http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159713 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== We remember how the neoconservatives will solve warfare as a way to out American softness and recover the noble heroism associated with past military victories. Here is a snippet from the post-Civil War period, which adds an interesting twist: the editorial in question makes a distinction between the ethic of warfare and the sordid moneymaking at the time. Today, the presumptive ethical basis of both the military and the moneymaking crowd deserve our highest admiration, even though the moneymakers are engaged in warfare against the same people that the military is supposed to be protecting. 94-5: "The fervor with which Americans practiced the rituals of Memorial Day began to fade in the late 1870s and early 1880s. Graceful popular ceremonies," declared The New York Tribune in May 1878, no longer fit in a society characterized by "the pioneers of the prairie and the speculators in railway stock." Bitterness had waned, and as "individual sorrow for the fallen fades away," said the Tribune, Decoration Day "gradually loses its best significance." By 1880, the same paper editorialized on how Decoration Day had "become coarser and more blurred" in its meaning, and how it had fallen into the "slough of politics." In the Gilded Age, the Tribune claimed that the truly "loyal" would continue to honor the Civil War dead, but also make every "effort to put out of sight the causes of the war, the hate and bitterness which we thought immortal." At stake now was the next generation and the social and moral order. Civil War memorialization should not be used for political purposes among the children born since the war, claimed the Tribune, but the sacrifice of soldiers should very much be used as lessons in morality and patriotism. "The days they [postwar children) have been born in are not heroic," declared the Tribune, "they are full of fraud, corruption, bargain, and sale. Men are not pushing to the battlefield to die for an idea; they are pushing into place." As an antidote to America's "sordid expertness in money-getting," the editors spoke for a large cross-section of the culture that now looked to the Civil War dead, as well as to living veterans, as the alternative to their unheroic age, as sources of honest passion, higher morality, something "noble and true ... kept for our children." </pre> michael perelman 2012-05-25T16:29:46 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159712 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/25/black-bloc-anarchists-and-state-terrorism/ http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/25/libya-africa-and-africom/ ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Louis Proyect 2012-05-25T16:07:59 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159711 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-25/jpmorgan-gave-risk-oversight-to-museum-head-who-sat-on-aig-board.html ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Louis Proyect 2012-05-25T15:58:55 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159710 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/05/2012521151225452634.html ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Louis Proyect 2012-05-25T15:56:35 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159709 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== THE LEAST OF ALL POSSIBLE EVILS: HUMANITARIAN VIOLENCE FROM ARENDT TO GAZA BY EYAL WEIZMAN PUBLISHED: 28 May 2012 ----------------------------------- “Originality, ingenuity, and brilliance do not even begin to do justice to this amazing study, this architectural forensics of battle and human rights as pieced together from the study of the ruin and the terrifying logic of “the lesser evil”. How astonishing to see our new world this new way.” Michael Taussig, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University ----------------------------------- EVENTS: May 29, 2012, 7pm LONDON REVIEW BOOKSHOP 14 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL Eyal Weizman will be discussing his new book with Paul Gilroy, Professor of Social History at the LSE, who has said, “Eyal Weizman's work has become an indispensable source of both insight and guidance in these difficult times. He understands the evolving dynamics of war and sovereignty better than anyone.” For more information: http://www.versobooks.com/events/454-eyal-weizman-on-humanitarian-violence June 6, 2012, 7.00pm The MOSAIC ROOMS A.M. Qattan Foundation Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road London SW5 0SW UK Eyal Weizman appears at The Mosaic Rooms to talk about his new book on the principle of the “lesser evil” and its political consequences, The Least Of All Possible Evils. For more information: http://www.versobooks.com/events/437-eyal-weizman-the-least-of-all-possible-evils ----------------------------------- The principle of