Protester Shot in Head, Run Over in Genoa

Kelley Walker kwalker2 at gte.net
Mon Jul 23 12:53:15 PDT 2001


At 10:58 AM 7/23/01 -0700, Alec Ramsdell wrote:


>Oh. Well. This is simply a rallying cry, it sounds
>like to me. In drawing out the proverbial kernel of
>truth to it, the point is not whether or how some
>vaguely grouped and defined stratum of folk understand
>politics (but could I read minds I would tell you).
>The point is how class rhetoric might appear more
>often to foster class consciousness as a kind of
>political awareness, and to show the untidy reality of
>class violence that culture and consciousness
>industries, for instance, serve to hide or excuse.
>That's my reading.
>One could argue whether or not this disturbs the
>status quo, but more protests are planned, and class
>lines and language are a part of them.
>
>Alec

i really don't understand the above all. i read it a few times but it's in an idiom that i'm not quite familiar with. that's not your fault, of course. so i need a little translation help.



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