Liza
> From: Chuck0 <chuck at mutualaid.org>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:49:15 -0500
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Direct Action at the Holland Tunnel RIGHT NOW!
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> loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote:
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>> This is not a new issue, and it gets argued out over and over every time
>> someone occupies an intersection or a revolving door.
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>> It depends on the context. If it were a new issue, if we were just starting
>> out trying to do the work of education, if it were something people hadn't
>> thought about, then this kind of action might well just turn people off.
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>> I personally don't think we are in that kind of time. If you go out and
>> block
>> a tunnel over the issue of the impending war on Iraq, it's not as if it's
>> something people haven't thought about. I think that there is already a vast
>> amount of anti-war sentiment out there, we are very clearly at a crisis
>> point,
>> and the point now is to mobilize that sentiment using a variety of means. At
>> a time like this, it is well worth sending the message that if we go ahead
>> with this war, there will be costs and disruptions, and that disruption and
>> direct action are appropriate and necessary.
>>
>> PARTICULARLY since they have suspended the First Amendment and outlawed non-
>> violent protest marches in New York.
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> All the more reason to engage in civil disobedience.
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> I'm not surprised that somebody who supports the WWP would speak up against
> civil disobedience. Sorry if this action doesn't contribute to party-building.
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> BTW, I dug up more dirt today on ANSWER. Another local group is pissed off at
> one of their supporters, who put raising money for ANSWER above common sense
> and mutual aid. And it looks even more like ANSWER's work on the Palestinian
> issue is a hollow sham.
>
> ;-p
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> Chuck0
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> "The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away.
> You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you
> assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which
> you resist is the degree to which you are free..."
> ---Utah Phillips
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