- Original Message -
From: Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] economics and class struggle behind legal victory
What's new in this debate, Patrick, despite the important factual
information.
Can you
some further comments on *economic* human rights
(a) the recent fight led by Chavez/Venezuela can be understood as a fight
for economic human rights (the right to a decent standard of living)
(b) Canadians protesting against the killing of labour leaders by global
corporations are fighting for
http://www.econhumanrights.org/
Mission
We are a growing group of low-income activists and our allies, lawyers, and
academics outraged at living in the richest country of the world while
millions of Americans suffer and die due to economic human rights violations
such as inadequate shelter,
- Original Message -
From: Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 1:07 PM
Subject: [PEN-L] economics and class struggle behind legal victory
US has adopted much of UN law by treaty. By US Constitution,
treaties have same legal status as federal statutes.
Ergo
- Original Message -
From: Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It sounds like the web of international law is getting increasingly
interwoven.
One of SA's most active radical social movements, Jubilee, has had a bad
experience you should all know about before getting too excited by juristic
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] economics and class struggle behind legal victory
- Original Message -
From: Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It sounds like the web of international law is getting increasingly
interwoven.
One of SA's most active radical social movements, Jubilee, has had a
bad
As I had it handy, I am attaching an excerpt from the 1948 UN Declaration of
Human Rights, namely the articles dealing with economic rights. As an
example, it could be argued that anything and everything the Zapatistas have
been doing to date has been within the scope of the economic human rights
From: Chris Burford Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004
. . . snip
As for working people - working class and self-employed workers on the land
- a
more radical agenda of human rights is to their advantage, but there is a
downside in that it ultimately tends to emphasise atomised individualised
rights, . . .
Re: [PEN-L] Stunning legal victory on the "real
threat to the life of the nation"
If I am right in accepting the verdict of "Liberty"
that this is one of the biggest progressive constitutional changes in UK legal
history for a long time, to what extent is it a victory in the superstructure,
