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On 2 Nov 02, at 17:07, Louis Proyect wrote:

> Alas, the last thing that anybody can accuse ANSWER/IAC/WWP of is surfeit of
> cleverness. For example, when you blithely refer to ANSWER as independent
> from IAC and then house both organizations in the same office, it creates an
> opening for a professional red-baiter from the Nation Magazine to hang one
> of their slanders on. Of course, this is the sort of problem you create for
> yourself when you are unaccountable. If you were working with people who
> were not vetted from head to toe by WWP leaders, they might have the
> gumption to tell you the truth, namely that it is stupid to put two
> supposedly separate organizations in the same office.

Hey Lou,

Where do you get off calling people stupid without making a trip to 39 W.
14th St some Tuesday evening at 7 pm and seeing how the IAC actually
operates?

You could look at it this way:  the IAC is an organization with members,
many of whom put it hundreds of hours building Oct. 26, and ANSWER
is a coalition, whose members are organizations.

You've got a certain model that you think the people doing the organizing
should follow. Personally, I don't think the anti-war movement that is
currently in formation is ready to adopt it.  (This doesn't mean I think it is
a model that ever would be worthwhile to adopt.)

Why do you disparage the work that the people who are building the anti-
war movement on the ground are doing by calling them "stupid"?  Is it
your way of expressing solidarity?

Anyway, for all its sharpness, this has been a good discussion.

By the way, Oct. 26 must have had a powerful impact -- tonight NPR
actually retractred its report on Oct. 26, saying that it had erroneously
reported that less than 10,000 people.

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