I'm sorry. I was just looking for that email to see if I could get to the
interview and send a direct link, but I deleted the emails for the previous
week after I received it on Saturday morning. I heard it on my stream so I
don't remember how I used to access it from that email. But you might google
Robert Scheer's interview with Noam Chomsky Part 2, and see what you get.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2020 11:24 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Socialist Workers Party 2020 campaign platform
Miriam,
Somewhere there is someone who is dumber than me when it comes to following
simple directions on a computer. But that might be a protective mental game I
play in order to avoid being the dumbest kid on the block. I tried going to
the link you posted. I reached the link. Nothing I did ever opened Noam
Chomsky. By going to the link for the podcast on the Truthdig email digest, I
seemed to enter a roundhouse that took me around and around the same headings,
without ever seeing how to open the article. After becoming grumpy and surly,
and uttering unprintable curses that, had my mother been living, would have
gained me a mouthful of soap, I tossed in the towel. Funny expression, tossing
in the towel. I denounced boxing many years ago, but still use some of the old
expressions.
Ah, that helped...I'm calming down...some...
Carl Jarvis...grumble...grumble...grumble...
On 1/19/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Listen to Noam Chomsky by going to the link for the podcast on the
Truthdig email digest that I forwarded tto the list yesterday.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2020 11:49 AM
To: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
Cc: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Socialist Workers Party 2020 campaign
platform
Yes. Some good points. But that doesn't mean that we blindly embrace
the entire platform. At least I don't. My original feeling was that
it was a better platform than I'd ever seen coming out of the NRC or
the DNC. But nonetheless, in my opinion, you can't swim in shark
infested waters without being influenced by the very presence of the sharks.
What troubles me more and more is how similar the tactics of all
political parties and all candidates have become. First we are told
that a mega crisis exists, worst than anything ever before. Next we
are told that we can be saved by simply supporting the Party or the
Candidate...and sending lots of money. No one wants to discuss the
issue at hand. We are told how to feel and what to think...and where to send
our money.
And then, just to keep it all under the control of the American
Empire's political machine, we are told that if we vote for a "Third Party
Candidate"
we will be throwing our vote away.
Only the Two Heads of the Empire's Monster will save us.
Pardon me while I puke.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/18/20, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
A good platform? For the most part. However, I still remain disturbed
by that nod to Zionism.
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its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
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― Sam Harris,
On 1/18/2020 12:16 PM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
A solid platform, well worth supporting.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/17/20, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://themilitant.com/2020/01/11/socialist-workers-party-2020-cam
p aign-platform-2/ Socialist Workers Party 2020 campaign platform
article Vol. 84/No. 2 January 20, 2020
As the Socialist Workers Party prepares to launch its 2020 campaign
for president and vice president, the party has begun announcing a
series of candidates for federal and state offices across the
country (see below).
This is the SWP’s fighting campaign platform to confront the
economic, social and moral crisis caused by capitalism:
UNIONS/FOR A LABOR PARTY Support workers’ struggles to organize to
defend themselves, to use union power on behalf of ourselves and
all working people.
Workers need their own party, a labor party. One union for all
drivers — taxi, Uber, Lyft, other app-based and car service drivers!
Support farmworkers in their fight to organize unions and for safe
working conditions.
AMNESTY FOR ALL UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS in the US, a life-and-death
question for the unions to unite workers and cut across divisions
the bosses use to drive down wages. For access to driver’s licenses
for all.
JOBS Fight for a federal government-financed public works program
to put millions to work at union-scale wages building roads,
bridges, hospitals, child care centers, mass transportation and
quality affordable housing workers need. Set the minimum wage to
allow workers to have a home and support a family.
OPPOSE WASHINGTON’S WARS US hands off Iran, Venezuela and Cuba. US
troops out of Afghanistan, Korea, the Middle East. End US colonial
rule in Puerto Rico.
CUBA’S REVOLUTION — AN EXAMPLE End the US rulers’ economic war
against Cuba; US out of Guantánamo. The Cuban Revolution in 1959
showed it is possible for workers and farmers to transform
themselves in struggle, to take political power and uproot
capitalist exploitation.
HEALTH CARE FOR ALL Fight for universal, government-guaranteed
cradle-to-grave health care, and retirement income for all.
ABORTION Defend women’s right to unrestricted access to family
planning services, including the right to safe, secure abortions.
ISRAEL & PALESTINE For the recognition of Israel and of a
contiguous Palestinian state. For the right of Jews to return to
Israel as a refuge in the face of capitalist crisis, Jew-hatred and
murderous violence.
WORKERS CONTROL OVER PRODUCTION & SAFETY Capitalism’s profit drive
is the despoiler of nature and cause of unsafe working conditions.
Workers and our unions must fight for workers control over
production and safety in the factories, mines, railroads and all
energy monopolies to protect those on the job and in nearby
communities, and to control emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse
gases to prevent the poisoning of the air, water and soil.
Workers control
over production to prevent disasters like the Boeing 737 MAX.
“JUSTICE” SYSTEM Fight against police brutality, racist
discrimination and the entire capitalist injustice system with its
frame-ups, “plea bargains,”
onerous bail and outrageous prison sentences, all of which
disproportionately hit workers who are Black. For the right to vote
for ex-prisoners and all workers behind bars.
POLITICAL RIGHTS Defend democratic rights — the right to vote, to
free speech and assembly and to bear arms, under attack from
Democrats and Republicans alike. Stop FBI and other government
spying, harassment and disruption.
PRISONER RIGHTS End solitary confinement. End suppression of the
Militant, books and newspapers by prison authorities. Abolish the
death penalty, an anti-working-class weapon in the hands of the
rulers.
FARMERS — WORKERS ALLIES ON THE LAND To put a halt to farm
foreclosures, bankruptcies and skyrocketing rural debt, we demand
nationalization of the land.
This puts the soil at the service of the farmers who till it, as
opposed to control by the banks and landlords. We demand the
government guarantee farmers their costs of production, including
their living expenses.
Working people must organize and act independent of the ruling
capitalists and break from their political parties — the Democrats
and Republicans. For a labor party and a movement of millions to
fight for these demands along a course to replace the rule of the
exploitative capitalist class with a workers and farmers government.
Join the Socialist Workers Party campaign!
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― Sam Harris,