Question for Liza about Palestinian Solidarity Activism at OSU

[Max B. Sawicky]

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

mbs: so what?

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.

mbs: so what?

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.

mbs: so what?

I'm sure that student activists can fill you in on the rest of the
details. That's the little bit I know. 
<< Chuck0 >>

mbs:  the thrust of your comments was against the ISO for
just being there.  The real question that would merit criticism
(or not) would be what they actually did.