<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div><br></div><div>Point to items on their list of demands that are identity politics.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Carl G. Estabrook" <galliher@illinois.edu> </div><div>Date: 5/10/17 23:15 (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: kmedina67 <kmedina67@gmail.com> </div><div>Cc: Harry Mickalide <mickalideh@gmail.com>, peace <peace@lists.chambana.net>, "C. G. ESTABROOK" <cge@shout.net>, prairiegreens@lists.chambana.net, Peace-discuss List <Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Join us to leaflet the Art Theatre tonight 6-7pm </div><div><br></div></div>I recall reading that. It seemed to me at the time susceptible to e.g. Adolph Reed’s critique:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><<a href="http://bennorton.com/adolph-reed-identity-politics-is-neoliberalism/" class="">http://bennorton.com/adolph-reed-identity-politics-is-neoliberalism/</a>>.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">AWARE was founded to foster local opposition to US war-making and racism - and, by implication, capitalism, the source of both.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We should be willing to cooperate with others who have effective ways to do that as well.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But as Reed explains, identity politics is a defense of capitalism - and therefore at best only accidentally useful in an anti-war anti-racism effort. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—CGE<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 10, 2017, at 10:57 PM, kmedina67 <<a href="mailto:kmedina67@gmail.com" class="">kmedina67@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Carl, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You have seen a copy of the demands of the Students. Months ago.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is online. I can't copy and paste the url from my cell phone. But you can Google their demands.</div><div class="">-karen medina</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div id="composer_signature" class=""><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto" class="">Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 100%;" class=""><!-- originalMessage --><div class="">-------- Original message --------</div><div class="">From: "Carl G. Estabrook via Peace" <<a href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace@lists.chambana.net</a>> </div><div class="">Date: 5/10/17 21:18 (GMT-06:00) </div><div class="">To: Harry Mickalide <<a href="mailto:mickalideh@gmail.com" class="">mickalideh@gmail.com</a>> </div><div class="">Cc: peace <<a href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace@lists.chambana.net</a>>, "C. G. ESTABROOK" <<a href="mailto:cge@shout.net" class="">cge@shout.net</a>>, <a href="mailto:prairiegreens@lists.chambana.net" class="">prairiegreens@lists.chambana.net</a>, Peace-discuss List <<a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> </div><div class="">Subject: Re: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Join us to leaflet the Art Theatre tonight 6-7pm </div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>Harry—<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It would be helpful to members and friends of AWARE (‘Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort’) - and others - if you would set out </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(1) what the "concrete anti-racist anti-capitalist work on campus” being done by Black Students for Revolution or Project1000 consists of; and </div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(2) what "support the students trying to seize power and democratize our own university” are asking for.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards, Carl </div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>