Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Wed Dec 19 11:07:00 PST 2001


----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>


> Marta Russell wrote:
>
> >And this from Ralph Nader " At Citizen Works, we remain focused on
> >building citizen participation in power to advance justice." and
> >then a list of goals the last of which is:
> >
> >10. Strengthen investor-shareholder rights, remedies and authority
over
> >managers and officers and boards of directors so that those who own
the
> >companies also control them.
> > http://www.citizenworks.org
> >
> >hmmm ...excuse me but isn't it investors who demand the highest
> >returns (profits) on their investments. Don't the CEOs and
managers
> >work for the investors? Are investors going to reverse the damage
> >on people and the planet by having more control over management?
> >Hell no, they are Wall Street.
>
> Wow. Thanks for pointing this out. Ralph moves from the petit
> bourgeoisie to promoting the interests of big rentiers, while using
a
> rhetoric of democracy. Nice trick.
>
> At least they've got a prominent disability rights component.
>
> Doug

==============

Blame Robert Monks.

Ian



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