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Date: Sun Sep 07 2003 - 13:14:50 EDT
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Gloves-off hosts California recall debate and more From: editor@glovesoff.org Date: Sun, September 7, 2003 11:57 am To: glevy@pratt.edu Dear Gerald Levy, Gloves-off, our magazine devoted to political economy has an new editon on- line. We'd like to call your attention to the debate among progressive candidates for CA recall that we will be hosting on 9/11. We are asking our readers and suporters to submit questions, so that we can open some space for the many left candidates that have been totally 'forgotten' by mainstream midia. If you could circulate this among your friends and contacts at PEN-L, we would really appreciate. Yours, Claudio and Sara ============================= ONLINE DEBATE SEPT 9-11 GLOVES OFF is hosting our first ever online debate at http://www.glovesoff.org/ californiarecall_debate/, and we hope you'll get involved and email questions to the candidates (askthecandidates@glovesoff.org). We've invited third-party candidates (and a Democrat) pursuing progressive agendas in the California gubernatorial recall election to debate Gloves Off readers and each other online next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, September 9-11th. Although a number of Left candidates are running—some with a long history of progressive militancy—the mainstream media portrays the entire election as a circus. Progressive candidates are simultaneously marginalized and treated as a homogenous group—as if their views are all the same, and are therefore equally dismissible. The consequence for California voters, US citizens, and others outside the US borders is that the fundamental economic issues at the heart of California's crisis are not debated. We think Left candidates need to debate each other and take seriously the process of fighting out a progressive agenda. Otherwise, the election goes forward as if it is only a battle between the extreme right wing and the Democratic party machine, or between self-proclaimed progressive alternative, Arianna Huffington (the only candidate we invited who turned us down), and the mainstream. GET INVOLVED--Send your questions asap to askthecandidates@glovesoff.org (include your real name and city or town), and forward this email widely. To see the list of participating candidates, go to the debate page http:// www.glovesoff.org/californiarecall_debate/ We begin at 6am Pacific time on Tuesday and run 24/7 until 5pm Pacific time on Thursday, but you can send your questions and comments anytime before then or during the debate. --------------------- CONVERSATIONS We also have some new features on Gloves Off you should check out. http://www.glovesoff.org/interviews/epstein_iv_0903.html Our interview with University of California-Santa Cruz professor Barbara Epstein explores her views on the evolution of the antiwar movement, on the American component of the global justice movement, and on the role of anarchism in both. We also offer the first in a series of conversations with parties, groups and tendencies on the Left. We talk with Australian political economist Nick Beams, of the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party, about US militarism, global political economy and the anti-war movement. Along with this conversation we present a transcription of "The Political Economy of American Militarism," from a talk he gave in early July in Sydney. Interview: http://www.glovesoff.org/interviews/beams_iv_0803.html Talk: http://www.glovesoff.org/features/beams_0703.html As always, we welcome your comments, suggestions, and criticisms, Sara Burke and Claudio Puty Editors, Gloves Off: bare-fisted political economy editor@glovesoff.org http://www.glovesoff.org --
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