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I agree completely with Joe. BDS campaigns against major corporate malefactors like Caterpillar, arms manufacturers etc. are good. But the fight against US aid is key. (PS weirdly enough the context for this point in The Nation is incorrectly within the section about "Opponents of BDS": "Some argue that grassroots actions put the emphasis on the wrong target. As Rabbi Arthur Waskow of the Shalom Center said on Democracy Now! in March, "It's the United States government you've got to look to, not private industry or private commerce. So that's one really big difference simply at strategic and tactical levels." On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Joseph Catron <[email protected]> wrote: > > How much of a tool would it make me if I agreed with Waskow (in this one, > very limited instance, ripped from its original context of extreme > toolishness: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/4/bds)? I do think that for > American citizens, our government's massive (and largely unknown) funding of > the apartheid state is a far more opportune target than the dealings of > individual businesses. Not that I'm criticizing anyone who organizes against > corporate collaborators; let a hundred flowers bloom, and all that. But I > often wonder how much more they could accomplish if they were instead > mobilized in a national campaign for the biggest sanction of all. > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
