----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Burford" <cburford at gn.apc.org>
> >From: Max B. Sawicky (sawicky at bellatlantic.net)
> >Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 09:22:57 EST
> >
> >
> >What we do until the shooting starts is plain enough: more of
> >the same.
> >
> >But the next question is what to do after it starts, while
> >fighting is going on.
> >
> >And the question after that is what to do, supposing there
> >is a cakewalk for the U.S. military, followed by a volatile
> >Afghanistan-type situation.
>
>
> My preference is for something broader than a peace movement that can
> respond flexibly to the different requirements and different prioties.
> Something enlarged into a movement for peace and justice, (justice
> including economic and social justice and not just individual bourgeois
> legal justice - justice for oppressed communities.) The nearest alternative
> is to perpetuate an international movement focussed around opposition ot US
> hegemonism. But that will still require a focus as to the isses on which US
> hegemonism is particularly to be challenged.
>
> Chris Burford
> London
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C'mon Chris, the issue is not issues, but the institutions! IMF/WB/WTO/Federal Reserve/Treasury/Pentagon and the materiality/practices that are constitutive of their contestable and unstable legitimacy.
Ian