I'm afraid that "speaking very slowly" when one wishes to respond to somebody by telling them that they don't know nothin' about nothin' is pretty pathetic. I agree that you have presented some good evidence about more general international organized labor support for demanding that the WTO push labor standards (which I am for, btw).
But, you have failed to provide any evidence for any of your other claims. It is fine to say that people in Seattle are part of a bigger movement or that they all have fine thoughts about how wrong US policies are. But, it remains very bizarre that all the policies that anybody brought up publicly in Seattle involved, again, I am speaking VERY SLOWLY now, only policies where some poor foreign country was the alleged offender against either a US domestic law or the demand of a US-based special interest group were protested. I fully sympathize with the annoyance of Third World trade ministers (yes, I know, by definition all compador capitalists) when confronted with one-sided rantings about sea turtles, etc. in the streets of Seattle. Barkley Rosser -----Original Message----- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Friday, December 17, 1999 4:24 PM Subject: Re: Sierra Club On It's WTO Activities
>J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:
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>> 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.
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>Let me make this perfectly clear, as some guy used to say. If I were
>speaking, I'd be speaking very slowly.
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>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.
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>Doug
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