I suggest you go through the website and its links like 'whocontrolsthe
world.com' to see this film's potential in this particular political
conjuncture. Personally, I like the paternalistic Northern quote of
Jefferson on the latter: "Every generation needs its own revolution." ;-)
michael
On 21/08/2008 3:14 PM, ravi wrote:
On Aug 21, 2008, at 6:02 PM, michael a. lebowitz wrote:
You can get a good sense of the movie from the account of the story
by stuart townsend. Organising around this definitely beats babbling
about elections./m
http://www.battleinseattlemovie.com/
With respect, I disagree. There is not a lot of value to babbling
about elections -- that I can agree with. But the claim of the above
movie, that Seattle "changed the world" (a claim made by Chuck on LBO,
especially as a contrast to other forms of activism, without much
substantiation) is to me at best a paternalistic "North"ern one. The
world hasn't changed much for those affected by the WTO/IMF/etc.
Seattle was a positive event, no doubt, and a small achievement too
(in that it was successful, in comparison to similar protests such as
the ones during the Republican convention in 2004, etc). But it was
not, even in a scaled down version, comparable to say the Gandhian
independence struggle or the Dravidian movement (to mention two that I
have personal knowledge of).
--ravi
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