Tapsearch Com EditorPopulism needs Philosophy and Religion (LINK)
June 2nd 2008 02:21
Free Trade is a savage response to Populism. In our recent The Rationale post, Global Corruption Spreads , we noted that 299 unionists were killed worldwide during the late 1990s with 160 of them being from Columbia. We thought this was bad until we found out more than 800 trade unionists have been killed in Columbia over the past six years, by goverment count, with hardly none of the murders solved.
Columbia is the major South American trading partner of the U.S. President Bush praises their leaders for this while Chavez of Venezuela is cast as an enemy. The Populist Morales of Bolivia drives forward for democratization and yet his he is presented as a leftist ready to take over Bolivia's vast natural gas reserve. The dominate pattern in both the U.S. and Latin America has been the resistance of the dominant white communities to sharing in the financing of public investments in the "human capital" (health and education) of the black and indigenous communities. In Bolivia, 55 percent of the population reflects a indigenous population and mixed race people account for another 30 percent. Bolivia's shift from military rule to democratic politics has gradually grown for the last 20 years - bringing empowerment to more an more people. It's democracy on the move. In Peru, Alejandro Toledo is that country's first indigeneous president. The dynamics of freer societies is alive but the U.S. tends to ignore these things while ignoring the murders of 800 trade unionists in Columbia. U.S leaders use the communist are coming refrain instead.
Columbia is the deadliest place in the world to be a labor organizer as President Bush praises President Alvaro drive towards Free Trade. A federal judge in Alabama ruled that a civil suit could go to trial against Drummond Co Inc, whose local president is alleged to have played a role in the killings of three mining union leaders in 2001. The suit says two union leaders were taken off a Drummond bus and shot to death by assassins hired by the company while a replacement union leader was also gunned down by paramilitaries.
Where is Philosophy and Religion in all of this. Why is labor and work the stepchildren of Philosophy an Religion? The Philosophy directories online will not even note this post on their sites as being related to Philosophy.
The Phillipines are also a bloody place for labor activists. The Philliphines is the second most lethal environment for union activists next to Columbia.
Marco Tulio Ramirez was the fifth Guatemalan labor leader murdered this year. The U.S. ignores this too in the passing of Free Trade agreements like CAFTA. Abuses are common across the Guatemala economy, especially in textile factories known as maquilas, where workers put in long hours for little pay. Activists say companies often close factories whe workers try to form unions. In January, Pegro Zamora, head of Guatemala's port workers union, was murdered in front of his two sons in the middle of contentious negotiations between the union and company bosses. Two leaders of the municipal vendors union were killed a month later.
Free Trade and Globalization play off the killings in a new war on labor and work. When will Philosophy and Religion counter this?
References include PBH Columbia, The Tyee, a feisty one online, Reuters and Economist View plus Tapart News and Art that Talks by Ray Tapajna See Tapsearch Com Globalization
Columbia is the major South American trading partner of the U.S. President Bush praises their leaders for this while Chavez of Venezuela is cast as an enemy. The Populist Morales of Bolivia drives forward for democratization and yet his he is presented as a leftist ready to take over Bolivia's vast natural gas reserve. The dominate pattern in both the U.S. and Latin America has been the resistance of the dominant white communities to sharing in the financing of public investments in the "human capital" (health and education) of the black and indigenous communities. In Bolivia, 55 percent of the population reflects a indigenous population and mixed race people account for another 30 percent. Bolivia's shift from military rule to democratic politics has gradually grown for the last 20 years - bringing empowerment to more an more people. It's democracy on the move. In Peru, Alejandro Toledo is that country's first indigeneous president. The dynamics of freer societies is alive but the U.S. tends to ignore these things while ignoring the murders of 800 trade unionists in Columbia. U.S leaders use the communist are coming refrain instead.
Columbia is the deadliest place in the world to be a labor organizer as President Bush praises President Alvaro drive towards Free Trade. A federal judge in Alabama ruled that a civil suit could go to trial against Drummond Co Inc, whose local president is alleged to have played a role in the killings of three mining union leaders in 2001. The suit says two union leaders were taken off a Drummond bus and shot to death by assassins hired by the company while a replacement union leader was also gunned down by paramilitaries.
Where is Philosophy and Religion in all of this. Why is labor and work the stepchildren of Philosophy an Religion? The Philosophy directories online will not even note this post on their sites as being related to Philosophy.
The Phillipines are also a bloody place for labor activists. The Philliphines is the second most lethal environment for union activists next to Columbia.
Marco Tulio Ramirez was the fifth Guatemalan labor leader murdered this year. The U.S. ignores this too in the passing of Free Trade agreements like CAFTA. Abuses are common across the Guatemala economy, especially in textile factories known as maquilas, where workers put in long hours for little pay. Activists say companies often close factories whe workers try to form unions. In January, Pegro Zamora, head of Guatemala's port workers union, was murdered in front of his two sons in the middle of contentious negotiations between the union and company bosses. Two leaders of the municipal vendors union were killed a month later.
Free Trade and Globalization play off the killings in a new war on labor and work. When will Philosophy and Religion counter this?
References include PBH Columbia, The Tyee, a feisty one online, Reuters and Economist View plus Tapart News and Art that Talks by Ray Tapajna See Tapsearch Com Globalization
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