[lbo-talk] SEIU black leaders protest LN action

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Apr 19 05:10:23 PDT 2008


On Apr 19, 2008, at 12:25 AM, Joseph Catron wrote:


> Seriously. People die every day, in any number of innocuous
> circumstances. This guy happened to die at a union demonstration. So
> what? I remember cutting the numbers several years ago, during my
> militant street medic days, and being surprised that none of the
> elderly participants in anti-war demonstrations I attended ever died
> at one. But eventually, someone will. Deal with it.

He was told he was going to a rally, and found that he was cannon- fodder at a riot. You don't think that contributed to his death? Or is one death just a statistic too?

Doug



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