Carrol Cox wrote:

>  And the
> ransacking of the Seattle movement by AFL-CIO conservatives generated
> the virulent chauvinism and racism of an ostensibly "progressive" campaign
> to keep China out of WTO. (The campaign generated a mealy-mouth
> argument that -- profesing great concern for Chinese workers -- in effect
> argued that "we" needed to destroy the village to save it.)
>

It's interesting to hear the AFL-CIO accused of  "ransacking" the Seattle movement,
whatever that "movement" is.  The AFL-CIO has been working to hold China accountable
for human rights for the past decade.  The AFL-CIO policy for many decades has been
to raise other labor standards, wages, etc.in other nations to US levels, not to
close down US factories and put US workers out of well-paid jobs to set up low-wage,
substandard jobs in other nations.  The AFL-CIO and other labor organizations
planted the seeds and laid the foundations for the "Seattle movement" and many other
workers rights/envoronmental standards/ fair trade groups.  More information can be
found at http://www.aflcio.org if anyone is interested in more details.

Bill Wagner