On 6/30/06, Doyle Saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Greetings Economists,
I thought this an interesting quote.
On Jun 30, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Disgustingly, a good chunk of American liberals and leftists rely upon
> exactly the same vocabulary.
>
Doyle;
I follow Nussbaum here. The feeling of Disgust is about an emotion
that is not social.
Frankly, I don't want to socialize with the aforementioned chunk. I
used to think differently about that, but I don't have time for that
any more.
Secondly, While Yoshie sounds like she doesn't believe things will
happen,
For the time being in the United States, no. How long "for the time
being" will be is anyone's guess.
I would point again to the massive immigration protests.
I went to several immigrant rights protests. The protests did block
the Sensenbrenner bill, a major achievement. But native-born workers,
even Blacks, other than Latino leftists were largely uninvolved. Can
Latino leftists build a durable and growing movement out of the May
Day boycott? It would be interesting to see that. Anyone planning to
attend this?
National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conference
Friday - Sunday July 28-30, 2006
American University
Washington, DC
<http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/>
Yoshie thinks the Iraqi's are beaten, I don't think so. They have
actually won for themselves and for us a lever to power.
Except the Iranians, Venezuelans, and other Latin Americans, no one is
taking advantage of US immobility due to the Iraq quagmire.
Like Nussbaum again, I think any organization
that is not dominated by women is out of the question. Since women
don't respond to male oriented issues one is left with the obvious,
what does a woman dominated global movement look like?
Most women respond to issues that aren't seen as "women's issues," all
the time, because many women are smart enough to see class and gender
implications of ostensibly gender-neutral issues. Men are on the
average politically dumber than women, so they tend not to see class
implications of issues that are presented as "women's issues."
--
Yoshie
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