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Jim Farmelant | 1 Feb 02:55
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Re: Michael Kazin pisses on Zinn's grave

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LProyect is too kind to Michael Kazin. Kazin ends his article with the
statement:
"But no work of history can substitute for a social movement."
Well, a clearer case of attacking a straw man has, perhaps, never been
written. No one, certainly not Professor Zinn, would have claimed
otherwise. However, one thing that Howard Zinn understood, is that people
are not likely to organize succesfully into social movements unless they
have some understanding of the past, including an understanding of past
social movements. And Zinn attempted to provide his reader just that with
his A People's History of the United States. What has Kazin done that is
in anyway comparable?
Jim F.
http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant

On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:18:53 -0500 Louis Proyect <lnp3 <at> panix.com> writes:
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jan/30/howard-zin
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> Kazin, like Sean Wilentz who made a snide comment on Zinn in the AP 
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> obit, have had a grudge against Zinn for a long time. The fact that 
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Shane Mage | 1 Feb 03:14
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Re: Self-service at CVS

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On Jan 31, 2010, at 9:41 AM, S. Artesian wrote:
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> French supermarkets-- Champion, etc.  introduced them awhile ago--  
> not too popular from what I observed in Paris, but then everything  
> in Paris, including waiting in line, is viewed as an opportunity to  
> engage in conversation and discussion....
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> K-Mart on Astor Place in Manhattan installed them about 5 years  
> ago-- but had to have clerks available as so many customers were  
> confused by the process-- and I think it presents a greater  
> opportunity for pilferage-- scan the low priced article, but bag the  
> high priced article.

I can't imagine Whole Foods, anti-union or not, doing such a thing.

Shane Mage
shmage <at> pipeline.com

"L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce  
qu'on y a apporté."

Bardo Thodol

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New Tet | 1 Feb 03:28

Re: [microsound] Self-service at CVS

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Louis Proyect wrote:
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> The CVS across the street has installed self-service check-out machines. 
> This is apparently the latest trend in the retail industry to cut costs 
> and boost profits. Of course, when they can clerks, that's a loss of 
> buying power. It is especially galling to have to basically do work for 
> free when I check myself out at CVS. Here's a blog article from 
> Solidarity on this:
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> http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/2350
> Self-checkouts and other capitalist inconveniences
> Submitted by Nick on August 20, 2009 - 12:52pm
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> Anyone who’s been to a supermarket within the past couple of years is 
> undoubtedly familiar with the horrible phenomenon of “self-checkout” 
> machines. [...]
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"The past couple of years"? Longer, I think; Automats, certain phone
exchanges and ATMs
being the earlier examples that I can recall (though the Automat had people
behind the coveys
constantly feeding sliced pie, sandwiches and coffee as needed and someone
out front to clean
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Jim Farmelant | 1 Feb 03:33
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Re: Self-service at CVS

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On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:41:02 -0500 "S. Artesian"
<sartesian <at> earthlink.net> writes:

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> French supermarkets-- Champion, etc.  introduced them awhile ago-- 
> not too 
> popular from what I observed in Paris, but then everything in Paris, 
> 
> including waiting in line, is viewed as an opportunity to engage in 
> 
> conversation and discussion....
> 
> K-Mart on Astor Place in Manhattan installed them about 5 years 
> ago-- but 
> had to have clerks available as so many customers were confused by 
> the 
> process-- and I think it presents a greater opportunity for 
> pilferage-- scan 
> the low priced article, but bag the high priced article.

That maybe their Achilles heel.  What the
stores might save in reduced labor costs
may be lost through increasing pilferage.
Then they either will have to hire
extra clerks to guard against theft
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New Tet | 1 Feb 03:37

Re: [microsound] Self-service at CVS

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Louis Proyect wrote:
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> The CVS across the street has installed self-service check-out machines. 
> This is apparently the latest trend in the retail industry to cut costs 
> and boost profits. Of course, when they can clerks, that's a loss of 
> buying power. It is especially galling to have to basically do work for 
> free when I check myself out at CVS. Here's a blog article from 
> Solidarity on this:
> [...]
> 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMqPMc5mQF8&feature=sub
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Greg McDonald | 1 Feb 05:22
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Colombia: Army Mass Grave discovered containing 2000 bodies

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http://www.cipcol.org/?p=1303

A tale of two headlines
Jan 28

Army mass grave in La Macarena

Miami’s El Nuevo Herald and Spain’s Público have run stories in the
past two days about a shocking find in La Macarena, about 200 miles
south of Bogotá.

Residents say that after it entered the strongly guerrilla-controlled
zone in the mid-2000s, Colombia’s Army began dumping unidentified
bodies in a mass grave near a local cemetery. The grave may contain as
many as 2,000 bodies.

Público reports:

Since 2005 the Army, whose elite units are deployed in the surrounding
area, has been depositing behind the local cemetery hundreds of
cadavers with the order that they be buried without names. …

Jurist Jairo Ramírez, the secretary of the Permanent Committee for the
Defense of Human Rights in Colombia, accompanied a delegation of
British legislators to the site several weeks ago, when the magnitude
of the La Macarena grave began to be discovered. “What we saw was
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Greg McDonald | 1 Feb 05:23
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Uribe visits Honduras

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-01/31/c_13157846.htm

Xinhua News Agency
January 31, 2010

Colombian president visits Honduras

TEGUCIGALPA: Colombian President Alvaro Uribe arrived here Saturday
for an official visit.

At a press conference at the Honduran Presidential Palace, Uribe said
his country is willing to continually strengthen cooperation with
Honduras in trade as well as the fight against drug trafficking.

Honduran newly inaugurated President Porfirio Lobo said he appreciated
Uribe's help and support to Honduras when it was in difficulty. He
also hoped the two countries will further cooperation in trade,
agriculture and forest development.

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glparramatta | 1 Feb 06:50
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What's new at Links: Haiti, population and environment, RIP Howard Zinn & Alistair Hulett, Indonesia, Cuba and S. Africa, Obama, Honduras

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What's new at Links: Haiti; population and environment; RIP Howard Zinn 
& Alistair Hulett; Indonesia; Cuba and S. Africa; Obama; Honduras

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Anthony Fenton | 1 Feb 07:21
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The Challenges of 21st Century Socialism in Venezuela

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http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/23797

The Challenges of 21st Century Socialism in Venezuela

Interview with William I. Robinson,
Professor of Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara
By Chronis Polychroniou
Editor, Greek daily newspaper Eleftherotypia

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Max Lane | 1 Feb 07:57
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Some musings on THE ROAD

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http://maxlaneonline.com/2010/02/01/film-review-the-road-directed-by-john-hillcoat/

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