Fw: David Corn: troubling origins of the anti-war movement

[JBrown72073 at cs.com]

ChuckO wrote:
>People watching the tube or reading the newspaper in Nashville, Tenn. can 
write
>off the Washington protests as "just those lefty Mumia folks," whereas a 
protest
>in Nashville shows that local folks oppose the war. Those kids from Berkeley
>certainly didn't come across country to Nashville!

I recently spoke to a friend in Clarksville, which is a heavily military town 
an hour from Nashville.  Most of the town will be affected by the 
mobilization if there is a war.  In the local paper, there was front page 
coverage of the Oct. 26 DC march, fairly favorable.  (This is in a paper 
where military news IS the news and which carries David Hackworth's column, 
in which, just yesterday, he was saying, "...it's a given that Saddam will 
try to splash our troops with every bio-chem weapon he's got before he's 
incinerated. And immediately after the first such attack, we'll just as 
surely dispatch nukes and do unto Iraq as we did unto Japan."  He's for it, 
of course.)

So don't be sure that coverage of DC marches is dismissed.  I think 200 
people in Nashville are more easily dismissed.

Jenny Brown