Re: Re: Re: Re: Keeping focus after the WTO

["J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

Doug,
      The person trying to organize it is Eban
Goodstein.  When I met Louie Proyect in NYC
last January Eban came by and told me about
it then and I introduced the two of them, although
Louie may not have remembered.  I actually made
an effort to get a chapter of Eban's group going
on this campus and contributed money to his
efforts.  They seem to have fizzled and students
here, even in an environmental econ class seemed
uninterested.   Freeing Tibet by keeping China out
of the WTO is much sexier.
       Frankly, I think the problem is that Americans
realize at some level that they might actually have
to sacrifice if there is a serious effort to do anything
about the Kyoto Accords.  Might have to pay more for
gas for the old SUV.   Much easier to tell Third Worlders
not to be mean to sea turtles.
        So there, Doug.  What have you done about this
one lately, yourself?  Too busy waving pom poms for
hypocrites in Seattle?
Barkley Rosser
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, December 09, 1999 10:19 AM
>Subject: [PEN-L:14525] Re: Re: Re: Keeping focus after the WTO


>J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:
>
>>       So, how about some trade sanctions against
>>the US for failing to approve the Kyoto Accords or
>>failing to stop illegal anti-dumping motions or having
>>prison labor?  Certainly would be for own good....
>
>Excellent idea. You wanna organize it, Barkley?
>
>Doug
>
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