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From: joanna bujes
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:27 AM
Subject: Organizing the left
At 06:36 PM 05/15/2002 -0400, Nathan wrote:
>Not because they are some abstract "independent force" but because they spend
>MORE time doing electoral work than the pro-choice movement. I agree that
>the pro-choice movement is too legalistic but their actual electoral
>apparatus is pathetic, as are most liberal groups.
Every time Planned Parenthood calls me for a contribution, which I
invariably make, I try to talk to them about organizing folks and criticize
the fact that their entire political effort is exclusively focussed on
lobbying. Needless to say, this gets no response. They don't even have a
"number" they can shuffle me off to.
My gut feeling about a lot of "left wing" non-profit groups is that the
leadership is more interested in fluffing themselves up in their
hands-clean middle-class positions than in organizing any major opposition
to the right-wingers. Planned Parenthood is one example, but there are others.
Joanna
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