tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19573297.post3964182455789856487..comments2024-01-16T03:24:26.796-05:00Comments on Piri' Miri Muli': AdiósIan Keenanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19573297.post-22478635050624602162006-12-16T01:49:00.000-05:002006-12-16T01:49:00.000-05:00I’m glad you agree with me on this – most of my ac...I’m glad you agree with me on this – most of my activism took place in the post-Seattle demonstrations but I never found a good name for that movement in regular parlance. Shakespeare plays in Trinidad are globalization, and I’m not anti- that. As A. Cockburn said, ‘globalization’ gets in the way of what it’s trying to describe. I always thought ‘Global Justice’ was silly. Corn, health care, free speech, education, clean rivers, these are things that are possible and benign. Justice is a more elusive sport, attainable in belief-systems only. <br /><br />Whatever you call the movement, the EU constitution has been derailed, South America is unified against secretive trade agreements, and every US Senate campaign between an anti-FTAA and a pro-FTAA in 06 was a win for the anti-FTAA. So the ‘end of history’ is now officially ‘history.’ The movement didn’t need leaders, relying on their adversaries’ leaders to become so corrupt it couldn’t be ignored anymore.Ian Keenanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19573297.post-21934692812624773552006-12-16T01:27:00.000-05:002006-12-16T01:27:00.000-05:00Yup.
I don't trust "justice."
(I remember how ann...Yup.<br />I don't trust "justice." <br />(I remember how annoyed I was when we played at a conference in '99 or so and used the phrase "anti-globalization movement," and the activist dweeb who spoke afterwards took a swipe at us: "<i>We</i> don't like that term; <i>we</i> like to call ourselves the Global Justice Movement." As if we weren't part of that movement. I like negativity, buddy, and would rather people get to eat than that they get "justice." Too multi-use a concept for me).<br /><br />Amazing how many papers are talking about Pino's "twin legacies:" "on the one hand, he was a brutal dictator; on the other, he defended Chile from Communism." As if those weren't, you know, the <i>same project</i>. <br /><br />If you're interested in a long, fact-heavy song about the guy, ours is at:<br />http://www.princemyshkins.com/songs/pinochet.mp3Andy Gricevichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431noreply@blogger.com