On Jul 21, 2010, at 11:36 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote:
> Agitate who? A Congress bought off with $3 billion of campaign donations?
> A mainstream mass media dripping with Murdochian xenophobia and unashamed
> drone-bomber imperialism?
>
> I don't always agree with Carrol, but he's absolutely right about a couple
> of things: (1) the Dems are a pool of toxic waste left over from the Cold
> War, and (2) the Left has zero influence over the US Federal government
> right now. This isn't a counsel of despair, but simple pragmatism. We have
> to go local, and support whatever local and state campaigns, community
> groups, unions, etc. we can.
So the few thousand people who support the BDS movement in the U.S. are going to do through private action what they can't do through public action?
Doug