Up and down the road to a big anti-war movement

[Angelita Manzano]

Chuck, have you seen this article? I was wondering
what you think of it.  The author thinks diversity of
tactics as a movement's policy is a cop-out, plus,   
white guys are afraid of debate & conflict  (guess
he's not subscribed to this list :)

-Angie Manzano

http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-01/10lakey.cfm

--- Chuck Munson <chuck at tao.ca> wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> > First of all, people who smash windows aren't
> "violence freaks." You
> > may not like what they do, but it's pretty minor
> league stuff. By
> > using that phrase, you're accepting the ruling
> class's perception of
> > things. I can understand how the ruling class
> might, in their
> > demented fantasies, see any challenge to their
> rule as a form of
> > violence, but we don't have to play along. And
> second, what do you
> > want "the vast number of activists" to do?
> Surround the
> > window-smashers? Call the cops? And third, don't
> you agree that it
> > helps the "vast number" of activists that there
> are some crazies
> > around, to whom they can seem like reasonable
> alternatives?
> 
> The frat boys in College Park have caused more
> monetary damage in
> property destruction during their riots than any
> local black bloc ever
> did.
> 
> << Chuck0 >>
> 
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> INTERNATIONALISM IN PRACTICE
> 
> An American soldier in a hospital explained how he
> was wounded: He said,
> "I was told that the way to tell a hostile
> Vietnamese from a friendly
> Vietnamese was to shout ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’
> If he shoots, he’s
> unfriendly. So I saw this dude and yelled ‘To hell
> with Ho Chi Minh!’
> and he yelled back, ‘To hell with President
> Johnson!’ We were shaking
> hands when a truck hit us." 
> 
> (from 1,001 Ways to Beat the Draft, by Tuli
Kupferburg).

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