BW on EC

[Chuck0]

Nathan Newman wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> 
> Nathan Newman wrote:
> 
> >  I think it is better to
> >start with the better base and work to improve the leadership elected by
> it.
> 
> -In what sense is the leadership "elected" by the base? The base is
> -bound to the structure, and presented with a choice of which dismal
> -servant of capital they prefer to betray them over the next four
> -years.
> 
> Some of us remember Jackson in the Rainbow Coalition and still recognize
> that Democratic leadership folks like David Bonior and John Conyers can go
> head-to-head with Nader on progressive credentials.
> 
> Jackson, Bonior and Conyers all received their votes from that base.

What's Jackson done for his "base" recently? Does that book that he
wrote with his son on African-American entrepeneurship count?

Maybe he can hand out remaindered copies to the black guys that are
begging for money here in downtown D.C.

Chuck0