> At 07:59 AM 9/21/01 -1000, Stephen E Philion wrote:
> >Yoshie, Doug, or others who've been to meetings for mobilization,
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> >Is there discussion or a strategy for dealing with the Buchananites,
> >isolationists, etc. in the emerging anti-war movement? The Globe article I
> >read the other day tried to make it out as a pretty ideologically muddled
> >anti-war movement emerging, i.e. "both right and left"...
> >are there strategies discussed about how to counter/handle that type of
> >media frame?
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> i don't get your question about the media. who gives a bat's eyelash. the
> national media does what it wants; the only thing you can do is work with
> your locals. meet with the editor, become human to them: intelligent,
> reasonable, cognizant of the issues, sensitive to the impact of the event.
> get decent, local coverage as much as possible.
Well, it matters if they are misreporting a movement as being evenly comprised of 'left and right' when the left is largely responsible for the movement and has no stock in the racism or isolationism of a Pat Buchanan. One of the ways the media tries to discredit a movement is by providinng the role of 'leader' to people whose 'leadership' in a movement consist primarily of putting out a press release. I agree with the gist of your comments. I don't think the effigy idea is a wise one, but maybe you're just being facetious?
--Steve
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> i agree with carrol: the line to take now is we have no business mucking
> around in another country until we know who did this. (we're not even
> trying to bang the Just Say No to Imperialism Drum until we have to)
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> my thought: make effigies of feds that look like the keystone kops.
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