Mark Ritchie comments...

[Jeffrey St. Clair]

Actually, I think Mark Ritchie is missing quite a lot, mainly because he spent
so much time inside. I and many others have written extensively on the
solidarity shown at the frontlines by Ecuadoran enviros fighting rainforest
destruction and giant dam building schemes, Korean farmers and enviros, farmers
and biotech activists from France, Ireland and Canada. Ritchie spent a lot of
his time in the International Media Center harassing the French and the
Ecuadorans for smoking. Solidarity, indeed, but please don't smoke on my
parade.

Doug Henwood wrote:


> I forwarded the latest Cockburn/St Clair salvo to Mark Ritchie of the
> Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis, who says:
>
> >"I am struck by the conscious ignoring or ignorance of all of the thousands
> >of people who were there from the rest of the world, both North and South,
> >who were active on both the inside and outside of the meetings and who
> >eventually brought them to a stop. Unless I am missing something, no one
> >here seems to be trying to understand what actually happened."
>
> Doug