I delivered an address to the officers, staff,and organizers of the
United Electrical Workers (UE) in Wilkes Barre, PA. this morning. I
thank those of you who commented on a draft of my talk. Your comments
were most useful to me. The talk was a great success and generated a
long discussion. Thes
>On my way home I couldn't stop thinking about Dolan. I can't see how a
>radical movement, one aimed at worker self-emancipation could ever be
>led by such a person. Perhaps others can enlighten me on his good
>qualities, but I was very much unimpressed.
>
>Michael Yates
Of course, the 1960s ant
At 10:36 PM 4/3/00 -0400, Michael Yates wrote:
>I went to the meeting early so I could hear the other presentations. The
>first speaker was Mike Dolan of Seattle WTO protest fame.
Mike Dolan runs an outfit called Global Trade Watch that is a wing of Ralph
Nader's Public Citizen. Since Dolan's Ch
I suspect that it is a mistake to regard Ralph Nader as entirely good or
entirely bad. He has done some excellent work. For example, I suspect -- but
he should speak for himself -- that Patrick Bond appreciates Nader's work about
the drug companies in South Africa.
At the same time, Nader has m
