<div>The honorable exceptions only go to prove the rule.</div> <div> </div> <div>jim andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen@yahoo.com> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> 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 <CBCOX@ILSTU.EDU>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 > > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk </BLOCKQUOTE>