Tom Kruse:
With some VERY important exceptions, of course. For example the Labor
Committee on Central America, some of TecNica's labor delegations, community
based material aid through the Quijote Center, etc. In the examples cited
there was, sometimes, more than "single issue" politics going
First off, as someone who DID read Moore's original piece, he very
clearly stated that BOTH opposition to corporate power and the
Contras were important. (In the sentence immediately follwing the
two htat have been quoted above.) I thought his article was
provocative in a good way, perhaps over
Behind the controversy between Michael Moore and Alex Cockburn, I believe
is what might be termed a class division within the so-called left. On
the one hand, there are the more academic and intellectual left,to which
I think both Moore and Cockburn in their own way belong and then the
A couple of notes on "Nicaragua vs. Detroit". I spent 1985-90 in Nicaragua,
often in war zones, saw a lot of the stuff mentioned in some of the
missives. I also read the Moore article in the Nation (seems I get it here
before the west coast of the US). I found the article wonderful, very much
On Wed, November 12, 1997 at 22:08:30 (-0800) Nathan Newman writes:
Except for a small handful of Americans who physically went down to
Nicaragua and put their bodies in between the Contras and the peasants,
your analogy doesn't hold. What most folks were doing in the solidarity
movement was
Louis points to a verbal war between Alexander Cockburn and Michael Moore.
As usual, these guys probably both are right (and both wrong) in different
ways.
I think Moore's critique of the Left is largely friendly: he wants us to be
more involved with talking to actual working people and less
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, William S. Lear wrote:
If Moore actually said this:
while GM employees were being laid off by the thousands,
'the left' was in Nicaragua supporting the Sandinistas,
or in Philly protesting the death penalty.
then, I don't blame Cockburn for being upset.
On Wed, November 12, 1997 at 17:38:41 (-0800) Nathan Newman writes:
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, William S. Lear wrote:
If Moore actually said this:
while GM employees were being laid off by the thousands,
'the left' was in Nicaragua supporting the Sandinistas,
or in Philly protesting
On Wed, November 12, 1997 at 11:09:58 (-0800) James Devine writes:
I think Moore's critique of the Left is largely friendly: he wants us to be
more involved with talking to actual working people and less involved with
obscure debates, etc. (See his article in a recent NATION, which folks on
the
