----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck0" <chuck at mutualaid.org> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 5:52 PM Subject: Re: re Next
> Chris Burford wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Movement? That is so 20th century. We all know that when the left talks
about
> "movement this" and "movement that" that they are really talking about
> something that they can turn into some vanguardist party.
>
> MovementS, or "multitude" for the hip marxists on this list.
>
> I'm working on a new collaborative anti-war website (war.infoshop.org)
with
> other anarchists, whose purpose is to help organize the fight against the
war
> machine, not just the war du jour, which has already started, but the
> activists are waiting for the "shock and awe" before they decide that the
> "war' has finally started.
>
> The US killed Iraqis today. I think the war is well underway.
>
> 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
>