the “lesser evil”—the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice—has long been a cornerstone of Western ethical philosophy. From its roots in classical ethics and Christian theology, to Hannah Arendt’s exploration of the work of the Jewish Councils during the Nazi regime, Weizman explores its development in three key transformations of the problem: the defining intervention of Médecins Sans Frontières in mid-1980s Ethiopia; the separation wall in Israel-Palestine; and international and human rights law in Bosnia, Gaza and Iraq. Drawing on a wealth of new research, Weizman charts the latest manifestation of this age-old idea. In doing so he shows how military and political intervention acquired a new “humanitarian” acceptability and legality in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. ----------------------------------- PRAISE FOR THE LEAST OF ALL POSSIBLE EVILS “Eyal Weizman’s work has become an indispensable source of both insight and guidance in these difficult times. He understands the evolving dynamics of war and sovereignty better than anyone.”Paul Gilroy, Professor of Social History, London School of Economics “This is a wonderful book, written with clarity, precision, and passion. It takes the reader into the heart of contemporary necro-politics and calculations of “lesser evils” by powerful states and their humanitarian accomplices. Deeply learned and informative on every page, this is essential reading for anyone who cares about contemporary conditions of warfare and state-controlled violence; about the spatial practices that reinforce and regulate systemic forms of violence, such as the calculation of minimal requirements for human survival. In the spirit of Doctors Without Borders, Weizman is an architect without borders, at home in political philosophy, military history, just war theory, and the spatial systems of controlled, calculated violence that constitute Israel–Palestine, and much of the world today.” W. J. T. Mitchell, Professor of English and Art History, University of Chicago PRAISE FOR HOLLOW LAND “The most astonishing book on architecture that I have read in years.” Edwin Heathcote, FINANCIAL TIMES “Eyal Weizman brilliantly deconstructs Israel’s yoking of traditionally humanist disciplines and discourse to the service of its campaign against the Palestinians. This book is chilling but essential reading.” Ahdaf Soueif “A masterpiece of political analysis.”
James Ron, The NATION “Eyal Weizman has taken Edward Said’s thesis to a new level, generating extraordinary, and at times surreally uncomfortable, conclusions…Weizman’s book is of salutary interest.” Jay Merrick, INDEPENDENT “ Weizman takes his readers on a tour of the visible and invisible ways in which Israel implements its control over Palestinians... Hollow Land is eloquent about the architectural chaos and confusion created by Israel in the Occupied Territories. ”
 LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS&lt;http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n15/yonatan-mendel/imagined-territories&gt; “A passionate jeremiad.”
– HARPER’S “Weizman’s rigorous account makes it possible momentarily to conceive of... built environment as a tool of liberation.” FRIEZE ----------------------------------- EYAL WEIZMAN is Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he directs the Centre for Research Architecture and the European Research Council funded project Forensic Architecture. He is also a founder member of the collective Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) in Bethlehem, Palestine. He is the author of HOLLOW LAND and co-editor of A CIVILIAN OCCUPATION. He lives in London. ----------------------------------- ISBN: 978 1 84467 647 7 / $26.95 / £16.99 Hardback / 208 pages ----------------------------------- For more information about THE LEAST OF ALL POSSIBLE EVILS or to buy the book visit: http://www.versobooks.com/books/532-the-least-of-all-possible-evils ----------------------------------- Visit Verso’s website for information on our upcoming events, new reviews and publications and special offers: http://www.versobooks.com&lt;http://www.versobooks.com/&gt; Sign up for the Verso mailing list: https://www.versobooks.com/users/sign_up Become a fan of Verso on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Verso-Books/205847279448577 And get updates on Twitter - &lt; at &gt;VersoBooks http://twitter.com/VersoBooks __._,_.