City management or administrators tasked with enforcing municipal laws, regulations, codes, etc. They have a very poor reputation amongst Chinese people as being corrupt and violent brutes, best known for often physically bullying illegal street vendors, hawkers, and peddlers. See examples.
This post is from the ChinaSmack Glossary, which is a collection of current idioms and expressions, like "memes" in China. You've heard of the "green fence" and the crackdown on printer refurbishers in Foshan? This may be the Chinese word for the people Joseph Benson called "bullyboys".Good news. The number of poor recyclers' defenders has just increased by One.
It is so bloody obvious that an activity, such as recycling, which is praised as good citizenship when performed by rich people, does not deserve less merit when performed by poor people. How often do MIT and the Pope and modern artists in NYC agree?Pope Francis has made an amateur video praising the world's "cartoneros" — the poor people who pick through garbage to find recyclable and reusable goods. He says their work is dignified and good for the environment. [ABC News]
We now have author Adam Minter, NYC Artist/Oscar Winner Vik Muniz, former Basel Convention Secretary Katharina Kummer Peiry, researchers from Memorial University, USC, PUCP, MIT, Africans and Chinese, all signing the praise of recycling in a fair manner. Where with the backlash be felt?
By Authorities who hitched their wagons to Basel Action Network's campaign of poverty porn photos, false statistics, and halloween rhetoric.
Authority. Bullyboys. 城管
Middle managers, the tide has turned. The Vermont E-Waste Massacree will be the Wounded Knee of the battle against good enough markets. When Chinese bloggers are complaining about the same thing as the Pope, African TV repairmen (Joe Benson), and New York professional artists, the Temp Light is on your motorcycle. Ignore it and ruin your vehicle. E-Stewards has to execute Plan B, throw Eric Cartman out of the Executive Director chair. Even Donald Summers, the former BAN.org consultant who (18 months ago) called my views on Fair Trade Recycling "a huge outlier", now works for ISRI.[Pope] Francis, known for his simple habits, has denounced today's "throw-away culture" and said in the video that food that is tossed aside each day could feed all the world's hungry.Francis has a long relationship with Argentina's "cartoneros" — literally "cardboard people." He would celebrate Mass for them as archbishop and invited them on stage during World Youth Day in July.
"Recycling good." say Og, beating a reused mammoth bone against an elk antler.
