George Aditjondro's Neoliberalism paper

[marissa d. de guzman]

12 September 2006

11:07am

 

Hi all--

 

George Aditjondro, our writer for both Indonesia and East Timor, recently delivered a keynote speech at a workshop on Human Rights and Neoliberalism in North Sumatera. He is sharing with all of us his paper and I am attaching it to this email. It's an interesting read given that it builds upon most of what we discussed as a group during the writers' meeting in Bangkok last month. Of particular interest is his discussion of resource wars - the idea that most wars are conflicts over control of resources, from plantation produce, oil, gas, to the notorious industry of blood diamonds in Africa.

 

I hope all's well with all of you.

 

All the best,

Marissa

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: George Aditjondro

To: mdeg...@seaca.net

Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 12:51 PM

Subject: Aditjondro's Neoliberalism paper

Amiga mia, just to share my latest paper on
Neoliberalism, which I presented in Medan. Maybe you
want to pass it on to the other writers, also to the
expert, Walden. Ciao, George

[Edna Estifania A. Co]

dear marissa,

i find the indonesia paper depressing stuff... blames western
imperialism, collusion of state and capital, but where about is the local
social movement?.....

salamat.

chiqui
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Dr. Edna Estifania A. Co
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