[Peace-discuss] on demonstrating on questions that the two parties are not addressing -- Closer Than You Think: Top 15 Things Romney and Obama Agree On

[Stuart Levy]

Comments ...

Ya'aqov Ziso wrote:
> /to perhaps sway Obama voters  -- to whom? to what?/
As far as *voting* is concerned, I think we'd hope to sway potential 
Obama voters to say to him and to the Dem. party, Remember, you need our 
support.  Listen to us!  The fact that your opponents are out of their 
minds does not guarantee that you can give up any prospect of social 
equity, accept any corporate dictate, promote any war, without concern 
for us.  Certainly that's what unions should be saying - they may be 
greatly reduced but their mobilization can still be important in close 
races, and there are lots of those.

Further -

Remember what started this thread: a proposal for a demonstration. The 
goal of that demonstration was *not* to say, Vote Against Obama nor Vote 
for Romney.  It was to tell Obama (and everyone) that Bradley Manning's 
(accused) whistleblowing and (actual) official mistreatment are 
important issues.  Better, that whistleblowing to expose war crimes - 
undermining the bureaucracy of war - should be admired, not prosecuted.

(If we're talking about prosecution, we'd do better to compare the 
aggressive prosecution of Manning with the non-prosecution of many in 
the US administration, or to take Archbishop Tutu's position, that those 
who should be prosecuted now were those at the highest level who misled 
their countries into a war that killed, at least hundreds of thousands 
of people, displaced millions, and destroyed a country.  Though that 
would seem to distract from the questions of Bradley Manning and of 
Wikileaks.   (By coincidence, as I'm typing this, BBC radio is having a 
live discussion of the ICC, Archbishop Tutu's call for prosecutions, and 
the criminality of the Iraq war.))

Finally -

Thanks, especially to Jenifer, for keeping non-announcement messages off 
the Peace list.

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