Question for Liza about Palestinian Solidarity Activism at OSU

Chuck Munson chuck at tao.ca
Sat Jun 1 22:49:56 PDT 2002


"Max B. Sawicky" wrote:
>
> Chuckles, you're sounding like the Chairman of HUAC . . .
>
> I've had zero contact with WWP/IAC people but some with ISO,
> so I now have to discount what you've said about both.

What are you discounting? The ISO themselves admit that they had two of their people in the national leadership of the student anti-sweatshop movement at one time. The student anti-sweatshop movement wasa big priority for the ISO, at least on campus before Seattle. I also recalle reading several accounts of a rather contentious national conference of that movement where there was a split between the folks who wanted a hierarchical national organization and those who wanted a network.

The ISO involvement in the student anti-war movement in late 2001 blew up in their faces when student activists discovered that the ISO had organized a bunch of regional conferences and has placed several of their members in position to lead and/or facilitate these regional gatherings.

I'm sure that student activists can fill you in on the rest of the details. That's the little bit I know.

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