----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Fitch" <gcf at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:28 PM Subject: Re: Antiwar Protest Largest Since '60s
> Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net>:
> > > So may I
> > > ask: What's this in aid of? Stopping a war that
> > > cannot be stopped? Indulging
> > > a group of political creeps who probably fantasize
> > > that they're addressing
> > > the masses in Beijing, Belgrade and Baghdad? Going
> > > through the lefty motions
>
> Thomas Seay:
> > I am not sure what to think of these types of
> > demonstrations. I am talking about these types of
> > demonstrations that just go from point A to point B
> > and end up with the same speakers giving the same
> > stale speeches.
> >
> > Do they have any effect? (Maybe they do but I am not
> > sure)...I mean, any effect other than give an
> > adrenalin rush to the already converted and make them
> > think they are actually accomplishing something.
> At the New York City thing a few weeks ago, however, there
> was one good speech (that I heard -- I wasn't there the whole
> time), a Puerto Rican woman whose son had been killed by the
> police, who gave a fiery oration connecting, very accurately
> in my anarchist opinion, police violence to imperial violence.
> I was reminded of the great tradition of Latin anarchism in
> both the Americas and Europe.
>
> Of course, I'm prejudiced. More sober minds on this list,
> and down at the _New_York_Times_, no doubt, would have had
> her stop in the middle and remind us that, after all, some of
> the police and military are really quite nice and some Puerto
> Rican boys are not, and perhaps her son _ought_ to have had
> his brains blown out by New York's Finest. A lengthy but
> measured and _responsible_ denunciation of all Axis-of-Evil
> third-world dictators could follow, and she could have finished
> up by apologizing for having showed up at all. Then the
> Movement would have been _really_ energized.
>
> Right, Dennis? There are several straight lines up there
> you ought to be able to work with.
> -- Gordon
You got my number, daddy-o. Nuance is for reactionaries!
By the way, how's the anarchist movement doing these days? I mean, how much longer before we communally decide?!
DP