We also are losing the chance to unite labor and environment, thanks to the ruffians from Eugene and to leaders of the left that for ten years have worked to divide us. The left elite wants weak social movements to control and exploit. In their June commentary , the Z Magazine editors dream of 100,000 people from labor and religion who will provide cover for civil disobedience. But their views are left out of debate, and their interests are excluded from policy. In the mainstream national journals, working class people are dupes, racists and right wingers.
Spiritual folk are irrational.
And mainstream greens are simply ignored. Our own interests aside, we know that moving US industry overseas is a strategic mistake. We know that reduced immigration would serve all of the working classes and all minorities, from organized labor to the working poor to the homeless. Instead, the greens should consider supporting genuine labor policy in exchange for labor's support of sustainable industry. Such an alliance might then have good success with a Gore administration, which could use neo-liberalism to bribe business into cooperating.