I just hope the permanent convergence center is a tad more, er, hygenic than the temporary one.
This is what democracy *smells* like.
------Original Message------ From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Sent: June 23, 2000 7:05:17 PM GMT Subject: Re: Naomi Klein: DC, Seattle, organizational culture
Alex LoCascio quoted Naomi Klein:
>In an attempt to build a stable political structure to advance the movement
>between protests, Danaher has begun to fundraise for a "permanent
>convergence center" in Washington. The International Forum on
Globalization,
>meanwhile, has been meeting since March in hopes of producing a 200-page
>policy paper by the end of the year. According to IFG director Jerry
Mander,
>it won't be a manifesto but a set of principles and priorities, an early
>attempt, as he puts it, at "defining a new architecture" for the global
>economy.
God save us from petit bourgeois intellectuals with a sweatshop fortune to spend.
Doug
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