> United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) co-chair Bob Wing lamented recently,
> "Our original hope was that the movement would grow...But things have
> not worked out that way, and it is dangerous and unstable for a
> coalition to have a broader and deeper political unity than most of its
> member groups."
I know Bob Wing (originally from Line of March, his 'bro was in LRS like you, if memory serves)from a conference I helped on w/ about a dozen others (CCDS, LoM, FRSO, Solidarity, DSA) in the early nineties at the UCB campus that attracted a good two thousand socialists and communists. Bob is a sharp thinker (see his pieces on The Black Nation Thesis in the LoM journal.) and not prone to defeatism. But, even though UfPJ was able to mobilize a half million in NYC during the RNC (cf. The MOBE) I don't sense that the anti-war movement has the breadth of the anti-Vietnam War movement reached from pro-NLF rads, military vets to mainstream libs and just plain mainstream US'onians like the mothers w/ babycarts that gut pummelled by LAPD when LBJ spoke in Century City in '67 and faced huge opposition. Like I said last yr. now that a slim majority opposes the war how is it that the Movement is smaller than it was before March 2003 when the war started? Working class Boston residents canvassed during Vietnam Summer '67 organizers hated the War and it's Harvard liberal planners but, by then they hated the hippies and SDS'ers even more.
-- Michael Pugliese