[lbo-talk] Learn Why We Need a Million Worker March

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Sep 19 14:39:51 PDT 2004


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>As Carrol suggested, the main organizers of the march are trying
>consciously to fight against "electoralism" (i.e., looking to the
>ballot box alone for social change, marginalizing actions on the
>social movement front and excluding immigrant workers without voting
>rights), especially of the AnybodyButBush variety, which explains
>the timing of the march:

So it was a conscious decision to marginalize themselves. Inspiring indeed.

You & Carrol are always talking about black leadership, but that doesn't extend to the 90% share of the vote that's going to go to Kerry, does it?

Doug



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