Chris Kromm wrote:
> Boycotting is useful in specific, targeted campaigns where
> coordinated action can inflict real economic damage
> (Montgomery bus boycott), or large campaigns where the
> purpose is largely education (UFW grape boycott).
>
> There's very little to boycott in terms of the military economy.
> Telling people to stop buying their jets from Lockheed Martin,
> or their bulldozers from Caterpillar because they are being
> used to flatten Palestinian refugee homes, won't reach a lot
> of people.
Exactly, on both points. Yeah, I remember your tour. You made a stop in Ft. Worth.
Divestment campaigns make more sense.
Jenny Brown wrote:
> There's a similar strain in the peace movement here--plant
> an organic garden, bike to work--it's really about taking a
> personal-moral stand rather than analyzing a situation and
> developing a strategy.
Yes, this is explicitly about lifestyles, about "walking the walk". The comment was made that if you don't do this, you're not credible as an opponent of the war. That, of course, would discredit the twenty-some-odd percent who are(were?) against the war.
-- Shane
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