[Peace-discuss] [sf-core] CTU Solidarity Forum

[Carl G. Estabrook]

I don't understand how organizing can be opposed to discussion of what's actually going on - unless it's an attempt to obfuscate what's going on.

E.g., <http://blackagendareport.com/content/tired-old-so-called-leftists-give-same-old-excuses-supporting-obama-2012>.  


On Aug 19, 2012, at 6:47 PM, "Barrett, James R" <jrbarret at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> On the assumption that some actual organizing rather than discussion is still ok on these two lists, I wanted to call colleagues' attention to the giant strike against neo-liberal educational reforms which is currently brewing in Chicago.  This will be a rather dramatic confrontation with issues going far beyond the usual union aims. Folks interested in getting informed on the subject and perhaps even offering the out-gunned Chicago  Teachers Union some support are encouraged to join us:
> 
> Chicago Teachers Union Solidarity Forum
> Saturday, August 25, 2 pm at Channing Murray
> 
> Jim Barrett
> From: sf-core at yahoogroups.com [sf-core at yahoogroups.com] on behalf of C. G. Estabrook [cge at shout.net]
> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 11:30 AM
> To: Peace-discuss List
> Cc: sf-core
> Subject: [sf-core] Ahoy there, Obamanians
> 
>  
> How can it be a problem to choose between the child-killer in the White House and the truth-teller in the Ecuadoran embassy? 
> 
> The former should be on trial for war crimes - with all the procedural protections he denied to others accused of war crimes whom he summarily executed - and the latter should answer allegations when there's no danger of his being seized, tortured, and indefinitely detained as Manning was, by the former.
> 
> --CGE
>