From a Trot friend.
Michael Pugliese ............................................................................ ............................................................................ ----Original Message----- From: Adam Richmond <adambrichmond at yahoo.com> To: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> Date: Saturday, January 20, 2001 9:41 PM Subject: The SF Demo
>I talked with a older dude from the sad little
>bolshevik tendency. I asked politely if they had
>any events or activities and was told no.
>
>I bought their dreary reprint of some old workers
>vanguard articles on Kronstadt. Their website is
>better than this little table.
>
>I also visited the Labor's Militant Voice table. I am
>confused. How can they be in the CWI as well as the
>SF Frontlines folks. I was too depressed to ask them,
>but they seemed to have some life and revolution in
>their veins. It looks like they are involved in the
>bike messenger union organizing effort.
>
>Workers World is clearly the most organized group in
>San Francisco. Maybe I should just hold my nose and
>jump in. Not.
>
>The demo's lack of actual militancy disturbed me. I
>think it is like the turning over of Germany to Hitler
>without a real fight. I feel like a Jew in Berlin in
>1933. Our quiet, legal coup has put the son of the
>CIA director in power.
>
>Even my liberal boyfriend was bummed by the lack of
>numbers and noise at the IAC demo. He thought, as did
>I, that there would be 50,000 + to protest the
>inauguration of Bush the II. My anarchist friend from
>NYC was aghast at the passivity of the crowd. He is
>fresh from the needle exchange world of Manhattan.
>
>Well, I will pop some more effexor and get on with the
>weekend...
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-----Original Message----- From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> To: pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu <pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu> Date: Sunday, January 21, 2001 8:43 AM Subject: [PEN-L:7162] Re: Buck Fush
>Max writes:
>
>>Besides the title of this ms., signs said "Fight
>>Bush with bush, I'm Already Sick of Bush, Fuck
>>Bush and the Harris He Rode In On, and my personal
>>favorite, a huge black sign with white letters
>>saying simply, "I Hate You." Those were the
>>creative ones; most said Not My President,
>>Hail to the Thief, or just Democracy (also
>>the most common chants).
>
>In Columbus, Ohio, the signs said: "Texacutioner"; "Banana
>Republicans"; "Florida Gave Us Dumbo"; "Jews for Buchanan, Palm Beach
>County Branch"; etc.
>
>Yoshie
>