slogans

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  >Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 05:59:41 -0500
>>From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>>Subject: Re: slogans
>
>>The slogan you mention -- "Capitalism?  No Thanks!  We'll burn your
>>fucking banks!" -- never resonated with me
>>...  I figure that the slogan sounded cute
>>to some, because it was clear that those who were saying it _never
>>really meant it_.  It was just radical posturing.
>
>I don't know where you have been over the last few years but
>post Seattle a lot of the demonstrations have been accompanied
>by bank burning/trashing.  Off hand this happened in Nice Dec '99,
>Prague Sept 2000 (I saw 7 banks lose their windows in about 5 minutes
>there), Genoa July 2001 and as recently as Brussles Dec 2001.
>
>Its a seperate issue from whether or not you think this is
>a meaningful action that can be understood by 'the public' but
>there is no dougbt that at least some of those chanting that
>slogan do 'really mean it'.  At least this side of the ocean.
>
>Andrew

Did anyone burn one down, though?  That would be news to me.
-- 
Yoshie

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