> Not an unsympathetic portrayal of Lisa Fithian (RANT [Root Activist
> Network of Trainers] & United for Peace and Justice) and other "global
> justice" movement activists; the questions that the writer does raise --
> quite respectfully, by the standards of articles about activism in the
> _New York Times_ -- are not bad ones either (unlike the really dumb
> questions that the interviewer Deborah Solomon asked Noam Chomsky for
> the November 2, 2003 issue of the _New York Times Magazine_,
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/magazine/02QUESTIONS.html>):
This article is way too kind to Lisa Fithian, who has become notorious among anti-globalization activists as a well-funded summit-hopper with a hidden agenda. She is always conveniently at the right place at the right time. She portrays herself as a rowdy direct action type, but seasoned activists know her as the key person who throws water on the "wrong" kinds of dissent.
There is a much more interesting story here if any smart journalist wants to do some digging.
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