[Peace-discuss] [Peace] Urbana Sanctuary City Ordinance passed.

[Carl G. Estabrook]

I’ve been in C-U since the mid-1980s, when sanctuary activities were part of the local anti-war movement (focussed then on stopping US crimes in LA).

Identity politics - as the modern substitute for even New Deal-style class politics (cf. the earlier B. Sanders) - is a matter of denominating aggrieved groups and trying to improve some of their members’ opportunities, without challenging the state capitalist order that makes for their grievance.

Identity politics holds that "a society in which 1% of the population controlled 90% of the resources could be just, provided that roughly 12% of the 1% were black, 12% were Latino, 50% were women, and whatever the appropriate proportions were LGBT people” (Adolph Reed). I and many don’t agree.

And I don’t see how anyone who supports Obama (or Clinton) can claim to be anti-war.

—CGE


> On Dec 20, 2016, at 2:31 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> Good points Karen, thank you. 
> 
> The Sanctuary City revision, as it has been a sanctuary city since 1986, is only the first step in a process for some of us, newly involved. The local Immigration Forum people have been working these issues for quite sometime. No one is telling the undocumented that they are completely safe and all is well, but we are taking a stand in support of them, and though it maybe “merely symbolic” as suggested, it is a show of solidarity.
> 
> Those originally involved, as I understand it, in the 1986 sanctuary resolution was as a revolt against US war and intervention policies in Latin America, by anti-war activists at the time. To diminish their efforts as merely “identity politics” is disingenuous at best.
> 
> Those of us who are anti-war could be accused of “Identity Politics” when we only focus on “war or foreign policy”, when what we should be doing is plotting the overthrow of the capitalist system. 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Dec 20, 2016, at 12:11, kmedina67 via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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>> 
>> Two points.
>> 1. RE: why locally? Starting locally is the only way to eventually affect change at the federal level. 
>> 2. RE: Immigration under Obama. The local Immigration Forum has been working very hard while Obama was president, fighting federal policies locally.  And they have been extremely successful. Some of those issues finally made it to the federal level.
>> -karen medina
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