Paul,
The situation in Austria really concerns me, for obvious reasons.
Worth thinking about is that this is the first email plea reaching our
(academic) community highlighting the start of the right-wing purge in
Austria.
What can we do? What will we do?
When will the emails start to tell us about arrests or
racits/sexist/homophobic round-ups?
What then?
Do you think there is an argument for saying that just sending a
well-thought of (and no doubt very well written) email is worthless?
What action is best if not email?
Should we strike? Should we be organizing workplace campaigns to bring
this development to a wider audience? What else might be realistic?
I cant help but feel helpless and, unfortunately, writing an email (only
for it to be deleted as is often the case in these circumstances) doesnt
make much difference. What does this say about the e-mail age - when we
all think that sending off an email is the most we can do (or at least the
most realistic thing we can do) ?
Just thinking aloud,
Greetings from Ohio.
Alistair Fraser
MA Student
Geog Dept
Ohio State University
At 09:05 PM 2/18/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Nick Blomley forwarded this plea:
>
>> Please, write letters of protest via E-mail to:
>>
>> The new Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel
>> <[log in to unmask]> who is mainly responsible
>> for bringing the Freedom Party into government
>>
>> To Austrian President Thomas Klestil
>
>
>That will help.
>
>And what do the courageous e-mailers suggest we do in the meantime? Accept a
>racist government?
>
>
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>pt
>http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/haider.html
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