Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com Date: Sunday, January 24, 1999 11:19:46 AM From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] THE GREAT "TRIAL" DIVERSION by Jerry Schmidt The Senate trial of President Clnton will undoubtedly be the greatest diversion this century of public interest away from social issues that should be the object of our major concern and action. This Senate "show" will make the year long OJ trial look like a "B" movie. To enhance this drama's audience "pull" they most likely will call Lewinsky and other colorful witnesses. It's always been the job of the elected politicians and their allies in the corporate controlled media to keep the people's minds off of street organizing methods on social issues most effecting our welfare now, like homelessness, age discrimination in employment, police violence against people of color and poor people in general, the fact that 40 million full-time workers have no health insurance, and dozens of other issues of real and immediate interest to all of us. In order not to be diverted from our own organizing on daily issues that effect us NOW we must recognize diversion programs immediately and counter their propaganda with increased efforts on what WE want done. By doing this we can combat, to some degree, the elite's constant ability to command a bigger piece of the pie while we do all the work producing the goods and services of our society. While the Senate's porno show continues, right here in Los Angeles, we are being adversely affected by the economic crisis in Asia and Brazil. For example, thousands of jobs in the export-import business have been lost in the last 60-90 days in the LA area as a result of the financial crisis that started in Asia over a year ago according to a recent statement by Jack Kaiser, chief economist for the LA based Industrial Development Corporation. He states "Los Angeles is more involved in the Asia trade then any other American city. Exports here are off substantially and imports are off somewhat over last year." It took about a year for the Asia crisis to reach our shores. Now we can soon expect another hit coming from the "Brazil Problem." LA commerce is very much involved in world trade and, realistically, is effected, eventually, by economic conditions, good or bad, wherever in the world they occur! On January 13th the LOS ANGELES TIMES reported that the Bank of America will terminate another 18,000 workers. Announcements of some corporate "down-sizings" are made almost daily. The U.S.government employment figures covers up much of this by counting every worker who maybe works only a few hours a week as "employed." Also about once a year they announce that there are X million workers who are no longer seeking employment and are then categorized as "discouraged" workers and are, therefor, not counted as unemployed! You may contact the writer at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LA-AMN: Los Angeles County Alternative Media Network (all of Southern CA) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: Email "subscribe la-amn" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: Email "unsubscribe la-amn" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: Email "subscribe la-amn-digest" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Questions/Problems: Send email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- L.A. Alternative Media Network WWW Site: http://www.labridge.com/~laamn/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Want To Start Your Own List? Go To: http://www.igc.org/igc/services/ If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist/ and sign up. Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Research Intelligence League List (KRILL), please visit http://www.eGroups.com/list/krill/ and sign up. Or, e-mail krill- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the Klub Konformist at Yahoo!: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/klubkonformist ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist Free Web-based e-mail groups by eGroups.com
