[lbo-talk] DC

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Sep 25 09:35:18 PDT 2005


Nathan Newman wrote:


>However, despite a majority voting to create a broad mainstream effort,
>sectarians hijacked the meeting and largely destroyed the coalition efforts
>through the usual tactics. And so it took almost too years for that same
>general group to come together again in United for Peace and Justice. So
>ANSWER walked into the vacuum created by that sectarian destruction. I
>don't actually know if ANSWER allies were the ones who engineered the
>collapse of the original coalition in NYC but they definitely benefitted
>from it.

Liza was at that meeting, and she says it was a lot of hardcore traditional leftists and pro-Palestinian groups that refused to condemn the perps of 9/11 - a real political division, and not a mere sectarian disruption.

Doug



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