> This may sound completely crazy, but I have this idea about
> creating the "Coalition Against Credit Reporting". It would be a
> campaign against credit reporting that reduces many of us Americans
> to virtual 21st century serfs.
No, it's not crazy -- actually, now is the right time to get a coalition against credit reporting agencies going. Credit reporting agencies recently rejected ACORN's and other consumer rights organizations' request that they help hurricane victims by taking "a pre-Katrina credit score snapshot of all residents in the affected areas" (Bob Sullivan, "Next Storm for Katrina Victims: Bad Credit Score," <http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9614434/>, 7 Oct. 2005)! See, also, "Subprime Mortgage Industry Sandbags Katrina Victims": <http:// www.acorn.org/index.php?id=9751>.
BTW, today is Michel Foucault's birthday. WWFD about credit reporting, a perfect example of surveillance?
Yoshie Furuhashi <http://montages.blogspot.com> <http://monthlyreview.org> <http://mrzine.org> * Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/mahmoud- ahmadinejads-face.html>; <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/chvez- congratulates-ahmadinejad.html>; <http://montages.blogspot.com/ 2005/06/iranian-working-class-rejects.html>