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Parent Article: anarchists, the left, and saturday's demo |
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Re: anarchists, the left, and saturday's demo |
by Nathan Aldrich
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07 Dec 2004
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Wow, I am really surprized by what I've read here tonight. You people are so out of touch with reality it's a joke. I am a member of Military Families Speak Out, Socialist Alternative, a student at UMass Boston, a member of the UMass boston anti-war coalition AND I worked with the Boston Students Mobilizing to end the war coalition and I'll say I don't know anyone working in any of the organizations or coalitions named "half and half", "4indig-whatever", or whoever this person is that can't spell "mouse." That's probably because they didn't actually do any work to build for december 4th's rally. What most likely happened is that this handful of people woke up the morning of dec 4th, decided they wanted to have a protest rally, were not successful, and now have to wine about their failures.
An important lesson for these utopian fashion police, aka "A's" is that if you want to do something that works, you actually have to WORK for it.
I am sorry if you were bored by the speakers, the rally, and the march, but maybe if you had even slightly attempted to work to build the rally you would have had the opportunity to suggest something more "exciting" within the democratic structures (you seem to despise) that was the coalition and the december 4th rally.
The reason I personally began to direct people towards the designated copley sq rally point is because the people I knew in the march, and who had spent tens of hours building for saturday's march never expressed desire or need to "challenge" the four cops as a method of ending the war in Iraq. In fact I know several people who couldn't afford to be arrested or shot dead (as boston police just showed us the're willing to do) because they had to get up and go to work on sunday or even monday. I am sure this must be hard for the fashion police "A's" to understand as they can clearly afford to rot in jail for however long it takes their parents to bail them out, but for the many organizers I worked with in this coalition, that wasn't an option.
The reality is the presense of the "A's" only exists on indymedia and the boston herald. for the people at the rally all this crap was a tiny bump in the events of a good day for the anti-war movement, and at a time when the rally was basically already over. Many people at the rally have since been joining in the movement. to include the fashion police "A's". Even the "A's" are energized by what the organizers of saturday's rally did. They can't deny it, but, as they've shown everyone here, they can only work to smash it.
Good luck with yourselves "A's" as it stands you have nothing in common with anyone I know, let alone my brother in the war. What all this really shows is that the people writing here want to deny other people the right to have a permitted protest rally. We decided to do this; we worked to do this: why can't we do this? I would go so far as to challenge the writers on the indymedia webpages to build their own rally where they are free to break off into their own protest protest march, but as we shall see, they'll probably just protest that suggestion.
These writers are just privilidged little reactionaries who can't get out of their own way.
Thank you for all your hot air but, as history has shown, you don't have the stamina to keep up. so goodbye, until the next time that the hard long hours of work that someone else does breathes life into you and energizes you back into the anti-war movement.
Today looks like a nice day: why don't you hold a protest today? how about right now? |
