PEN-L message, Re: [Marxism] Jonathan Schell on the DP's prowar stance

An invitation to any public forum is important. I have had an opportunity to speak in Churches before . . . Detroit and Montgomery Alabama and did work with the old Theology in the Americas Movement . . . as well as public speaking and giving written reports to trade union members on a weekly and monthly basis.

Ever public forum is important and generally in my presentations I stick to the issue. If the issue is war and peace . . . I stick to the issue as a bread and butter issue as well as the general inhumanity of human towards men and women. I interject class . . . not as an ideological question but similar to Michael Moore's 9/11 . . . when be approaches the issue from the standpoint of the poor and those on the bottom of the ladder.

Lots of people do not have medical care or access to good schooling and many more do not believe schooling can help them. Most of us are abolitionists on the side of the poor and those on the bottom of the totem pole.

It is not that we cannot afford national health care. Rather . . . we can no longer afford not to have it because it employs doctors and a profession and strengthens the health care system as employment and meeting human needs.

Yes, . . . we need to employ more dentist because the people have bad teeth and one way or another the money always end up back into the coffers of government. Crest tooth paste is no substitute for the dentist.

For me . . . Kerry would not be the cardinal issue . . . but rather taking a message of inspiration to those deeply interested in the plight of the lowest section of society we call the proletariat.

Who ever the most power and arrogant rulers in society come for today . . . is an indication they will come for us tomorrow and the people will understand that.

Class inequality in America is not a fat theory or this "big head thing" for intellectuals ... like us to broad about . . . or coattail chat for those of us who can thread water and stay in front of the economic curve. Bush has made it clear that class inequality is about the elite and their bourgeois prejudices and attitude that says if I cannot have things my way . . . I will drive the country into war and poverty for millions.

You already know what to say and the protection of the 50 million on the bottom protects everyone above them. We are all on a ladder in society and when the bottom rung is broken the next level becomes bottom.

Peace.

Melvin P.