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Roblin: AFRICOM: Washington's New Imperial Weapon
Zmag Article, September, 02 2010
Stephen Roblin
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Ongoing escalation of U.S. military activity in Africa
Roblin: Question
Forum Post, August, 29 2010
Stephen Roblin
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"By bringing people together who are involved in these activities, centers lead to faster adoption of this way of life, both because it becomes socially normative and because of the practical advantages of learning that are possible in a c...
Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Triumph of hope over experience -- for which side?
Forum Post, June, 19 2010
Stephen Roblin
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Let me first say that as an anti-capitalist I would love to reject cap-and-trade in favor of a carbon tax. But I can't for reasons touched on below...I don't think Hahnel's argument assumes that for cap-and-trade to reduce CO2 emissions we have to...
Roblin: Alternative Interview Format
Forum Post, June, 18 2010
Stephen Roblin
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Have you considered sending your questions to Chavez (or one of your contacts close to him) so that he can provide written responses? That way you could avoid trying to schedule a meeting time with him. Perhaps you could turn the interv...
Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Triumph of hope over experience -- for which side?
Forum Post, June, 18 2010
Stephen Roblin
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Before I respond to some of your comments, I recommend checking out Hahnel's previous papers on the topic. http://www.zcommunications.org/has-the-left-missed-the-boat-on-climate-change-by-robin-hahnel-1My point of disagreement is that cateri...
Roblin: Re: Triumph of hope over experience -- for which side?
Forum Post, June, 17 2010
Stephen Roblin
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Of course an "englightened and agitating populace" will be required for any climate treaty to avert cataclysmic climate change in an effective and fair manner. The point I believe Robin Hahnel is making is: if we are agitating for "...
Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Re: Zcom Referrals
Forum Post, May, 18 2010
Stephen Roblin
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"ZCom would be ten times more valuable, actually, to each user and Sustainer, if each put in just a little more time, doing some posting, making friends, preparing a page and showing it to others, etc."One of the first things I noticed a...
Roblin: Re: Re: Zcom Referrals
Forum Post, May, 18 2010
Stephen Roblin
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I think you're right that providing give-a-ways for referrals starts to look like a market transaction. I'm just wondering if there's a way to encourage more promotion by sustainers being that we're in a better position to vouch for ho...
Roblin: Zcom Referrals
Forum Post, May, 18 2010
Stephen Roblin
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You're appeal worked on me. I'm going to up my sustainer contribution. I've recommended Zcom to other activists in the Baltimore area. In fact, I have a few people who I'm encouraging to seriously consider becoming a sustainer.But have y...
Roblin: Re: taxes
Forum Post, April, 21 2010
Stephen Roblin
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You're right that its perfectly reasonable for Americans not to be enthusiastic about paying taxes. But I think Chomsky was referring to "functioning" democracies, not the so-called democracy we have, which is a farce.
Roblin: Re: Re: Re: As correct as most of this is,
Forum Post, April, 21 2010
Stephen Roblin
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My former high school students would refer to this phenomenon as "hating."
Roblin: Re: As correct as most of this is,
Forum Post, April, 20 2010
Stephen Roblin
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So you have no critiques based on actual evidence of what Chomsky put forth here. That said, if your goal is to convince others that Chomsky is a "gatekeeper," how about showing some respect for people's intelligence by providing a litan...
Roblin: Re: Public Financing of All Elections
Forum Post, April, 20 2010
Stephen Roblin
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Richard,I agree that supoporting ballot initiatives should be part of an overall strategy. However, I'm not sure how much such reforms resonate with average Americans, particularly those, as Chomsky demonstrates well, who have real grievances but ...
Roblin: Reimagining Society
Forum Post, March, 26 2010
Stephen Roblin
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This may be an interesting entry for the Reimagining Society project. Have you considered doing that?
Roblin: Reimagining Society
Forum Post, March, 26 2010
Stephen Roblin
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This may be an interesting entry for the Reimagining Society project. Have you considered doing that?
Roblin: Reimagining Society
Forum Post, March, 26 2010
Stephen Roblin
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This may be an interesting entry for the Reimagining Society project. Have you considered doing that?
Roblin: Reimagining Society
Forum Post, March, 26 2010
Stephen Roblin
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This may be an interesting entry for the Reimagining Society project. Have you considered doing that?
Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Strong Piece...
Forum Post, March, 25 2010
Stephen Roblin
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Moving beyond differences on whether or not to apply a nosepin, a large "campaign of DIRECT ACTION" was unfortunately not present in Baltimore. I take partial blame for this of course. So many of us were focused on other area...
Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Re: Strong Piece...
Forum Post, March, 24 2010
Stephen Roblin
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Michael -- First, I think extending medicaid is a good thing. And judging from people's satisfaction with various government programs, such as medicaid, social security, and so on, we will likely have to make a choice in the future: increase taxes...
