Naderites Craft "Fix It or Nix It" Campaign

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Dec 29 15:40:26 PST 1999


Patrick Bond wrote:


>I remember Kevin Danaher of
>Global Exchange advancing the WB Bond Boycott idea to a 50
>Years Meeting for the first time back in 1995, with his
>multicoloured literature at that (but he wasn't even given a platform,
>he raised the strategy/tactic from the floor in a packed workshop
>session, to great enthusiasm). Indeed there was just no space on
>the plenary -- organised by Inside-Beltwayers -- until around the
>1998 50 Years parallel meeting of the WB/IMF, when finally some
>tentative calls for Nix It were made.

Wasn't there a split within 50 Years that made that change possible? I've heard tales of resignations over the co-optation issue, though never anything more solid than rumor.

Doug



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list