Who Owns the Movement?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Dec 14 20:41:59 PST 1999


rc-am wrote:


>"Who Owns the Movement? Or: Since No One Owns the Movement, How Do We Have
>A Multi-Issue, Multi-Tactic Movement, Mutually Respectful and with
>Constituency Identities Preserved"
>
>By Michael Albert
>the rest at: http://www.zmag.org/who_owns.htm
>
>"How can peaceful marchers, those who engage in illegal civil disobedience,
>and those who engage in illegal acts of destroying corporate property
>coexist without turning on each other and detracting from the power of each
>otherís efforts?
>
>How do we develop a broad movement that has many components in which no one
>component thinks it has a right to own the movement, but, instead, even
>with significant differences, room is opened for diverse modes of dissent,
>none supported by everyone, but all given room to function?
>
>How do different constituencies with different views about tactics and
>strategy, all belong to one large movement, none stifled in their
>aspirations and experiments, yet none encroaching on the rest by their
>choices?
>
>Indeed, how do we place this type mutual space and respect at the center of
>our movement efforts?"

So what's the answer?

Doug



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