[A-List] The Korean Crisis: Cui Bono

[Nadja Tesich]

great.Nadja

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> From: tal1 at cogeco.ca
> To: a-list at lists.econ.utah.edu
> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 13:28:56 -0400
> Subject: Re: [A-List] The Korean Crisis: Cui Bono
>
> After I first saw the flic I immediately recognized the potential of using
> 'V's signature as potent 'slogan' and rallying call. Now we just have to get
> the young graffitti artists to pick it up ...along with informative slogans
> like, 'Corporate media = LIES' and 'Banks = Theives' ...and so forth.
>
> T.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MARGARET WYLES" 
> To: "The A-List" 
> Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 10:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [A-List] The Korean Crisis: Cui Bono
>
>
>> On 6/5/10, Tony B. wrote:
>>> Well said Todd. I've long hammered home on this point (i.e. seizing
>>> control
>>> of the communciations systems) as probably *the* key battelfield in the
>>> ideological war between right and left. Moreover, every time I've
>>> broached
>>> the issue to leaders of left and social democatic parties (and even left
>>> publishers!) in Canada, they have visibly shrunk away from the issue; an
>>> issue that they seem not to clearly perceive as central rather than
>>> peripheral to their political activities. When I've brought up such
>>> notions
>>> (just for example) as deploying relatively small sums from some of the
>>> large
>>> union pension funds to finance a nation-wide labour / socialist newspaper
>>> ..difficult as this might be to implement...the very idea has been simply
>>> poopoohed and dismissed out of hand. [Which is a general indicator of
>>> the
>>> level of co-optation of the union and 'social- democratic' leaderships in
>>> this country...and, of course, world-wide]. In lieu of that, and for the
>>> moment, as Todd say, we must counsel an active program both of grassroots
>>> independent media (including individual messaging 'lists')..and
>>> subversion
>>> and co-optation whereever possible (i.e. organizing large, rotating
>>> letter
>>> writing campaigns into local papers focused on the key issues of the day)
>>> of
>>> the major dailies. Pirate radio stations, and local magazine production
>>> (aimed at both university students and poorer, factories, and poorer,
>>> working class neighbourhoods, funding the on-line media much more
>>> aggressively...anything and everything must be brought to bear in this
>>> ideological struggle. But the struggle itself (i.e. propaganda) must
>>> become
>>> clearly identified as central in the activist playbook...otherwise, as
>>> Todd
>>> says, 'they will keep winning'...
>>>
>>> Tony
>>>
>> What we REALLY need is someone like Mr. V from V for Vendetta to take
>> over the whole bloody thing, if only just long enough to get
>> everyone's attention.
>>
>>
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