From: Gerald A. Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Mon Feb 23 2004 - 08:34:47 EST
----- Original Message ----- From: "Editor Gloves Off" <editor@glovesoff.org> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 10:53 PM Subject: Gloves Off -- One Year Old On February 15 we put up Gloves Off's first birthday Manifesto -- http://www.glovesoff.org/inthering/manifesto_2004.html. One year ago on February 15 -- after an all-nighter to assemble and publish to the web Gloves Off's very first web page -- we were in the frigid New York streets saying "NO" to the war the US government was about to set in motion against Iraq. In the past year we've tried to present a range of critiques and analyses of the most pressing political and economic events. We reprinted the transcript from George Caffentzis's February 2003 talk at ABC No Rio, in the NYC lower east side, "No Blood For Oil: The Political Economy of the War On Iraq." We also interviewed George regarding his views on OPEC, oil, and the root causes of the conflict. We worked with an American journalist and activist -- Sonya Knox -- based in Beirut to introduce and reprint an article on "George Orwell's America: 1984 Today," from the March 2003 issue of the Lebanese underground magazine "Al-Yasari" (the Leftist). We reported from Joseph Stiglitz's spring 2003 poverty workshop at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs and plan to bring our readers a major feature on the state of poverty and inequality studies in the upcoming months. We wanted to engage with ATTAC and so interviewed ATTAC-involved political economist/social theorist Jamie Morgan on "The Upside World of Neoliberal Economics." We also talked with political economist Nick Beams, co-editor of the "World Socialist Web Site," about his views on US militarism, global political economy, the anti-war movement, and where to go from here. And we interviewed cultural historian Barbara Epstein about the potential for meaningful convergence between the global justice movement, the antiwar movement, and traditional labor organizations in the US. Now editors Claudio Puty and Sara Burke are pleased to announce that we have expanded our editorial collective and are excited to be working with Paul Cooney, Joseph Smith, and Melissa Mahoney on the mission we outline in our manifesto. We're calling for a global year of economic and political education, and we're urging global justice and anti-war activists to move beyond activism as an end in itself and organize to educate the movement in the tools, theories and history of political economy. We hope to be a meaningful part of this educational mission! We have a lot of plans for the coming year. We plan to put out the collective's first new set of features on March 20, the next global day of action the global justice/anti-war movement is calling for. Please spread the word, forward this email to your friends, associates, and comrades, and get involved. In solidarity, the new Gloves Off collective: Sara Burke Paul Cooney Melissa Mahoney Claudio Puty Joseph Smith Gloves Off: bare-fisted political economy http://www.glovesoff.org editor@glovesoff.org subscribe@glovesoff.org
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