___ Reply to sender&lt;mailto:Versomail&lt; at &gt;verso.co.uk?subject=Re%3A%20New%20from%20Verso%3A%20Least%20of%20All%20Possible%20Evils%20by%20Eyal%20Weizman&gt; | Reply to group&lt;mailto:marxistphilosophy&lt; at &gt;yahoogroups.com?subject=Re%3A%20New%20from%20Verso%3A%20Least%20of%20All%20Possible%20Evils%20by%20Eyal%20Weizman&gt; | Reply via web post&lt;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/marxistphilosophy/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJwcm42djUxBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI1OTkzOTcEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDE2MDYxBG1zZ0lkAzczOTEEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDcnBseQRzdGltZQMxMzM3OTU4ODQw?act=reply&amp;messageNum=7391&gt; | Start a New Topic&lt;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/marxistphilosophy/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJlMWwxaDZoBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI1OTkzOTcEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDE2MDYxBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA250cGMEc3RpbWUDMTMzNzk1ODg0MA--&gt; Messages in this topic&lt;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/marxistphilosophy/message/7391;_ylc=X3oDMTM0YXNhODBqBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI1OTkzOTcEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDE2MDYxBG1zZ0lkAzczOTEEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDdnRwYwRzdGltZQMxMzM3OTU4ODQwBHRwY0lkAzczOTE-&gt; (1) Recent Activity: Visit Your Group&lt;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/marxistphilosophy;_ylc=X3oDMTJlbHBoN2gxBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI1OTkzOTcEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDE2MDYxBHNlYwN2dGwEc2xrA3ZnaHAEc3RpbWUDMTMzNzk1ODg0MA--&gt; [Yahoo! 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They stood outside the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse and announced that their case, Warren v. City of New York, had been settled. They had dropped their lawsuit against the city and the NYPD officers who had beaten and arrested them five years ago.* * Early in the evening of June 21, 2007, the Warrens were driving in Brooklyn, when they saw police chasing a young man into a McDonald’s parking lot. The cops tackled the youth, handcuffed him, threw him to the ground, and began kicking him in the head. The Warrens pulled over, got out of their car, and respectfully asked one Sergeant Steven Talvy of the NYPD Street Narcotic Enforcement Unit why he and his officers were battering someone who was obviously helpless.* * Now at the press conference, Tarif Warren, with his usual soft-spoken dignity, describes how Sergeant Talvy yelled at them to “get the ‘F’ back in your vehicle, stay the ‘F’ out of our business.” The Warrens got back into their car.* * But, says Tarif, “because the police weren’t wearing identification or badges, we started taking down license plate numbers of what we thought were police vehicles. Sergeant Talvy saw us, came over, and began to punch me on the left side of my head, bursting both my lips. When my wife asked why he did that, he punched her in the jaw. Then he yanked me out of the vehicle with such force that he ripped all the buttons off my shirt and ripped the entire left pants leg of my suit. He slammed me up against the vehicle, handcuffed me, and shoved me in a police van, injuring my shoulder and my head. Something that will always be with me is the wild rage I saw in Steven Talvy’s eyes. Evelyn and I knew that if I had made one slight move, we would not be here today.”* * Tarif and Evelyn were charged with resisting arrest, obstructing government administration, and disorderly conduct – offenses carrying seriously penalties. But after a year of court dates, prosecutors dismissed the charges, confessing to the judge that they had no evidence.* * New York City, while admitting no wrongdoing in the settlement, awarded Evelyn and Tarif $360,000. And so a traumatic event upending the Warrens’ lives is resolved. Life for Evelyn and Tarif can return to normal. Right?* * Have I mentioned that the Warrens are African American? Did I need to? Do you need to ask the race of the youth whose beating they tried to stop?* * China Miéville’s book, The City and the City, takes place in two cities occupying the same geographical space. One city is upscale and thriving; the other, in decline. What keeps the cities inviolably separate is the conscious perception, sculpted from birth, of their citizens. To travel between cities without a permit is worse than criminal; to be in both at once, unthinkable.* * In New York, New York (they had to name it twice) there are also two cities.* * On one hand is the city of Normal. Normal residents assume that, though unfairness may exist, their world is basically all right. Normal life allows one to ignore or “unsee” the city of Pogrom.* * Pogrom, on the other hand, runs on fear and a paranoiac onslaught of police and the courts against mostly brown or black people. Pogrom operates impersonally, under the cool, reptilian assumption that atrocities are a useful way to manage a dangerous population. Pogrom’s stop-and-frisk practices, its beatings and arrests coexist alongside the hardworking, god-fearing people of Normal, who, given the benefit of the doubt, are simply trying to live their lives.* * On June 21, 2007, the Warrens chose to transgress boundaries: they live now in both cities at once, without a permit.