[Jeff & Louise]

very interesting.

What you're talking about has very little to do with golf, and more to do
with causing further suffering to the oppressed.
It's certainly not the Australian experience.

It might be worth considering being less 'anti' and maybe being more 'pro'.

----- Original Message -----
From: Kathryn E. Adams <kate@dnki.net>
To: <powderworks@cs.colorado.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 4:04 AM
Subject: [Powderworks] Golf?


> Uggh.  I'm tempted to just cover my eyes and scroll down to the next
> message.  Golf!
>
> Then again, I don't think I've ever met an Aussie who doesn't golf.
>
> I'm a little disillusioned from the human rights standpoint as well as the
> environmental damage angle.  In developing nations, small farmers are
> forcibly run off their lands with little or no compensation to build golf
> courses that feed no one.  Then their daughters are essentially
> economically enslaved as "caddies", who not only cart the bags, but are
> obliged to end each round with a hole in one, as it were.
>
> Read more about it:  the Global Anti-Golf Movement website:
> http://utenti.tripod.it/dossierisarenas/golf.htm
>
> Kate
>
>
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