Marxist Student Has Capitalist Parents

Stephen E Philion philion at hawaii.edu
Wed Mar 29 11:44:59 PST 2000


Tom, I'm not against the principle, but how is helping out trade unionists in Mexico telling people what to do?

Steve

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Tom Lehman wrote:


> Steve--I'll stand on that. I'm not for sending a new generation of ugly
> Americans to foreign countries to tell people how to live. We should take
> care of our own business right here at home, and, lead the rest of the world
> by our example.
>
> Tom
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> Stephen E Philion wrote:
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> > Tom Lehman writes:
> > Once or twice a week I get a little faxed update from George Becker called
> > a
> > "Message From Pittsburgh." George hits on the highlights of what's
> > happening
> > around the country of interest to Steelworkers. For example, on 3/26/00
> > George
> > says, Students associated with United Students Against Sweatshops are
> > beginning
> > demonstrations, rallies, hunger strikes and sit-ins on 23 major college
> > campuses
> > around the country over the next few weeks.
> >
> > Steve writes:
> > This is a nice change, last week you were mocking those who joined union
> > sponsored cross border international solidarity support exchanges in
> > Mexico. I would guess people involved in those exchanges have a hand in
> > the anti-sweatshop movement in the States?
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > Stephen Philion
> > Lecturer/PhD Candidate
> > Department of Sociology
> > 2424 Maile Way
> > Social Sciences Bldg. # 247
> > Honolulu, HI 96822
>
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