Re: [Marxism] May Day 2005 in Caracas: the revolution advances

["Carlos A. Rivera" <cerejota@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "michael a. lebowitz" <mlebowit@xxxxxx>


> Well, 'march' is not quite an accurate way to describe the stop-start
> pattern of our progress. In fact, far better to describe it as a street
> party, which occasionally lurched forward when streams of marchers coming
> from other streets lessened: infectious dance music blared from the sound
> truck leading us, and dancing was occurring throughout the crowd--- most
> impressively from two older women and a man (occasionally joined by
> others) in front, who periodically shared the microphone to lead us in
> chants.

Man, this is how its done in Puerto Rico too. Our chants are always musical
and marches are festival like, even serious, cop-facing marches.

I don't get it while marches in the USA are either somber or pedagogical.

sks


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