Re: On Melbourne & S11 - a discussion??

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 From Carrol to Mac:

>This is at least as reasonable as my doubts. One variable, unknown to me, is
>what kind of organizing activity is going on in the localities when the
>demonstrators return home.

In Columbus, Ohio, many of those who went to Seattle and/or A16 in
D.C. have been involved in, among other things:

*  support for CWA Local 4501 at Ohio State University
*  civil disobedience in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal
*  building Jobs with Justice
*  creating a chapter of USAS (United Students Against Sweatshop)
*  fundraising for Kaleidoscope (a GLBT youth support group)
*  fundraising for a Campaign of Conscience for the Iraqi People
(initiated by AFSC) at our annual Hiroshima & Nagasaki commemoration
*  joining a rally in support of HERE's organizing workers at Holiday
Inn in downtown Columbus
*  joining a rally against police brutality (led by Police Officers
for Equal Rights)
*  joining a rally in support of locked-out AK Steel workers in Mansfield, Ohio
*  joining a "Stop the Clock" rally (led by Ohio Empowerment
Coalition -- a welfare rights group) against time limits & sanctions
on welfare recipients
*  organizing an upcoming rally (led by Prisoners' Advocacy Network)
in support of prisoners' rights (Sept. 28)

Yoshie

P.S.  Some of them also organized a demo against medical experiments
on cats at Ohio State University (cats are used to evaluate effects
of drug use on people with AIDS).  I skipped this one.  :)