Re: Re: A Day When Mahdi Army Showed Its Other Side
On Nov 30, 2006, at 12:51 AM, Jim Straub wrote:
And to be honest, I’d rather debate the why’s and why not’s of
political engagement with conservative religious people in the
United States rather than the middle east, because our attitude to
those of iraq is irrelevant to actual events, whereas whether or
not we can construct a mass left in this here country of zealots is
the only way we can ever do our own part to tearing down the empire
from the inside. But that’s just my thing.
I like this, but I’m wondering - what kind of political education, if
any, goes along with SEIU organizing efforts? Cheerleading for the
Dems? Constructive ambiguity? Silence? What?
Doug