Human Rights in China

[Thomas Kruse <tkruse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:15 PM 11/11/1997 -1000, you wrote:

>In Hawaii China's human rights violations is a favorite pet cause of
>liberals who fashion themselves to be quite progressive.  This to me is
>particularly problematic, not because China does not have a human rights
>problem, but because one would like to think that activists in the States
>would want to give their time and energy to raising awareness about (much
>graver) violations of human rights in countries that do not appear on the
>front page of the NYT as topics of human rights discourse (Indonesia,
>Turkey, Israel...).

.... or the conditions of US Jails for that matter.  Or -- pardon me for
blowing open the boders that define discussion of human rights --
democratizing Fed policy.  I remember a group of US activists in Bolivia in
the late 1970's who asked a leader of the Central Obrera Boliviana what
could be done to show solidarity with working people in Bolivia.  His answer
was "get interest rates under control at your central bank". Needless to
say, his suggestion was not followed up on.

Tom

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