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> [Max - good to see you guys recycle!]
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> "But criticism of the street warriors [in Seattle] was not confined
> to the corporate custodians of 'free-market' commercial morality.
> Here was the line-up on this important battleground. On the one side:
> lib-lab pundits, flacks for John Sweeney and James Hoffa like the
> Nation's Marc Cooper, Molly Ivins and Jim Hightower, middle-of-the
> road [sic] greens, Michael Moore, a recycle binful of policy wonks
> from the Economic Policy Institute and kindred DC think-tanks, Doug
> Tompkins (the former czar of sweatshop sports clothing who funds the
> International Forum on Globalization. On the other side: the true
> heroes of the Battle in Seattle - the street warriors, the Ruckus
> Society, the Anarchists, Earth First!ers, anti biotech activists,
> French farmers, radical labor militants such as the folks at Jobs
> With Justice, hundreds of Longshoremen, Steelworkers, Electrical
> Workers and Teamsters who disgustedly abandoned the respectable
> police-sanctioned official AFL-CIO parade and joined the street
> warriors at the barricades in downtown."
>
> - Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair, 5 Days That Shook The
> World: Seattle and Beyond (Verso, 2000).
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Death to hero rhetoric. Where's the mention of the Filipino frarmers, the kids who skipped out from the area high schools, the UW students, the Evergreen Students, the Seattle Central Community College students, Radical Women yaddah yaddah yaddah......
Ian