Re: [pf] A note of appreciation from the rich

· I can remember Teamsters' strikes, and other large (General?) Strikes
when I was living in Ontario in the early '40s and from 1959 - 1978. But I
don't remember General Strikes on a country-wide scale recently. It strikes
me that there's quite a lot _to_ what Mike sent to PF.

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At 08:05 10/11/2001 -0800, Mike Weber sent-on {at:
http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/pfvs/2001IV/msg01055.html } :-
>
>A note of appreciation from the rich
>
>Let's be honest: you'll never win the lottery. On the other hand, the
chances are pretty good that you'll slave away at some miserable job the
rest of your life. ... we're so relieved to know that you still continue to
believe all those silly fairy tales about "justice" and "equal opportunity"
in America. 
>
> ... if everyone like you were economically secure and socially privileged
like us, there would be no one left to fill all those boring, dangerous,
low-paid jobs in our economy. And no one to fight our wars for us, or
blindly follow orders in our totalitarian corporate institutions. And
certainly no one to meekly go to their grave without having lived a full
and creative life.
> ... And even though you may sincerely want to change the way you live,
you're also afraid of the very change you desire, thus keeping you and
others like you in a nervous state of limbo. So you go through life
mechanically playing your assigned social role, terrified what others would
think should you ever dare to "break out of the mold." 
>...

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http://www.dnai.com/~figgins/generalstrike/date.html
  lists quite a number of General Strikes (mostly in smallish areas) around
the world during 1996 and 1997, then earlier:

1995, december 11 - ontario, canada

1995, november 24 - december 12 - france

1995, september 18 - philippines

1995, august 8 - turkey

1994, january - swaziland

1993, september 20 - 24 - nicaragua


  --== Note: none listed in the 1980s ==--


_1970's_

1976, october 14 - ontario, canada



_1960's_

1968 - france

1961, may 29 - 31 - south africa

_1950's_

1959, february - mexico

1953, june 16 - 18 - germany

1950, august 27 - united states

_1940's_

1946, december 3 - 4 - california, united states

1946, may 28 - new york, united states

_1930's_

1934, july 5 - ? - california, united states

1934, may 16 - minnesota, united states

_1920's_

1926, may ? - 12 - united kingdom

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http://www.iww.org/strike/title.html
  starts:

THE GENERAL STRIKE 
By Ralph Chaplin 
(Re)Published by the Industrial Workers of the World, May 1985

INTRODUCTION

Thousands of thoughtful and class-conscious workers in years past have
looked to the General Strike for deliverance from wage slavery. Today their
hopes are stronger than ever. Their number has been increased with
additional thousands who are confident that the General Strike, and the
General Strike alone, can save Humanity from the torture and degradation of
the continuation of capitalism and the misery and privation of its
recurrent wars and depressions.

The General Strike is the child of the Labor Movement. It is Labor's
natural reaction to a system of society based upon the private ownership of
the machinery of production. It is Labor's ultimate attitude in the class
struggle. It is Labor's answer to the problem of economic disorganization.

Logically enough the General Strike has become the rallying-cry of millions
of persons the world over 

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sent-on by David.
David MacClement [davd @ ihug.co.nz] (remove spaces)
http://davd.tripod.com/GrRR-011109_titles.html#top
http://www.geocities.com/davd.geo/index.html#top
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