet links to info on planned May Day events 
around the world is available at:

http://www.marxists.org/espanol/tematica/1demayo/index.htm#eventos

HAPPY MAY DAY, COMRADES!

- Juan F

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Dennis Brasky | 1 May 05:34
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SF - 1934 General Strike Laid Base for Counterculture

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> By Fred Glass
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>  These days, when San Franciscans of a certain age respond to the
> visitors' (or their grandchildren's) query, "What made San Francisco
> different?" they tend to think culture. Beat poets, flower power and Castro
> Street are instantly recognizable tropes reflecting the city's historically
> tolerant attitudes and liberal politics.
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>     But these iconic San Francisco moments and movements are actually more
> the lucky heirs, rather than ancestors, of what is uniquely San Franciscan.
> Although one might argue that the city's identification with things
> progressive arrived with the Gold Rush, its modern incarnation took form 75
> years ago in an event now fading from living memory: the great San Francisco
> General Strike.
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>     The strike established the right of working people to have a voice in
> the workplace, play a role in city politics and lead lives of dignity on and
> off the job. And it laid down the economic and political foundation on which
> the city's various countercultures could flourish.
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J.M.P.Cloke | 1 May 11:28
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Re: Benevolent Islam and the Slave Trade

Really? That's what Papa Sarty does pretty much all the 
time, and for some strange reason y'all big bull Mastodons 
of the list seem to take him pretty seriously....

Jon Cloke

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Dennis Brasky | 1 May 14:20
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Laura Carlsen - Mexico's Swine Flu and the Globalization of Disease

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> globalization. Now a potentially deadly virus has
> germinated in that laboratory, finding ideal conditions
> to move quickly along a path toward global pandemic.
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> Those conditions include: a rapid transition from small
> livestock production to industrial meat farms after
> NAFTA established incentives for foreign investment,
> the failed decentralization of Mexico's health system
> along lines established by multilateral lending banks,
> lax and non-enforced environmental and health
> regulations as the Mexican government was forced to
> downsize, the increased flow of goods and persons
> across borders, and restricted access to life-saving
> medicines due to NAFTA intellectual property monopolies
> for pharmaceutical companies.
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Dennis Brasky | 1 May 14:23
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the newest Democrat - another supporter of war, oligarchy and torture

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> So the Democrats have yet another supporter of aggressive war, oligarchy,
> authoritarianism and torture in their Senate ranks. Wow, that will certainly
> shake up the political landscape in Washington! It looks like the promised
> New Jerusalem of hope and change has well and truly arrived at last.
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> The chattering classes are all, well, a-chatter with the cosmic
> significance of the switcheroo by the aptly named Arlen Specter from the
> Republican faction of the imperial court to the Democratic faction. The
> late-life conversion of this greasy, cadaverous bagman apparently heralds
> not only a filibuster-proof majority for the Democrats
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/us/politics/29specter.html>(once they
> are joined by that guy who used to be on Saturday Night Live), but also the
> potential death of the entire Republican Party<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/us/politics/29specter.html>!
> Who knew that little old Arlen -- who has been obediently toting
> Establishment water since he devised the "single bullet theory" for the
> Warren Commission (one of the first great instances of "magical realism" in
> modern fiction) -- was such a linchpin of the American political system?
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brad bauerly | 1 May 15:23
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Interesting trade data

The fed put out National Economic Trends Report for 2008:(
http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/net/) .  I found the data on
trade rather interesting and counter the common conception (
http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/net/page18.pdf).

Goods Import Share 2008

China...........15.99%
Canada........15.89%
Mexico.........10.22%
Japan............6.59%
Germany.......4.62%
France..........2.08%
Other OECD.12.12%
All Other.......29.71%

I think most people (probably not Artesian ;) would find the fact that China
makes up less than 16% of imports and that Canada imports nearly as much
quite shocking.  Also the fact that Canada, Mexico and Japan together
constitute twice the import share of China.  Interesting as well is that the
Other OECD's share is twice as big as Germany and France combined. This
category of other is also interesting.  It would appear that it is a rather
large and dispersed group that accounts for the US's imports, contrary to
popular conception.  Food for thought.

Brad

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Louis Proyect | 1 May 15:53
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Carl Finamore: new prescription for healthy union

http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/21322

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brad bauerly | 1 May 15:54
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Crisis good for US K'ists

Looking over the recent data it strikes me that the outcome of the crisis
may be beneficial for US capitalists.  Nothing really shocking there to us,
however it is interesting to see how this was already occurring in 2008 and
to think about how we could use this politically.  This shows clearly how
their crisis will be paid for by working people, both in the US and across
the rest of the world.

Here are some examples: exports continued to grow through 2008 by 6.2%
(percent change over last year in constant dollars) while imports shrank by
3.5%.  Also, nonfarm output per hour doubled its increase over percent
change from last year to increase by 2.8%, while nonfarm compensation
decreased its percent change over the last year.

In short, people are working harder for less.  All of the doom and gloom
media about the crisis is placing real pressure on people to work harder in
an increasingly competitive labor market.  The threat of loosing your home,
your retirement fund and your source of cheap credit has worked to increase
the output per worker. The problem is that this has also lowered demand and
increased the corporate bankruptcies.  Thus, we will once again see a
consolidation of capitalist power and the renewal of US dynamism that is the
root of the US empire.  Interesting to see how this crisis will turn out to
be functional to capitalism and how this process started so early.  Also,
the complete lack of discussion of how this is taking place and the
inability of the left to put this out for public consumption/outrage and
build a movement to take advantage of the situation.

Brad

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Louis Proyect | 1 May 16:57
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Graphic adaptation of Studs Terkel's "Working"

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-oe-terkel1-2009may01,0,7643798.story
 From the Los Angeles Times
Opinion
Studs Terkel's 'Working' reimagined
A new book takes the famous book and puts it in graphic form.

May 1, 2009

Studs Terkel's oral history book, "Working," came out more than 35 years 
ago. In Terkel's introduction, he explained that the book, "being about 
work, is, by its very nature, about violence -- to the spirit as well as 
to the body. ... It is about a search, too, for daily meaning as well as 
daily bread, for recognition as well as cash. ... To be remembered was 
the wish, spoken and unspoken, of the heroes and heroines of the book. 
... I was constantly astonished by the extraordinary dreams of ordinary 
people. ... Perhaps it is time the 'work ethic' was redefined and its 
ideas reclaimed from the banal men who invoke it."

During today's difficult economic times, Terkel's words and those of his 
"workers" still resonate.

Harvey Pekar has adapted and Paul Buhle edited text from that work for 
"Studs Terkel's Working: a Graphic Adaptation." Buhle writes in the 
introduction to the new book: "Terkel's interviewing has found a 
counterpart, for the last thirty years or so, in the comics scripted by 
Harvey Pekar. The two are joined here, adapted by a dozen talented 
artists, in ... a fresh approach to the lives and labor of ordinary 
Americans."

The illustrations here by Peter Kuper are based on Terkel's interview
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