<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000>I like Yoshie's idea about the Palestinian solidarity movement attempting to forge more links with Caterpillar U.S.  workers.  In addition, I think a divestment campaign which demanded that U.S. Establishment Foundations, as well as U.S. corporate universities, immediately divest themselves of their stock in Caterpillar might be a more effective means of increasing the political pressure on Caterpillar's corporate board  to immediately end its collaboration with the militaristic Sharon regime in the Middle East.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000>Columbia Univerity, for instance, still owned over $1.3 million worth of Caterpillar stock as of October, 2002; and the unscreened multi-billion dollar stock portfolios of the Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation may also still include stock in Caterpillar.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000>Speaking of the Pro-Zionist and Militaristic U.S. Establishment's foundations, have you read Joan Roelofs' recently-published expose' of the U.S. Establishment Foundation world:  <STRONG><EM>Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism</EM></STRONG>?<EM><STRONG></STRONG></EM></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000><STRONG><EM></EM></STRONG></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000><STRONG><EM></EM></STRONG>bob<EM><STRONG></STRONG></EM></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>