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Friday, September 27, 2002

Today's links. First up, an interview with Naomi Klein on Alternet in which she talks about the (don't call it the) anti-globalization movement, which has taken over Washington DC for the weekend. She is off to Argentina to shoot a film there documenting that country's crisis earlier this year and how the crushing forces of neo-liberalism have led to a strengthening of the left and a reinvigoration of democracy.

By the way, you can get updates on the demos and the arrests at DC Indymedia. From another coast, it strikes me that the anti-globalization (don't call it that) activists in DC may have gone backwards in terms of diversity, and that they may have done much better in getting their message out about the war. The jury is still out, just an hour or two after the mass arrests, but I don't know that the demonstrations this weekend will find widespread sympathy amongst the anti-war and anti-racist activists, some of whom are mobilizing for next month. I have a strong sense there were huge missed opportunities here. Prove me wrong.

Two other great articles: Mother Jones' list of the top 10 student activist campuses last year, a report which nicely balances Playboy's top 10 party campuses last year (Chico has slipped to #2, but I'm sure they drink harder). The highlight of the article is the Native American group at Northern Colorado which started up an intramural team called the Fightin Whites. Buy a t-shirt here and offend some WASPs!

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