> Ignorate to the Cordinating Committee at local branches and
>the National Steering Committee, I
>had no idea that they were the ones in control of the ISO and not
>all the members like it should be
>and what I though was happening. (hence my ignorance of not knowing
>the difference b/w anarchism and
>centralized socialism.) Anyway my final straw happened at the A20
>mobilzation for Palestine, IMF and
>whatnot. So, there we are getting ready to go and they tell me that
>I am gonna be part of the
>Palestinian Liberation Rally on the Eclipse before the marches
>connect against Israeli occupation. I
>told our leader that I wanted to be part of the IMF/World Bank
>protest and then meet up with the
>Palestinian march. The reponse to that statement by the ISO head
>guy of our group said, "No, the
>national steering committee has decided that we are gonna be part of
>the Palestinian Rally." then
>later down the road of that weekend he confronts m! e again saying
>the one of the Steering committee
>people told him that I said, "I dont care if they are making
>decisions I like or that I hate, the
>fact that they are making these decision for me is unatural and
>wrong." and his response to that
>was..."well we vote these people into the committee and intrust them
>with these powers and ability to
>cordinate us in this manner and that is what centeralization
>is."(sounds alot like what we live in
>today.) or something to that effect...then I fucking quit the ISO
>b/c they made me do something that
>I didnt really want to do but what is worse is the fact they the
>told me what I needed to do at A20
>and not let me voice my idea and say that I wanted to march against
>the IMF b/c of this and
>that..blah blah....oh yeah and selling papers is so much fun...blah blah blah.
Makes me wonder how long this boy (well, maybe it's a girl, though it sounds like a boy) will last in his new political home.... -- Yoshie
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