[lbo-talk] Re: Corporate vs. street level peace

[joanna bujes]

At 07:43 AM 04/08/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Back at the street level we continued our food search.  At that point the
>kids were chasing each other with the signs and doing back-walkovers and
>handsprings on the grassy patches as passing cars and pedestrians showed
>their support for peace...and the signs.  We finally made our way to
>Detroit's Greektown for gyros, souvlaki, and avgolemono where the small
>businesses happily greeted us and our peace signs.  In the end a shopper in
>her 60s asked if she could have one of our peace signs...sure we said also
>giving her a peace pin for her coat.

The folks who do the food service in my 25 floor corporate building (which 
houses Sun Micro and Kaiser permanente) are from Palestine. After the 
second intifada started, we got to talking and they became aware of my 
pro-Palestine politics. Since then it has been a constant battle: either 
they won't let me pay for food or if I insist on paying, they give me HUGE 
portions. They're wonderful people, but it's hard to stay polite and keep 
my figure. :)

Joanna