>kelley wrote:
>
> > frances: delete now.
> >
> > >I don't want to be the dour voice of pessimism here, but, so what?
> > >And, what significant victory?
> >
> > hmm. i see that i've been pounding my head on a steel wall again.
> >
> > that people could organize something like this.
>
>Kelly, the length of many of your posts defeat me -- about 6 screens
>is all I can take without printing. Have you ever come across the
>Comte de Mirabeau's remark (early in French Revolution or before),
>"When 10 people get together, ten thousand tremble." Is that what
>you are trying to convey to Reese?
no, that political practice is what will bring about change and that political practice needs solidarity and solidaristic rituals at times.
see _Freedom Summer_
>At the final convention of the NUC (when we dissolved ourselves
>formally, having already been dissolved de facto) there was this
>nut there the first evening who declared the only measure of work
>in the GI movement was how many GIs it convinced to desert.
>That seems to be Reese's definition of victory.
>
>Carrol