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From: Max Sawicky
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 6:50 AM
Subject: RE: demo
The q was whether there was any coverage. Here it is.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34676-2002Apr11.html
There were about 70 people there, and evidently two or three
TV networks. Some Christian clergy, and about five Palestinians,
some with big flags (to which nobody took exception). There were
no bad guys in sight, just the praetorian guard at the State Dept.
Lerner, West, and a third person I didn't know spoke.
The speeches were a little more wimpy than I expected.
Then Lerner started taking
questions. This seemed to go on forever, which is why I left.
Leaving was a bit easier since the thing had been announced
as civil disobedience. I went prepared to get arrested, since
I'm out of practice. I thought a bunch of jews getting arrested
at State criticizing Sharon was a natural man-bites-dog story
and would get coverage. But I wasn't eager to get arrested.
Evidently after I left, there was a debate about whether to
proceed with the CD. Not smart, in hindsight, but at least they
went and did it finally. The pacificity, not to say passivity,
of the affair became the Post's lead. Just shows you that
a little rowdiness has its uses.
This sort of CD has become a completely choreographed
affair. Nobody is inconvenienced in the slightest. Everybody
goes through their moves, like old troupers.
My consolation prize for not getting busted was hearing
a speech from a hyper-kinetic Richard Gephardt, Most
memorable and genuinely weird line:
"Politics is a substitute for violence."
mbs
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> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, R wrote:
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> > anyone hear or read any news about the Tikkun demonstration today of
> > Rabbi Lerner and Professor Cornel West? thanks.
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> I assume that's the one Max said he was bored at. Max?
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> Michael
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