[lbo-talk] 'Bring us home': GIs flood US with war-weary emails

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sun Aug 10 15:31:31 PDT 2003


At 5:46 PM -0400 8/10/03, Chuck0 wrote:
>>BTW, UFPJ needs an office space in NYC ASAP (the union that has
>>hitherto provided it with an office now needs it for itself) -- if
>>you know of any organization that can make an office space
>>available to UFPJ at no or low costs, please contact Leslie Cagan
>>at (212) 603-3700.
>
>Did Leslie decide this or was this decided by the "coalition."
>According to my sources, UFPJ pretends to be the democratic
>alternative to ANSWER, but it's just another centralized,
>hierarchical organization.

You mean the need to move out of the current office? That, I was told, was decided by Local 1199, the union that has been hosting UFPJ since January, because the union now needs the space for itself. I have no idea exactly what Leslie Cagan thinks of the need to move -- I hardly know her (at least not yet!). It's gonna cost UFPJ a lot for sure, so I can't imagine any UFPJ Steering Committee member or staff person is delighted by the hassles of an office space search.

At 5:46 PM -0400 8/10/03, Chuck0 wrote:
>Hey, Yoshie, any luck yet in getting the water of UFPJ to mix with
>the snake oil of ANSWER?

The UFPJ Palestine working group was asked to draft a call to action on S25-29 and has done so. It will be discussed and voted on by the Steering Committee at the next conference call on Tuesday, August 12, from 8PM.

As for O25, two inter-coalition conference calls have been held. At the last SC conference call, I proposed that Al-Awda be invited to the next inter-coalition conference call, but I was firmly told by Bob Wing (an interim UFPJ co-chair and the facilitator of the last conference call) that "Al-Awda is not a coalition," so it can't and won't be invited to the inter-coalition conference call in question. It has not been made clear to me why Al-Awda can't be invited, when USLAW, NION, NYSPC, ANSWER, and ANSWER Youth and Students can and have been.

As for democracy in UFPJ, after the election of the Administrative Committee, I believe that it will be even less democratic than it is now. (UFPJ SC members are to elect, for a 9-month term, a 12-member Administrative Committee who will be empowered to make most operational decisions for UFPJ -- including much of the sort of decisions that have been made by the SC till now, though the division of decision-making labor is not yet quite clear to me). -- Yoshie

* Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> * Calendars of Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html>, <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://solidarity.igc.org/>



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