> The aug 29 rally WAS an "A.N.S.W.E.R." rally . They called the date and
> pulled the permits and then launched a virtual blackmail campaign to get
> UFPJ to participate. They sent out many general appeals asking folks to
> apply pressure to UFPJ to enlist in the rally and those appeals implied
> that UFPJ was being "secrtarian" for not initially agreeing to the
> partnership.
> The rally was emceed by at least one A.N.S.W.E.R, representative who is
> also the spokesperson for a ficxtitious organization created by
> A.N.S.W.E.R. in order to make credible the claim that A.N.S.W.E.R.'s
> "coalition" includes the Palestinian constituency. Because there were so
> many speakers all of the speeches were truncatred and because when you
> have to pack so much in to such a short spsce one naturally tends to
> become emphatic many of the UFPJ speakewrs were indistinguyishable in
> tone from the usal pedantic screetching style A.N.S.W.E.R. spokespeople
> are known for.
> Also; the CNN camera angles showed an A.N.S.W.E.R. banner in the backdrop
> more frequently than they identified UFPJ.
> Frankly I think that even if UFPJ haqd gone it alone and organized that
> rally it might not have been the best use of resources at that time.
> Better, I think to have saved up the bus fare and to have swelled the
> ranks in Miami or Columbus, Georgia.
> Evan Davis
>
>
>
>
> Chomsky17 at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Personally, I am not longer interested in putting in all of this energy
>> into UFPJ if we do not at some point draw a line and come out with some
>> sort of position in regard to ANSWER. I realize this is problematic but
>> people need to have some confidence that we can actually organize MORE
>> EFFECTIVELY without these kinds of people. You know that almost every
>> single student/young person ive spoken to refers to the Oct. 25th demo
>> as a "ANSWER rally" - this includes people who were there and the
>> thousands (in the case of NYC) who stayed away from that demonstration.
>
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