Joanna
Carrol Cox wrote:
>joanna wrote:
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>>Absolutely! The only reason to organize now is to help the people of
>>Gulf. "I told you so's:" demonstrations make me sick to my stomach.
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>Oh Shit! The only reason, _ever_, for demonstrating is to attract more
>people for the next demonstration or (better) for the next meeting of
>the group doing the organizing. How many hundred thousand Iraqis are
>going to die before the u.s. leaves. How many hundred thousand more are
>going to die afterwards for each extra month the occuaption lasts. One
>of the factors (not the main one, probably not even the second or third
>one, but one factor) determining the length of the occupation is the
>growth and intensity of left activity in general, not _just_ anti-war
>activity. Your squeamishness can contribute to people dying. And it's
>people dying that make me sick to my stomach.
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>Demos NEVER have an immediate effect. So stay home, because these demos
>won't give a bit of help to the people dying in NO now. But they might
>help save people a year or three years from now.
>
>Carrol
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