Ian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 8:42 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Who Owns the Movement?
>
>
> 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
>