> What if American liberals
> and leftists had been all on the same page, all demanding immediate US
> withdrawal and organizing the kind of massive protests (demos,
> strikes, occupations, civil disobedience, riots, etc. for a month or
> so) that led to the revocation of the CPE in France? We might have
> still failed to move the White House, but we would never know that
> since too many liberals and leftists were committed to US forces
> staying in Iraq for too long and therefore we couldn't even try to
> organize such protests.
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WHEREAS if American liberals and leftists had been all on the same page, all
demanding immediate US withdrawal and organizing the kind of massive
protests (demos, strikes, occupations, civil disobedience, riots, etc. for a
month or so)that led to the revocation of the CPE in France;
WHEREAS if if even one in ten (3.9 million) or even one in a hundred (390,000) Americans who voted for the Democrats against the Bush administration had responded to such a united call by the US left with a sustained month of demonstrations, strikes, occupations, civil disobedience, and rioting;
BE IT RESOLVED that the LBO list considers these actions would have made a greater impression on the White House than the election of Democratic candidates to Congress and would have enhanced the prospects of an immediate withdrawal of US forces from Iraq;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the LBO list calls on American liberals and leftists to unite around the program described above;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the LBO list condemns any American (and Western) liberals and leftists who reject the above program as being complicit in the US aggression against the people of Iraq.
MOVED BY Y. Furuhashi. Seconded by C. Cox (?).
I can vote for the preamble and the first resolved, but the second resolved strikes me as perhaps a little unrealistic and the last one as somewhat sectarian.