> on the other hand, but also workers of the key industries such as oil
> and electricity, while opposed to privatization of oil and the like
> and capable of making economic demands, appear unable or unwilling to
> use their power to help end the occupation.
> --
> Yoshie
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While I'm sypathetic to the larger argument made, as a trade unionist I find
it impossible to oppose a job action for one's physical personal safety. In
fact Shia laborers and tradespeople of various industries have been
terrifically high on the recent insurgency hitlists, and many skilled
workers from the Sunni community seem to have wound up dead with holes
drilled in them and stuff. My comrade from 1199 OH who devoted his rare
days off to legwork for bringing Iraqi unionists on a speaking tour to meet
with shopfloor leaders of our local about the war, remains penpals with the
union activists (whoever is still alive and present in the federation, I
guess)--- and it sounds like they aren't crazy about the role of
fundamentalist religion in the resistance to occupation. Ironically, I
think these folks are in the same international grouping as solidarity.
Realpolitik always depends on which side of which gun one is on at any one
time I guess.
If france (bizzare alternate reality here) invaded the US and the arkansas baptists were running the resistance, I'd be for the resistance (frogs out), but wouldn't relish the thought of handing out water bottles at a nurse picket line for better staffing in little rock. Then again, we, the frogs, need to go, period. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20070319/f85cd60c/attachment.htm>