[PEN-L:484] Privatizer Milton Friedman Gets Pie In the Face

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> Subject: Privatizer Milton Friedman Gets Pie In the Face
> Date: 10 Oct 1998 08:50:42
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> CONTACTS:  Al Decker (for statements) and Priya Reddy (for videotape) at
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> Nobel Laureate Economist Milton Friedman Gets Pie In the Face At Corporate
> Conference
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> San Francisco ? Economist Milton Friedman was pied in the face on Friday
> night at a conference he organized on the privatization of public
> education. The incident occurred on October 9,  at approximately 6:30 PM,
> immediately before former Secretary of State George Schultz was to deliver
> the keynote address to the conference titled, "School Choice and Corporate
> America."
>
> ³When it comes to defending the Earth from the corporate criminals, the
> pie¹s the limit!² said Al Decker, 27 year-old pie-thrower and concerned
> citizen.
>
> Decker approached Friedman while he was glad-handing a crowd of supporters,
> said "Mr. Friedman, it's a good day to pie!" and flopped the tasty coconut
> creme pie in his face.
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> ³We hold Milton Friedman responsible for crimes against the people by
> organizing this appalling conference, calling for the privatization of
> public education. Mr. Friedman serves as the world's pre-eminent neoliberal
> economist - globalization and ?free trade¹ policies have brought the world
> poverty, misery, starvation, and we are at the brink of economic collapse.
>
> "As a young American, what can I look forward to under neoliberal economics
> besides a depressing McWorld? This cutthroat economic system has
> devastating impacts globally as well as in my own backyard. I have
> witnessed the abuse of my fellow activists as they have been arrested,
> jailed, beaten, pepper-sprayed and now killed for trying to preserve the
> Headwaters Forest. The power of private capital to dictate public policy in
> this country grossly undermines the power of the people to determine their
> country's future."
>
> "With Milton Friedman, Pete Wilson and Steve Forbes all expected at this
> conference, I thought the three stooges might enjoy a taste of their own
> medicine."
>
> "Besides," Decker said, "Pie-throwing enjoys an illustrious tradition in
> this country... it's as American as apple pie."
>
> Last summer Al Decker pied corporate raider Charles Hurwitz the CEO of
> MAXXAM Corporation, who is responsible for liquidating the Headwaters
> Forest and defrauding American taxpayers of $1.6 billion during the 1980's
> Savings & Loan Scandal.
>
> A Republican from Northern California, Decker ran for Congress this year
> against Representative Frank Riggs.
>
> Holding people responsible for their crimes through delicious mischief is a
> time-honored tradition of the Biotic Baking Brigade, of which Mr. Decker is
> a proud co-founder.
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