[lbo-talk] "Cadre"? Re: dalai lama in nyc

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

After a busy day of tabling, I look into the LBO-talk archive and 
happen on this gem of WWP-baiting.

At 2:56 PM -0700 9/22/03, Michael Pugliese wrote:
>What Dennis, Nathan, Thomas Seay, me and others argue is not that 
>one should abstain from attending but, draw, 'er, "lines of 
>demarcation, " between cadre like Yoshie that work with and pressure 
>other coalitions like UfPJ, to build a united front w/ such 
>Stalinist formations, whose conception of socialism is what the 
>young Marx called "barracks communism".

I suppose that some American leftists will be forever prisoners of 
the rhetoric of the Red Purge, which insinuates that so and so is 
secretly a card-carrying a member of such and such (CPUSA back then, 
WWP now, something else in the future).

Just out of curiosity, what organizations of which do you think I am a "cadre"?

Beyond doing local activist work, I am a National Committee member of 
Solidarity, a Coordinating Committee member of Al-Awda, and a 
Steering Committee member of United for Peace and Justice.

Locally, I'm involved in the Committee for Justice in Palestine 
<http://www.osudivest.org/> among many other organizations, and CJP 
is hosting the Third Annual Conference of the Palestine at the Ohio 
State University (to the displeasure of the ANSWER/FPA folks who are 
backing New Jersey Solidarity, which has lost the confidence of a 
number of Palestine solidarity groups, I may add): Registration, 
<http://www.palestineconference.com/register.htm>; Endorsement, 
<http://www.palestineconference.com/endorsers.htm>; Donation (via 
PayPal), <http://www.osudivest.org/> (click on the link "Donate Now").
-- 
Yoshie

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