PRAGUE DECLARATION - 28 Sep 2000

[Jim heartfield]

In message <p0433010fb5fe7e75c688@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood
<dhenwood at panix.com> writes
>Jim heartfield wrote:
>
>>I'm not so sure. The press often denounce protests that are, for all
>>that, no direct challenge to the powers-that-be.
>
>They didn't complain much about the fuel protests, did they?

Well, yes some did, like the Guardian, third largest quality daily,
which denounced the oil protesters as reactionaries (which indeed they
were), but carried articles sympathetic to the Prague demonstrators.

You seem to be strangely indifferent to the open welcome that World Bank
president James Wolfensohn has given to the demonstrators: calling on
them to get involved. I see that he was debating Walden Bello. Can you
imagine Ronald Reagan debating Chomsky, or Margaret Thatcher debating
Arthur Scargill on a public platform?

I'm pretty sure that this is one opposition that the World Bank is glad
of.
-- 
James Heartfield

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