Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Win Without War and MoveOn.Org appear to be composed of the same forces. MoveOn.Org has a full page ad in the NY Times today that tries to straddle the antiwar movement and the kind of bullshit tail-ending prominent among Democratic Party doves. That being said, it is a significant gathering of powerful social institutions and individuals that must be engaged with just as SANE was engaged with in 1967. Here's a post by Marxmail subscriber Bob Anderson explaining his opposition to the MoveOn.Org ad:
The celebrity group is part of a larger coalition called Win Without War that will officially begin on Wednesday. Backed by national religious and civic organizations, including the National Council of Churches, the N.A.A.C.P., the National Organization for Women and the Sierra Club, organizers said the group's purpose was to emphasize what they called a mainstreaming of the antiwar movement.
"We are patriotic Americans who share President Bush's belief that Saddam Hussein's Iraq cannot be allowed to acquire weapons of mass destruction," reads the coalition's political mission statement. "We part ways with the president, however, on the issue of pre-emptive military attack against Iraq."
One of the founding organizations, MoveOn.Org., started an online signature campaign a week ago titled, "Let the Inspections Work." Within days, it gathered more than 175,000 signatures and over $300,000 in donations to buy antiwar advertisements in national media outlets.
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