the upcoming referendum in East Timor - was The weakness of the anti-war movement

[C. G. Estabrook]

On Fri, 21 May 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:


> If their [viz., opponets to US support for Indonesian slaughter in East
> Timor] numbers are few and effects are immeasurable on the ground, how
> can this opposition movement be "strong"? 

I'm not sure that's a contradiction (nor that the effects are quite
immeasurable); but we surely should be paying attention to Angela's
analysis and trying to make the effects measurable on the ground. 

	--C. G. Estabrook