At 6:05 PM -0400 10/29/04, Kenneth Campbell wrote:
You have a unique situation: The US is at war, the war is going
badly, the entire planet hates your president, you have had 20 years
of conservative crap about foreign affairs, you have scandals in the
conduct of the war, you have a Democratic party actually trying to
re-engage and energize its unspoken mass...
. . . in order to continue the war in Iraq and elsewhere, better than
Team Bush has.
A couple of Green Party activist friends and I went to a John Kerry
rally -- 40,000 in attendance -- yesterday to hand out our flyers
<http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/Nov3.doc> for the November 3rd
demonstration against the occupations. We were the only activists
there who were putting out anything about post-election mobilization.
Jim says:
If people are to act "politically and maturely" in 2008, what are
they to do to punish President John Kerry?
--
Yoshie
One thing that's political and mature is to simply IGNORE the 2008
election and continue to work on the anti-war and similar radical
projects that were ongoing during 2007 rather than shelving them in
2008 to "win" the fixed election (the way a lot of leftists
typically do).
It's activists' inability to overcome the idea that they should help
elect the Democratic presidential candidate that makes them shelve
their own political project every four years.
--
Yoshie
* Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/>
* Greens for Nader: <http://greensfornader.net/>
* Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/>
* OSU-GESO: <http://www.osu-geso.org/>
* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
<http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html>,
<http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/>
* Student International Forum: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/>
* Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/>
* Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio>
* Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>
