jim
andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
Like Liza Featherstone, an export to New York for whom I like to think I bear s smidgeon of very very minor responsibility. My last year in Ann Arbor and her first I was chair of a radical disarmament group in which she was an active member. Of course I/we didn't "send" her to NYC. She went there on her lonesome, and I was long gone from Ann Arbor. But she and our honored Moderator are counterexamples to the idea the NYC is necessarily the graveyard of meaningful left politics.
--- Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>
> jrdavis wrote:
> >
> > One of the major problem is the brain drain that
> the two coasts have
> > in US political culture. When I was living in the
> Chicago area I saw
> > repeatedly in the left groups I particiapted in
> that most groups
> > recruited and then sent to their headquaters their
> best folk. Some
> > groups began more of rotating door to New York.
> What happens to them
> > there I havent a clue.
>
> Indeed. And I think in many cases (in _all_ the
> cases with which I am
> personally acquainted) "What happens to them there"
> is that they get
> burnt out and leave the movement.
>
> Carrol
>
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