WTO Stands For "Worship The Oligarchy"

[Patrick Bond]

Sure is. We just had Oscar Olivera visiting us in Jo'burg; he's leader of
the movement there. Jim Shultz and Tom Kruse help translate this to the US.
I think Jim's web is http://www.thedemocracycenter.org or something similar.
In the new books on water by Vandana Shiva and Maude Barlow/Tony Clarke, you
get more of this story.

A great battle, terrific resistance, and a formidable battle now to drive
Bechtel out of the courts, where they're asking for $25 mn in damages for
being booted out in April 2000.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Pollak" <mpollak at panix.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: WTO Stands For "Worship The Oligarchy"


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> On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Mark Ames of The eXile was quoted as saying:
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> > The WTO might also force the Russians to privatize their water;when this
> > happened in Bolivia, citizens were forbidden by law even from collecting
> > rain water on their roofs without a permit from Bechtel.
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> Is this true?
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> Michael
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