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"Three thousand people rallied to protest the invasion and massacre in Gaza two years ago," Nader said. "It was held four blocks from The Washington Post. It did not get a single paragraph. People should march over to the Post and say ‘Fuck you! What are you doing here? You cover every little blip by the right-wing and you don't cover us?' http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/03-3 On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Mark Lause <markala...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting observations. Of course Hedges and others who are relative > latecomers to all this tend to become more paniced than they should. > > Moral witnessing is personally gratifying but politically meaningless, and > moral suasion has no political impact on a system that has no means of > processing moral questions. I think that they pay an even lower political > price for arresting a few hundred people now than they have in the past. > The article points out that they didn't cover the earlier demonstration and > there's no reason to think that they'll cover later ones. To be honest, I > suspect that if we had a mass arrest of a thousand or so people, they'd > probably cover it by interviewing the various right-wing talking heads on > the subject. > > We need to stop thinking about how the teamasters do things and start > thinking about what we can do to them. What we need are the numbers. Mass > demonstrations that can leave the illusion of mass civil disobedience aside > until there are there's enough of a "mass" to make it meaningful. > > The idea of picketing the media, though, is probably worth a try. > > ML ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
