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Smart Mobbing the War
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:58:12 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Bruce Campbell <bc () clicknation com> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 00:48:58 -0500 To: dave () farber net Subject: Smart Mobbing the War Dave, First Time emailer to you after months of reading your IP list fascinating mailings. Agree sometimes, disagree sometimes. Always something of note. I don't know if you saw the big NYTimes Magazine piece on the Internet-driven mobilization for the (least-objectionable) branch of the antiwar campaign. It is particularly insightful on some of the new organizing techniques. Thank God Lenin didn't have these techniques in 1917! The piece is pretty objective given that the author is critical of the naivete of these people. But the money quote comes near the end as the author characterizes the principal organizer's world view:
War is evil, therefore prevention of war must be good. The wars fought for human rights in our own time -- in Bosnia and Kosovo -- have not registered with Pariser's generation. When I asked Pariser whether the views of Iraqis themselves should be taken into account, he said, ''I don't think that first and foremost this is about them as much as it's about us and how we act in the world.
The Snoofmadrune weblog: http://www.clicknation.com/snoof/ Bruce Campbell 72 Madison Avenue 12th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA (1) 212.685.2682 x 250 bc () clicknation com ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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