> . . .
> Or they can send me a roundtrip plane ticket to D.C. so I can give a seminar
> on Hours of Work to the Economic Policy Institute (I'm sure Max will let me
> billet at his place for free, as long as I don't eat too much cabbage and
> beans). Preferably the ticket will be routed so I ca
Max Sawicky wrote,
>He wouldn't get a grant for that. Too much lead
>time required. If he could do it in 2,000
>installments, it might get syndicated. I'm
>thinkin multimedia, Internet, Java scripts
>for little balloons that pop up. "Click here
>for solution to transformation problem."
And
At 04:15 PM 1/14/98 -0800, Tom Walker wrote:
>If that's what you want, Wojtek, your course of action is clear: do nothing.
>The system is already partially or completely dysfunctional.
examples follow.
It is a tempting proposition, but I am a bit uneasy about the do nothing
part. It is not o
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote,
>My idea was to subvert that system altogether, introduce elements that
>would render it partially or completely dysfunctional. Otherwise, I would
>have titled my project the 'Reformer Cookbook for the 21st Century.'
If that's what you want, Wojtek, your course of actio
At 12:53 PM 1/14/98 -0800, Tom Walker wrote:
>Sometimes I get the impression that leftistes are more wedded than anyone to
>institutionalized financial support for political/educational work -- as if
>a board, a bureaucracy, and a charitable tax number (in other words,
>legitimization in the eyes
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote,
>I agree, however, I also think college trained professionals can do more
>than just exposing superficial class peace and providing "leadership." The
>latter sound suspciously like the traditional aspirations of the middle
>class. We can do much more than that: provide
At 02:18 PM 1/13/98 -0500, Dick Platkin wrote:
>So, knowing that severe economic and political crises will appear, in the
U.S.
>and elsewhere, shouldn't we be ahead of the curve? Shouldn't we now
undertake
>the political organizing necessary to make sure that future crisis don't
>present squander
