Question for Liza about Palestinian Solidarity Activism at OSU

[Chuck Munson]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> Chuck Munson wrote:
> 
> >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 Nation - October 16, 2000
> >
> >The Student Movement Comes of Age
> >Liza Featherstone
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >But Eugene, like Madison, Wisconsin, which was also well represented
> >at the meetings, has an intensely process-oriented student activist
> >culture. Passions raged over the proposal to establish an elected
> >governing body that would decide many of the questions that are
> >currently left to conference calls open to the entire membership or
> >to paid staff in the group's Washington, DC, office (who are not
> >elected). The anarchists and radical democrats in attendance worried
> >that such a body would turn USAS into a "hierarchical" and
> >"bureaucratic" organization; one even warned, in an address to the
> >plenary, that if the group adopted this structure "we'd be no better
> >than a corporation." Others took a dim view of such arguments.
> >George Washington University student Todd Tucker observed, "It just
> >seems so stupidly American, like, 'I won't take orders from anyone.'
> >It's John Wayne, not even Bakunin!" The controversy inspired
> >twenty-nine hours of plenary meetings, two of which lasted past 3
> >AM; at several junctures, anarchists walked out of the room and even
> >burst into tears.
> 
> The full text was posted here, and is archived at
> <http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/0009/1629.html>. (It's not on The
> Nation site.) And you, Chuck, posted two responses under the subject
> head <http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/0009/1634.html> and
> <http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/0009/1635.html>.

 
Yes, it looks like Liza's article was the main source for my information.

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