[lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1736, Issue 3

[Eric Beck]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> If we can't mobilize a significant minority of the!
>  middle 75% of this society, then this movement will evaporate.

This confuses me. Are you saying that those 75% have no connection to
prisoners and those "with no social power"? I'd venture that really
large swathes of black 75-percenters would contest that assertion. Or
are you saying that the 75% would be repulsed by appeals to the
incarcerated and powerless? Again, I bet you'd find a lot of
disagreement with that, from everywhere. Ever more pointedly, if the
75% were repulsed by solidarity with prisoners, then fuck 'em. I don't
want to be a part of their "movement."