This could be a moment for a power shift--from workers being weak to being strong--but only if people force government to kick in on the workers' side.
by Allan Nairn, News and Comment
January 29, 2009
In bad situations, people lower their standards for what it is that constitutes good news.
There's a very sick man with a withered arm, but it hasn't been amputated, contrary to what a garbled, and panic-inducing, report had indicated.
Similarly, a boy has been coughing for three months, but a TB test says it isn't TB.
Saying this, the parent, on a cell phone from the Burma border can be heard shivering in the rare cold, even though the family has just invested in a blanket -- their second, which is now handy, since for three nights they've been sleeping in the forest to dodge police who (in a case of bad good news) aren't seeking bribes, but are instead seeking to catch people and -- word has it -- ship them to Naypyidaw (the capital) for one year's bondage labor.
The question always is, bad compared to what? One person's dump is another's home hearth. [...]
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