Re: [Fwd: [BRC-ANN] Quote of the Day: Howie Hawkins]

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        The Nader appearance was carried on C-SPAN, and it was fantastic.
He said all the right things - linking race and class in a way that was
accessible to the audience but not watered down.

        Chris Carrick
        PhD Candidate
        Department of City and Regional Planning
        Cornell University


On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> >At 04:25 PM 11/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >>Hello Yoshie, i agree with everything you say except for a quibble on the
> >>last sentence.  i agree with Art that Howie, a strong supporter of the
> >>Nader/Green Party campaign, undoubtedly and justifiably has the same basic
> >>analysis today.  But my guess is that Howie would not be "as critical as
> >>ever" of the Nader/Green campaign but would note some progress between
> >>1996 and 2000. see ya', Dayne
> >>    - - - - - - - -
> >
> >One thing that did not make the national press (surprise-surprise) was
> >Nader's appearance in Harlem last week at a standing room only meeting
> >organized by Al Sharpton. He was very well received apparently.
> >
> >Louis Proyect
>
> Yes, but an insurgent campaign cannot count on the mass media (unless
> it is run for a Ross Perot).  Before the election day, heated debates
> were going on among liberals & leftists in Columbus, Ohio -- at
> meetings, on e-lists, in the student newspaper, & during
> informal/spontaneous discussions at home, at work, on campus, & in
> the streets.  To my knowledge, local Nader/Green activists never
> brought up Nader's apparently successful Harlem appearance when
> Yellow Dog Dems challenged them on black voters' continued preference
> for the Dems.  So I infer that Nader/Green campaigners here were not
> too well acquainted with this fact either.  Besides, the Harlem
> appearance came a little too late in the campaign; there should have
> been hundreds of thousands of similar if smaller meetings in black
> communities nationwide from the first day of the campaign to the
> last.  The same goes for feminist issues, though in this case
> organizing such fora would have been even more difficult, because
> feminists, unlike African-Americans, do not have "communities" to
> speak of.  Doing so would have neutralized the Dem supporters'
> last-minute scare tactics on race & gender issues (which probably
> cost the Greens many a vote) to a large extent, I believe.  More
> importantly, such meetings would have become nuclei for a future
> mobilization, creating a new network or reviving a dormant one.
>
> Yoshie
>