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
* Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> * Calendars of Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html>, <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>