[PEN-L:1672] Re: Australian unions back protest

Rob Schaap rws at comedu.canberra.edu.au
Sun Sep 10 23:11:58 PDT 2000


Vananda Shiva is kicking some fine butt! She's warning her WEF audience that these protests will get uglier and uglier if smug suits don't stop carelessly ridiculing dissidents. Capitalism, she says, is killing democracy, and if they don't know that, the people outside bloody-well do. Nice.

Wonder if that'll make the nightly news or the international press ...

Body-count so far: two in hospital with minor injuries, and two arrests - and some absolutely poisonously fuming suits (some of 'em still haven't got in, and none of those who did get in could get out for lunch - poor lambs). Reckon we'll be hearing any minute now (again / still) how such democratic expressions actually constitute a terrible threat to democracy ...

Cheers, Rob.



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