---- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Murray" <seamus2001 at attbi.com>
>The Left has
>chronically splintered
>over connecting its domestic policy to foreign policy
>mobilizations.
>Nathan Newman
============= -Something it simply can no longer afford to do.
Yet which is will do on Feb 2 when the antiwar folks seek to impose an "antiwar" orientation to the globalization protests at the World Economic Forum, thereby alienating many sympathizers to the globalization movement who do not agree with the politics promoted by antiwar protesters. The protests, likely to lead to conflict with the NYPD at a time when no one will win a popularity contest against them, will not increase support for the antiwar movement, but will no doubt decrease support for the global justice movement.
Friends and family who are both antiwar and pro-global justice, when I told them the Seattle style protests were coming to town, could only marvel at the insanity of the idea of picking a rumble with the NYPD right now.
-- Nathan Newman