Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.981112105431.22064D-100000@axe.humboldt.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 11:42:50 -0800 From: mailto:dgk1@AXE.HUMBOLDT.EDU Subject: Re: DEVEL-L Digest - 10 Nov 1998 to 11 Nov 1998 To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998 mailto:tuandbob@CYBERENET.NET wrote:> On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> >
> > Revoking Philip Morris's Charter--Petition
> >
> > Sign the online petition to revoke the charter!
> >
> > SINCE the first American corporations were chartered in 1776,
> > their lawyers and lobbyists have been sneaking around in our
> > courtrooms and state capitols, reconfiguring the law to better
> > suit their needs.
> Diatribes like this have no place in a newsletter like this. This
> newsletter is dedicated to development, not destruction.
> The measure described below presents a clear and present danger to every
> doctor, dentist, independent druggist and other locally based
> professional (such as SunFrost) seeking to protect their family from the
> excessive zeal of people like the "we know better than you what's good
> for you" instigators of the measure by becoming a corporation.
> Insurance increases, based on the increased possibility of suit, may
> prevent new businesses from starting in Arcata, and could well be cause
> for established businesses to relocate outside Arcata.
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This newsletter is presumably dedicated to a more enlightened, more sustainable, more environmentally friendly, and more egalitarian development than that which has generally been practiced heretofore. The term "development" is no longer synonomous simply with economic growth--at least not among those who've taken the trouble to really look at the field as it exists. When systems are as as warped as the ones we find ourselves in, positive "development" may necessitate tearing down and reconcieving major pieces of them. Arcata's measure "F", by contrast, is a fairly conservative consideration of an approach that would be, at best, a gentle tweaking. It is radical only in the sense that some people consider it subversive to even suggest that corporations might have more rights and power than is warranted.
Dion Kelly