Marxist Student Has Capitalist Parents

Tom Lehman TLehman at lor.net
Wed Mar 29 13:45:27 PST 2000


Steve--It's that nebulous word "help" that bothers me. Just look back over the last 20 years and see how much "help" we have been to the other countries of this hemisphere.:o)

Tom

Stephen E Philion wrote:


> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Stephen E Philion wrote:
> >
> > > 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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