Interesting news. I left the States for Europe two weeks after the first election of George Bush. Here in Spain almost everyone who is not a large business owner considers him or herself a "worker". I´ m not a member of a union but my contract as an executive secretary for a large, multinational insurance firm was written according to a "convenio" established for workers in the insurance industry . white and blue collar. I´ve learned the difference between intellectual deconstructionism and what really was happening in 1968. When somebody is called a fascist here in Spain it´s because he really …
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I am writing as an expatriot American in Europe. The beating of pots and pans mentioned above is a good idea. The ritual took place for half an hour every night in the cities of Spain, for weeks, even months, in protest against the war in Irak. The right wingers and the left wingers, the grandmothers, the small children beat the pots and pans on their balconies. The motorists honked their horns in solidarity and the news media put it on the news every night. The street protests were enormous, over a million in Madrid and Barcelona - again, right and …
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