On Jan 20, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
Activists are not hibernating == but there is no definable constituency for our work (cf. students for the anti-war in the '60s, black community for the civil-rights movement, industrial workers for the CIO, small farmers for 19th-c populism). It's hard to aim at "people-in-general."
Something like 2/3 of the U.S. public opposes Bush's policies on Iraq (not my choice of words - that's the way the pollsters put it); 20% want to start withdrawing troops immediately, and another 40% within a year. If an antiwar movement can't work with numbers like that, it's hopeless. Doug