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

[Diane Monaco]

At 09:44 AM 4/8/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>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. :)


:))))  Well you know Joanna, as Gilda Radner's Roseanne Rosanna-Danna would 
say, "It just goes to show you that it's always something!"  But hey, how's 
their Arabic food?

Diane