[lbo-talk] M19 in New York City

[Lance Murdoch]

I went to the anti-war thing in New York City today.  UFPJ and ANSWER
didn't even coordinate and had overlapping times, damn both of them,
they're both thick-headed (yes, UFPJ too).  Plus the UFPJ one had
hundreds and the ANSWER one had thousands.  Anyway, the War Resisters
League organized the first one, and UFPJ gave it a benediction, other
groups were involved as well.  Catholic Worker, the Socialist Party,
Veterans for Peace and the IWW all endorsed and were there.  We
marched to Times Square and over a dozen of people lay down on
Broadway, including David McReynolds (and three Wobblies), and were
arrested.  Later I went up to the ANSWER march and talked to people
tabling for groups such as the League for the Revolutionary Party,
Communist Organization for the Fourth International (which was a split
from the Revolutionary Socialist League, which split from the
International Socialists, which was founded out of the Independent
Socialist Club, a lot of whose members were from the International
Socialist League which...well, I'll be merciful to myself and all and
stop there).

Pictures are here:

http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/145509

Lance

P.S.  Did I forget to mention this - UFPJ and ANSWER not coordinating
is D-U-M-B.  If you're not going to hold a rally together, at least
frigging coordinate.  Damn.