Hey, thanks for doing the blog on mr myslin. i was a student of his and it means a lot to read that.

Rowan s

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I liked the breadth of coverage of this article, however it falls short of suggesting any better alternative to free trade, capitalism or financial liberalization. True that liberalization did not bring the expected positive impacts on inequality or poverty, but the reason is not that freer trade necessarily is bad for communities. Mexican economy is a lot more efficient now than it was before the liberalization process. The main problem is crony capitalism, bad public planning and a non-credible government. The solution to all of these problems is not to go back to closed economy where there are less opportunities for all and more room for non-transparent government and business activities. Liberalization can only do so much to create value, it is the governments and democracy’s role to distribute the pie more equitably with progressive policies as it is done by welfare states in Europe.

A last note: emphasizing the bad sides of everything is not realistic, because the world is full of grays (e.g. Mexican women benefited a lot from liberalization in term of increased employment, the poorest of the poor decreased in proportion and the economy is a lot more stable and less prone to crises every decade as it was in the past).

Regards,
Aslihan Arslan
PhD Candidate,
Agricultural and Resource Economics,
UC Davis

Thanks again for contacting me. Hopefully some regional WordPress meetings are organized.

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Give me your tired, your poor

A line from a poem, “The New Colossus,” by the nineteenth-century American poet Emma Lazarus. “The New Colossus,” describing the Statue of Liberty, appears on a plaque at the base of the statue. It ends with the statue herself speaking:

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Jenn, when you pick a date to display your soon-to-be-awesome sign, post an announcement on Indybay.org and hopefully other people will show up in support.

Clarissa, thank you too for the comment! Can you please post a link to the Livejournal for Fremont? Be sure to bookmark Indybay’s East Bay page. Which stories on Indybay are shocking to you? Are you talking about these “blurbs”:

Anti-Minutemen Demonstrators Attacked in Fremont from July 14th and Routing Out The Fascists in Fremont from July 28th?

Please do use Indybay.org to publish the news!

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