Sierra Club On It's WTO Activities

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Dec 17 13:00:52 PST 1999


J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:


> Ah, but the protests by those in LDCs involve
>different issues than those that were brought forth
>in Seattle, right? I have yet to hear or see anybody
>either here or on pen-l answer why it is that all the
>issues raised in Seattle favor US interests rather
>than LDC interests. Nobody. Period.

Let me make this perfectly clear, as some guy used to say. If I were speaking, I'd be speaking very slowly.

What you claim were the "issues raised in Seattle" are at best a subset of the actual issues raised in Seattle. At worst, they bear no resemblance to the issues raised in Seattle. To put it bluntly, you have no idea what you're talking about. You appear to know nothing or nearly nothing about the labor movement, the environmental movement, or the anti-WTO/anti-IMF movement. You sound like Economist staff writers, only they can write funny photo captions.

Doug



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