I believe that he was finally given fifteen minutes to speak: five times longer than any other speaker.
Lerner is a piece of slime. For a blow-by-blow, check LBO archives.
Joanna
At 05:35 AM 02/21/2003 -0800, you wrote:
I missed something. Why was Michael Lerner banned from the demo? who did it?
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Doyle Saylor
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 2/20/2003 10:51 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:34933] Lerner and a split in San Francisco demo
Hello All,
I wanted to comment on two theories about large demonstrations.
Representative of the first theory is Max Sawicky who to paraphrase in
regard to Lerner's accusations of being banned at the San Francisco
march,
that Lerner ought to be allowed to speak as a way of advancing main
stream
unity with the Anti-war movement. I think this theory is in error in
analyzing the structure of mass events.
...
Specifically to Max's point about allowing Lerner to speak, many people
have
said it is up to the people organizing demonstrations to decide who
speaks
and why. Not enough time in the day for a lot of people to address the
crowd. A practical limit to the time limits of presenting words to a
lot of
people at once.
