1 Great Housing Opportunity on WS of Manhattan
2 Demonstration and Petition vs FBI Repression
3 Re: March for Democracy -- Isabel Thompson
4 Re: Who to write about 'One Nation' -- Mark Solomon
5 Re: ELLE Lightens Most Beautiful Woman -- Malaika Horne
6 Re: American Exceptionalism Unveiled -- Martin Morand
7 Vermont Lawmakers Lay Groundwork for Single Payer

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Subject: Great Housing Opportunity on WS of Manhattan

The waiting list for studio, 1 bdrm and 2 bdrm
apartments in St Martins, a Mitchell Lama coop on the
Upper West Side of Manhattan (90th and Columbus) has
opened -- briefly. Applications must be received by
February 4, 2011. A lottery will be held; the winners
of the lottery will be placed on the coop waiting list.
(The list was last opened 17 years ago.) People who
need and who support affordable housing are strongly
encouraged to apply.

Studio income range $15K-$63K; carrying charge range
$385-494. One bdrm income range $19K-$89K; carrying
charge range $468-609. Two bdrm income range
$22K-$107K; carrying charge range $550-$761.

To enter the lottery, send a postcard to:

for studio apt: POB 583, NY, NY 10159
for 1 bdrm apt: POB 595, NY, NY 10159
for 2 bdrm apt: POB 599, NY, NY 10159

The postcard must include name and address, clearly
printed. Only postcards sent by regular mail will be
accepted. Only one request per applicant is permitted.

Number of applicants selected by lottery is limited to
125 for studio apts, 250 for 1 bdrm and 250 for 2 bdrm
apts. Only winners of the lottery will be notified of
lottery results. A $200 application fee ($50
nonrefundable) will be required from winners to be
placed on the waiting list.

Requests must be received by February 4, 2011. Equal
housing opportunity. Supervised by the NYC Dept of
Housing Preservation and Development.

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Stop FBI Repression! End the Raids, Grand Jury, and
Infiltration of the Movement

Come out in solidarity with the nine newly subpoenaed
activists who are being called before a secret grand
jury in Chicago on Tuesday January 25. Protests are
taking place on Jan. 25 across the country and around
the world. Hundreds of organizations and thousands of
people will be protesting at Federal Buildings, FBI
offices, and other appropriate places.

*A GRAVE ATTACK ON OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES *

Tuesday January 25th is the National Day of Action*
Against FBI and Grand Jury Repression

4:30-6:00pm -- Protest outside FBI offices at 26
Federal Plaza in Downtown Manhattan (Broadway side)

6:00-6:30 -- March to the Justice Department at 1 St.
Andrew's Plaza (on the East side of Foley Square and
Centre St., South of Pearl St.)

For more info and to sign the petition, visit
www.StopFBI.net

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From: Isabel Thompson
Re: March for Democracy

How very encouraging ! So newsworthy, yet where is it
on our news?

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From: Mark Solomon
Re: Who to write about activating 'One Nation'

In response to the article "Whither One Nation?" there
were inquiries about where to send requests for the
reactivation of "One nation Working Together."

Here are three addresses that will get the ball
rolling.

Bill Lynch -- [log in to unmask]
George Gresham -- [log in to unmask]
Jokata Eaddy -- [log in to unmask] (Special Assistant
tot the President of NAACP)

Thanks to all who asked.

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From: Malaika Horne
Re: ELLE Lightens Most Beautiful Woman in the World

Yes, Indian-Asians are a lot like us. Poor us and
them.

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From: Martin Morand
Re: American Exceptionalism Unveiled

Professor Wolff is obviously correct in his expose of
the false promises (and false premises) of American
Exceptionalism. The really exceptional thing about
American "democracy" has been its roots in America's
"peculiar institution" - slavery - and the continuing
effects of segregation and institutionalized racism.

But, as a historian Professor Wolff needs to say a bit
more -- about, "Since the 1970s, most US workers
postponed facing up to what capitalism had come to mean
for them."

What led to this "snooze"? How come US workers
passively "sent more family members to do more hours of
paid labor... borrowed huge amounts..." exhausted
themselves, stressed "family life to the breaking point
in many households", and took on "unsustainable levels
of debt"? Did it have anything to do with the Cold War
and the support for it on the part of most of the
leaders of the US labor movement.

The foregoing is unfair. I can't expect the good
professor to explain everything in one brief newspaper
article. Perhaps he will favor us with another.

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Vermont Lawmakers Lay Groundwork for Single Payer

Sam Stein
HuffPost Reporting
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/19/vermont-lawmakers-single-payer_n_811177.html

First Posted: 01/19/11

WASHINGTON -- Vermont officials are beginning what
promises to be a provocative push for a statewide
single-payer health insurance system that would take
the place of President Barack Obama's signature health
care law, the state's lone congressman said Wednesday.

Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) told The Huffington Post that
his state's local and national lawmakers were "looking
to get a waiver" so as to formally opt out of the
federal system. Conversations have begun as to how an
alternate health care policy might look like should the
waiver be granted, Welch said.

"Vermont is very supportive of moving towards single-
payer, you have the entire congressional delegation you
have the governor who ran on the platform of single-
payer and the legislature is very sympathetic to
single-payer," he said.

According to Welch, the state's governor, Democrat
Peter Shumlin, was receiving a report on Wednesday from
one of the architects of Taiwan's single-payer system,
which would help inform a proposal tailored for
Vermont.

Under the current law, however, Vermont would have to
wait until 2017 to get the waiver that would allow the
state to set up its own system.

"It doesn't make sense to have it be 2017 because by
then the federal law has gone into effect," Welch said.
"You are setting up the exchanges and what you end up
doing is having states that want to innovate -- in our
case single-payer -- have to unwind what we put in
place."

Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Scott Brown (R-Mass.) have
introduced legislation to move the opt-out date up to
2014 -- an amendment that both Welch and, it appears,
House Democratic leaders support.

"This whole state opting out, there is a lot of
precedent for this," Assistant House Minority Leader
James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said in a meeting with bloggers
and new media reporters on Wednesday. "And I don't know
why nobody focuses on it, but if you go back and look
at Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, you would
find some very interesting language that allows states
to opt out of the coverage of that act. I happened to
run the agency in South Carolina that because of the
law we passed in 1972, South Carolina was allowed to
opt out of that section of the Civil Rights Act so law
as the state law was substantially equal to the federal
law. And I think that is the whole concept of states'
rights. "If you are going to come up with a state law
that will give coverage to the citizens that is
equivalent to the federal coverage, what's wrong with
opting out?" Clyburn added. "We had that discussion
around the table when we talked about putting this bill
together, I kept using that term, 'substantially equal
to the federal law.'"

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