PRAGUE DECLARATION - 28 Sep 2000

[Brad DeLong]

>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

It gives them a left wing to try to use to balance the _Wall Street 
Journal_ and Strom Thurmond...

Brad DeLong