That's what diehard soc-dem defenders of Dems like yourself will have to think about on your own, but soc-dem defenders have no power whatsoever within the DP, so you won't be able to set a new DP agenda in any case.
At 7:15 PM -0500 11/8/02, Nathan Newman wrote:
> >Cuts have come and more cuts will be coming and not just in
>>education, war or no war, anti-war protests or no anti-war protests:
>>e.g., <http://www.dcfpi.org/4-12-02bud.htm>. Social costs to the
>>power elite can be raised even without directly opposing the war on
>>Iraq, if masses of Americans rise up and protest the cuts militantly.
>
>Yes? How? My point on DC protests is that most of the time when activists
>talk about "imposing costs on society", they mostly impose them on poor
>urban districts.
>
>I happen to like union power because it actually imposes costs on
>shareholders in seeking their purposes, but as is clear from the ILWU
>strike, if union strikes get used in a way that impact on the war machine,
>they will get shut down.
Organized labor will have to realize that a guns-and-butter double-V campaign (of the kind imagined by Gordon Lafer for instance -- <http://www.dissentmagazine.org/articles/fa02/lafer.htm>) is impossible at this point in history, but union leaders won't come to such a conclusion in time to prevent the war on Iraq. -- Yoshie
* Calendar of Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html> * Anti-War Activist Resources: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/activist.html> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osu.edu/students/CJP/>