* * At the press conference, Evelyn and I talk. “To witness Sergeant Talvy beating my husband, who was offering no resistance and doing nothing wrong,” she says, “has taken a mental and emotional toll on me. I’m no longer as open or receptive to people. I don’t nurture my relationships. It’s like I’ve gone into a shell.”* * Though relieved the case is officially over, Evelyn describes how disheartened she is that the NYPD hasn’t changed; that, after the incident, Sergeant Talvy was even promoted to lieutenant. In fact, Talvy and his officers were in court last week for jury selection, before the case settled.* * “It was like they were at a ball game, laughing, kidding around like they had no real concerns. It’ll sound crazy, but the defendants’ table was behind ours, and it was just killing me that if we went to trial, Talvy would be sitting behind me.”* * Later, I describe this case to a friend. He’s seen a clip of the press conference on TV news; he’s clearly upset that these upstanding people were treated unjustly. But when I mention two black men, Ramarley Graham and Kenneth Chamberlain – an 18-year-old in the Bronx and a 68-year-old in White Plains – who were recently shot to death in their own homes by police, my friend backs off a little.* * “It’s always been this way,” he says, trying to Normalize the situation. “Maybe it’s worse under Kelly and Bloomberg, but things have always been this way.”* * Tarif and Evelyn came of age during the era of civil rights and Black Nationalism. Different as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were tactically, they shared a conviction in an inherent human goodness. They believed things don’t have to be this way.* * That’s why Evelyn talks about “remaining vigilant.” “In spite of what’s happened to us,” she says, “I hope, if we were confronted with the same situation, we’d do the same thing.”* * The point is, you usually don’t realize which city you live in until something like this happens to you.* * “What they want is to frighten people so no one stops and bears witness,” Evelyn adds. “If people have the courage to say, ‘No, what you’re doing is wrong and I’m not going to move on,’ then maybe one day, something will change.”* * Then maybe one day, we will all live in the same city.* *** *** * © Susie Day, 2012***** ** ** ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Ron Jacobs 2012-05-25T14:29:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159707 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== After letting my book languish for almost five years Palgrave let The Confiscation of American Prosperity, they are about to release a paperback edition. In addition, they are featuring me as author of the month and reprinting my new introduction, which I explain why the book was constructed as a crime story. My picture and the introduction are at the bottom. http://view.mail.macmillan.com/?j=fe5816787c6d057f7316&amp;m=feee1c737d6c02&amp;ls=fdd015717762057b7511777465&amp;l=fe5c1575746d01757512&amp;s=fe3010727564037b731171&amp;jb=ffcf14&amp;ju=fe1f1773716d027b721777&amp;r=0 </pre> michael perelman 2012-05-25T04:06:06 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159706 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== Anitra Nelson, Montreal In Occupy-style, they are pop-up and pop-out protesters on Montreal's streets. http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51124 </pre> Stuart Munckton 2012-05-25T03:07:12 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159705 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== Historically speaking, Chicago, as a major 1çth/20th century industrial centre has a long history of police brutality against left-wing activits. Haymarket square bomb plot in the 1880s, democratic convention in the 1960s, and now three so-called "black block anarchists" are being tried for terrorism (let me guess, that must entail something like 10 years prison in the US ?). The evidence must consist in something like a few glass bottles and a jerrycan of petrol. Or what the police will describe as "bomb making equipment". I'm not familiar with the case but I can guess where all this is heading. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> dan 2012-05-25T00:58:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159704 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-is-running-a-massive-spying-campaign-on-the-occupy-movement-2012-5 </pre> Stuart Munckton 2012-05-25T00:56:57 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159703 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== As usual, one has to start, in such missives, by condemning the so-called "black block". So here goes: "the Black Block is doing harm to the cause of proletarian self-empowerement by indulging in acts of violence which lead working-class people to angrily dismiss them when they see them on their TV screens." For example, booing during a