Hutch: I quite agree! Larry Hamm is someone I have worked with very well in the past and look forward to working with in future. His organization, the People's Organization for Progress, is still reeling from the loss of its vice chairwoman Vickie White, who in many ways was the organizing backbone of the group. She died this summer of deep-vein thrombosis at the age of 46, and we are all still grieving. I thought Cindy Sheehan gave a great speech, too.
I do think there are organizational details that the coalition could have done a lot better, not the least of which is a lot more lead time. But these are the things which can be learned by experience and discussion with experienced people. Most of the POP members who were there are people whom I know, and I discussed with a number of them the idea of reviving the NJ Peace and Justice Coalition, which brought together the suburban-based peace committees and the Black community organizations, along with NOW and the Industrial Union Council (the NJ CIO) to organize the August 25, 2007, demonstration in Newark. No one disagrees. Tom ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
