[A-List] The Korean Crisis: Cui Bono

[Tony B.]

After I first saw the flic I immediately recognized the potential of using 
'V's signature as potent 'slogan' and rallying call. Now we just have to get 
the young graffitti artists to pick it up ...along with informative slogans 
like, 'Corporate media = LIES' and 'Banks = Theives' ...and so forth.

T.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MARGARET WYLES" <kaliyuga at wildblue.net>
To: "The A-List" <a-list at lists.econ.utah.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [A-List] The Korean Crisis: Cui Bono


> On 6/5/10, Tony B. <tal1 at cogeco.ca> wrote:
>> Well said Todd. I've long hammered home on this point (i.e. seizing 
>> control
>> of the communciations systems) as probably *the* key battelfield in the
>> ideological war between right and left. Moreover, every time I've 
>> broached
>> the issue to leaders of left and social democatic parties  (and even left
>> publishers!) in Canada, they have visibly shrunk away from the issue; an
>> issue that they seem not to clearly perceive as central rather than
>> peripheral to their political activities. When I've brought up such 
>> notions
>> (just for example) as deploying relatively small sums from some of the 
>> large
>> union pension funds to finance a nation-wide labour / socialist newspaper
>> ..difficult as this might be to implement...the very idea has been simply
>> poopoohed and dismissed out of hand. [Which  is a general indicator of 
>> the
>> level of co-optation of the union and 'social- democratic' leaderships in
>> this country...and, of course, world-wide]. In lieu of that, and for the
>> moment, as Todd say, we must counsel an active program both of grassroots
>> independent media (including individual messaging 'lists')..and 
>> subversion
>> and co-optation whereever possible (i.e. organizing large, rotating 
>> letter
>> writing campaigns into local papers focused on the key issues of the day) 
>> of
>>  the major dailies. Pirate radio stations, and local magazine production
>> (aimed at both university students and poorer, factories, and poorer,
>> working class neighbourhoods, funding the on-line media much more
>> aggressively...anything and everything must be brought to bear in this
>> ideological struggle. But the struggle itself (i.e. propaganda) must 
>> become
>> clearly identified as central in the activist playbook...otherwise, as 
>> Todd
>> says, 'they will keep winning'...
>>
>> Tony
>>
> What we REALLY need is someone like Mr. V from V for Vendetta to take
> over the whole bloody thing, if only just long enough to get
> everyone's attention.
>
>