Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 18:33:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Thomas Seay <entheogens-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Re: Good Leaflelts????


Eric you make some good points. No, I am not thinking
of making "Stop Outsourcing" a slogan in my leaflet.
I want to discuss the lay-offs and outsourcing in
relation to the crisis and restructuring of global
capitalism.  I especially want to put challenge people
to imagine a better world and to start forming workers
councils, or at least start thinking about these
things, reading, discussing, taking action.

Your idea about "we want full lives" is well taken and
I will definitely incorporate it into the leaflet.
I know one fellow who was just laid-off.  For the past
two years he has worked from 8AM til 9PM at night and
he goes in and works both Saturday and Sunday.  It
devastated his social and family life. This is not
atypical in the Silicon Valley.  Probably most people
dont work quite that hard for so long...but there are
many people who do and those who dont have similar
horror stories.

Anyway, keep your suggestions coming...this was a
great suggestion!

Thomas
--- Eric Blair <eric-AT-thinkerforum.com> wrote:
> What message do you want to get across?
> 
> Stop outsourcing? Keep the good jobs here?
> 
> That is the popular sentiment i'm sure and it might
> ring a bell.  But I say
> fuck that sentiment and fuck the jobs.  Let the
> businesses do what they want
> with their jobs cuz who really -desires- them?
> 
> i'm sure all of the people in silicon valley really
> wouldn't mind being
> liberated from their office space if it only seemed
> feasible.
> 
> a good leaflet or essay would probably be "we dont'
> want full employment we
> want full lives" by ken knabb, the situationist, or
> anything that leans
> toward the position that we want a society where we
> don't have to work,
> since it is technically feasible, as opposed to a
> position which seeks to
> keep people locked in boring pointless jobs only
> because its the only way of
> staying in good health.
> 
> it clearly isn't, but not a lot of people would
> agree with that and we know
> why.
> 
> eric blair
> politicalgraffiti.net
> 


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