In These Times

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• • 15 Feb 06
  • 8:33 am

  Frist! (Do they do this on this site?!?!?) Anyway: I was just going to say, it seems a bit self-defeating to lobby for the right to rebuild your own homes in sub-par materials - though I agree that a ban on wooden houses must have seemed a bit harsh! Tar-paper roofs should be definitely a no-no, however. Oh yes! Shouldn't they have lobbied rather for a bit of assistance to help them build brick houses with proper roofs?? And the same goes for New Orleans today. Instead of pork for the big businesses, there should be generous grants to home-owners and …

  Posted to Katrina: After the Storm

• • 11 Feb 06
  • 7:49 am

  That's an interesting idea, wileywitch!

  Posted to Of Crafts and Causes

• • 11 Feb 06
  • 8:05 am

  Gosh, Christopher Hayes! (Love the new board format, BTW. Much clearer!) The poting board is stll a bit "teeny", though! But I mean to say... you "progressive" New Left types just LOVE your linguistics, don't you? Must be a post-modern thing. Yes, I liked the article. But... ... couldn't we have just a bit more... well maybe in another article... you don't seem to have done much on this vital issue, of strikes... something about the actual ISSUES of the strikes, linking it to OTHER labour disputes, nationwide... ideas on how workers could actually WIN these things.. and a wider background, …

  Posted to In Search of Solidarity

• • 11 Feb 06
  • 8:09 am

  Hey, wileywitch! Maybe you maean "house-elves"... like Dobby in Harry Potter, eh?? Maybe if we lived in a supernatural society we wouldn't have an underclass - not a human one, anyway! (Just a joke!)

  Posted to In Search of Solidarity

• • 11 Feb 06
  • 8:40 am

  Cabdriverinchicago... you make some good points, but are too pessimistic, overall, I feel. One must not mistake pessimism for realism! People have to direct their anger, in today's society, in the right direction!! That is the important thing! Ie - upwards - and I don't mean towards God! >< Yes, I think you're right!! People in other CULTURES, not the American one, are (currently) certainworld more into mutual co-operation than the Americans are. I'm not talking about rainforest tribes either. How about the Japanese - they have MUCH more of an ethos of "co-operation". This is shown in their very pop …

  Posted to In Search of Solidarity