re: list of speakers/ mass movement etc.

[cuito61@xxxxxxxxxx]

as far as myself and a lot of other people are concerned, it really doesnt 
matter one way or the other who the hell the speakers will be at the latest 
IAC/WWP/ANSWER quiet stroll down the steet.  we went down to dc from NY with a 
few busloads of students, and couldn't wait for the ben and jerrys and all the 
other talking heads to shut up so we could start marching.

then what?

on the one hand, there were so many people that the entire back section of the 
march couldn't progress more than a few feet forward for a good 15-20 minutes. 
this is great, and the fact that it could get 100 to 200 thousand people to a 
protest is one of the last redeeming values about IAC/WWP/Answer (although, and 
this is no knock on ANSWER specifically, if one takes into consideration how 
many people live within a 5-6 hour drive of DC, 200,000 to protest this war 
isnt many, especially in light of some of the 500,000-1 million people protests 
in europe)

on the other hand, i found the march overall to be quiet, unspirited, 
disempowering, and disheartening, and this view was shared by amny others.  it 
was an improvement over the usual "protest pens" that the IAC/WWP/ANSWER 
accepts in NYC demos, but it was still pretty dead.

imagine if even half or 1/3of the people there had decided to simply sit down 
and block the streets near the white house, wouldnt that have had a much 
greater impact?

in light of this, i was somewhat interested when I heard of the IAC/WWP/ANSWER 
"youth and student" action to take place on the 19th.  after closer 
examination, however, this "action" seems so manufactured, so artificial, so 
condecending, so imposed from above that I and others were completely turned 
off.

this being said, i'll probably be there in dc on the 18th, but i'll probably 
meet up with the Anti-Capitalist Convergence/Left Turn contingent, and join the 
IAC/WWP/ANSWER stroll later on.



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