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Thanks, John. Encouraging.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . (I've put a short, edited version below.)
At 19:04 23/03/99 -0800, John Gear wrote:
>A hopeful account and an encouragement to act on it.
>
-----Forwarded-----
>>Focus on the Corporation column (c) Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
>>
>>The Mayor of Palermo, Sicily, Leoluca Orlando, was in Washington,
>>D.C. the other day, telling reporters how the citizens of his fair city
>>led a cultural revolt against the Mafia. ...
>>
>>After especially brutal Mafia executions of two Sicilian judges, one
>>citizen scrawled anti-mafia signs on a bedsheet and hung it from her
>>window. Then others joined in. The "Committee of the Sheets" was formed.
>>
>>The bedsheet protest caught on until the vast majority of city
>>residents were hanging bedsheets.
>>
>>The populists didn't let up until the Mafia's grip on the city was broken.
>>
>>Orlando was touring the United States earlier this month,
>>inviting fellow activists and reporters to come to Palermo in June to
>>attend a conference on democracy and the rule of law.
>>
>> ... 100 years ago, US citizenry viewed corporations as
>>soulless, amoral, sometimes evil conglomerations of capital.
>>
>>As Roland Marchand ... makes clear in: Creating the Corporate Soul
>> ... for all the legal
>>legitimacy that the courts bestowed upon corporations at the turn of the
>>century, corporations "conspicuously lacked a comparable social and moral
>>legitimacy in the eyes of the public."
>> ...
>>Cultural historian Thomas Frank concludes: "And so, thanks
>>to the management team, a century of labor struggle
>>has been swept away. The world of business is the world, period.
>>There's nothing outside of it. Get as mad as you want --
>>the pizza trucks are standing by."
>>
>>In the face of this corporate onslaught, some may want to throw in
>>the towel. We'd rather reach for the bedsheet.
>> ...
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