[lbo-talk] Organizing: Code for Mob Violence

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Fri Mar 3 07:32:51 PST 2006


Michael Hoover quoted:


> >From the Baltimore Sun
> Photos reveal decrepit state of city schools Legislators
> invited to view students' pictures on display in Annapolis gallery
>
> By Sara Neufeld
> sun reporter


> It was the kind of reaction that Nicholas and other Baltimore
> students were looking for when they invited state legislators
> to an exhibit of 45 black-and-white photos they took to
> document conditions in their schools. The photos show broken
> heaters, broken toilets and broken windows. Cockroaches.
> Moldy walls. A stairwell filled with garbage. Library shelves
> with no books.
>
> The young photographers and their sponsors hope their
> audience will take the exhibit to heart and find the money
> that's needed to repair Baltimore's crumbling school buildings.

Snip


> Over two and a half hours Wednesday night, 11 legislators
> popped into the gallery to see the exhibit, sponsored by the
> photography project Critical Exposure, the American Civil
> Liberties Union of Maryland, the Maryland Federation of Art
> and Teens for Legislative Change. So did State Treasurer
> Nancy K. Kopp and David Lever, executive director of the
> state's school construction program.

So why did you post that under the heading of "mob violence" - to suggest that these kids are wasting their time on working with liberal organizations and Democratic legislators, and should instead start smashing windows, burning the remaining books and buildings, and shooting their teachers or the police?

Wojtek



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