a critique of the march on Sandton

Chris Clarke cclarke at faultline.org
Mon Sep 2 17:15:06 PDT 2002


on 9/2/02 5:06 PM, Gordon Fitch at gcf at panix.com wrote:


> Doug Henwood wrote:
>>> I don't think the only two paths open are 1) burning down convention
>>> centers or 2) listening to blowhards drone on. No one burned anything
>>> down in Seattle. A few windows were broken, which is more than fine with
>>> me, but no one thought to castrate the Space Needle.
>
> Joe R. Golowka:
>> So, should people in Argentina stop burning banks down?
>
> It depends on what it accomplishes, materially speaking. I
> think there's a considerable danger that burning banks and
> the like may become fetishized, since they're sort of
> exciting and enjoyable in themselves. What do you do for an
> encore?

Apply for jobs rebuilding the bank.

-- Chris Clarke | Editor, Faultline http://www.faultline.org | California's Environmental Magazine



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