Can you steer me to the Reed piece? BTW the Mumia forces here in Pitsburgh do not seem to suffer any of the problems alleged by Cooper. A friend of mine did remark that all of the efforts on Mumia'a behalf may have taken away some efforts for Leonard Peltier, though of course he is not facing the death penalty.
I do find it remarkable that Reed liked Cooper's article though. Have you, Doug, or anyone else read the Z Magazine editorial? What do you think? Also, Mumia has consistently supported working class efforts and refused to do an interview when network workers were on strike. His essay on fathers in Z also did not strike me as the work of any sort of off the wall person.
Michael Yates
Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Michael Yates wrote:
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> >But, Doug, you sent out the comment on Kissinger (without his name being
> >mentioned) which, correct me if I am wrong, was sent to you, and you did
> >not tell us who sent it. So why did you send it out in the first place?
> >If you think Marc Cooper is correct why not just say so. You comment on
> >everything under the sun and ask a million questions, god things in my
> >view, so why not comment on Cooper and ask some questions.
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> Oh yes, meant to add that Scott McLemee and Adolph Reed have
> published similar pieces, though not as polemical as Marc's, and
> Adolph told me that he liked Marc's column quite a bit. Neither of
> them can be accused of creeping conservatism or a questionable
> closeness to Arianna Huffington.
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> Doug