I actually know the person who wrote that VERY well
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad On Friday, November 27, 2020, 4:50 PM, Patrick Bond <[email protected]> wrote: On 11/27/2020 4:21 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/26/former-world-bank-president-james-wolfensohn-dies-at-86.html Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, May 1 2001 (IPS) - World Bank President James Wolfensohn Monday extolled the Communist government of President Fidel Castro for doing “a great job” in providing for the social welfare of the Cuban people. Yikes Louis, this was a very rare moment of sanity. Here are some articles I did, about why from 1995-2005 he helped generate a very powerful movement to shut down the Bank by defunding it (the World Bank Bonds Boycott). Bernie Sanders endorsed it. I remember picketing outside Wolfy's house in Kalorama at 6am on April 15, 2000 with Soweto activist Trevor Ngwane and revo poet Dennis Brutus (who would have been 96 tomorrow) - and the next day there were 30 000 protesters. Here's a short film about that struggle, featuring Wolfy sniggering about letting the U.S. Treasury continue (forever) to have veto power over whatever the Bretton Woods Institutions were up to. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#3990): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/3990 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/78547719/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
