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<DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080>NOW is also a great example.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=joanna.bujes@ebay.sun.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lists.panix.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:27
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Organizing the left</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>At 06:36 PM 05/15/2002 -0400, Nathan wrote:<BR>>Not because
they are some abstract "independent force" but because they spend<BR>>MORE
time doing electoral work than the pro-choice movement. I agree
that<BR>>the pro-choice movement is too legalistic but their actual
electoral<BR>>apparatus is pathetic, as are most liberal
groups.<BR><BR>Every time Planned Parenthood calls me for a contribution,
which I <BR>invariably make, I try to talk to them about organizing folks and
criticize <BR>the fact that their entire political effort is exclusively
focussed on <BR>lobbying. Needless to say, this gets no response. They don't
even have a <BR>"number" they can shuffle me off to.<BR><BR>My gut feeling
about a lot of "left wing" non-profit groups is that the <BR>leadership is
more interested in fluffing themselves up in their <BR>hands-clean
middle-class positions than in organizing any major opposition <BR>to the
right-wingers. Planned Parenthood is one example, but there are
others.<BR><BR>Joanna<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>