me:
> What do you suggest that we do?
Julio Huato wrote:
How about protesting? I'd think that minimal, very low cost actions -- that we can fit into our busy schedules -- include calling our congress people to tell them we condemn the raids (and expect them to take a stand against them) and sending letters or e-mails to media outlets. Or are aliens undeserving of our sympathy?
of course they deserve our sympathy. as do a lot of other people. Unfortunately, I call or write congress and the media about a lot of things and so don't have the time & energy. (strictly speaking, I rarely call, since I hate phones.) I don't have the ability to start a phone tree or an e-mail tree. I don't belong to any political organization, alas. My main organizing involves dealing with issues surrounding my son's high-functioning autism (Asperger syndrome) and the fact that he's on the East Coast while I'm on the West. the problem is that the left is at a very low point, in terms of organization and consciousness. This is the kind of period that spawned the Frankfurt school, which spoke of Marxism without any link to the working class. It's a horrible period in terms of leftist politics, where the most active people are in the Democratic Party. The only good news is bad, stuff about more massacres, more violations of rights, more degradation, more irrationality, etc., which is "good" only because it might (might!) somehow create a popular movement to make the world better. The hope, as always, is that this is only the darkness before the dawn, that finally the idea that "thinks can't get worse forever" ends up being true. -- Jim Devine / "The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society." -- Karl Marx.
