Mickey Z

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Friday, February 08, 2008

slavery: a capitalist parable

in the most remote regions of brazil, slave labor is employed to cut down grand swaths of the precious rain forest to make room to grow eucalyptus which is then burned by male slaves (who exploit the body, mind, and spirit of female slaves forced into prostitution) to make charcoal for the steel mills of brazil where the poorest of the poor toil for wages that do not sustain them so that steel can be shipped to a general motors plant in mexico (gm is now the second largest employer, behind wal-mart, south of the border) where the poorest of the poor endure maquiladora conditions so these automobile parts can then be shipped to a gm plant in the u.s. (roughly 50 percent of what is termed “trade” consists of business transactions between branches of the same transnational corporation) where even the poorest of the poor proudly take on imposing debt to possess a car “made in the u.s.a.” so they can clog the highways that were paved over inestimable eco-systems, filling the air with noxious pollution as they make their way to the drive-through window of an anti-union fast food restaurant that purchased the beef of slaughtered cattle that once grazed on land cleared by male slaves who exploit the body, mind, and spirit of female slaves in the most remote regions of brazil.

The End

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New Yorkers, Save the Date:

March 10

The folks at Astorians for Peace and Justice have asked me to give a talk (anti-war, 2008 election, and all that) at the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden in Astoria on the evening of Monday, March 10.

Details and specifics will follow very soon. I hope you’ll save the date and/or spread the word.

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Mickey Z. for President