[Peace-discuss] re: Bush is a criminal- clarification

[Ann-Marie Shapiro]

Just for the record, no one jumped on me.  :-)  It just started to bother me
all by itself.  Maybe all the different parts of myself are worried about
these things!  Thanks, though.

Ann-Marie

-----Original Message-----
From: John Fettig [mailto:jfettig at uiuc.edu]
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 3:13 PM
To: Ann-Marie Shapiro
Subject: RE: [Peace-discuss] re: Bush is a criminal- clarification


On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 15:01, Ann-Marie Shapiro wrote:
> I said earlier:
>
>  (There are so many who really don't care what
> happens to people far away, after all).
>
> I realize that this seems insensitive to the movement's anti-racism
efforts.
> What I was trying to say is that I advocate trying to reach whatever part
of
> a person's conscience they have access to, even if it is only a
> self-oriented concern for democracy at home.

Did somebody jump on you for saying this?  Because I don't think what
you said contradicts the anti-racism part of our actions.  I think it's
very true that a lot of people don't care about what happens to people
they can't see, and that while we must work to counter this, it's not
wrong to focus on the issues that people can relate to as well.

--
John Fettig <jfettig at uiuc.edu>