[lbo-talk] MoveOn = wankers

[Wojtek S]

For Move on it seems rather simple - it is a mobilization campaign, and the
"health care reform" resonates with their constituents.  This is the logic
"you are either for or against change. We are for change.  Details are
unimportant."

Wojtek

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Patrick Bond <pbond at mail.ngo.za> wrote:


> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> [Do these people have any idea what's in this "reform"? Are they lying,
>> naive, or stupid?]
>>
>
> Same with Avaaz on the climate debate, calling for 'a deal' at Copenhagen,
> without informing their warriors about the downside: inadequate emissions
> cuts; carbon trading and offsets (with the potential of more nukes,
> megadams, biofuels, GM ag, etc); and inadequate reparations. Like James
> Hansen says about Obama's climate legislation: better no deal than this
> deal.
>
> So why do these big NGOs mount campaigns that are so badly thought through?
>
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