demonstration of wounded Iraqi-war veterans while they throw their medals at the security forces is both insensitive and counter productive. So is breaking the shop-windows of McDonald's and Subway outlets or, for that matter, lobbing molotov cocktails inside the lobbies of local Goldman and Sachs offices. And for the past twenty years, the "Black Block" has served pretty well as a reminder of how powerfull the state apparatus is and how disorganized the organized working class, i.e. the revolutionary unions, are. The wealthy can destroy pretty much anything that isn't making enough profit, but the Black Bloc boogyman better not break a Golden Arch window. The sight of a Ronald McDonald Clown spraypainted is just too much to bare for the average Joe. And as for the Black Block themselves, well they are invariably portrayed as inarticulate, jobless (according to the latest OCDE report an alarming 40% of under-26-year-olds are unemployed globally) youngsters from a middle-class background. They are confused about their motives, apparently, since they continue to believe that their trashing of a few banks will inspire the working-class to imitate them and engage in sabotage. But come on ! Let's get real ! Whatever way you look at it, capitalism as a system is going through a period of long-term depression since 2008. One of the main characteristics of Capitalism since its inception (the Dutch ? The English ?) is concentration of power, wealth and status. I would actually argue that this is the main attribute of a system in which the vast majority possesses nothing but their work force while a small minority possesses the means of production. But anyway, the antics of the "Black Bloc" have no impact whatsoever on the current direction Capitalism as a mode of production is heading towards. NONE WHATSOEVER. They are of course being used by the media as reminders of "what NOT to do" (smash a Goldman and Sachs office, loot an Apple store or burn down a Coca Cola Corporation subsidiary) but that doesn"t mean the "99%" are not secretly enjoying the "spectacle". They will still go to work from 7am to 5pm and pray they can get an extra job somewhere. They will still refrain from asking for a rise, "given the present state of the economy". And the portrayal of the Black block in the media will not change their voting habits. In conclusion, this whole "Black bloc" obsession within LEft-wing groups, fearthful that attempts by civil society to engage in powerfull mass action will be ruined by those idiots, is silly. A mass of people who are really fed-up with being paid squat and having to pay for everything really doesn't give a shit about a few broken shop windows. As a European, I think anger is steadily rising towards the point where nothing makes much sense anyway. Not in France and Germany, not yet, but in Greece, Italy and Spain certainly. So stop focusing on the Black Bloc for heaven's sake. Their puny efforts are not the main reason why the working class is still so apathetic. Their so-called "violence" is not what is keeping millions of workers from taking to the streets. A few daring shouts here, a few broken windows there, five or six burning vehicules (great photo op), a nonsensical media apparition condeming both red meat and capitalism, a youtube shot of a black-clad activist getting the shit beaten out of him by speacial riot police in full gear. That is all the Black Bloc amounts to because of their perenial refusal to organize (as in ORGANIZE, i.e. engage in the slow, open, frustrating, day-to-day work of convincing workers to join a union and fight for their rights). Black bloc folk imagine that they are the only true free men combatting opression, and that everybody else has sold out. We all lack balls, we all lack the will to put our lives on the line, we all lack the will to put our money where our mouth is, to walk the walk, we are all pussies and turncoats, and only they, the local "Black Block" have the guts to smash an ATM machine while cameras are rolling. From what I have experienced in France, when a large General Strike involving millions of workers starts blocking the economy, blocking major freeways, oil depots and railway nodes for a period of weeks, building barricades and burning stacks of raw materials so that a plummet of smoke covers the entire industrial park, the vandalizing of a few symbols of consumerism (which does occurr) becomes completely overlooked by the media. