and a huge success at that!
I'm beginning to think maybe the Centrists should organize their own vanilla protests.
As a Leftist Democrat, ANSWER represents me just fine.
It was a thrill seeing Cynthia McKinney, Ron Kovic and Danny Glover at ANSWER's rally in San Francisco yesterday! Those are real Leftist heros!
I'm also thrilled to see Veterans for Peace, Jews Against the Occupation, Not In My Name, Jewish Voices for Peace, Military Families Speak out and all those other "fringe groups" out there.
They've been a raging success out here for the last 2 years and I'm proud to support them in their efforts.
Why all these sudden complaints? Could it be too many recent DUers are either pro-Occupation or think only the injustice in Iraq is the one that merits protesting and don't like all this noise? What's going on here?
We cannot prioritize incidents of injustice because injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere!
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. <snip>
You deplore the demonstrations taking place <snip>. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. Martin Luther King: Letter from Birmingham Jail
http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/MLK-jail.htmlMartin Luther King
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