a critique of the march on Sandton

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Sep 2 14:29:43 PDT 2002


Chuck Munson wrote:


>This is where we fundamentally disagree. Political transformation
>never happens after people are tamed into listening to speakers and
>leaders.
>
>Was Seattle about getting our ya-yas out?
>
>Perhaps we should have obediently filed into the stadium to listen
>to hours of speeches from the officially-approved labor leaders?

I don't think the only two paths open are 1) burning down convention centers or 2) listening to blowhards drone on. No one burned anything down in Seattle. A few windows were broken, which is more than fine with me, but no one thought to castrate the Space Needle.

Doug



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