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> dan 2012-05-25T00:37:16 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159702 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== Truth and Revolution: Michael Staudenmaier talks on the Sojourner Truth Organization Founded in Chicago in 1969 from the rubble of the recently crumbled SDS, the Sojourner Truth Organization (STO) brought working-class consciousness to the forefront of New Left discourse, sending radicals back into the factories and thinking through the integration of radical politics into everyday realities. Through the influence of founding members like Noel Ignatiev and Don Hamerquist, STO took a Marxist approach to the question of race and revolution, exploring the notion of "white skin privilege," and helping to lay the groundwork for the discipline of critical race studies. Michael Staudenmaier is a twenty year veteran anarchist and student of revolutionary movements and a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Illinois. Truth and Revolution: Video 1 of 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhrZpZLGDgA Truth and Revolution: Video 2 of 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1AspXPWLMQ ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Douglas Greene 2012-05-24T19:32:40 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159701 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== NY Times Op-Ed May 23, 2012 Our Not-So-Friendly Northern Neighbor By LAURENCE BHERER and PASCALE DUFOUR Montreal WHEN Vladimir V. Putin first came to power in Russia, Quebecers could not help but laugh. Poutine, as he is called in French, is also the name of a Québécois fast-food dish made of French fries, gravy and cheese. But these days the laughter is over, as Quebec gets a taste of Mr. Putin’s medicine. For a change, Americans should take note of what is happening across the quiet northern border. Canada used to seem a progressive and just neighbor, but the picture today looks less rosy. One of its provinces has gone rogue, trampling basic democratic rights in an effort to end student protests against the Quebec provincial government’s plan to raise tuition fees by 75 percent. On May 18, Quebec’s legislative assembly, under the authority of the provincial premier, Jean Charest, passed a draconian law in a move to break the 15-week-long student strike. Bill 78, adopted last week, is an attack on Quebecers’ freedom of speech, association and assembly. Mr. Charest has refused to use the traditional means of mediation in a representative democracy, leading to even more polarization. His administration, one of the most right-wing governments Quebec has had in 40 years, now wants to shut down opposition. The bill threatens to impose steep fines of 25,000 to 125,000 Canadian dollars against student associations and unions — which derive their financing from tuition fees — in a direct move to break the movement. For example, student associations will be found guilty if they do not stop their members from protesting within university and college grounds. During a street demonstration, the organization that plans the protest will be penalized if individual protesters stray from the police-approved route or exceed the time limit imposed by authorities. Student associations and unions are also liable for any damage caused by a third party during a demonstration. These absurd regulations mean that student organizations and unions will be held responsible for behavior they cannot possibly control. They do not bear civil responsibility for their members as parents do for their children. Freedom of speech is also under attack because of an ambiguous — and Orwellian — article in Bill 78 that says, “Anyone who helps or induces a person to commit an offense under this Act is guilty of the same offense.” Is a student leader, or an ordinary citizen, who sends a Twitter message about civil disobedience therefore guilty? Quebec’s education minister says it depends on the context. The legislation is purposefully vague and leaves the door open to arbitrary decisions. Since the beginning of the student strike, leaders have told protesters to avoid violence. Protesters even condemned the small minority of troublemakers who had infiltrated the demonstrations. During the past four months of protests, there has never been the kind of rioting the city has seen when the local National Hockey League team, the Canadiens, wins or loses during the Stanley Cup playoffs. The biggest demonstration, which organizers estimate drew 250,000 people on May 22, was remarkably peaceful. Mr. Charest’s objective is not so much to restore security and order as to weaken student and union organizations. This law also creates a climate of fear and insecurity, as ordinary citizens can also face heavy fines. Bill 78 has been fiercely denounced by three of four opposition parties in Quebec’s Legislature, the Quebec Bar Association, labor unions and Amnesty International. James L. Turk, the executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, called Bill 78 “a terrible act of mass repression” and “a weapon to suppress dissent.” The law will remain in force only until July 1, 2013. The short duration says it all. It amounts to a temporary suspension of certain liberties and allows the government to avoid serious negotiations with student leaders. And it grants the authorities carte blanche for the abuse of power; just hours