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Burke: Re: Bullshit!

Forum Post, June, 07 2012 Richard Burke
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Kim is right to question Mr. Horn’s analysis. One factor that has emerged in all the post-recall post-mortems is that a fairly large majority of Wisconsin voters were completely against the idea of a recall under any circumstances, as well...

Scipes: Bullshit!

Forum Post, June, 07 2012 Kim Scipes
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I totally disagree with Steve Horn's claim that people in general are attracted to right wing populism.  He makes this claim, sounding very authoritative, but presents no evidence for it. But it's so simple--it SOUNDS good.  How...

Adamcik:

Forum Post, June, 02 2012 David Adamcik
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. Many people tend not to bother commenting after articles, but what does David Harvey think of the Parecon structure for society? Has he gave it a serious look? What are the parts of society in the Parecon model that are needing a change to vert...

Andrews: Cuba

Forum Post, June, 01 2012 John Andrews
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Great article, as ever, Medea. Just picking up on one of your points: Or consider the case of Luis Posada Carrilles, a Cuban-American living in Miami who is a known terrorist convicted of masterminding a 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that kil...

Adamcik:

Forum Post, May, 31 2012 David Adamcik
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There's no humanitarian strategy.  It's the same with the way we treat Palastinians.  We let Isreal trample all over them.  We spent over $300 million in Yemen.  With that kind of money given out, the public should have...

Quesinberry: Re: Re: Problems with consensus?!

Forum Post, May, 27 2012 Steven Quesinberry
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Understood and agreed.  The idea that we should allot "decision making power to the degree that each is affected" is a good organizing principle, but difficult to implement as it entails a lot of agreement about who is involved and ...

Marty: Re: Problems with consensus?!

Forum Post, May, 26 2012 David Marty
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Thanks for your comments. I agree with you regarding the protection of minorities. Any decision making body (work place or OWS type assemblies) should protect its minorities by giving it special prerogatives. However, if by minority we mean thos...

Quesinberry: Problems with consensus?!

Forum Post, May, 26 2012 Steven Quesinberry
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Thanks David and Stephen for posting your conversation.  I found David's comments about the nature of consensus to be insightful because the problem he mentions(ie -  that of a minority holding a the majority hostage).  This is ...

Street: First paragraph...

Forum Post, May, 24 2012 Paul Street
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...was a mess in the draft that appeared this morning so just shortened and re-wrote it.  Apologies to any readers thrown off by that bad beginning; please give it another try now!

Burke: All this and More.

Forum Post, May, 19 2012 Richard Burke
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Despite my own strong sympathies for anarchism as an ideal, or long duration goal, I think Mr. Glick is right. We can’t reasonably expect anything to change without an electoral component to our strategy. The problem is that for the last 32 ...

Howe: Canada

Forum Post, May, 17 2012 Ken Howe
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Don't forget that Canada's national system started in one small (population-wise) and fairly poor province. Once the rest of the country saw it in action, it was unstoppable.

Howe: Incredibly unjust electoral law

Forum Post, May, 14 2012 Ken Howe
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The "first past the post" system is the most widely used electoral system in the world. Canada's current government holds an absolute majority after winning less than 40% of the popular vote; an earlier majority was elected with 38.5...

Karman: evil ... and other prejudices

Forum Post, May, 14 2012 Leen Karman
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To build a boat you just have to write down the specs. But, what are the specs of Utopia? A utopia está lá no horizonte.  Me aproximo dois passos, ela se afasta dois passos. Caminho dez passos e o horizonte corre dez passos. Po...

Davidson: Many players

Forum Post, May, 09 2012 Carl Davidson
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The is an excellent article. It recognizes there are more than two players of the field, OWS and a Wall St government. And any decent strategy will have to make many 'uncomfortable' alliances. In fact, if you only have 'comfortable'...

Adamcik: Impressive Article

Forum Post, May, 05 2012 David Adamcik
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We need more of this kind of organizing.

Aronson: America's Public Relations problem

Forum Post, May, 03 2012 Sanda Aronson
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Only America (the gov't) could come up with "food insecurity" to replace "hunger" as a category. The rich have spent a lot of money in at least the last hundred years (that I have found references for) on public relations- ...

Adamcik: Re: Re: Re: May Day!

Forum Post, May, 03 2012 David Adamcik
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It was good to read the statistics again that basically tell us that half the country is poor. Is there any more of a testament that our economic system needs changing? Of course our universities are overwhelmed by the studying of arcane issues...

Morgan: Material for a new musical!

Forum Post, May, 02 2012 Ted Morgan
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Great job, and so timely! Ted

Street: Re: Re: May Day!

Forum Post, May, 02 2012 Paul Street
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Street: Re: May Day!

Forum Post, May, 02 2012 Paul Street
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Thank you John.  I write primarily for activists and that's very nice to hear. That is very interesting about the French origins of the phrase.  I have it connected with airplanes going down because that's how I remember first he...