WWP's *Deep Pockets* [!!snort!!]

Brian O. Sheppard bsheppard at bari.iww.org
Mon Jan 27 17:54:48 PST 2003


On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Doug Henwood wrote:


> > 2)Most peace groups are very disorganized, partly because they involve
> > people who are also dealing with jobs, school, children, grandchildren,
> > friends and lives. Luckily, party-building groups don't have that problem!
>
> Brian Sheppard agreed that this was true of WWP, based on god knows what. I
> suppose these people think that we party-building types are all living in
> barracks and have turned our children over to the state or have had our
> tubes severed or tied!!

The WWP doesn't employ full-time organizers? (And the "God knows what" that my statements were based on was meetings with the WWP in the late 1990s in San Francisco.)

My point was (and is) this: There are some of us whod on't get paid for organizing or for activism. It isn't our career. We have lives and must work in our off-hours, or during unpaid time, to pursue these interests.

Then there are people, such as those in the WWP like the Becker brothers, who get paid to be members of the WWP and IAC. IAC activism IS their career. I'm sure these people have lives, too. But their lives are different from the lives of people for whom activism is an avocation and not the way to pay the bills.

Brian

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"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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