Reparations -- Yes? (was Re: Joy In Horowitzville)

Patrick Bond pbond at wn.apc.org
Thu Mar 22 12:43:08 PST 2001



> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 06:52:14 -0500
> From: Gordon Fitch <gcf at panix.com>
> Yoshie Furuhashi:
> > How many LBO-talkers are actually working on this campaign?
> Reparations are liberalism.

Not in this part of the world. Some of SA's best radical activists -- as well as leading liberation theologians -- are very committed to a campaign to pay back the society for profits made by corpos and banks during apartheid.

When they ask LBO comrades to picket Citi branches in solidarity, there'll be no resistance, right? Watch this space in August when Durban hosts the UN Racism conference, which Thabo Mbeki hopes like hell does not get hit with reparations demands, and September 2002 when Jo'burg hosts the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio+10), when Citi's new skyscraper, next to the main meeting hall, gets a toyi-toyi...



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