[lbo-talk] whattya do (was undecided..demolition...)

[Michael Pugliese]

"But when the war started and 200 people marched (in protest) from Young 
Park to Lohman Avenue, and then I started going to meetings and vigils, the 
movement just kind of coalesced."

Subject: Google News Alert - left leaning
LAS Cruces Voters Are Eager for Caucus
ABQ Journal (subscription)
... But the Bush administration and the war in Iraq led them to join a
local peace activist organization and to hold a fund-raiser to support
a left-leaning ...
http://www.abqjournal.com/elex/137673elex01-25-04.htm


> ...  Even before the Iraq war was launched in March 2003, many Democrats 
> in this town, home to New Mexico State University, had joined an anti-war 
> group called PeaceAware. The group has conducted weekly protests in front 
> of the federal courthouse downtown, even after the end of major combat 
> operations in Iraq.

    As a result of prodding from local peace activists and the student 
government, KRUX-FM, the student-run radio station at NMSU, in July began 
carrying Pacifica Radio's "Democracy Now," a liberal news radio program.

    And in May, the left-leaning bimonthly Grassroots Press was launched, 
largely with volunteer help, by longtime journalist Stephen Klinger out of 
frustration with mainstream media coverage of the war and other issues.
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