File spoon-archives/postanarchism.archive/postanarchism_2004/postanarchism.0402, message 35


Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:36:32 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: [postanarchism] Katsiaficas: "Coexistence With Islamic      
From: "stevphen shukaitis" <stevphen-AT-mutualaid.org>


no, wasn't referring to the encuentro - just some random conversations I
had with people and the numerous spraypainted slogans of "viva bin" that I
saw through the city. not that such constitutes a representative sample or
anything like that. that's all.

solid,
stevphen

>> i've heard people express similar opinions in argentina when i was
>> there
>> last month -
>
> stevphen, could you explain more deeply this thing you said? r u talking
> about people who participate in enero autonomo?
>
> Sebastian
>
> Quoting stevphen shukaitis <stevphen-AT-mutualaid.org>:
>
>> there were some unsubstantiated rumors that at anti-war rallies in the
>> US
>> in the past 2 years people have begun to replace the weathermen chant
>> ("ho
>> ho ho chi minh, vietnam is gonna winn") with the updated bin laden
>> chant
>> ("bin bin bin laden, middle east is gonna win")
>>
>> i've heard people express similar opinions in argentina when i was
>> there
>> last month - and a group of teenage palestinian dancers who stayed at
>> my
>> house briefly last summer said that such was a fairly common opinion
>> among
>> people at the refugee camp in the gaza strip where they live.
>>
>> although, i suspect, for the most part, these are opinions that will be
>> not expressed openly the great majority of the time - at least in the
>> US.
>>
>> solid,
>> stevphen
>>
>>
>> > First off I found this an excellent article. IT is very intersting.
>> >
>> >>When the heartland of America was hit on September 11, many
>> >> here—including
>> > those normally >sympathetic >to the US—secretly celebrated and
>> privately
>> > expressed satisfaction that a country which has inflicted so
>> >>much pain has come to experience that which it has so painlessly
>> >> exported.
>> > Universally hated and reviled in
>> >>the US, Osama Bin Laden is for many Koreans a 21st Century Che
>> Guevara,
>> >
>> > Is this true ?
>> >
>> >>As long as Bin Laden evades capture and escapes death, he makes the
>> >> world’s
>> > sole superpower appear
>> >>weak.
>> > How true. Bin Laden is the mouse that roared. He brought the Beast to
>> it's
>> > knees ;p
>> >
>> >> Seoul school children are reported to sing songs praising him, with
>> > elementary, middle and high school
>> >>students each having made up their own lyrics and melodies.
>> > Yo got to be kidding.
>> > I could imagine the lyrics going
>> > "All hail Bin Laden...
>> > He's our man
>> > If he can't trash the US
>> > Nobody can..."
>> > in  Korean.
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
>


   

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