At the risk of a round of raspberries I'll tell my Cambodia story. I was a thoroughly cynical campus radical when Nixon did his television number on why he had to invade Cambodia, "to protect American lives." I was in my dorm with none-too-radical dorm-mates. After it was over I said ho-hum and went back to my room. Can't remember what I was doing. An hour later I get a phone call from a friend at the Campus Center. The place was in an uproar. Hundreds of people had converged there to discuss what to do. "Max, get over here!" Oh, okay.
Moral: you can get too far ahead of the masses. mbs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 7:02 PM Subject: Re: Building a Movement That Outlasts the Occupation Joanna writes: >What's new is that somebody seems to care. Somehow, this seems to be turning out to be the final straw. It was about time. So, I understand that it is not really new as does most of the left, but this is an inadequate response. If the media is actually willing to report this story, what good does it do for the left to say "Ah, that's nothing, think about the prisons in the U.S., and the School of the Americas, ...." etc.?< that's right. We have to be clear not only about what we think and know, but about what people outside of the left are thinking and knowing. That helps us bring them over to our side. Jim Devine
