From: Bill Strom [william.strom@yale.edu]
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 11:47 PM
To: marxists.and.moderates@yale.edu
Subject: all the liblong week
all the liblong week
the *new* whipsheet of the liberal party of the yale political union
deux
week of: 9sept02

The pressure, as they say, is on.  You found the liberal party intriguing.  You found the whipsheet to be good reading, and maybe even slightly informative.  You found my tone at least new, if not fresh.  And now, you found another email in your inbox.  You're welcome. :-)

My challenge, of course, is to make sure you like what you see here.  Sadly, most of the things about which I am currently able to riff at you are mind-numbingly boring.  Shopping period.  TYCO packets.  Obscenely priced text books.  Orchestral auditions.  You are all living through it, too.  Which is precisely why I couldn't find anyone in their rooms when I whipped tonight.  I hope many of you made it to the various Dwight Hall gatherings tonight, and will check others out tomorrow.  They do great activist work.  Talk to our party members about the work they do through Dwight Hall next time you come to a lib event.--}:-{)

*undercard*
9sept02 1730: Lib Dinner, Commons Dining Hall
Every Monday night, we eat dinner together in Commons under the portrait of forty-first President George H. W. Bush.  Oh, the irony.  Fortunately, we only ask you to eat in Commons once a week, as oPposed to the fOur nights a week you could do with otheR parties.

*main event*
10sept02 2130-???: Debate, Jonathan Edwards College Common Room
Tonight's resolution: The 'post-September 11 world' is a myth.  No, this is not a discussion about mythology.  And yes, I'm aware that this is, in fact, the world, and that it is, in fact, after September 11, and therefore the world post-September 11 is, in fact, an actuality.  Semantic debaters need not apply.  Tonight, we will critically examine our country's response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, in order to determine how the American experience has been fundamentally altered, if at all.  Come and tell us why this resolution holds no water/is a bucket.

*steel cage match*
12sept02 1930-???: Meeting of the Yale Political Union
The Yale Political Union (www.yale.edu/ypu) was formed in the 1930s in order to provide a forum for rollicking debate among its six member parties.  Our Liberal Party is the oldest of these six. Each year, nationally and internationally recognized social and political leaders visit the union to speak about political philosophy, current events, and policy issues.

This week, in their first meeting of the 2002-2003 academic year, the YPU welcomes Dr. Manouchehr Ganji, the founder and secretary-general of the Flag of Freedom Organization of Iran.  For more information about Dr. Ganji, please see the link listed above.  For information about the location of the YPU meeting, harass--er, email william.rogel@yale.edu


*exit music*
“Warren Anderson, former Union Carbide CEO at the time of the world's worst industrial disaster, has been found living a life of luxury in New York State. He is wanted in India to face charges of culpable homicide over the deaths of 20,000 people since the disaster.

Anderson has been hiding in the U.S. since the 1984 explosion at his company's plant in Bhopal, India, caused the immediate deaths of thousands of people and has resulted in life long suffering for almost 120,000 survivors."
(courtesy of www.greenpeaceusa.org/features/anderson_found.htm)

Greenpeace found him.  And now the US is refusing to extradite one of India's highest-profile fugitives.  No surprise from an administration that claims to want to clean up corporate wrong-doing.  But here's the kicker: Anderson has been a fugitive for eleven years.