Student Protests Against Horowitz Ad]

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Mar 29 08:03:18 PST 2001


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>LBO-talkers defending Horowitz' "right" to place an ad ("free speech
>= money to advertise") are not unlike Medea Benjamin & Co.
>protecting the corporate windows of Nike, etc. from festive &
>youthful anarchist window-smashers.

Huh? Smashing windows is a kind of symbolic speech, and Benjamin wanted cops to put a stop to it. How's that a parallel?

Doug



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