Re: My query on the national peace movement
"'[email protected]' [email protected] [marxist]" <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Nov 2014 12:18:13 -0500
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----------MB_8D1D55898D4C233_C94_128797_webmail-va164.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I thought I had responded about what I was told when I had dinner with a U= NAC leader two weeks ago. Sorry if I did not. He said that there will be meetings happening and that a big demo is likely= to be called for the Spring. Not very encouraging at all. =20 =20 -----Original Message----- From: 'Hunter Gray' [email protected] [marxist] <marxist@yahoogr= oups.com> To: bearwithoutborders <[email protected]>; marxist <ma= [email protected]>; newgreencanada <[email protected]>; re= dbadbear <[email protected]>; sycamorecanyon <sycamorecanyon@yahoo= groups.com> Sent: Sun, Nov 23, 2014 8:40 am Subject: [marxist] My query on the national peace movement =20 =20=20 =20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20 The other day, I asked about theexistence of a bona fide national peace mov= ement. That was a reasonable inquiry, given the factthat the country is no= w well into a new and fast broadening Iraq War. It=E2=80=99s now even mor= e timely, at this moment inhistory, as Obama abrogates his latest of severa= l pledgse to end U.S. militarycombat involvement in Afghanistan. Aside from two comments onRedbadbear, which were essentially localized in n= ature, I received no responsesto my query. This would seem to bear outmy f= eeling that the national peace movement ended =E2=80=93 at least for the ti= me =E2=80=93when Barack Obama took office. Certainly, there are valiant loc= al efforts and a few genuinely leftgroups that haven=E2=80=99t been co-opte= d by Obama and the Democratic Party. The broad silence in this country onthe peace issue is both tragic and dang= erous. Hopefully, that will change as matters abroad are seen as more dire,= U.S. military involvement is recognized as increasingly futile =E2=80=93 an= d the fiscalexpenditures for the Wars rival the heights of the Rockies. A very personal observation: I came of radical age in early 1955. Even wi= th Red Scare fear and hysteria ragingacross this country, there was more ge= nuinely radical activism =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9Cto the roots=E2=80=9Dstuff =E2= =80=93 than the oft empty verbal militancy of today and the even morepervas= ive silence. H. HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq / St. Francis Abenaki / = St. Regis Mohawk=20 Protected by Na=C2=B4shdo=C2=B4i=C2=B4ba=C2=B4i=C2=B4=20 and Ohkwari' . Check out our massive social justice website:=20 www.hunterbear.org=20=20 Member, National Writers Union AFL-CIO=20 Core dimensions of my Community Organizing course: http://www.labornet.org/news/0000/hbear.htm My expanded/updated "Organizer's Book,"=20 JACKSON MISSISSIPPI -- with a new 10,000=20 word introduction by me. Covers much of my=20 confrontational social justice organizing life to=20 date. Contains much how-to grassroots organizing=20 methodology: http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm See this for mini-bio, efforts to prevent JM=E2=80=99s appearance in Mississippi, a wide range of its many reviews, and some photos: http://www.amazon.com/John-R.-Salter/e/B001KMEHWY/ref=3Dntt_dp_ep= wbk_0 The Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:=20 http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm =20=20 (Photos)=20 =20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20 ----------MB_8D1D55898D4C233_C94_128797_webmail-va164.sysops.aol.com Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <head> <style type=3D"text/css"> <!-- /* start of attachment style */ .ygrp-photo-title{ clear: both; font-size: smaller; height: 15px; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; width: 75px; } div.ygrp-photo{ background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-color: white; border: 1px solid black; height: 62px; width: 62px; } div.photo-title=20 a, div.photo-title a:active, div.photo-title a:hover, div.photo-title a:visited { text-decoration: none;=20 } div.attach-table div.attach-row { clear: both; } div.attach-table div.attach-row div { float: left; /* margin: 2px;*/ } p { clear: both; padding: 15px 0 3px 0; overflow: hidden; } div.ygrp-file { width: 30px; valign: middle; } div.attach-table div.attach-row div div a { text-decoration: none; } div.attach-table div.attach-row div div span { font-weight: normal; } div.ygrp-file-title { font-weight: bold; } /* end of attachment style */ --> </style> </head> <html> <head> <style type=3D"text/css"> <!-- #ygrp-mkp { border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-family: Arial; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0 10px; } #ygrp-mkp hr { border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; } #ygrp-mkp #hd { color: #628c2a; font-size: 85%; font-weight: 700; line-height: 122%; margin: 10px 0; } #ygrp-mkp #ads { margin-bottom: 10px; } #ygrp-mkp .ad { padding: 0 0; } #ygrp-mkp .ad p { margin: 0; } #ygrp-mkp .ad a { color: #0000ff; text-decoration: none; } --> </style> </head> <body> <font color=3D'black' size=3D'2' face=3D'arial'> <div> <font size=3D"2">I thought I had responded about what I was told when= I had dinner with a UNAC leader two weeks ago. Sorry if I did not.<b= r> <br> He said that there will be meetings happening and that a big demo is likely= to be called for the Spring.<br> <br> Not very encouraging at all.