[lbo-talk] Wal-Mart & Part D

[Nathan Newman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
-Nathan has a certain understanding of what it means to have a
-"strategy."  When he talks about "strategy," what he means is how to
-write a bill that a good number of existing legislators will sponsor
-and how to mobilize money and other resources to get the other
-legislators to vote for it.

No, it's also knowledge and strategy around moving public opinion in 
conjunction with those legislative possibilities.  Legislation is not an 
alternative to movement building; it's done in conjunction with it in most 
cases.  The Civil Rights movement grew and expanded in conjunction with a 
range of legislation, which never could have been passed without the 
movement, yet itself created new tools for the movement to fight the next 
round.

But enough-- I'm taking an LBO writing fast vow to concentrate on supporting 
all the useless legislation and talking to all the useless people doing 
useless day-to-day political work.

Bye for now.

Nathan