----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck" <chuck at mutualaid.org>
>
> As some of you know, I've been a persistent critic of ANSWER and UFPJ
> from the start of ANSWER in September 2001. Having been involved with
> the anti-globalization movement in Washington, I had plenty of first
> hand experience with the WWP and the IAC, parent organizations to
> ANSWER. I spoke up after ANSWER was formed, because I had first hand
> experience with the pathetic protest politics of the IAC during the
> Balkans War (and their anti-Iraq sanctions protests).
>
> There were a few of us in 2001 who loudly pointed out that ANSWER was a
> front group which would stick to organizing the same protest over and
> over and over again. I was absolutely correct in my predictions--many
> anti-war people wasted their time and resources on the "better than
> nothing" mobilizations organized by ANSWER and later by UFPJ.
>
>