1999-10-05 Jan Slakov Dear RN, Here are some activists who can really show us what they’re made of – and inspire us to dare to be imaginative in our work. all the best, Jan 🙂 ******************************************************** Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 23:23:30 +0000 From: Paul Swann <•••@••.•••> Subject: Nudes, not nukes! Date: Mon, 4 Oct … Read more
1999-10-04 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, Wendell Solomon is a prolific writer on globalization issues who has contributed some interesting messages to this list. Here is his spoof of the Jubilee debt forgiveness announcement: all the best, Jan *************************************** Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 02:56:38 +0600 To: •••@••.••• From: “wendell w. solomons” <•••@••.•••> Subject: Jubilee … Read more
1999-10-04 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, James Porteous writes: Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 13:41:30 -0400 To: •••@••.••• From: James Porteous <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: Most of us just don’t get it… Sounds like a pretty damn morally logical reason to me. James At 01:14 PM 02/10/99 , you wrote: >people protesting the Viet Nam war, … Read more
1999-10-04 Richard Moore ============================================================================ From: •••@••.••• Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 14:25:22 EDT Subject: Re: rn: Jubilee success- foreign debt relief To: •••@••.••• In a message dated 10/1/99 10:58:40 AM, •••@••.••• writes: << He’s forgiving debts owed to “the United States”, which presumably has nothing to do with money owed to private US banks or … Read more
1999-10-02 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, A friend sent me this posting (below), which I bet most of us will find funny, if a bit painful as well, for it is all too true… It reminds me of a statistic I once saw, that of the people protesting the Viet Nam war, actually only 20% … Read more
1999-10-01 Jan Slakov Dear RN, Oct. 1 What are we to make of the news, below, that the Clinton administration is proposing to offer debt relief to the world’s poorest countries and that the money saved must be used for social programs? Great news, but I can’t help but be sceptical… After all, US Treasury … Read more
1999-10-01 Jan Slakov Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:29:21 -0400 From: Eric Fawcett <•••@••.•••> Subject: sfp-68: How the USA and UK trained the butchers of East Timor The shocking feature of this report from the Observer (UK) is not so much that the USA trained the butchers of East Timor, since it is well known … Read more
1999-10-01 Richard Moore 10/1/1999, Jan Slakov wrote: >What are we to make of the news, below, that the Clinton administration is >proposing to offer debt relief to the world’s poorest countries and that the >money saved must be used for social programs? Great news, but I can’t help >but be sceptical… He’s forgiving debts owed … Read more
1999-10-01 Richard Moore Dear rn, The essay about not being a ‘socialist’ sparked a number of responses, most of which are included below these remarks. Two were defenses of socialism and one suggested that “the obvious alternative to socialism is Natural Capitalism – as advanced by the Rocky Mountain Institute”. Two said the answer to … Read more
1999-09-29 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, Sept. 29 In a way I hesitate to send out yet another item about how bad Monsanto is, for this company is so bad I can’t help but wonder if it is some kind of straw man we activists are supposed to waste all our energy opposing (and neglect … Read more