----- Original Message ----- From: "Maria Gilmore" <indigo at ymail.com>
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:43:08 -0400, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> ...they specifically said they had no goals. These would come clear via
> some magical process of spontaneous discovery. I spoke with one of the
> >organizers five days ago and she made it clear that it was barely
> organized. The analysis goes no deeper than "bad shit is happening." And
> it's not >one event - this is a chronic situation of the American
> "left" today.
Hm. I think they're on the right track by looking to the Arab Spring protests for inspiration; but they don't seem to get that those protests had a lot of organization behind them, so when that spontaneous moment arrived forces were poised to take advantage of it. ----------------------------------------- Yeah, there was more than a decade of labor organizing before those protests.
Joanna