**Thursday, November 30, 2000 - 02:14 p.m.**
one year ago today, people took to the streets of seattle and shut down the world trade organization talks.
click here and here. but don't forget to click here too.
**Tuesday, November 28, 2000 - 01:59 p.m.**
it's taken me long enough but i just found out the canadian elections results. the liberals are in charge again, not surprisingly. and the canadian alliance is now the official opposition in canada. fuck.
**Tuesday, November 28, 2000 - 11:34 a.m.**
p.s. i feel a bit like a servant at this admin job. it feels crappy. photocopying things for people, booking tables for people for lunch(?!), typing shit out, all while getting underpaid, and having to look like i am happy to do it? yeah right.
p.p.s. there are some good articles on the state of "democracy" in the USA, especially in the wake of the joke that is the US elections, at indymedia. check it.
**Tuesday, November 28, 2000 - 11:33 a.m.**
this past friday after work, i met up with karen who is with the movement for justice, a
group i have been involved with in the UK. i wanted to discuss with
her the possibility of forging links between colours of resistance and the
MFJ, and also making the connection in the MFJ between the 'local'
issues the MFJ deals with and 'global' issues, and how capitalism is
connected to all this. we exchanged some articles.. i gave karen some
of the articles
written by COR organizers, and she gave me this document that she was
really enthusiastic about called "the specially oppressed and class
society" that comes from the revolutionary internationalists' league,
an organization she is involved with. i raised an eyebrow suspiciously
when she mentioned they were trotskyists. oh well, i thought,
i'll read the document. i finally started to read it today
while riding the tube to work. i found that it actually angered me. it
was really dogmatic, paternalistic, condescending, and (of course)
authoritarian. and the idea of a vanguard party/organization really
angers me too. there is a MFJ meeting today after work which i'll be
at, and we'll probably discuss what we thought of the articles we had
given each other to read. it's really strange to be involved with
organizing with someone whose politics are so fundamentally different
from mine.. i first got that impression when we started talking about
COR, before even reading the article.. although i have noticed it has
not necessarily leaked into MFJ organizing. i guess we'll see where
this leads. i feel somewhat disempowered by this.
**Monday, November 27, 2000 - 3:14 p.m.**
it sucks always scrounging for money when you have dreams of travel occupying your headspace all the time.
