Re: The emerging antiwar movement

[gdunkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

It is very interesting that cmrd. Proyect and the "fair minded and honest"
Sarah Ferguson quote and present the views of people like Dave
McReynolds, a bitter opponent of ANSWER, Leslie Kagan, Medea
Benjamin but don't manage to either get a response or bother to quote
spokepeople from ANSWER.

If you only present one side of an argument, that's the side I would guess
you support.

In particular, I don't think defending Iraq, north Korea and Milosevich as
best can be done from the attacks of U.S. imperialism is to become
"apologists" for those regimes.  Solidarity is not apology.

On 27 Oct 02, at 9:55, Louis Proyect wrote:
...
>
> Most speakers were clearly reflective of the Workers World Party
> orientation, which was understandable given its key role in ANSWER, the
> protest organizer. But I was pleased to hear Medea Benjamin as well. She
> is the executive director of Global Exchange, a west coast group that
> has been heavily involved with anti-globalization protests and not part
> of the WWP network. ...
....
> Finally, I refer you to an interesting report on the antiwar movement
> and the role of ANSWER from Sarah Ferguson, a NYC journalist who might
> be regarded as everything that the red-baiting Liza Featherstone is not.
> Like Featherstone, Ferguson's beat is the organized left and the antiwar
> movement but she is fair-minded and honest. I used to rub shoulders with
> Sarah when she was a Central American solidarity activist in the 1980s
...

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