<br> </font> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div style=3D"font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----= Original Message-----<br> From: 'Hunter Gray' [email protected] [marxist] <marxist@yaho= ogroups.com><br> To: bearwithoutborders <[email protected]>; marxi= st <[email protected]>; newgreencanada <newgreencanada@yahoo= groups.com>; redbadbear <[email protected]>; sycamorecany= on <[email protected]><br> Sent: Sun, Nov 23, 2014 8:40 am<br> Subject: [marxist] My query on the national peace movement<br> <br> <div id=3D"AOLMsgPart_1_659ca41a-34b2-404c-af0d-708b9baa6275"> =20 <div class=3D"aolReplacedBody" style=3D"background-color: #fff;"> <span style=3D"display:none"> </span> <div id=3D"ygrp-mlmsg" style=3D"position:relative;"> =20=20 <div id=3D"ygrp-msg" style=3D"z-index: 1;"> =20=20=20=20 <div id=3D"ygrp-text"> =20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20 <div></div> <div><font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"2"></font></div> <div><font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"2"> <font face=3D"Times New Roman"= size=3D"3"> </font> <div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;"><fo= nt face=3D"Calibri">The other day, I asked about the existence of a bona fide national peace movement.<span> </span>That w= as a reasonable inquiry, given the fact that the country is now well into a new and fast broadening Iraq War.<span>= </span>It=E2=80=99s <span> </span>now even more timely, at this= moment in history, as Obama abrogates his latest of several pledgse to end U.S. milit= ary combat involvement in Afghanistan.</font></span></b></div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;"><fo= nt face=3D"Calibri">Aside from two comments on Redbadbear, which were essentially localized in nature, I received no respo= nses to my query.<span> </span>This would seem to bear out my feeling that the national peace movement ended =E2=80=93 at least for th= e time =E2=80=93 when Barack Obama took office.<span> </span>Certainly, there are valiant local efforts and a few genuinely left groups that haven=E2=80=99t been co-opted by Obama and the Democratic Party= .</font></span></b></div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;"><fo= nt face=3D"Calibri">The broad silence in this country on the peace issue is both tragic and dangerous.<span> </span>Hopefully, that will change as matters abroad are seen as more dire, U.S. military involvement is recognized as increasingly futile =E2=80=93 an= d the fiscal expenditures for the Wars rival the heights of the Rockies.</font></span></= b></div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;"><fo= nt face=3D"Calibri">A very personal observation:<span> </span>I came = of radical age in early 1955.<span> </span>Even with Red Scare fear a= nd hysteria raging across this country, there was more genuinely radical activism =E2=80=93 = =E2=80=9Cto the roots=E2=80=9D stuff =E2=80=93 than the oft empty verbal militancy of today and the even m= ore pervasive silence.</font></span></b></div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;"><fo= nt face=3D"Calibri">H.</font></span></b></div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font></font></div> <div> HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq / St. Francis Abenaki / = St. Regis Mohawk=20 <br> Protected by Na=C2=B4shdo=C2=B4i=C2=B4ba=C2=B4i=C2=B4=20 <br> and Ohkwari' . Check out our massive social justice website:=20 <br> <a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://www.hunterbear.org">www.hunterbear.org<= /a> <br> Member, National Writers Union AFL-CIO=20 <br> <br> Core dimensions of my Community Organizing course: <br> <a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://www.labornet.org/news/0000/hbear.htm">h= ttp://www.labornet.org/news/0000/hbear.htm</a><br> <br> My expanded/updated "Organizer's Book,"=20 <br> JACKSON MISSISSIPPI -- with a new 10,000=20 <br> word introduction by me. Covers much of my=20 <br> confrontational social justice organizing life to=20 <br> date. Contains much how-to grassroots organizing=20 <br> methodology: <a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm= ">http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm</a> <br> <br> See this for mini-bio, efforts to prevent JM=E2=80=99s appearance in <br> Mississippi, a wide range of its many reviews, and some <br> photos: <a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://www.amazon.com/John-R.-Salter= /e/B001KMEHWY/ref=3Dntt_dp_epwbk_0">http://www.amazon.com/John-R.-Salter/e/= B001KMEHWY/ref=3Dntt_dp_epwbk_0</a> <br> <br> The Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:=20 <br> <a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20a= nd%20Dad.htm">http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm</a= ></div> <div> =20 <br> (Photos)=20 <br> </div> <div></div> </div> =20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20 <div style=3D"color: #fff; height: 0;"></div> </div> =20=20 </div> </div> </font> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br> <br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <div width=3D"1" style=3D"color: white; clear: both;"/>__._,_.___</div> =20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20 =20=20=20=20 <div id=3D"fromDMARC" style=3D"clear:both; margin-top: 10px;"> <hr style=3D"height:2px ; border-width:0; color:#E3E3E3; backgroun= d-color:#E3E3E3;"> Posted by: "[email protected]" <[email protected]= > <hr style=3D"height:2px ; border-width:0; color:#E3E3E3; backg= round-color:#E3E3E3;"> </div> <!-- Start Recommendations --> <!-- End Recommendations --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br><br> <tt> "[C]apital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blo= od and dirt."<BR> --Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, Chapter 31<BR> <BR> </body> </html> ----------MB_8D1D55898D4C233_C94_128797_webmail-va164.sysops.aol.com--