[lbo-talk] M19 in Columbus, OH

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>[lbo-talk] M19 in New York City
>Lance Murdoch lancemurdoch at gmail.com
>Sat Mar 19 18:46:23 PST 2005
<snip>
>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.

You should write to ANSWER and UFPJ leaders about the stupidity of 
holding two uncoordinated rallies on the same day, especially when 
one is attended by hundreds, and the other, two thousands.

Visit <http://www.cpanews.org/copn/images/> for photos of the 
Columbus M19 rally.  It was increment weather -- rainy, windy, and 
cold.  The best part of the rally (for me) was Zaineb Alani (an Iraqi 
American) -- I love her! -- singing a song about Iraq ("Song of 
Scorched Earth") in Arabic, accompanied by Hans Utter's lute.  I wish 
I had recorded it.

Did anyone go to Fayetteville?
-- 
Yoshie

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