> In her own small way, Chavez was a part of the very sanctuary movement that
> I'm sure she deplored. In her speech (delivered with her typical elitist
> charm) Chavez spoke of sheltering the woman in question from the "turmoil"
> in Guatemala. Of course, the main culprits behind the "turmoil" were not
> mentioned, and doubtless Chavez thought she was saving the woman from
> communist terror. In any event, Chavez did what the Right denounced
> throughout the 80s. At least she let the woman clean her house.
>
>
"At least she let the women pay clean her house." ???!!!
This was a case of rank, intimate, one on one exploitation. Chavez, with a very substantial income, had a live-in housekeeper for two years, and paid her what she felt like when she felt like doing so. Zoe Baird -- who Chavez condemned in public on the McNeil Lehrer newshour for hiring an "illegal alien" at the very same time she was using this woman in this relationship -- paid a real salary, just no Social Security. It is bad enough that Chavez presents this all as an act of "charity"; do we have to compound it by talking about it as if her self-serving description is accurate?
Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass --
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