after it passed, police officers in Montreal began to increase the use of force against protesters. Some critics have tried to portray the strike as a minority group’s wanting a free lunch. This is offensive to most Quebec students. Not only are they already in debt, despite paying low tuition fees, but 63 percent of them work in order to pay their university fees. The province has a very high rate of youth employment: about 57 percent of Quebecers between the ages of 15 and 24 work, compared with about 49 percent between the ages of 16 and 24 in the United States. Both Quebec and Canada as a whole are pro-market. They also share a sense of solidarity embodied by their public health care systems and strong unions. Such institutions are a way to maintain cohesion in a vast, sparsely populated land. Now those values are under threat. Americans traveling to Quebec this summer should know they are entering a province that rides roughshod over its citizens’ fundamental freedoms. Laurence Bherer and Pascale Dufour are associate professors of political science at the University of Montreal. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Louis Proyect 2012-05-24T16:53:32 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159700 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== Obama’s Bain Backers “Okay, it's all a drop in the bucket compared to the $2.5 million given to Romney's campaign or Restore Our Future, the super PAC supporting him, by employees of Bain Capital . . .” http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/05/obamas-bain-backers.html Bear Market For Wall Street's Contributions “The [securities and investment] industry is only the fifth-most generous to Barack Obama's campaign, which has never come close to matching Romney's totals in this realm.” http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/05/bear-market.html ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Jeff Goodwin 2012-05-24T16:19:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159699 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== See also this detailed account of their shenanigans: http://chicago.indymedia.org/node/927 re their disrespect for the vets' moment of silence, aside from their tactical stupidity (or worse), I now see they have no comprehension of the working-class nature of the ranks of the military and the historical importance of vets' political role. On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Louis Proyect &lt;lnp3&lt; at &gt;panix.com&gt; wrote: ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Andrew Pollack 2012-05-24T15:55:36 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159698 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== http://www.thenation.com/article/168028/orlando-figes-and-stalins-victims ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Louis Proyect 2012-05-24T15:53:44 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159697 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/441-occupy/11562-cut-it-out-an-open-letter-to-black-bloc-anarchists ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Louis Proyect 2012-05-24T15:49:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159696 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== Many many thanks for all your excellent suggestions!! Best, Irene ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> knallgrau< at >gmx.com 2012-05-24T04:10:08 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159695 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== "Tragically for Palestinians, Zionism requires the state to empower and maintain a Jewish majority even at the expense of its non-Jewish citizens, and the occupation of the West Bank is only one part of it. What exists today between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is therefore essentially one state, under Israeli control, where Palestinians have varying degrees of limited rights: 1.5 million are second-class citizens, and four million more are not citizens at all. If this is not apartheid, then whatever it is, it’s certainly not democracy. " http://nyti.ms/JWhp5P </pre> Joseph Catron 2012-05-24T00:56:46 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159694 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== A few notes on the solidarity actions that occurred yesterday here in New York. It was a really positive day. http://www.salon.com/2012/05/23/dissent_a_la_quebecoise/singleton/ http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/05/new_york_holds.php ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Andrew Battle 2012-05-24T00:02:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159693 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/23/10-things-you-should-know-about-the-quebec-student-movement/ ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Louis Proyect 2012-05-23T22:46:16 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail