[lbo-talk] Ending the Occupation

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu, Fri Nov 26 13:19:13 PST 2004:
>At the end of his plan for dissolving the anti-war effort, Tom 
>Hayden writes: "Care will have to be taken during such militant 
>actions to send the clearest possible message to mainstream public 
>opinion."
>
>Messages may be sent but not arrive at their intended destination or 
>with their original content. Nowhere in his Plan does Hayden 
>confront the fact that whatever the anti-war movement does or says 
>will be known by the "mainstream public" (whatever that may be) only 
>as it is first passed on by the corporate media to a (large) 
>minority of the citizenry and then passed on by them orally to 
>another large minority. The two together probably constitute a 
>majority, but I would not myself be able to estimate its size. Only 
>a _very_ small minority of the public will receive that "message" 
>directly (and relatively undistorted) from the senders themselves.

Learning from Melvin Small's research, I believe we should 
concentrate on expanding the size of the crowds and sending a message 
not through words but through the social composition of the crowds 
and their actions (cf. "Covering Dissent," 
<http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/11/covering-dissent.html>).
-- 
Yoshie

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