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Re: Blame the Victim
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Tue, 1 Oct 2002 08:31:02 GMT
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> > On a more personal note, my mother once described the soil of her Argentine
> > homeland this way: "If you just throw seeds on the bare ground, something
> > will grow."
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> The irony of that analogy is that some Argentinean farmers are selling their
> produce overseas in order to get more $$, the result is growing malnutrition.
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> There was a really good piece in the Observer yesterday about the winners and
> losers in Argentina - I shall try to dig it out for you.
... and here it is [it looks abridged]:
http://www.observer.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,800934,00.html
Arie has also written other reports from Argentina/ S. America; just search for
her name on the site.
Scott A
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> Scott A
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> > BTW, there is some coverage of the protest against the IMF at:
> > http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/26/capital.protests.ap/index.html).
> >
> > Here's one quote:
> > "When the World Bank says they're giving aid and loans for what they call
> > development, it's really a handout to giant oil, mining and gas
> > corporations," said Patrick Reinsborough, an organizer with the Mobilization
> > for Global Justice.
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> > What Reinsborough means is that the IMF isn't helping anyone by suggesting
> > to various countries that they should sell their natural resource assets out
> > from under the people and hand them over to the likes of Enron and
> > Halliburton. That's just like the stories you have heard of people buying
> > houses during the depression for a sack of potatoes.
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> > I guess the Swiftian version would be: "Keep the house for a few more weeks
> > while you eat your children, or sell me the house for this sack of potatoes
> > and die in the streets later on. I'm just trying to help...I'm a humanitarian."
> >
> > -- Hop-Frog
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