[lbo-talk] American Thought Police

[Dissenting Wren]

Lots of people who should have been better fucked over the grad students at 
Yale.  But Cronon has been at Wisconsin for quite awhile, and they have the 
longest continuous history of graduate student unionization in the country, so 
Cronon has made his peace with grad student unions.  Since the grad student 
union was prominent in the movement in Madison, and since Cronon started a blog 
that prominently defended them and the other public sector unions before he was 
targeted (or, to put it more strongly, he was targeted because his blog defended 
the unions of grad students, among others), I think we can count him on the side 
of the angels on this one.  He was wrong at Yale; he's been right in Wisconsin.

----- Original Message ----
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Sent: Wed, March 30, 2011 11:28:15 AM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] American Thought Police

On Mar 30, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:


> On Mon, 8 Mar 2011, Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
>> Also: my friend Corey Robin says that Cronon was deeply opposed to the
>> attempts of the grad students to organize a union at Yale. He's changed
>> his tune apparently, now that his ox is being gored.
> 
> Does this ox gored idea really work here?

In the sense of solidarity, yes. He wasn't there for them then, but he wants us 
there for him now.

Doug
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