Marta Russell wrote:
>
> Yes, same person. I know he has a radical background and is a fine
> activist but everything seems to be toned down these days. No one
> wants to offend the police, no chances taken, no Starbucks windows
> thing you know.
> marta
Marta, Besides "toned-down" old radicals, we _also_ (and crucially) have new _about-to-become-radicals_, and we can't lead them into traps. (Jerry Rubin at least, and probably other "leaders" in the '60s, _did_ lead new people into traps, on the assumption that getting beat up would be a wonderfully radicalizing experience. But Jerry Rubin was a shithead from the beginning -- so judged even by people who spent time in jail with him.)
As a movement grows, it has to begin pushing harder, not letting the rear-guard control, not accepting necessrily the police definition of what is and is not acceptable. But that is a process. One can't simply begin that way.
Carrol
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> > My mentor oin the late 70's, Blase Bonpane did that, Marta? I've
> >been meaning to say hi to him at the Office of the Americas in L.A.
> >for a while. Blase was thrown out of Guatemala in '66 or '67 for
> >supporting the guerillas.
> >
> >--
> >Michael Pugliese, "Down With The Peace Police!" whether IAC, NION,
> >or UFP. "Bring The War Home!"
>
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