At 8:33 PM -0500 2/16/03, Liza Featherstone wrote Re: mighty in pink:
>But it's true that much of the Nation-reading left doesn't realize
>what a grass-roots organization NOW is, or how much work they do on
>materialist/economic issues.
At 11:44 PM -0500 3/8/03, Chuck0 wrote:
>The Code Pink action in Washington, DC today turned into a fun,
>colorful event. The turnout was pretty good--at least 5000--helped
>in part by the first day of nice, sunny weather that we've had since
>last Fall
Just 5,000 in DC?
***** _Monthly Review_ 53.1, April 2001 What Happened to the Women's Movement? by Barbara Epstein
...[T]here is no longer a mass women's movement. There are many organizations working for women's equality in the public arena and in private institutions; these include specifically women's organizations such as the National Organization for Women, and in environmental, health care, social justice and other areas that address women's issues. But, where there were once women's organizations with large participatory memberships there are now bureaucratic structures run by paid staff....Why is there so little discussion of the near-disappearance of a movement that not so long ago was strong enough to bring about major changes in the social and cultural landscape? What are the causes of the movement's decline?
<http://www.monthlyreview.org/0501epstein.htm> ***** -- Yoshie
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