Subject: Re: President Clinton's Commencement Speech at MIT
Vigdor Schreibman - FINS (fins@access.digex.net)
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 15:11:43 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 15:11:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <roundtable@cni.org> Subject: Re: President Clinton's Commencement Speech at MIT In-Reply-To: <357EC5FF.7760@apt.org> Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980611143256.12191A-100000@access5.digex.net>
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Maureen Lewis <mlewis@apt.org> wrote:
>
> Last Friday, President Clinton delivered the commencement address at
> MIT. APT's founding chair, Dr. Barbara O'Connor helped to draft the
> speech which outlined the importance of technolgy to our nation's future
> and need to ensure everyone access to technology to avoid creating a
> "digital divide." The speech reflects APT's belief in affordable,
> accessible technology for all people in the country, regardless of where
> they might live, their income level, race or ethnicity, age or physical
> limitations.
Hi Maureen,
No person has ever claimed, that I know of,
that the business propaganda system was
incompetent. However, the call for equal
access and affordable technology by the
President, that you note, is incredible.
We live under a savage capitalist system
that has been explicitly rigged to maximize
the profits of the super rich while freezing
the bargaining power of workers through federal
monetary policy, disregarding social equity
with an obscene distribution of wealth and
income, and continuing to defy the growing
threat to the survival of the biosphere of
Planet Earth by accelerating rather than
putting a stop to global warming.
Its the antidemocratic structure of our
economic and political system, which locks the
citizens out of any meaningful role in
governance and assures corrupt government and
big business. This corrupt structure must be
radically transformed to fulfill the promise of
democracy and achieve sustainability.
More inane propaganda is not what is needed.
Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
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