Dear Fraser Farell -
- this was among the best pieces on "technological innovation and what
it means for everyday life" I've read for quite a while.
One small <besides>: your Australian Maritime Union made a dang good
job using the net, web and everything, to make the dirty business of
gvt connivance with mercenary strike busters known to the world - and
it *worked*, despite of the (indeed incredible) legal restrictions to
"free speech", despite even of the international TU bureaucracy which,
at the HQ of ICFTU here in Brussels, just managed to release one - in
numbers: 1 - piece of information from their "world wide" PR machinery
on that issue. Nevertheless it worked and the MUA won, with a
decentralised, world-wide response based on rather small resources IT
of the eMail type, and the response of alert local port unions with
likewise "small" (IT) resources. Rather a "chinese" pattern.<g>
What made me (as a media worker) really angry was that none of the
EUropean or big North American media took note of the whole issue,
though this was really a test case of what's to come here too.
(Though the "Southern" media, around that part of the globe, did their
job and quite well.)</besides>
// Heimo Claasen // <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> // Brussels 1999-08-
HomePage of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.inti.be/hammer
To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message.
Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
