[lbo-talk] Activism

[Michael Pugliese]

"I worked with Yoshie for a short time in an organization called the 
Citizen's Grassroots Congress.  She was only in the group briefly."

   From a Ohio DSA'er. Guess the Citizens had false consciousness.

   Joanna, the Lehrer News Hour on PBS reported last night (as front page 
pieces in the NYT last week on the rage of conservative Republicans at, 
"Big Government Bush, " relate as well in places like rightist web site WND 
and NewsMax) that, for example funding at the US Dept. of Education is up 
70%. EPA as well, though not by that much! Course, more $ does not mean the 
same things in GOP hands as say, in centrist Clintonite, or, in left 
Democrat hands, if we ever elect another, say FDR. Which given the likely 
Kucinich debacle, isn't likely given the very weak organizational capacity 
of left Dems, compared to '84 and esp. '88 w/ Jesse Jackson, Sr.